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by antonvs 1mo ago
That’s a deliberate effort on Google’s part. Integrating AI and search is obviously pretty critical to their business.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
Maybe agents won’t need to be sold to by CEOs jumping around on stage like pet monkeys. Could be an improvement.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
I'm not suggesting distortion or misrepresentation of the published result. The actual preprint is quite clear on the nature and limitations of the result, and there's no reason to think that what they're reporting didn'
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by antonvs 1mo ago
Yup, plus my GLP-1 dealer promises that if it kills me, I won’t have to pay. Really no downside.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> It's an open question, right, whether dark matter has no interaction or just very little interaction with normal matter? If there's none, this experiment will detect nothing but noise. Correct. What this experiment (LUX-ZEPLI
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by antonvs 1mo ago
I’ve been using Gemini for coding daily since 3.5, mostly on some pretty complex ML engineering projects. It’s great. What’s an example of not being “reliable”?
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by antonvs 1mo ago
And much better bang for the buck, as well. When I read all the issues people have with Claude - the aggressive guardrails, the cost, how quickly it burns tokens - it seems almost masochistic to use it. Just seems like herd behavior - peopl
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by antonvs 1mo ago
English has places where one or the other is preferred. For example one, would normally write, “It is with great regret…,” without the contraction. It’s not a hard rule, more a matter of register. Similarly, in the preceding sentence, “it i
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by antonvs 1mo ago
The mainstream TV news report that I saw about this ended with a comment about how we should continue to fund this detector. Made me wonder if the nature of this release involved forces other than purely scientific ones. Apparently funding
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> I just can't believe something like dark matter exists. That's a lot like a blind person saying they can't believe light exists. It takes only a small amount of knowledge of physics to understand why and how dark matter
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by antonvs 1mo ago
If it was supposed to be sarcasm, that does help.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
I’m aware, but it was a bad mainstream opinion which was contradicted by every bit of evidence ever since early LISP efforts in the late 1960s (still waiting for the release of SHRDLU 2.0!) 65 years is a long time to be beating your head ag
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by antonvs 1mo ago
I hate that whole intro - the first four sentences - so much. It’s nothing but unsupported assumptions. Basically, a strawman that they can do battle with in the paper. Not an auspicious start.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> Additionally the post seems to talk in broad strokes AI slop tends to do that.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> There are people who feel that it's worth classifying all the objects in our solar system and that doing so is useful. Up to a point. Part of my point is that the specificity of the new definition of "planet" is a bit si
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by antonvs 1mo ago
You're on the right track. We really need to dice up spacetime. Everyone can purchase their own spacetime worldtube.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
I may be missing what you're asking. To extend the example I gave, it's very useful to be able to verify that a program never dereferences an uninitialized pointer. In general, it's very useful to be able to verify that a pro
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by antonvs 1mo ago
You can define what constitutes undefined behavior without defining the behavior itself. Programming language definitions rely on this. So “verifying no UB” means verifying that a program is not performing any operations that have undefined
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by antonvs 1mo ago
What about rotation, though? E.g. if you fix a coordinate system on Earth, then it rotates through the entire universe on a daily basis. We might want to use something like the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF), which is design
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by antonvs 1mo ago
Your point is valid - we do need to classify things for our own mental convenience - but I don't think the Pluto case is an example of it. In many ways, the Pluto situation is an example of the Buddhist metaphor about the finger pointi
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by antonvs 1mo ago
This is a complete tangent, but how would you identify which cubic volume you own? Would it: 1. Somehow remain static as stars and planets moved through it? 2. Be relative to some coordinate system that we define? 3. Follow some object like
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by antonvs 1mo ago
“The Great Chain of Being” that the author mentions is an idea that dates back to Aristotle and Plato, but it developed into the concept described in the article under medieval Christianity, before the Catholic/Protestant split. I agre
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> Pluto makes for a great lesson about science itself. I disagree. Quibbling about a definition like that is like quibbling about whether a certain bird is a black-crowned Night-Heron or a black-crowned Night Heron (without the second hy
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by antonvs 1mo ago
Let me get this straight: you feel lightheaded because your heart function is compromised? Sign me up!
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> what count as socializing at this age, before ~4-5 yo, I.e stealing from each other, fighting over the stolen objects, then learning to share It's ok if they never get to that last step - they can always become CEOs or presidents.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> Designing for investors That entry isn’t published yet, but… this can be a viable tactic as part of a larger strategy. I’ve seen people raise significant money by designing for investors, and it got them to where they wanted to be.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
I first read The Economist in the 1980s. Name a counterexample and I’ll show you how you’ve allowed yourself to be duped.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
Because with the ozone layer, the causes of the problem were much more narrow, the solutions were orders of magnitude cheaper, and they affected a much smaller industry, much less dramatically. It’s not that the changes are “too damaging to
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by antonvs 1mo ago
The Economist is torn, because on the one hand they try to appear clever, but on the other hand they generally support unrestrained capitalism. It’s not possible to do both at the same time.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
What you’re doing is called derailing. I used the same language as in the OP title. Why aren’t you responding to that? You’re missing the point because you weren’t responding meaningfully to what I was saying, you’re using someone else’s ch

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