abdullahkhalids

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by abdullahkhalids 11d ago
You are missing the entire point of the oral defense while almost stating it. The existence of the oral defense is what extrinsically motivates the supervisor to do their job well. If the student fails, the supervisor loses faces in front o
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by abdullahkhalids 15d ago
The system is highly non-linear and has a lot of flippable components. For example, average temperature increase will cause the AMOC to collapse which will make parts of Europe cooler (while also increasing extreme weather events). Similar
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by abdullahkhalids 16d ago
The underlying problem is that the whole concept of cards is insane. Basically, you go around telling every shopkeeper the code for your safe, and ask them to take however much cash you owe them out of the safe. Sane ways to organize paymen
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by abdullahkhalids 16d ago
He is explaining that if you design an app that displays as desired on the outer display (in portrait mode). Then if you display that app to the inner display (also in portrait mode), it will show up exactly the same, just with everything t
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by abdullahkhalids 17d ago
There are two stages to learning research level math. First you learn to reprove other people work. This is relatively easy because the language, notion and prior explanations have already been optimized to help prove the next thing, and
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by abdullahkhalids 23d ago
In the current system, political parties who do things that stop the economy growing are usually voted out, more than political parties that refuse to take action against nebulous criminal activity. That's why, for example, my city ref
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by abdullahkhalids 23d ago
Shops and factories can be temporarily shut down if they don't comply with regulations. Businesses that require licenses like law practices may similarly have to stop operations. That is half of going to jail. Unfortunately, the growth
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by abdullahkhalids 24d ago
Do we know if Google is operating on the frontier of the trade-off curve? What do we lose from Pixel Android when GrapheneOS security changes are made?
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by abdullahkhalids 24d ago
If you are building your own harness that does correct citations, is the correct thing to give AI access to some deterministic tool that allows it to actually copy paste parts of documents its reading (with links), rather than stochastic re
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by abdullahkhalids 28d ago
Any given single agent is not long-lived due to limited context. What impact does it have on the status signals the agent develop compared to the signals humans (who usually have much longer context) have developed?
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by abdullahkhalids 1mo ago
Yes, they do store the value. There was a blogpost posted to HN last year that discusses the cryptographic features of these cards [1,2]. It's amazing that these cards are almost solving the problem of secure digital money. [1] https:
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by abdullahkhalids 1mo ago
Almost no one has the capability to intuitively understand cascading failure modes in complex systems. Especially, those with non-linear or flip-flop behaviour. It takes a lot of education to understand very particular types of complex syst
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by abdullahkhalids 1mo ago
uBlock causes a huge performance improvement for most regular people's computers.
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by abdullahkhalids 1mo ago
The alternative for most countries except a handful is that they continue to import oil from the two dozen-ish odd countries who export it. The policy relevant question then boils down to, in two decades how many countries will be producing
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
Aren't there decent apps that maintain shared blacklists for spam numbers?
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
Very cool. What audio model is this using for listening? I am surprised music recognition is good enough to give any feedback.
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
Pretty cool stuff. Do you think it's possible to easily build a science oriented harness like Ref. [1] in DeepClause? [1] https://github.com/1stproof/batch-2/tree/main/batch-2-submis...
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
Is there currently a lot of difference between deepseek's own prices and other provider's prices of deepseek models?
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
That is correct. It's just that in most cases in the real world, there is a complex casual network, and many of those variables are not even measurable. So you have to pick a proxy for one or more of the variables and make a metric out
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
I don't you what you mean. People have used the above harness (or similar) to prove significant results. See this recent paper [1], which claims > The human authors take full responsibility for the claims and proofs contained in thi
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
A harness [1] was developed by Terrence Tao and some collaborators to prove mathematical results. It has since then been used by others with positive effect. Can someone critique the structure of this harness? I don't know anything abo
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
> is there a real benefit for a Sandstorm grain over a docker style Linux container? Linux containers are meant to be used by those with significant software engineering skills. Sandstorm was designed to be used, once installed by someon
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
Both Germany and Pakistan installed roughly 17 GW of new solar in 2025 [1,2]. Pakistan's GDP per capita is about €1500. [1] https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/pakistan-the-solar-revolut... [2] https://eu
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
If you increase the date range to 12 months, you see that (with "likely human"), linux usage jumped from 3-4% to 5%-6% in the last 1.5 months. Something changed. ChromeOS jumped down several points in the same time period. So mayb
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
> how then to previous other posts that point at them, or reply to them, get updated? You have outlined two scenarios. One where the old posts are deleted, and in the old posts are moved to the new host. In the former case, the "ref
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
What languages does it support?
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
Restriction is a widely used technique in both art, and life. Consider black and white paintings, or generally paintings which only use shades of a single color? Why are they not using all the colors when they exist? What about people who d
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
Large publishers are optimizing their overall revenue/profit, not the revenue/profit per book. Given that large publishers dictate a significant fraction of what appears on bookstore shelves, how concentrated publicity drives of n
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
There is an easy way to mostly replace email over a decade, with the NewEmail protocol NewEmailServers are able to send and receive messages using either the Email or the NewEmail protocol. Before sending a message, the NewEmailServer check
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by abdullahkhalids 2mo ago
There are three clear benefits. 1. Answering where humans come from is probably one of the the oldest question we have had. All religions try to answer this in one way or the other. I say, trying to come up with scientific answers is extrem

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