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3rd3··on The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global ought to purchase OpenAI
Pretty sure this is satire. Maybe it alludes to recent concerns that Norway’s sovereign wealth fund could be exposed to an AI-driven investment bubble or valuation correction.
3rd3··on Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation
Isn't that "scheduled sampling"? In that case they also shift the input distribution toward that of the model, which possibly is even more crucial than shifting the output distribution?
3rd3··on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
You probably mean "e.g." as "for example", not "i.e."?

This might be on purpose and part of the training data because "for example" just sounds much better than "e.g.". Presumably for most purposes, linguistic naturalness is more important than fidelity.

3rd3··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
> 2D and 3D tools get this right

Except for (vector) graphics design, desktop publishing, page layout designing and reporting software... The reason is of course that most printed items are unica and non-variable, but proper parametric and constraint-based would definitely be useful in report generation and signage where print formats vary or where designs need to be automatically adjusted based on texts and other content varying in size/length.

3rd3··on German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
Much of our wealth is grounded in immorality.
3rd3··on German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
The "lesson" does not seem so clear according to the article you have linked:

> Schneider claimed that the decision had been political, “not made on the basis of facts”

> “We do not see any compelling technical reasons for a change to Windows and Microsoft Office… We solve compatibility and interoperability problems by providing MS Office, mostly virtualised, at workplaces that need to work together with external offices on office documents.”

One point of critique was the difficulty involved with 3rd party programs on the Linux laptops. But with MS Teams, Zoom etc. running in the browser and/or having actual Linux clients these days, this may be much more feasible today.

The opposition claimed the decision to abandon Linux was a purely political one. The mayor who pushed the return to Microsoft, Dieter Reiter (SPD), was a known Microsoft fanboy, but he (of course) denied personal investment in the reversal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

3rd3··on Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase (2015)
A nano font but huge images. The large image is a 4873 KB bitmap which can be losslessly compressed to 47 KB using PNG.
3rd3··on A search engine in 80 lines of Python
Last time I checked lxml.html and lxml.html.clean (possibly with cssselect) were much faster than BeautifulSoup. Not sure this is still the case.
3rd3··on Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model
How does a lateral (cross) join compare to a window function in your example?
3rd3··on Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model
Could you give an example?
3rd3··on Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model
What is the point of the cross join? This would work as well:

   SELECT loop.value, loop.value * loop.value
   FROM generate_series(1,5) AS loop(value)
3rd3··on I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)
Aren't the image blobs embedded in the URLs using Base64-encoded strings rather than using JS?
3rd3··on Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
As others have noted, it is more about the maximum complexity increasing than mean or median. Simple structures keep existing as long as they have their niche, and a human's niche is not (yet) that of viruses.

This also reminds of Gall's law that complex systems evolve from simpler ones.

You can also see it in neural nets, where larger ones have a higher spatiotemporal resolution and can do more complex things.

More model capacity allows to model the environment and self more accurately which allows to outperform other structures in negentropy consumption often at the cost of the other structures (zero sum).

This exerts selection pressure toward increasing complexity.

That also largely explains group and country disparities.

I am not sure that non-evolving things really fit into the same pattern. A burning fire does not necessarily displace inert matter, nor did it arise from competition.

Physics and chemistry are more fractal-like possibly the result of enumeration of all computational structures (see Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis or Wolfram's ideas on the computational universe). Not fractal-like in terms of self-similarity (although there is some at different scales), but fractal-like in terms of chaotic complexity like a pseudorandom number generator but with more rule-like structures in between. Wolfram also classified such computational patterns.

3rd3··on Discord is down
True, but all the small communities went does due to a single point of failure.
3rd3··on Discord is down
SPOFs, smh. Oh, the irony that they call communities "servers".
3rd3··on Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
To this list I'd add pulling the jaw backward/inward.

Moving the jaw forward and then to the right has the biggest effect for me, causing the ringing on the left ear to increase. It's asymmetric in that moving the jaw to the front left has only a very small effect on the right ear.

Moving the ears backwards has no effect for me.

3rd3··on Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario
> Yudkowsky’s call for declaring a global AI halt and engaging in unlimited warfare with anyone who defies it

Could you provide a link to where he said this?

3rd3··on Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario
Since when are military spooks and political opportunists better at deciding on our technological future than startups and corporations? The degree of global policing and surveillance necessary to fully prevent secret labs from working on AI would be mind-boggling. How would you ensure all government actors are sticking to the same safety standards rather than seizing power by implementing AI hastily? This problem has long been known as quis custodiet ipsos custodes - "who guards the guards themselves?".
3rd3··on Very high number of workplace accidents at Tesla factory in Germany
Even though p-values can be hacked, they are very useful when they aren't. At p = 0.1 I'd ignore the finding because there would be a 10% chance it was explained by random chance. p = 0.01 would pique my interest. p < 0.001 I'd accept it as true, but I'd still watch out for systematic biases such as comparing new to old factories.
3rd3··on Very high number of workplace accidents at Tesla factory in Germany
Of course each emergency is one too much, but I wonder what are the sample sizes? Are the counts statistically significantly different from each other? Another thing to consider: Emergencies are rare events and so a small difference in circumstances can make the outcomes vary substantially. Is a well oiled manufacturing pipeline like a Audi factory comparable to a new factory that has not rounded all sharp corners yet?
3rd3··on Paper cups are just as toxic as plastic cups
In this study recycled glass bottles were not better when it comes to microplastics. It's everywhere. In lids, detergents etc. In fact, single-use plastic bottles did best!

http://igui-ecologia.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/202...

3rd3··on Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet
discord.io is a service that provides redirect/invite links/URLs to Discord servers.
3rd3··on StableCode
How does it compare to GitHub Copilot?
3rd3··on Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25%
It could also be explained by high gas prices, inflation and overall economic adversity.
3rd3··on First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
The one from my earlier comment is a meta study, so it bears more weight.
3rd3··on First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
Dental calculus also seems unrelated to cavities. It may even have a (slight) protective effect.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950958/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9776022/

3rd3··on First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
> regularly scheduled cleanings

Which appears to be a purely aesthetic procedure.

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

3rd3··on The fastest math typesetting library for the web
Thanks. I was hoping there was a way to manipulate the DOM on the client before it is rendered, but this seems to be impossible with JS. Currently, I render various things during page load with NodeObserver. It mostly performs well on modern devices, but it can get sluggish on very large HTML pages (like 5MB+ of HTML code), so it looks like I have to resort to infinite scrolling with automatic unloading.
3rd3··on The fastest math typesetting library for the web
So this only refers to the server-side rendering mode, not in-browser rendering (which KaTeX supports too)?
3rd3··on The fastest math typesetting library for the web
I wonder how does it render synchronously without needing to reflow the page?
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