ActorNightly

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by ActorNightly 26d ago
- Top 4/6 links on HN are currently Apple news. Yeah Apple TOTALLY doesn't astroturf HN.
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by ActorNightly 26d ago
Back in the 2010s, the best, most efficient software engineers were characterized by 3 things * end to end rough map of the entire space of compute in their head * ability to search the internet for the right things * ability to quickly exp
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by ActorNightly 26d ago
There still has to be some logic behind what is the meaning of a proof. Generally, its pointless to explore random equations of numbers and try to prove that this equation holds for every value. That equation needs to have some use, whether
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by ActorNightly 26d ago
A plane needs to be able to takeoff in a given runway length, with a given payload, and climb at that power to a safe altitude for an option of an aborted landing. And just Tesla set to a high power mode, if when starting to drive it you
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by ActorNightly 26d ago
Generally, the proofs that are in the form of "here is a single contradiction to an established statement that proves that its not always true", are generally useless. We can prove that newtons laws don't apply when you start
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by ActorNightly 27d ago
There is plenty of work that goes on in the math field that is super important. But any field has research that is irrelevant. So far, all the proofs done by ai have been largely irrelevant.
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by ActorNightly 27d ago
The thing about these math proofs is that they really add nothing of value. Its a cool tech demonstration on how LLMS can search the trained space, but fundamentally, LLMS haven't "discovered" anything groundbreaking. For NS
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by ActorNightly 27d ago
The problem is, people who are the most spoken about personal freedom are the ones also voting conservative all the time. The libertarian square is still on the right. By the time the government overreach starts being used on them, its gon
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by ActorNightly 27d ago
You misunderstand what Im saying The full power system for a prop looks like this: you have a battery of a specific voltage, which then runs a motor, which then runs a gearbox, which then turns a prop. The motor and the gearbox can be consi
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
yes, but current battery energy density is nowhere near fuel ATM, and evs operate differently. Gas engines use fuel/hour as a function of RPMS, independant on the load on the engine. EVs use battery juice as a function of the load. Whe
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
To get high voltage, you need batteries in series, which means all the batteries see the same current. The only way to reduce current is to put batteries in parallel, which for a given voltage doubles the weight of the battery pack. You co
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
Electric planes can in theory get longer flights, provided they change the flight profile - you spend a lot of energy going up to higher altitude, and the essentially glide down.
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
Batteries aren't rapidly improving. Every single battery that has proposed higher energy density also has downsides in max discharge current. We may get at best like 10% improvement over what it is today.
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
>Yes the problem is very hard. Mainly because high DOF generalization is very difficult. >We have self driving cars because what are the control inputs? Pedal, brake, steering wheel. This already took many many years. Its actually ama
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
It will be fine. Gaming as a whole is a shadow of what it used to be, specifically because it has been tailored to the masses who have no real opinion on any of this other then they want to play what their friends play.
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
My takeaway from this is apparently you can build a datacenter in a place where the weather reaches 110 degrees in the summer. AC has come a long way. I wonder what cost feasability of building essentially a biodome that is actively climate
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
I mean, its literally just more efficient loop of model generating reasoning text, for it to be fed back as context. There is nothing groundbreaking here. At the end of the day, its all just search.
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
Just ollama if you are feeling lazy. With ollama, pull the model (start with https://ollama.com/library/gemma3:27b ), and `ollama run gemma3:27b` If you want to build agentic frameworks, use llama.cpp with its built in
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
You are correct. In large part, the cost of something like Gemini on a very basic Google AI plan provides far more utility than local LLMs for coding assistance. There are 2 main reasons for running local LLMS. 1. Process private data/
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
The reason Im so hostile is because it personally irks me when a technical forum like HN is filled with Apple-slop being passed off as technical discussion. Its fine to like Apple for what it is, the ecosystem, the industrial design, the ad
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
They are. For example, literally nobody should be having kids rn in US, because the next decade is gonna be pretty horrible. But people still are, because they are none the wiser.
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
Ah yes, we blame the most of the problems in society on advertisers, but when those advertisers get screwed over, its... bad?
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
The entire premise of what that prize is is meaningless. Basically an AGI should be able to exist as an algorithm initialized with random weights, and then learn everything from scratch. Training models on large data sets is not even remote
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
>It was simply the best bang for the buck at the time, I wouldn't have a problem with Apple fanboys if they just stated that they like Macs, but for some reason you have no problem with just straight up LYING. Or at least being so d
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
Its a case of technology outpacing our evolution. Everyone is living in this world where we still depend on each other to survive, but connected through technology that makes it seem like we don't. The problems that people face are mag
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
The average view is that "climate change" == "higher/lower temperatures". Nobody really thinks of all the secondary effects.
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
Not if you have duplicates of rows on the first matrix, which can be done very efficiently if you build specialized hardware. Then its all just forward in parallel.
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
Im sorry, but if you think that someone being effectively racist in a nice way is somehow better than being up front and calling them out for their belief, you are beyond lost. People like you deserve Trump. Youll ride your high horse of mo
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by ActorNightly 1mo ago
The standard is not what you can do with it, the standard is what is the free alternative. Local LLMs need to be able to beat the rate limits on all the free models like Gemini to be useful. The only way to do that is to have high enough to

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