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KoolKat23

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KoolKat23··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
I don't think so, they just don't bother giving you the progress bar. Force "engagement".
KoolKat23··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
To be fair I'd hope during peer review this would be apparent.

During your write up, I'd imagine you would check it's not already out there too. And once complete it's cheap and easy to run it through an LLM and ask is this covered by anything else out there. If its novel and not published it doesn't matter what others say.

Research is already messy as it stands. Something new can already be dismissed by incumbents as "not novel enough" especially in niche fields where they're likely to be the ones conducting peer review.

KoolKat23··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
I never said it was journal worthy. Just its not all noise. As I say academics are welcome to ignore it, it isn't published in any journals after all.
KoolKat23··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
I'm sorry I disagree entirely.

The more information the better.

The entire purpose of published work is to remove noise (and perhaps incentivize work through attributing credit).

This information is now out there. You can choose to ignore it if you wish. You may just find yourself a century behind in research.

And on that point most of this research has been looked at by their mathematics panel and comes with lean certificates, it's not exactly noise.

This to me is more the old guard not willing to let go or change their ways.

KoolKat23··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Set for your comfort doing what exactly? You're basically just prioritizing one source of media over another As TeMPOraL has pointed out you only listen to one thing at a time. Notifications etc. also have their own separate volume settings generally.
KoolKat23··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
This and notification volume is generally set separately.
KoolKat23··on The Mathocalypse
This makes sense and looks exactly what something would look like that is smarter than us. If it is correct it is making inferences that we can't see. At a stretch even working in more dimensions than our three dimension limited brains.
KoolKat23··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
The progress bar is over the video and it's easy to tell where it starts and ends. Most devices control volume, the video volume separate is just confusing matters for most. No issues with play and pause my side.

Sure as hell beats stupid Instagram style videos where you have no way to skip ahead. I think this is what future video is going be like, buckle up.

KoolKat23··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
I disagree, I always run into issues with the embedded YouTube player. No way of sharing. No clear way to share the link. Youtube logo covering half the video. To name a few.
KoolKat23··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
I'm pretty sure you can just ask chatgpt to add to its memory "Just give me text to read."
KoolKat23··on Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says
What makes no sense to me, is that secondary school starts earlier than primary school? Or am I out of touch.
KoolKat23··on Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says
This is the existing graph for Dublin. Sadly it already feels like that to me waking up in winter regardless. You can see the Twilight phase is much less prominent in the mornings.

https://cdn.worlddata.info/graphs/sunshine/ireland-m2.png

https://www.worlddata.info/europe/ireland/sunset.php

KoolKat23··on Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says
By the time it's winter it's dark in the morning regardless of DST. Still can be a pain in Autumn I'm sure, the cold wet mornings for me are tough regardless.

The age old morning people versus evening people. Sounds like the kids aren't morning people either.

KoolKat23··on Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says
It depends where you live. In Ireland it makes a world of difference if the sun sets before 5pm or 6pm.

Staying on Summer time means additional sun after work for an extra month. Can go for a walk or do something outside in the sun.

And for those further South it doesn't matter anyway.

I'd like to see what the additional vitamin D from that extra sun does to sleep etc. I imagine that's not part of the study.

KoolKat23··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
It first started as something political but I really am starting to think Anthropic is misanthropic. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The guardrails, model downgrading, limited access, watermarking and now snitching on private thoughts (I know it's technically not but people perceive it to be so and act as such). It's all getting very dystopian very fast
KoolKat23··on Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
Not American.

One big thing I feel contributing to this is a lack of time.

And the more strange unusual thing, many folks basically have "school nights", they don't do anything because they're going to work the next day.

Perhaps work becoming more mentally intensive makes this more difficult.

KoolKat23··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
It's the soapboxing that's the problem.

It's not related to the product at all, not even privacy policy proposal associated with the party.

Imagine feeling emboldened to share your two cents every single time because some company founder was a douche to you once and most importantly, the implied take, that everyone else should also boycott them because of this.

KoolKat23··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
South Africa is big, really big. That small sliver of land you see devoted to wine farming is not the reason they can't afford nutritious food. But it does provide those farm workers with a good income relative to other farm industries in South Africa (their wages and benefits tend to be better).
KoolKat23··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
This is sad to hear.

On the whole I think it's a terrible thing that people have started taking themselves too seriously.

KoolKat23··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Yes even that framing is a bit extreme. It increases your risk tolerance. So you're more open to new creative ideas, they don't even have to be that crazy, merely not the status quo.
KoolKat23··on Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior
Benchmarked output quality versus actual output quality are very different things. Some usecases are at the very fringe of model intelligence and depth of intelligence and logic suffers.
KoolKat23··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
It's more the soapboxing that's the issue. I long for the days when not everything in life is given a political twist. This is a relatively recent phenomenon.
KoolKat23··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
That's a slightly different thing. Individuals versus country. This is a company not an individual.
KoolKat23··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
I still don't see the relevance. Modern purity politics is silly. Is there a conflict of interest for Mullvad? If not, I don't see the issue.
KoolKat23··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
Purity politics, doesn't work sorry, just highlights hypocrisy.

I can't see how this has any bearing on the functioning of Mullvad, if they were campaigning on circumventing privacy rights it'd be a different story.

KoolKat23··on Claude Opus 5.5
They have the leading model, assuring their position and they can then reduce capex spend increasing profits. That's the goal of a business after all.
KoolKat23··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
According my model,

My cost is (I use nous as provider)

DeepSeek v4-flash-0731 • Your cost: $0.56

DeepSeek v4.1-flash • Your cost: $1.22

GPT-6 Luna • Your cost: $4.22

My usage is heavy on the cache. Apparently v4.1 flash uses 1.75 times as many tokens so still cheaper.

KoolKat23··on Astra for Law
This is really where Gemini still excels. Honestly from my experience the others aren't as good.
KoolKat23··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
Well if that's all that's required then yes. It's merely the substrate. But we know that's unlikely.

It's the emergent properties that matter. In abstract. Separate the physical and abstract of what is going on here

An alien gas cloud may be out there and sentient/conscious for all we know.

KoolKat23··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
It's an ethics question, it's abstract and ethereal in nature. The same could be said and done (or ignored) for humans. We do do it however because it has real world impact and we're better than that (enlightened).
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