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Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?

2 points·by jmount·vor 19 Tagen·2 comments

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20 points·by jmount·vor 20 Tagen·0 comments

Who's the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data

winvector.github.io
3 points·by jmount·vor 2 Monaten·0 comments

GitHub leaking private repositories and access? [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by jmount·vor 3 Monaten·1 comments

Squeezing the Most Utility from Your AI/ML Models [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by jmount·vor 4 Monaten·0 comments

ChatGPT Says She's a Certified Genius [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by jmount·vor 4 Monaten·0 comments

We're Cooked, Personal Musing on LLM-Bros

johnmount.github.io
5 points·by jmount·vor 5 Monaten·2 comments

What Is a Centipawn Advantage?

win-vector.com
69 points·by jmount·vor 5 Monaten·32 comments

Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?

6 points·by jmount·vor 5 Monaten·2 comments

Exploring Chess Positions and Counts

win-vector.com
1 points·by jmount·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

There are a lot of Stockfish Chess Games

win-vector.com
1 points·by jmount·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

Glymphatic system clears amyloid beta and tau from brain to plasma in humans

nature.com
7 points·by jmount·vor 5 Monaten·1 comments

How many chess games are possible?

win-vector.com
85 points·by jmount·vor 5 Monaten·46 comments

Even citing NSF funded research is an ACM premium feature

win-vector.com
2 points·by jmount·vor 6 Monaten·0 comments

I Am Tired of Praise of Byproduct

win-vector.com
3 points·by jmount·vor 6 Monaten·0 comments

StackOverflow Best Before Dates by Bass

win-vector.com
4 points·by jmount·vor 6 Monaten·0 comments

Text as a "Market for Lemons"

win-vector.com
3 points·by jmount·vor 7 Monaten·0 comments

Sam Tucker tries to replicate Apple Intelligence demo [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by jmount·vor 8 Monaten·0 comments

The Fermi Paradox Just from Rarity

win-vector.com
2 points·by jmount·vor 8 Monaten·0 comments

A Fairly Hostile Subtext

win-vector.com
1 points·by jmount·vor 10 Monaten·0 comments

comments

jmount
·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
Why would they remain fundamentally expensive? It is a fixed machine (so eventually you recoup the investment) and running consumes nothing other than electricity and a paper gown. MRIs cost under $200 in Japan.
jmount
·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
Thanks. I had some friends look. Half got it to work, half errored out.
jmount
·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
My feeling on geometric algebra is that you should look too much into it until you exhaust the exterior algebra. That is (in my opinion): it isn't a good use of it to replace the cross product or specialized representations of 3-d geometric rotations. It is good for when you get a bit sick of the bookkeeping of the exterior algebra. From a computer scientist point of view it is sort of adding a bit of type information beyond just vector dimension and depth of product.
jmount
·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
Thx, but looks like you are also getting downvoted. Sorry about that.
jmount
·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
No point up-voting or down-voting this, already flagged off the site. Possibly triggered a controversy filter? I know the title is provocative, but it is actually the point the video is trying to establish (so it wasn't just ad-hominem).
jmount
·vor 27 Tagen·discuss
Not quite on topic. But I feel there is an issue in politics where many non-wealthy people vote as if they are "temporarily inconvenienced billionaires." That is they endorse policies that favor billionaires, as they have some hope of being one someday.
jmount
·vor 30 Tagen·discuss
The whole arc was brilliantly evil. Once they put int the guardrails then Claude is fully un-falsifiable, and failure can be claimed intentional.
jmount
·letzten Monat·discuss
I really think one needs a "Harvard architecture" for AIs (data independent of instructions). Though yes, that may not be possible.
jmount
·letzten Monat·discuss
I have to say worrying about the provenance of writing has made me a grumpier reader.

For example: "The space station is made up of Russian and US segments, and there are modules from the European and Japanese space agencies too." It feels like this sentence is inserting some points, but is lacking in authorial intent. Is the intent to say the station is largely Russian and US, or to say the station has more than two partners? Probably an okay sentence, but still feels like a stone in the shoe.
jmount
·letzten Monat·discuss
I honestly thought GoPro and FitBit had both been stomped out a long time ago, and we were just watching new companies brand-squatting.
jmount
·letzten Monat·discuss
HP generously gave me a 16C at the end of an internship. It was a weird beast! Amazing a simulating different types of integer arithmetic. Not at all a replacement for the 11C, 12C, or 15C.
jmount
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Good point on "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect."
jmount
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I think this is a good under-represented point. Again and again things that could only run on a mainframe get ported to the personal device level. However it looks like the campaign to eliminate the PC (by pre-buying all RAM) is the counter-stroke.
jmount
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
This is important to think through, does one have a product, tech, tool, or even just a feature. I given thing is not necessarily at the bottom of this stack, but also not always at the top.
jmount
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
A perfect doomsday machine. Over-using tokens gets your peers laid-off before yourself.
jmount
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I know it is a video and the title is a note. But the video is plausibly claiming Github recently opted private repositories into being AI training material. And there are indeed some settings around that (though it is hard to know if one has found all such controls).
jmount
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Good thing that didn't require two weeks, as that is about 14 attention spans.
jmount
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Like go pieces being deliberately too large for the board they are used on.
jmount
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
My only issue is the title. It appears they are building a replacement for GitHub of which a replacement for Git is just a component. Building a replacement for GitHub is going to need at least the sort of funding they are mentioning. So once one reads the article it makes a bit more sense.
jmount
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Very much agree. In fact I don't remember Vista or UAC being as unreliable as the Mac now is.