ur-whale

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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> Haven't seen another application ... You need to get out more.
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
Whole article to say exactly nothing. Reminds me of the artificial hype building around the first segways. What a load of crap.
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> but medicine is far from the exact science Truer words ... As a matter of fact, calling it science ... quite the stretch when it comes to most medical professionals I've met in my long life.
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
I was certainly not trying to say that differences between people do not exist and most certainly never claimed that your brain should work the way other people's brain do (At my age, I absolutely know mine does not, by a wide margin,
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
I find all these conversation around neuro-divergence extremely weird, for the simple reason that I have a never seen a proper definition of what a "normal" person actually is, and for good and obvious reasons: I personally believ
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
We're doing ads on HN now?
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> Can't wait for this <new technology> shit to be over Said the assembly senior specialist when first confronted with this newfangled fortran compiler shit.
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
Agree. And GOOG is not a one trick poney any more, by far, especially when it comes to revenue. Can't say the same of OpenAI
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> the incentives may shift if the alternative is a multi-company failure with national-security implications. Sounds like a golden opportunity for GOOG to step over the corpse of OpenAI and take over for cents on the dollar all of the pr
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> Switzerland has a wealth tax. If the wealth tax rate is close to zero, who the hell cares? The wealth tax in e.g. Kanton Zürich is 0.025% (not the cheapest Kanton). If you are able to grow your capital at - say - inflation corrected 4%
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> Sure but tax on wealth is a tax on the integral of gains If the wealth tax rate is close to zero, who cares? The wealth tax in e.g. Kanton Zürich is 0.025% I'd say that is close to nil when compared to the fact that there is no ca
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings ETH is at 7 Not too shabby for such a tiny country.
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
Quite funny that half of the team who wrote this hail from Switzerland, a country where there are no taxes on realized capital gains, much less unrealized ones.
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> Does this have some significance for back propagation or something You're right! What could darn possibly matter these days, in the whole entirety of the realm Mathematics, if it does now somehow have a measurable impact on backpr
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
I think you may be missing out on the general idea of DAO's in general by restricting yourself to a few particular historical uses (and many a failed one at that) of DAOs, back from when agentic AI wasn't a thing. The hackability
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
Maybe the time for actually useful distributed autonomous corporations is not far away anymore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> The model seems to work. It "works" in the sense that it excels at separating implementors from their money and locking up end users in a cage, sure.
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> ou can provide all of the reference implementations you want and you still will get variances. A proper reference implementation should first and foremost come with an extensive battery of regression tests, something many a vaunted &qu
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
My all time favorite analog oscillator is the Twin-T (the one with a BJT) [1] It was hard to get a proper intuition of how and why it works, but when you finally do ... fireworks! Another thing that's real fun with oscillators is to t
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
Chalk up one more to the very long list of why centralizing institutions is a horrible idea because it creates freedom-killing choke points that the flavor-of-the-day hegemon can use as it damn pleases. In a decentralized world, the US coul
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> people need to realize there are real people on the other side of these bets None of whom were forced by anyone to place bets in the first place.
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> So tired of everything in the computing world today. That's actually sad, and if you're - like I am - long in the tooth in computer land, you should definitely try agentic in CLI mode. I haven't been that excited to play
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> I truly do not understand what plan to use so I can use this model for longer than ~2 minutes. I had the exact same experience and walked away to chatgpt. What a mess.
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> States are very brutal even when you show them alternatives. States are monopolies in most of what they do, and that enjoy the added benefit of defending said monopolies with actual guns.
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> This is done by choosing A and B such that the following integral is minimized Which is an absolutely subjective choice in an of itself and immediately breaks the notion that curve-fitting done that way is going to be telling you some
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> x11 is in maintenance mode at this point and Gnome is not going anywhere True. But does not address the fact that Wayland is a bad solution to X11's problems, and that its architecturally broken from inception.
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> X11 is not going anywhere. If anything it's Gnome adding another nail to its coffin Yup, my feeling as well. Wayland was sold as a sorely needed fix to X11 long-standing problems. The fact that X11 had problems that sorely needed
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by ur-whale 11mo ago
> Your news routinely picks and chooses what to report on, leading to a slightly distorted understanding You are not wrong, the european press hugely distorts and manipulates, but this is also textbook pot calling the kettle black: the a
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> боже мой. Pokemon?
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by ur-whale 1y ago
When you use the word "engine" on HN, it can be understood as many things that aren't what you think (e.g. game engines).

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