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gilgoomesh
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I'm disappointed only that the chain of thought needed to be rewritten. Need to train these LLMs to natively communicate in LaTeX research paper format.
gilgoomesh
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
> It’s not hacking, I wasn’t breaking anything

That's a very narrow read of the word "hacking".

We're literally on a website called "Hacker News". We're not all trying to break things.
gilgoomesh
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
> Why use splines or polynomials or haphazardly chosen basis functions if you can just fit (gradient descent) your data or wave functions to the proper computational EML tree?

Same reason all boolean logic isn't performed with combinations of NAND – it's computationally inefficient. Polynomials are (for their expressivity) very quick to compute.
gilgoomesh
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I think you can look at Star Trek as a fairly grounded example of where current LLMs could go: the ship's computer is not autonomous in any way but it does accept fairly vague instructions and you can apparently vibe-code the holodeck.
gilgoomesh
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
For 20-ish% of Alzheimer's patients, the Shingles vaccine may be a treatment. This has been suspected for a few years now but has received recent confirmation studies.

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/news/2025-11-18/promising-rese...
gilgoomesh
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
It seems to be back, now.
gilgoomesh
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I read that but it doesn't define handmade. It gripes about large frameworks and rewriting in different languages but doesn't say what handmade is or how it addresses anything.
gilgoomesh
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Do they define "Handmade"? I couldn't find a definition.
gilgoomesh
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
You got Liquid Metal? I'm stuck with Liquid Glass :-(
gilgoomesh
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
That 3B model is a local model that eventually got built into macOS 26. Gemini 3 Pro is a frontier model (cloud). They're very different things.
gilgoomesh
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Network operations are "asynchrony". Together with parallelism, they are both kinds of concurrency and Swift concurrency handles both.

Swift's "async let" is parallelism. As are Task groups.
gilgoomesh
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
> Charlie Brown may have been as popular as any character in all of literature

Was he? Maybe this is true inside the US but from outside the US, I've always viewed the character as a peculiarly American artefact – something I was aware of but never really read or watched. This seemed to be reinforced by most major Charlie Brown titles seemingly tied to other American customs like Halloween and baseball.
gilgoomesh
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
Mac sales are up 12%, year over year. It's Apple's fastest growing hardware category. They're just going to be lower next month (year over year), due to the release cycles being different.
gilgoomesh
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
> Even many games that support native linux run better under wine.

The same is often true on macOS, too – running games through CrossOver is often better than the native port. The reality is that there simply aren't enough professional game devs on Linux and macOS platforms to polish that last 20% and make all the difference.
gilgoomesh
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Of course. And these are CPU vector instructions, so the saying "The wider the SIMD, the narrower the audience" applies.

But ultimately with a benchmark like Geekbench, you're trusting them to pick a weighting. Geekbench 6 is not any different in that regard to Geekbench 5 – it's not going to directly reflect every app you run.

I was really just pointing out that the idea that "no" apps use SME is wrong and therefore including it does not invalidate anything – it very well could speed up your apps, depending on what you use.
gilgoomesh
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Any app compiled using LLVM 17 (2023) can use SME directly and any app that uses Apple's Accelerate framework automatically takes advantage of SME since iOS 18/macOS 15 last year.
gilgoomesh
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
They've supported the Steam Deck for a couple years now.

Here's a review of Steam Deck performance from early 2024: https://steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews/baldurs-gate-3/

I'm assuming this is just an effort to slightly improve things.
gilgoomesh
·letztes Jahr·discuss
From Wikipedia on Chinese Water Torture:

> Despite the name, it is not a Chinese invention and it is not traditional anywhere in Asia. Its earliest known version was first documented by Hippolytus de Marsiliis in Bologna (now in Italy) in the late 15th or early 16th century, and it was widely used in Western countries before being popularized by Harry Houdini in the early 20th century.
gilgoomesh
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
The German team produced a crystal of pure LK-99 and tested it. From the article:

> LK-99 is not a superconductor, but an insulator with a resistance in the millions of ohms

And furthermore, the graphs from the original pre-print article are just graphs of the resistivity of Cu2S.

It sounds like there's nearly zero chance of any further science here (beyond confirmation).