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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
> the ideal number of unsolved crimes is not zero and the ideal number of crimes committed using state apparatus is also not zero I feel this is an _extremely_ good point, the kind that seems obvious only once you hear it. But i feel the
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
*Nominative Determinism. Named after John Nominative, who first proposed the effect.
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
Yes, you’re absolutely right, systems that are default-stable are much easier to tune, and large inertia does make the system more stable. For those sorts of systems, any minimal feedback is often enough to get the performance you want. If
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
I’d totally believe that. You can buy devices that even tune themselves automatically, using model-free methods like Ziegler-nichols. I’m not familiar with the domains where you would use that sort of thing, but I guess it would be applicat
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
This isn’t meant to be an attack, but almost everything you say here is false. > PIDs are great but notoriously hard to tune. They require deep insight into the underlying physical phenomena to get right. They are also rather rigid and c
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
I can’t tell if you’re serious, but my definition was certainly not, lol. My claim was that correcting “red haring” to “red herring” distracts from a bigger misunderstanding (thus making the correction itself a red herring! Please laugh.) I
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
You’re right, but that’s a distraction from the bigger misconception — it’s actually “Read Herring”. The idea is that the herring has already been documented (and “read” back), no longer deserving of additional discussion.
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
It's possible that I'm just not up to date with current news, but I'm having trouble connecting this quote to the article. Or really even understanding the quote at all. Can you elaborate?
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
just for completeness, I think the closer analogue is probably total expenses: $12.48 billion to $34 billion -- roughly 2.7x. But this is still pretty close to what you said, so I don't particularly disagree with the numbers. I do wond
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
roger that, if possible trim pp.
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
Is there reason to believe this is a good discriminator of human vs AI? I didn't see any about page, or statistic, or anything like that, but maybe I'm just missing it? edit: The page links to [1], but [1] has none of the informat
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
It is really hard to tell with products though. Sometimes the core idea is right, but you haven't yet refined it to match what your audience wants (ie, sometimes you're building for one person that you're not marketing to). A
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
Wow, this is amazingly bad. My favorite excerpt: > “The Court is compelled to note that it has serious concerns that Wilson has continued this practice of AI misuse in other cases after she was put on notice of her violations in this cas
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
> There's no mandated organizational standard for what exact tools to some, various teams have different levels of adoption and stacks > No org-wide/team-wide conventions for Claude Code Just for context, this pattern (diffe
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by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago
> catchy names like Opus, Mythos and Fable trying to get you to think that these software products are actually super-human life changing experiences This is just good business sense. In what scenario would you ever make the names dumb a
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David Kriesel: Lies, damned lies and scans [video](youtube.com)
2 points by pinkmuffinere 4mo ago|0 comments
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
lol, brave to post such a niche reference but I love it! The real aoe2 fans coming out of the woodwork edit: 11
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
Funny enough, about 10% of my net worth is in an inverse position on Tesla [1]! [1] https://bagelpour.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/taking-an-inverse...
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
They define a new metric that they call the “fundamental base”. It includes value of assets, trailing revenue, goodwill, and likely more. They claim in a couple places that it is not intended as a valuation, although I think the main way it
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
From [1]: > A higher RG value indicates a larger gap between market valuation and the estimated fundamental base — meaning the market is pricing the company at a significant multiple of what the fundamentals alone would support. A lower
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RICO Suits and Restraining Orders: The Bricks and Minifigs Chaos Just Got Worse [video](youtube.com)
4 points by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago|0 comments
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
> > in the long term it is a weighing machine. > This has not been the case for a long time. I think this comes down to a disagreement about what "long term" means. In finance, I would suggest a _lower_ bound on long term
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
I don't really think this is true. You can say "chemtrails aren't real but weather engineering does concerns me". It's just that many (most?) of the people with the concerns are chemtrails people. It's not like
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
> No, the bicycle is unstable. PID doesn't work well there. This is just totally wrong. Stabilizing an unstable system is usually the first goal of controller design. Different systems do require different controllers, but pid is _v
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
> Modern robots are nowhere near being bottlenecked by hardware. They are all bottlenecked by AI. It is possible for both elements to be insufficient.
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
> here we are in 2026 and robots could plausibly clean our homes beyond vacuuming and mopping. It is very bold to just assert this is true. Certainly it will be possible eventually, but there's still _lots_ of disagreement in the in
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
> Wyden said in a statement that it was time to “start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat.” Wow, wasn't expecting to find good news here, but I think that would be a positive change.
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
+1. Researchers in the field will have better insight, but the immediate confounding factor i think of: People that eat more preservatives are likely eating more unhealthy food in general (microwave meals, shelf stable snack and cookies, et
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
This YouTube video covers it with much more detail, and (imo) more entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wscQpkcwgNU
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by pinkmuffinere 5mo ago
Oh no, I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, lol

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