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Y_Y··on BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" and don't get it
MBAs are the best, Plato knew this
Y_Y··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
> Admin interface available on the internet

This is the bad part. Frequent password resets suck.

Y_Y··on Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
Not quite the speed of light (in a vacuum) if your watching signals propagate along a conductor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor#Typical_veloci...

Y_Y··on Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)
I look like U+1F642 when I smile genuinely
Y_Y··on Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
> Anyone with concerns should contact their provider, but the responsibility cannot rest with customers alone.

Best of luck contacting your provider

Y_Y··on Emacs Turns 50
They had ELIZA and then the Emacs doctor, the rest is just scale.
Y_Y··on Emacs Turns 50
According to `git blame` the oldest surviving code in GNU emacs is:

    lisp/play/studly.el
being unchanged since 1986-09-12.

(It is said the Stallman maybe have kept some of Gosling's older code but I haven't gone back that far.)

Y_Y··on GPT-6.1 Terra
Effort (as it's used in the context, how many "thinking" tokens to burn) is still a free variable. It's not always shown to the end user but you can set it independently for any of these models.

After that you just have model "strength" and version number. But of course strength is only comparable at equal version number and the two axes are almost parallel.

Anthropic also does this, perhaps to a lesser extent.

Y_Y··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
Even the hammer?
Y_Y··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
Not if you take advantage of open-weight models and make an adaptor or distill its knowledge into the thing you want.
Y_Y··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
We don't need Dropbox, it's a heap of shit.

With enough marketing you can sell anything. Also a decent way to make a product is to do the hard part for someone else.

I've been training classifiers for ten years, it used to be hard. Now it's hard to do really well but it's trivial to do well enough.

Y_Y··on Challenge Is Gone
> P.S. I am a human and can make mistakes. The spelling and punctuation in this post were corrected with AI.

There's a challenge for you right there. Learn to spell or learn to live with mistakes.

Y_Y··on A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics
But they didn't all end up in a backwater like Ireland. Starting DIAS is cool, but presumably he'd have preferred the US.
Y_Y··on A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics
This isn't a court, I'm just saying that such a thing is rumoured
Y_Y··on A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics
It's "common knowledge" that that's why he ended up in Dublin
Y_Y··on Rule 30: one black cell
Slop
Y_Y··on OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents
https://www.nintendo.com/jp/others/playing_cards/lineup/stan...

They also make legal threats I think.

Y_Y··on OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents
In order to "help" myself I have taken some of your money.

Feel free to opt out maybe?

Y_Y··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
You take a class. Do you think coveting is immoral? Retributive justice? Human sacrifice?
Y_Y··on Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test
Scorpio was cool
Y_Y··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
Bullshit. How would a website even detect a VM?
Y_Y··on WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
Every time I'm wronged I'll just throw a few thousand dollars at it? On the internet?
Y_Y··on Wine ported to OpenBSD
Sounds like it's Apple who's behind
Y_Y··on Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
Forecaster of the Confounding Company here :)

You're right but, if the time series looks like music then you can apply your music domain knowledge. You don't have to only apply knowledge that's general across every domain, part of the magic of large neural nets is that you can do recognition and prediction at the same time thereby using (statistically) things known from training about how to identify a sequence and then also how to continue it.

Sure adding outside info helps even more, but with enough data it should become unnecessary (or so goes the theory).

Y_Y··on Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
> they are identical movies
Y_Y··on Show HN: How random are you?
I think Zipf's law means you're biased towards odd in that case (unless you allow yourself to choose empty strings)
Y_Y··on AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs
What about OpenHarmony?
Y_Y··on AlphaNIST
That is indeed the reference
Y_Y··on Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs
What's this photonic Tiny Tapeout?
Y_Y··on Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs
At milliwatt power, and terahertz frequency?
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