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SpaceManNabs··on Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
i disagree. content is great. hitting back button messes stuff up for me. a long form article is preferred for me but maybe this is better for people used to swiping.
SpaceManNabs··on What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI
cause i asked him where he used comfyui and he mentioned the things i mentioned, but he didn't mention the fashion and then i asked my question.
SpaceManNabs··on What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI
a lot of artists don't mind use AI for art outside their field

I was in a fashion show in tokyo in 2024.

i noticed their fashion was all human designed. but they had a lot of posters, video, and music that was AI generated.

I point blank asked the curator why he used AI for some stuff but didn't enhance the fashion with AI. I was a bit naive because I was actually curious to see if AI wasn't ready for fashion or maybe they were going for an aesthetic. I genuinely was trying to learn and not point out a hypocrisy.

he got mad and didn't answer. i guess it is because they didn't want to pay for everything else. big lesson learned in what to ask lol.

SpaceManNabs··on Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
A few people i looked up and found in the dataset don't pop up in this. Don't want to mention who here of course...

but the other people cc'ed in the particular emails i found do pop up though. weird.

SpaceManNabs··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
I thought i learned to forget how to type. knew i wasn't going crazy.

edit: another apple issue i have been hearing about recently is that the apple watch alarm just doesn't work some days. i have no idea why.

i don't have silent mode on when it happens. i have tried so many different settings to fix it. ended up buying the hatch alarm.

SpaceManNabs··on Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
I miss the wisp
SpaceManNabs··on GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
As damning as these comments are, this comment kinda scared because it reminds me of the times when judges decide against applying empathy against society's most marginalized.

Hopefully as these models get better, we get to a place where judges are pressured to apply empathy more justly.

SpaceManNabs··on Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)
I thought i understood complex numbers and accepted them until I did countour integration for the first time.

Ever since then I have been deeply unsettled. I started questioning taking integrals to (+/-) infinity, and so I became unsettled with R too.

If C exists to fix R, then why does R even exist? Why does R need to be fixed? Why does the use of the upper or lower plane for counter integration not matter? I can do mathematically why, but why do we have a choice?

This blog post really articulated stuff formally that I have been bothered by for years.

SpaceManNabs··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
I have a reading list of a bunch of papers i didn't get through over the past 2 years. it is crazy how many papers on this list are completely not talked about anymore.

I kinda regret going through the SeLU paper lol back in the late 2010s.

SpaceManNabs··on Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
Pokemon Sleep and Pokemon TCG apps (ran by two different companies) are very annoying with this. I had to drop TCG because it was much worse than Sleep with all the menus. The only reason I keep up with sleep is because it allows me to gamify my sleep and it honestly has a pretty good UI with its calendar view of my sleep patterns.

I suppose all "gacha" games use this pattern. I find it interesting that gachapon machines are so ingrained in Japanese culture because it is basically culturally approved gambling.

Then again, the West had similar with sports trading cards, which are less popular now. Then again, again, NFTs kinda brought this back for a bit with the randomized drops.

SpaceManNabs··on Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
> feed video needed to hook the user in the first 0.2 seconds

Is this even possible??? It takes me *at least* 2 seconds to see if a video game clip is interesting to me. That is kinda crazy.

SpaceManNabs··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
apache flink is so good. i think netflix used it heavily in 2018. not sure about now.
SpaceManNabs··on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
> Sabu was put under pressure by the FBI, they threatened to place his kids into foster care.

This is pretty messed up btw.

Social work for children systems in the USA are very messed up. It is not uncommon for minority families to lose rights to parent their children for very innocuous things that would not happen to a non-oppressed class.

It is just another way for the justice/legal system to pressure families that have not been convicted / penalized under the supervision of a court.

And this isn't the only lever they use.

Every time I read crap like this I just think of Aaron Swartz.

SpaceManNabs··on FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention
link if you don't want to automatically download files

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3774934.3786425

SpaceManNabs··on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
Is there that much of a difference?
SpaceManNabs··on Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release
> Music gen AI is pretty good

Is it? I have quite a few friends that are relatively successful music producers/djs, and they don't seem impressed. A lot of music gen AI fails to match prompts at all. Maybe I am using the wrong tools.

It also seems quite difficult to iterate on a sound.

SpaceManNabs··on I Taught Myself to Code on a Cracked Android Phone. Now I Can't Get Hired
"What I Really Want to Say" is well written, and my heart goes out to this person.

It is quite difficult to be on both sides of the situation.

SpaceManNabs··on Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)
I think the article would be a little bit more useful to non-beginners if it included an update on the modern landscape of MQs. Are people still using apache kafka lol?

it is a fine enough article as it is though!

SpaceManNabs··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
Does wall street investors include private equity? i thought i was pretty sure that is most of the problem, but maybe i am wrong.
SpaceManNabs··on Animated AI
not deep learning but this oldie is a goodie too (since we are sharing favorites): https://narrative-flow.github.io/exploratory-study-2/

I originally had it saved as [[ https://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ ]] but it seems that link is gone?

SpaceManNabs··on A guide to local coding models
I love that this article added a correction and took ownership in it. This encourages more people to blog stuff and then get more input for parts they missed.

The best way to get the correct answer on something is posting the wrong thing. Not sure where I got this from, but I remember it was in the context of stackoverflow questions getting the correct answer in the comments of a reply :)

Props to the author for their honesty and having the impetus to blog about this in the first place.

SpaceManNabs··on FunctionGemma 270M Model
can you run this from n8n?
SpaceManNabs··on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
Completely fair.

My point is more so that these are both approaches to push more KYC.

And many comments in here understand that this particular ban is using "for the kids" as an excuse, so why didn't the other thread have more comments recognizing this excuse?

SpaceManNabs··on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
Interesting to see these kinds of comments more in this thread compared to the one from yesterday.

The one from yesterday was discussing how australia is banning social media for anyone under 16. Most comments were supportive because they hate social media.

A few comments were discussing how it is just a way to propagate more KYC.

SpaceManNabs··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
Is that a negative? All of the "negative" things listed make me think that they are really cool and trying to learn stuff and challenge things.
SpaceManNabs··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
pushing for more literacy at scale is usually a good thing.

this approach is garbage, but i find your second line a bit odd.

it is also funny you bring up china because china changed their entire character system for diversity reasons (less educated people couldn't read).

SpaceManNabs··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
This is silly as Montserrat is the only true choice.
SpaceManNabs··on DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says
i find it weird that this comment got so much pushback. i don't think it was portraying deepseek as any more morally wrong than anyone else, or castigating anyone as morally wrong.

but maybe i gave it a gracious reading.

SpaceManNabs··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
Anything done "for the kids" is always a scam. When you get asked to use KYC to get on hacker news, just remember you fell for it if you supported this.
SpaceManNabs··on Super Mario 64 for the PS1
this is the devil's work. nicely done. what stood out to me is that one of the known issues is the pause menu not working. wonder why that is.

edit: whoever did the gameplay video is really good at mario n64. They were playing to and reacting to stuff that had rendered very late, if at all.

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