matthewdgreen

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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
That doesn't really answer the question of whether it could be used to deliver "numbers station" type messages. Encrypted key material and enciphered messages should be indistinguishable. There are 18 bytes of high-entropy ci
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
You're assuming it requires specialized military gear, as opposed to consumer gear with a flashed firmware. I believe GPS L1 C/A subframe 4 is on the ordinary L1 C/A civil signal, which means commercial receivers can receive
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
Benchmarks are governed (to some extent) by natural selection. If the S&P criteria prove obsolete, then it will be replaced by other indices that use your proposed criteria. Everything's going to be just fine.
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
You can just buy the stock, you know. Nobody is keeping it off the exchanges. Or you can buy another fund that includes it.
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
Yes, it's the same principle that gets you financial advisors who push you into high-fee fund choices that earn them kickbacks. Completely understandable from the PoV of these parties' self-interest, yet entirely contrary to your
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
Claude Code is essentially a terminal emulator that runs on mature OSes with excellent support for this type of application. Why are they having difficulty implementing it?
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
The messed up scrolling behavior I keep getting in Claude Code is definitely due to their code.
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
Solar doesn't have to be colocated with consumption. There is a massive amount of available solar in Europe and North Africa, even in the winter, and HVDC (including underwater HVDC lines) makes this available.
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
I'm confused. Those boring flat places that get tornadoes have massive wind farms, because that's where wind blows. Tornadoes are not a major economic threat to wind farms. Have you been to the midwest? There's at least 40GW
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
Does the First Amendment actually let the US government dictate the types of speech you're allowed to put in your LLM? I mean, a US government that's bound by the Constitution, obviously.
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
I'd never heard of any of the YouTube stuff and I was hooked by the premise. Whereas my son wanted to see Iron Lung because of the game.
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
I think the key complaint about remakes isn't "the idea isn't totally original", the complaint is that studios are only willing to make IP that customers are already deeply familiar with. I don't think Green Planet
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
This is a lesson I've learned over thirty years. If the GOP says "the Democrats are doing X" then you can be assured the winning Republican plans to do X (or already has.) It inoculates them. Crushing academic free speech is
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
"Political" in the context of research funding generally doesn't mean what it means under this administration. Administrations have always shifted priorities as far as what scientific fields they want to fund , and individua
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
Really depends on the valuation and P/E they plan to list at, and some estimate of their future revenue story. I love Codex and Claude Code but OpenCode/Kimi is wildly cheaper and 90% as good.
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
Those articles don't really say what the "botch" is. Was it the anesthesia? The actual endoscopic examination? Removal of polyps? If its the polyp removal, I can certainly see how that could lead to problems. But you're
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
This is probably the most embarrassing comment I've ever seen on HN.
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
Again, the output of most University research is published in journals and conferences, with raw data increasingly available as artifacts. Publication does not always give all the data! Some proprietary datasets and tools exist, but the imp
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
That's what they said about Brexit. 52% of the population voted yes in a single election, and the rest got dragged along for a multi-year ride. Current polls put support for the decision at 31%, but it's too late.
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
Many graduate students, faculty and post-docs are foreign citizens. So banning them from conducting research could potentially shut down big research projects. It is not surprising to me that the NIH and other funding agencies didn't w
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
The number of cars that experience -40F(C) in a year is something like 3% of all cars. In the US that number is more like 0.5%. And even within that 3%, the average number of days where cars experience that temperature is on the order of a
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
If you look at their filings, they are now pivoting into an "AI company". (Meaning, that's where the majority of their future value is described as coming from.) It's possible that this is a harmless investor swindle and
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
Putting it into a filing does not necessarily make it legally binding. I asked ChatGPT and (although it is clearly in the bag for OpenAI ;) it gave more color: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a0baf4a-e408-83ea-a44b-ff68bacb6
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
Elon Musk is busy arguing to massively cut social security because it's fiscally unsustainable. He's also claimed that AI will create so much wealth that 'everyone can have a penthouse if they want'. These beliefs do not
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
Reviewing papers, writing papers, these are all part of what grad students do and what they should be doing to learn. They should be getting academic credit for it, however. Your friend sounds like he had an extremely unusual and bad experi
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
I don't really like to make broad general arguments about "elites". But if we're humoring this argument: I would postulate that the sudden need to police cheating and the more recent bad behavior of our elite adults are
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
Yes, this is really depressing. I don't want to have to ban devices from exams, but it is something I might have to think about.
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
Most of us have done something stupid once in our lives. That does not mean we do stupid things all the time, nor does it mean that we didn't learn from the experience. The goal of school is to help immature young adults grow into matu
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
The real question is: how do we produce hydrogen from the coming massive overbuilding of cheap-but-variable solar. Nuclear reactors are a whole different animal: even if we build them "cheaply" they're not going to approach t
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by matthewdgreen 5mo ago
I wish we would normalize people just running a business well and taking a damned salary.

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