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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
> > The basic shaping is estimated to have taken around 200 hours, and in total the recreation likely took more than 370 hours. > Nearly a year of "full time" work at 40hrs/week went into this Sorry, I think you may
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
> The study seems extremely easy to replicate (no fancy equipment needed, just ask some people to proofread), and yet nobody did until now They were just putting it off.
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
> We know that the people most affected by this decision are the developers who rely on OpenAI models in Cursor. We care about their experience in this transition and we’re ready to go above and beyond to support them. Do I smell a curso
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
I empathize, and I have the same preference, but I wonder how this interacts with other people (many of them being our coworkers) using LLMs. There is no authoritative source for the models to pull info from, so either people will have to e
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
I wonder how coastal they intend to be. They make a lot of claims about repairing the wetlands and coastal regions, but a lot of it is likely going to be underwater in the next 25 years because of rising sea levels [0], regardless of how ma
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Why Life in Louisiana Has Become Impossible [video](youtube.com)
1 points by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago|0 comments
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
somewhat topical video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dSjY4j7Ak tl;dw -- louisiana has a ton of natural resources and wonderful harbors, but has allowed corporations to get away with almost anything without paying their
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
Are you saying PMI is a survey of 400 manufacturing executives about the status of manufacturing, and you don't think it carries meaningful signal about the status of manufacturing? I wonder what you think _would_ carry meaningful sign
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
> this is an illusion. The ideas are not already good. They need to be thickened. I think this is a good candidate to hang on the wall, or perhaps for a tattoo.
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Reasons to Avoid Seed Oils [video](youtube.com)
3 points by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago|0 comments
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Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text(daringfireball.net)
3 points by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago|1 comments
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
> Not only is the bar for being a competent government not particularly high on the world scale This is such a ridiculous, preposterously self-confident claim. Claims like this give HN (and engineers in general) a bad reputation. Edit: r
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
Autosave sounds nice, I’m excited to have that! I appreciate the backwards compatibility they highlight in the article, and more generally the ownership oss gives you over your files. My small business uses gimp, canva, and Inkscape, and th
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
From tfa > A lot of new and existing contributors have submitted improvements to GIMP’s user interface and its user experience. We wanted to highlight their efforts, and encourage you all to continue sharing your feedback on our design i
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
Oh I see, you’re arguing that computer growth will make this more attractive. I think it’s a decent argument, although personally I find it unconvincing. More compute will be allocated between all the existing options, and I suspect it will
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
What, how is that relevant? the transistors on a microchip double about every two years. That’s descriptive, not prescriptive, so whatever you’re trying to imply about the future is kindof a toss up — there’s no promise the parents hold. An
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
> So you’re asserting that the ends justify the means or? They claim that spacex has competitive advantage. They take no stance on condoning spacex’s behavior. Personally I strongly dislike musks behavior, but I appreciate discussion of
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
Just to be clear, I'm arguing that there _does_ appear to be evolutionary pressure here, so we probably will evolve in response. That argument doesn't require predicting how exactly we will evolve; you're kindof asking an ort
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
Why not? The claim (which I believe is well supported) is that these things hijack some innate impulses to trap us in bad decisions. If you consistently make bad decisions (eg, put off developing your life) your line is less likely to conti
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
I 100% believe there is such an effect, and that it’s confounding the measurement of population level changes. But I want to point out that the existence of such an effect is not really evidence _against_ the changes, it’s just another conf
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by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
> We ask Master's students to give US instruction on a topic (drawn randomly on a card in front of them, from a list they know a few days in advance) This is also an absolutely great way to ensure the participants really understand
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by pinkmuffinere 3mo ago
> > At least in the USA, a new BMW is a high-end car. > No they most definitely are not. > They're marketed as high end, but their engineering is a tour de force of cost cutting behind the scenes. Whether you personally lik
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by pinkmuffinere 3mo ago
> I think we called every service qualified for providing such a testimony in Ontario, and a good portion of them across all of Canada. Some were even happy to work with us, until they found out we were testifying against the police. We
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by pinkmuffinere 3mo ago
Wow this is fascinating enough that I’m actually going to read tfa lol
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by pinkmuffinere 3mo ago
I totally think the AI companies are very overvalued, I feel that's obvious. But I don't understand why apple should have such a high run in the last year. Sure, it avoided the pitfall of overinvesting in AI -- but what did it do
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by pinkmuffinere 3mo ago
tl;dr -- Boom's iterations are very similar to a phase III trial! Please prove me wrong! Just to clarify, I think our numbers are in agreement here. From your numbers, phase I + II + III would be in the range $21-75M, all told. Let&#x2
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A Personal Note from Our Founder (2025)(hindenburgresearch.com)
6 points by pinkmuffinere 3mo ago|0 comments
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by pinkmuffinere 3mo ago
That's fair, phase 3 testing isn't an early prototype, it's a prototype with many years of effort behind it. But I still think it is _more_ like a prototype than it is like a product coming off an assembly line. Perhaps phase
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by pinkmuffinere 3mo ago
> But let’s think about that 91% failure rate for a moment. When I bring this up in presentations, I invite the audience to consider what the auto industry would look like of 91% of new car designs proved unable to roll out of the factor
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by pinkmuffinere 3mo ago
Wow, that is fascinating, I didn't realize China was now blocking foreign chips, lol. It's not a definitive indicator, but I feel that doesn't bode well for US dominance in this area -- when your competitor thinks they'd

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