ur-whale

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by ur-whale 6mo ago
Why is it no one ever talks about the one thing no one can get their hands on except the big labs ? I'm talking about the training set. Sure there are some open sets out there. But my guess is they are nowhere near what OpenAI, Googl
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
> Oh yes that's what I mean. I don't like calling it the Netherlands. it was tongue-in-cheek dude. literal people are a hoot.
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
> Such an institution would never buy and sell to trade the market This is not what they're doing. They're just re-asserting their sovereignty over their property, a smart move in the current geopolitical climate. I'm actu
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
> Germany also needs to pull all gold. We have 1236t there. They had better act fast, before an executive order prevents that from ever happening.
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
> This is not gain at all. At least in theory: You own some tons of gold at the start of the process, you have the same tons of gold at the end of the process. Correct. A better way to put it is you shorted the USD. Which is a smart move
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
> De Gaulle initiated a systematic, aggressive policy where they converted USD into physical gold The dude was a visionary for many things, but I didn't know about this. Borderline prescient. What a guy.
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
Carry permit to operate a compiler is in our near future.
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
> BOSL2 ... but it is an extra set of functions you need to remember sadly It's also extremely slow: it implements chamfers and fillets using morpho, and if you have a large number of fillets, the morpho algorithms (minkowski &#x
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
> FreeCAD is amazing these days. FreeCAD has become much better, no denying it. "Amazing" is however not the word I would use though, the UI is still very convoluted and very hard to learn. The worst part in FreeCAD, and which
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
> I think OpenSCAD is currently the best and most feature complete choice As much as I love OpenSCAD, I would strongly disagree with your conclusion. All the OpenSCAD language can do is boolean operations and moreover, the engine can o
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
Amazing work, and a fantastic idea, congratulations to the author. I am definitely trying this next week-end!
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
> A sufficiently detailed spec is code Posting something like this in 2026: they must not have heard of LLMs. And also: this is such a typical thing a functional programmer would say: for them code is indeed a specification, with stric
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by ur-whale 7mo ago
> What is LTspice? It's the best circuit simulator, whose creators did pretty much everything right with the following exceptions: - using the wrong key for undo - failing to understand that open-sourcing their baby would h
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Anthropic AI used in Khamenei elimination(engadget.com)
3 points by ur-whale 8mo ago|2 comments
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AI used to plan elimination of Khamenei(ft.com)
2 points by ur-whale 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 8mo ago
https://archive.is/g7hT1
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by ur-whale 8mo ago
> Highly recommend looking at Jacob Barandes’ formulation of quantum mechanics as non-Markovian stochastic processes. seconded >might make sense to link to the actual material you're referring to https://www.youtube.co
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by ur-whale 8mo ago
https://archive.is/aCleq
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by ur-whale 8mo ago
At some point, all of these big names in AI (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc ...) will have to disclose their actual financials. And it will be, as Warren Buffet puts it, a "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been s
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by ur-whale 8mo ago
https://archive.is/Vsdqd
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by ur-whale 8mo ago
https://archive.is/iI6rY
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by ur-whale 8mo ago
https://archive.is/6YKLN
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by ur-whale 8mo ago
> This LLM did it You do realize the LLM had access (via his training set) and "reused" (not as is, of course) your own work, right?
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by ur-whale 8mo ago
> We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler So, essentially to build something for which many, many examples already exist on the web, and which is likely baked into its training set somehow ... mmmyeah.
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by ur-whale 9mo ago
> I never attach my iPhone to anything that's not a power source. It's "attached" to the wifi and to the cell network. Pretty much the same thing.
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by ur-whale 9mo ago
> So go fix your wrongs You seem to be assuming I'm American. I am not, and I therefore have nothing to fix. Unlike China with the thought control.
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by ur-whale 9mo ago
> Currently it is controlled by thugs in the USA. Same difference? I hate to make such a prosaic answer, but, independent of there being thugs in the USA or not ... two wrongs don't make a right.
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by ur-whale 9mo ago
> Only very few people in Iran have Starlink dishes. Couple of sources I read talk about 40k+ dishes in Iran Granted, that's not much at the scale of a country of 90M+ people, but still, if the numbers are correct, that's not n
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by ur-whale 9mo ago
> Sort sounds like you think their ruling class are thugs but ours are fine? I see Whataboutism on the menu today.
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by ur-whale 9mo ago
> Ah yes, competing with the U.S. makes them thugs. Right. So the great firewall is just a myth ? Because if it isn't, then ... thugs sounds about right to me.

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