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Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

esawebb.org
4 points·by alkyon·지난달·0 comments

Ask HN: Shouldn't we increase flagging threshold?

2 points·by alkyon·3개월 전·2 comments

The Fall of the Shah

lrb.co.uk
2 points·by alkyon·3개월 전·0 comments

Google faces lawsuit after Gemini allegedly instructed man to kill himself

theguardian.com
8 points·by alkyon·4개월 전·1 comments

Los Alamos Primer

blog.szczepan.org
1 points·by alkyon·5개월 전·0 comments

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

theguardian.com
2 points·by alkyon·9개월 전·0 comments

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alkyon
·그저께·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
·6일 전·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
·8일 전·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
·10일 전·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
·13일 전·discuss
Explanation that is not intuitive at all: because physical units need to agree (kg * m^2 / s^2)
alkyon
·14일 전·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
·15일 전·discuss
Seven previously unknown compositions for flute and harp is not minor
alkyon
·16일 전·discuss
Nice intro. Makefile is a complex beast but here it appears simple and user friendly
alkyon
·18일 전·discuss
Repeat ZZ to save & exit if there are more files to edit

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