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alkyon

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Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

esawebb.org
4 points·by alkyon·letzten Monat·0 comments

Ask HN: Shouldn't we increase flagging threshold?

2 points·by alkyon·vor 3 Monaten·2 comments

The Fall of the Shah

lrb.co.uk
2 points·by alkyon·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Google faces lawsuit after Gemini allegedly instructed man to kill himself

theguardian.com
8 points·by alkyon·vor 4 Monaten·1 comments

Los Alamos Primer

blog.szczepan.org
1 points·by alkyon·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

'Almost unheard of': experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

theguardian.com
2 points·by alkyon·vor 9 Monaten·0 comments

comments

alkyon
·vor 4 Stunden·discuss
I wonder if it would be possible for Starlink to use less reflective materials for their satellites so that the sky is less polluted for the astronomers.
alkyon
·vor 4 Stunden·discuss
Yes, I was taught that relativity is a significant part of quantum chemistry equations in gold atoms 25 years ago. The idea is quite old and the title is misleading.
alkyon
·vorgestern·discuss
Calling someone "stinky manager" is not ad hominem. It's a way of saying that he's managerial skills are very poor. Does it relate to the argument? Very much so. Changing a bread factory into a slop factory makes Jarred a stinky manager and even a "sloppy" one
alkyon
·vor 6 Tagen·discuss
I think you meant lossy compression and not lossless. I'm not suggesting this as a method to extract those books from the models, which by their nature are not databases. Just commenting on the somewhat surprising fact that the bigger the model the more likely it is to produce some (short) excerpts of the original training material
alkyon
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
I wonder what will be the next big thing for Zuck after metaverse failure and now AI coming to nothing? Perpetual motion machines?
alkyon
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
Nice quote from Tao Te Ching about complexity and simplicity completing each other.

The rules of go could be explained to a 4 years old. On the other hand, the superficial complexity of so many framworks/systems is just a facade and nothing more.

The same goes for NP-hard problems where complex solutions have trivial verification methods.
alkyon
·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
Explanation that is not intuitive at all: because physical units need to agree (kg * m^2 / s^2)
alkyon
·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
This is a moot point though. Before all the jobs are replaced in 2036, shouldn't we see data centres burning? Revolutions tend to succeed with only 1% of population taking part. I think it's probably that this revolution will ultimately fail for various reasons, but still it's a valid scenario, which at the very least should be mentioned.
alkyon
·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
Seven previously unknown compositions for flute and harp is not minor
alkyon
·vor 17 Tagen·discuss
Nice intro. Makefile is a complex beast but here it appears simple and user friendly
alkyon
·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
Repeat ZZ to save & exit if there are more files to edit

ZQ - discard & exit
alkyon
·vor 22 Tagen·discuss
I only got 4 wrong as a non-native speaker. Okay, I'm widely read in English, but among LLM-generated definitions it's just too easy to spot the right one.
alkyon
·vor 23 Tagen·discuss
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296888725_Geology_a...

The article is in French, but geology is the key factor. Do you need to bore rock or sandy soil with tar? Is the area seismically active like in Los Angeles? This affects the cost and timeline of metro construction more than just wages.
alkyon
·vor 23 Tagen·discuss
We are at pets.com stage of AI bubble. This time the business model is LLM-generated, though.
alkyon
·vor 26 Tagen·discuss
Invoking LOTR analogy, Woz would be Tom Bombadil of the industry. Musk, Altman & Thiel, on the other hand, quite the opposite.
alkyon
·vor 28 Tagen·discuss
This blog post offers no new insights.

Let's imagine that half of the jobs or more are lost. It would create a shock for the economy as a whole, incomparable with anything that happened before.

It's a snake eating its own tail paradox. It means massive bankruptcies across all sectors and some governments defaulting on their debts. We can forget about UBI in these circumstances. Yes, OpenAI and Anthropic will pay more taxes but the economy as a whole will be uprooted.
alkyon
·vor 29 Tagen·discuss
I normally exclude all AUR packages from system updates to speed things up, so I shouldn't be affected either.
alkyon
·letzten Monat·discuss
Sounds like exponential growth of crappy software. I'm not saying that before we didn't have mass produced crap in SE, but now it will turn into explosive overflow.
alkyon
·letzten Monat·discuss
Carpentry would have been ideal career. Building real things, artisanal or not, and nobody insisting yet that the chest of drawers you're building include AI
alkyon
·letzten Monat·discuss
Poetic licence, it's poetry or poetic prose and not some random blog post about LLMs