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WaltYoder··on What does the US Department of Education do?
Let's be clear: you don't want Republicans to determine education.
WaltYoder··on Lithium-sulfur battery retains 80% charge capacity after 25,000 cycles
For grid-level solar energy, we will need batteries that cycle at least 200 times per year. A system that requires replacing batteries every 5 years can't really be described as "renewable energy".
WaltYoder··on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip
I am still confused. Are these made of quarks? Electrons? Atoms? Ions?

All the article says is "a new material made from indium arsenide and aluminum".

WaltYoder··on The greatest calculator app development story ever told
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953
WaltYoder··on Quantum machine simulates universe's potential false vacuum decay
The actual article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02765-w

It's unclear to me why a "one-dimensional" simulation would give results that generalize to spacetime.

WaltYoder··on Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI
Yeah, it's cringe, but if LLMs are as useless as Gary Marcus insists they are, why should we worry?
WaltYoder··on Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows
As the comments on that site point out, the headline conclusion is absurdly wrong.

The older models are worse than the newer models (which are generally larger and better trained). That doesn't prove the older models have undergone "cognitive decline".

WaltYoder··on Hidden 960 Chess Variant
This doesn't seem to include a rule that the two starting positions are equal (same pieces on the A file, B file, etc.).

Also, I don't see how "human intuition" comes into play, or why Stockfish couldn't play this as well as any other variant. Picking the most useful piece to put on a square requires no intuition at all, it's just a few additional possible actions.

At least as implemented, there is no "hidden information", the pieces aren't assigned to a location before they are revealed.

WaltYoder··on Ask HN: Investment for Mill Computing?
I looked at this company about 8 years ago, and found their ideas for new computer architectures interesting.

Since then, GPUs have changed the world. And yet, these people have apparently accomplished nothing.

Perhaps they would be most valuable to an anti-AI organization as patent-trolling fodder.

WaltYoder··on Autopsy: No foul play in OpenAI whistleblower's suicide
Except it was the family that refused to release the autopsy report, and their own lawyer disputes the claim.

"Ramarao later told The Standard that the secondary autopsy proved her son was shot in the back of the head from an angle at which he could not have shot himself, and that it was “cold-blooded murder.” At the time, the family declined to provide a copy of the autopsy, and Goethals [the family attorney] disputed Ramarao’s claim, saying he “would not characterize it as conclusively proving murder.”"