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alkyon

452 カルマ登録 9 年前

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Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

esawebb.org
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Ask HN: Shouldn't we increase flagging threshold?

2 ポイント·投稿者 alkyon·3 か月前·2 コメント

The Fall of the Shah

lrb.co.uk
2 ポイント·投稿者 alkyon·3 か月前·0 コメント

Google faces lawsuit after Gemini allegedly instructed man to kill himself

theguardian.com
8 ポイント·投稿者 alkyon·4 か月前·1 コメント

Los Alamos Primer

blog.szczepan.org
1 ポイント·投稿者 alkyon·5 か月前·0 コメント

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

theguardian.com
2 ポイント·投稿者 alkyon·9 か月前·0 コメント

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alkyon
·一昨日·議論
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
·6 日前·議論
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
·8 日前·議論
I wonder what will be the next big thing for Zuck after metaverse failure and now AI coming to nothing? Perpetual motion machines?
alkyon
·10 日前·議論
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
·14 日前·議論
Explanation that is not intuitive at all: because physical units need to agree (kg * m^2 / s^2)
alkyon
·14 日前·議論
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
·15 日前·議論
Seven previously unknown compositions for flute and harp is not minor
alkyon
·16 日前·議論
Nice intro. Makefile is a complex beast but here it appears simple and user friendly
alkyon
·18 日前·議論
Repeat ZZ to save & exit if there are more files to edit

ZQ - discard & exit
alkyon
·22 日前·議論
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
·23 日前·議論
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
·23 日前·議論
We are at pets.com stage of AI bubble. This time the business model is LLM-generated, though.
alkyon
·26 日前·議論
Invoking LOTR analogy, Woz would be Tom Bombadil of the industry. Musk, Altman & Thiel, on the other hand, quite the opposite.
alkyon
·28 日前·議論
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
·29 日前·議論
I normally exclude all AUR packages from system updates to speed things up, so I shouldn't be affected either.
alkyon
·先月·議論
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
·先月·議論
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
·先月·議論
Poetic licence, it's poetry or poetic prose and not some random blog post about LLMs
alkyon
·2 か月前·議論
Was mentioned in a twin thread:

"27 is a Tao prime. Terence Tao suggested 27 was a prime number on The Colbert Report in 2014. He was likely very nervous."
alkyon
·2 か月前·議論
I just noticed that it's 60-3 without any divisibility tests.

Tao's 27 prime was much more embarassing but understandable as he's no a calculator.

Savants are for things like remembering the first million primes. Someone like Tao or Grothendieck can't remeber them beyond 20, but it doesn't mean they can't actuly reason about them.