kergonath

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by kergonath 6d ago
> I think it means it doesn't have much, but it has that. Yeah. I think what happens is that the implied group of things in which the castle belongs changes. "The town has the castle" could be understood as “there is only
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by kergonath 6d ago
How did you check? What was your oracle when you thought something was AI and when you did not? I mean, this situation is a textbook case of ground for a lot of common fallacies, starting with confirmation bias. We need to remember that our
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by kergonath 6d ago
> One of the things I look for is specifically certain types of extreme... not just flaws... just overall atrocity. So, please forgive me, but this means that you are good at finding out some patterns in AI output. There are always a l
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by kergonath 6d ago
You can see it here in the discussions for about half the stories. It gets sidetracked into people talking past each other. The thing is, people are really bad at judging this, except for the most stereotypical cases. You have people crying
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by kergonath 8d ago
> Pasteurising is good, corn syrup is bad Pasteurising something is making it sterile. Safer, but bland and not as interesting. I guess that’s the intended metaphor.
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by kergonath 8d ago
> Like are we working with ai on superconductors Yes, we are. Basically, for any scientific problem worth any funding, there is someone using AI on it. That said, for materials science it’s usually not LLMs, or even transformers (unless
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by kergonath 8d ago
> 1. André was the older brother of philosopher Simone Weil. But no relation with Simone Veil (both Veil and Weil are pronounced exactly the same way in French).
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by kergonath 10d ago
> I’ve have had enough bookmarks fall out of the book that I have changed my strategy. I solved this with small post-it notes I use as bookmarks. Some of my textbooks and recipe books have dozens of them, colour-coded. Very convenient. F
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by kergonath 11d ago
OTOH, are you in an official role with extended powers because you represent the State? A role where you can routinely infringe on the civil and human rights of the people around you? Why do you think the comparison is relevant at all?
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by kergonath 12d ago
> i think the people flagging me haven’t bothered to try reading it, they just assume that they know what it says and thats enough. You could have provided more context to avoid that.
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by kergonath 14d ago
Lucky you. On some parts of my commute, in an urban area of 10M people, I am happy if I get some 3G.
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by kergonath 14d ago
> an exageration but AI's contributions in iOS aren't visible If you want to ignore them, that’s right. In the real world, they’ve been talking about ML and how it’s making pictures or such-and-such aspect of the OS better for
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by kergonath 14d ago
> ML research was a rather known quantity, or the separate "Neural Engine" CPU explicitly aimed at existing ML pipelines wouldn't exist. No, not really. Transformers were just one of the possible directions. Silicon design
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by kergonath 16d ago
Brilliant essay. Thanks for the link.
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by kergonath 16d ago
Not necessarily. Both NMS and Minecraft are still selling quite well a decade or more after release. Not to mention things like WoW (22 years and still millions of daily players).
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by kergonath 16d ago
To be fair, it sounds like you got a decent play time for a one time purchase ages ago. It’s ok not to love everything. Personally, I like to do the expeditions, and then maybe a couple of hours after. It’s not the focus of my game library,
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by kergonath 21d ago
> Everyone yells loudly about how bad the us is, but then you realize that the whole world voted with there feet that every other alternative is worse. The main problem right now is that the US are not the US for which we voted with our
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by kergonath 21d ago
> These were not wars! These were American offensive aggressions against sovereign countries that lasted years if not decades for the people in power to suck resources into and out of the military complex andfor their own agenda. I don’t
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by kergonath 21d ago
> we can say that it's a process started long time ago and now simply accelerating and escalating after Ukrainian conflict and confiscation of a european partner assets? For France, not really. It was De Gaulle and his successors wa
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by kergonath 21d ago
> But I believe you can relax, because this is all nonsense. Tell that to Iran. Or Canada. Nobody in Europe is certain that he won’t do anything stupid in Greenland, either. We’re already in a trade war (mostly one-sided but still).
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by kergonath 21d ago
Typically they move gold to allies when it’s safer to keep the reserves away (e.g., it’s really hard to imagine the US getting invaded, but that happened to almost all European countries in the last century or so) or when politics become un
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by kergonath 21d ago
> Does anyone in power anywhere actually think China has finally overtaken the US hegemony? No, not really. For now we are headed towards a multipolar world rather than a hegemony.
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by kergonath 21d ago
The US lost these wars politically. This has always been the US weakness rather than pure military power. The US was better at getting what they wanted through either soft power or threat of military action than as a result of actual interv
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by kergonath 21d ago
> Also to note, why was the US trusted before? Trust was never absolute. What we trusted was that the US would act rationally to further their interests. The US benefited tremendously from economic development across the world (industria
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by kergonath 1mo ago
That could be cockney, though.
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by kergonath 1mo ago
> What if the chef forgot to add salt? That’s a perfectly valid reason for complaining, then. Politely, of course, but the chef might use the feedback.
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by kergonath 1mo ago
> Also Europeans are not, I think, accustomed to asking for salt, or ketchup, on already seasoned food. I would expect to find salt, pepper and mustard on the table in a decent restaurant, in my corner of Europe. Not ketchup, though, exc
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by kergonath 1mo ago
> Sure, but not the way West conducted it, by going and killing generations of people. But they did. Look at Xinjiang, Tibet, and the history of Manchuria, among others. They did it to themselves as well, like most backwards dictatorship
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by kergonath 1mo ago
You can normalise by surface area, which makes defects rate comparable across processes. At least to a first order approximation, keeping all other parameters constant, bigger chips are more likely to have a defect because they have larger
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by kergonath 1mo ago
On the contrary, it is actually good. For all the hand wringing when someone’s favourite platform loses out on a Geekbench comparison, the benchmarks are quite consistent, even across platforms, and track SPEC results fairly accurately. Of

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