bee_rider

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by bee_rider 5d ago
I mean they added a slider to make Liquid Glass slightly less bad, but the “good” end is just the old “reduce transparency” option. They’ve got a lot of progress to make, if they are ever going to give us back the pre-liquid-glass UI densit
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by bee_rider 5d ago
I guess it is possible, but Apple has had very vocal fans for decades. I suspect, rather than astroturfing, it is just people who are in their ecosystem.
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by bee_rider 7d ago
A ton of conversations about the game must be in the training set. I wonder, is there any way just from watching how they play, of telling if they tend to pick strategies that people complain or meme about online?
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by bee_rider 7d ago
Honestly, I was sloppily thinking of the general reviewer/editor system as one thing (and didn’t notice that I’d lumped them together until you brought it up here). Good point. Although the editor has a lot more papers to handle, so I
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by bee_rider 7d ago
I was thinking for the reviewer. Also note that I was only answering as to why it wasn’t done in the past. For the time comparison, I’m not sure, it doesn’t seem quite apples-to-apples: 1) It is scheduled time vs unscheduled. 2) There must
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by bee_rider 7d ago
I’ve only published a few papers, but this interview sounds extremely unusual to me (I mean, it is clearly a special thing that the editor is doing, which is fine). I wouldn’t do something unethical, but if I had and the editor asked me for
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by bee_rider 8d ago
> But a materialist who accepts consciousness in weirdly formed aliens ought also to accept consciousness in spatially distributed group entities I guess this must be elaborated on in the article (without a subscription I can only see th
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by bee_rider 8d ago
I don’t know how useful they are in scientific computing either, really. They are less precise than normalized numbers… if flushing them makes a difference I think it is a bad algorithm smell.
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by bee_rider 8d ago
IIRC intel’s compilers enable FTZ/DAZ, at least at higher optimization levels.
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by bee_rider 8d ago
Your comment and this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748998 Make for a funny pairing.
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by bee_rider 8d ago
Yes, it seems generally *punk. It’s funny that steam, diesel, and solar punk have this association with immediacy. Does the originator, cyberpunk? Lots of cyberpunk stories present us with a society that is dominated by a digital abstractio
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by bee_rider 8d ago
I wonder if we’ll end up in a weird situation a decade from now, where every conjecture will collapse into one of two states: counterexample found by AI, or assumed to be true.
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by bee_rider 9d ago
The algebraic manipulation that you use to break the dependency seems to be specific to the matrix being Poisson on a finite-difference grid (is that right?). In that case wouldn’t it make more sense to compare against specialized Poisson s
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by bee_rider 9d ago
Copy past the example code, then tweak until it breaks? If we were meant to read documentation, not reading it would cause a compiler error!
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by bee_rider 9d ago
The library in my town had coffee, but it was more like a library that had a little coffee than a cafe with a library, if that makes sense.
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by bee_rider 9d ago
Just look at the little video on Wikipedia, it is an absolute mess of elements being thrown around. Chaos. Real answer: I tutored beginner programming students for a bit and I guess I just thought quicksort didn’t fit in very well. Mergesor
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by bee_rider 10d ago
Well, it came out a while ago, so maybe we can be a bit silly: There’s something sort of beautiful about mergesort and heapsort. Their names tell you what their main idea is, and how they work is immediately obvious. Quicksort, on the other
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by bee_rider 10d ago
What sort of action does that lack of understanding actually motivate, though? I don’t know if LLMs are conscious or have subjective experience in some philosophical sense. Sure, I don’t know that about other humans as well, rigorously spea
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by bee_rider 10d ago
We’ve got the whole post to parse, though. The idea is obviously applicable to other search engines.
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by bee_rider 11d ago
I wonder if there would be concern on their part about appearing to be a company that was basically offering paywall circumvention as a product.
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by bee_rider 11d ago
> But the finish line did keep changing: first satellite in orbit, first living mammals in orbit, first human in orbit, multiple humans in orbit, spacewalk, moon landing, human moon landing, I agree here, but it’s not really a game with
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by bee_rider 11d ago
For videogames I don’t think it really makes sense to try and compare against 90’s prices. It’s gotten so much easier to just make “a game” (in the sense that computers are enormously more powerful, third-party engines and assets exist, gen
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by bee_rider 11d ago
Actually, in Russia do they have a pitch for where they’d rather draw the finish line? I admit it is probably influenced by having a US upbringing, but “landing on the Moon” does seem like a natural finish line for a space race. The move
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by bee_rider 11d ago
I find this theory pretty compelling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49703471 Maybe they are overthinking it.
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by bee_rider 11d ago
I guess they didn’t know the Vision Pro would fail when they made the switch. Now, they’ve made the second ugliest iOS ever. So, they are on a recovering trend, but of course they’ve got pretty far to go.
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by bee_rider 12d ago
The scientist’s job is to get zapped until they figure out why. The engineer’s job is to get zapped a couple times while they wire that thing up into the power grid.
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by bee_rider 12d ago
If you want a truncated SVD, there’s a decent chance you will be happy with a randomized SVD. The paper “Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing approximate matrix decompositions” (Halko, Martinsson, and
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by bee_rider 12d ago
Most human CEOs can’t do everything at their companies.
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by bee_rider 12d ago
Well it’s news to me that things are already at the state of just needing better filtering. Maybe it is time to dust mine off…
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by bee_rider 12d ago
On one hand, folks here seem quite skeptical of the idea, and are pointing out some obvious flaws. On the other, the announcement post… also seems quite skeptical of the idea, and devotes a lot of text to the ridiculous things their AI’s ha

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