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Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?

2 points·by jmount·18 days ago·2 comments

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20 points·by jmount·20 days ago·0 comments

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

winvector.github.io
3 points·by jmount·2 months ago·0 comments

GitHub leaking private repositories and access? [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by jmount·3 months ago·1 comments

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

youtube.com
2 points·by jmount·4 months ago·0 comments

ChatGPT Says She's a Certified Genius [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by jmount·4 months ago·0 comments

We're Cooked, Personal Musing on LLM-Bros

johnmount.github.io
5 points·by jmount·5 months ago·2 comments

What Is a Centipawn Advantage?

win-vector.com
69 points·by jmount·5 months ago·32 comments

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

6 points·by jmount·5 months ago·2 comments

Exploring Chess Positions and Counts

win-vector.com
1 points·by jmount·5 months ago·0 comments

There are a lot of Stockfish Chess Games

win-vector.com
1 points·by jmount·5 months ago·0 comments

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

nature.com
7 points·by jmount·5 months ago·1 comments

How many chess games are possible?

win-vector.com
85 points·by jmount·5 months ago·46 comments

Even citing NSF funded research is an ACM premium feature

win-vector.com
2 points·by jmount·6 months ago·0 comments

I Am Tired of Praise of Byproduct

win-vector.com
3 points·by jmount·6 months ago·0 comments

StackOverflow Best Before Dates by Bass

win-vector.com
4 points·by jmount·6 months ago·0 comments

Text as a "Market for Lemons"

win-vector.com
3 points·by jmount·7 months ago·0 comments

Sam Tucker tries to replicate Apple Intelligence demo [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by jmount·8 months ago·0 comments

The Fermi Paradox Just from Rarity

win-vector.com
2 points·by jmount·8 months ago·0 comments

A Fairly Hostile Subtext

win-vector.com
1 points·by jmount·10 months ago·0 comments

comments

jmount
·14 days ago·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.
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·18 days ago·discuss
Thanks. I had some friends look. Half got it to work, half errored out.
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·19 days ago·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.
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·20 days ago·discuss
Thx, but looks like you are also getting downvoted. Sorry about that.
jmount
·20 days ago·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).
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·27 days ago·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.
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·29 days ago·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
·last month·discuss
I really think one needs a "Harvard architecture" for AIs (data independent of instructions). Though yes, that may not be possible.
jmount
·last month·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.
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·last month·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
·last month·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
·2 months ago·discuss
Good point on "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect."
jmount
·2 months ago·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
·2 months ago·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
·2 months ago·discuss
A perfect doomsday machine. Over-using tokens gets your peers laid-off before yourself.
jmount
·3 months ago·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
·3 months ago·discuss
Good thing that didn't require two weeks, as that is about 14 attention spans.
jmount
·3 months ago·discuss
Like go pieces being deliberately too large for the board they are used on.
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·3 months ago·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
·3 months ago·discuss
Very much agree. In fact I don't remember Vista or UAC being as unreliable as the Mac now is.