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by fn-mote 2mo ago
The point is that not all blog posts are worth reading. This one mixes up enough truths and ideas that it doesn’t go anywhere interesting.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
Fortunately, if they send it as a text message or voicemail, I get automatic transcription. Too bad that’s not more universal.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
Let me paraphrase a scene from “Lessons in Chemistry”. The main character confesses that twice she has wanted to give up her child for adoption. Another mom laughs... "Twenty times would still make you an amateur." The point is: i
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
Exaggeration does not improve dialogue. People go to prison for providing incorrect data without malicious intent? Are you sure? Anyway, working under contract with the police is not the same as calling in a report. Even if you wish it were
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
It seems that you are deliberately misunderstanding or not addressing the GP. Your pro-flock argument is fine on its own. Delete the second paragraph and make your argument independently of the GP. You did not address the primary argument
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
The author confesses that they had an “LLM compiler [sic] a list”. Reassuringly, they say they have checked that the links don’t go to click farms. This kind of LLM-generated content (by its own admission) should not be on HN.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
GP means race to the bottom in price not quality.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
The popularity of Linear Algebra Done Right (IMO) comes from two sources: 1. Excellent exercises. Challenging. Really make you put the concepts together. 2. Good, opinionated pedagogy. If you agree with the philosophy (among other things, d
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
I found that “properties of the determinant uniquely determine this formula that I guessed” approach to determinants to be extremely unconvincing when I was learning linear algebra.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
> lets see if you can figure this out yourself.. If you are SELF-teaching, you need to learn how to figure things out. When you can’t, there’s plenty of sources. It’s not the 1990s. Your favorite LLM probably gives good explanations of l
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
Not everybody is ready for that. Certainly not as a first course.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
Thank you so much for the review link!! No ordinary reader would expect a complete rewrite from the first to the second edition.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
This is basically a request for a graduate course, though. Definitely not a first course in linear algebra. TBH, I don’t think there are surprises in the “general case” (whatever that is… modules over a PID??) that you can’t see by understa
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
It's past time to move your critical infrastructure off Github then, no?
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
> Open source maintainers being harassed or being demanded work through Github's issues This isn't "psyops". Sure, it's a bad side of social interactions, but when you interact with other people, there's alw
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
^^ Absolutely. Nothing in the PR jumps out as a red flag. Unless you know how the internals work, I suppose.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
Perhaps they are referring to the fact that the package server does not hide the email of the contributor? Not that this is a complaint worth airing on HN. Solution: just block the alias that you use for the submission…
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
When people in power lie, it lowers trust in all society. I don’t want to live in a low-trust society, so I am against lying by CEOs and politicians.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
> im sure after a 100 samplings, the academics would solve the problem faster Repharase thinking: Some problems are better for academics, other problems require other background information. The point of the GP isn’t that they are all ac
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
> they all defect at the same time Frankly, this is implausible. I would definitely want to reproduce it myself before I relied on this claim.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
For those unwilling to blindly click: the link contains a 2025 paper describing “emergent misalignment”. The thesis is that training on incorrect data in one field produces “misaligned” data in other unrelated fields.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
> I don't perceive this as a malignant artificial intelligence It doesn’t matter how you perceive it. Spin doesn’t change facts. This is like saying the lawnmower doesn’t have malign intent. You’re still losing your foot if it gets
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
“Dozens of cycles” is totally misleading. They do not mean FULL cycles. The only truthful reading of this claim is that there have been dozens of years that some oil has been released. The only major drawdowns occur 2020-present.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
Read it for yourself. To me this shows massive withdrawals in 2021-2022 and again in the last two years.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
This should be the top comment. Thousands of retracted papers? More informative than just a Google Scholar search.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
Much appreciated post, but can you keep the AI slop separate from the rest of it?
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
A more honest phrasing: “Bull was assassinated by Mossad to stop his work.” > action by Bull that 'caused' a reaction by Mossad" I object to the total abdication of responsibility for the “reaction”.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
> what does "content of character" mean Interesting question. I think the intent when talking about “character” is to look for traits that unifiy observations of words and actions.
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
Painting with such a broad brush is useless. Science continues to work. Some of the institutions have serious flaws, but going back to leaches and bloodletting is only going to get all of your money taken by the tech companies who know that
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by fn-mote 2mo ago
This amounts to a subsidy of Chinese manufacturing over local manufacturing. I can’t see how a market distortion is a net benefit to the importing country. It seems self-destructive.

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