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_diyar··on Genie 4
Is this from the original trilogy?
_diyar··on A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting
> It would make no sense for an intelligent person to work on an economics problem which doesn't model reality.

So Newton was wasting everybody’s time with the gravity malarky after all?!

_diyar··on Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part
Yes, but note the central claim of your original comment:

> ... search space grows so big that any non-expert will become lost in it.

And I am saying that's a fallacious argument: chess has an enormous search space too, and that does not imply AI can't beat humans.

Also

> You would beat anyone if you could calculate a few thousands moves per second, even more so if you had a neural network that discards suboptimal moves early.

So like the AI can? Your argument's dont add up.

_diyar··on Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part
There are ~10^140 chess positions and Stockfish beats my ass in every single one.
_diyar··on I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it
He hit (killed?) his father on the head with a baseball bat.
_diyar··on OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud
However, consider this:

> Enterprises with Google Cloud spend commitments will be able to draw down their GCP commitments for these purchases.

_diyar··on US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions
Source? Quick search did not reveal any internal cost per tonne to orbit numbers.

Either way, if they did outsource these launches, they would not be paying the cost, but the price (meaning cost + margin). And that is much more expensive then just buying it from SpX.

_diyar··on US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions
The internal cost per tonne to low Earth orbit differs vastly between SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Ariane’s best offer:

  Vehicle                       Cost / tonne
  Falcon 9 (booster recovery)   ~$2 million
  Ariane 64                     ~$5 million
  Starship (projected)          <$500,000
To meaningfully compete, European launch providers must try to match these costs, then spend a decade putting these vehicles into orbit. That’s no easy task.
_diyar··on US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions
Note that the comment you’re replying to does not claim Iran is winning.
_diyar··on Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June
No, the title is poorly phrased, I think you misunderstood.

All ratings agencies have their own scales, but broadly all ratings fall into one of two overarching categories, investment grade vs. junk.

The article explains that the rating ANT received was the highest within the junk range. So “highest junk rating” means within the junk category, it’s in the best sub-area. In other words, it’s just scratching below the investment grade rating.

This is important for institutional investors who can only buy investment grade, meaning if they can improve even one single grade up, they get access to a lot more debt.

_diyar··on Show HN: How random are you?
Why would they when there are thousands of hours of radio and podcasts do train on?
_diyar··on Muse Wonder
First, there are plenty of auto-verifiable problems like ML benchmarks datasets, benchmarks on hardware / software performance for coding tasks, and lean certificates for math, e.g.

Second, I think RSI will not be used like N -> N+1 where N is the frontier, since doing those experiments at scale is too expensive. My guess is they are doing N -> m_{1,…,99} where m << N, and then taking the insights from that and trying it at successively larger scales.

_diyar··on OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
All those kids who spent their youth breaking plywood kung-fu style might just save us.
_diyar··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
Investment != loss.

IIRC investments are any transactions which increase the assets in the balance sheet. Losses are outflows net of inflows.

In abstract terms, one is about stock and the other about flow of spend.

_diyar··on The Legend of von Neumann [pdf]
If I remember correctly he converted on his death bed due to his read on Pascal’s wager.
_diyar··on SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]
I assume NBC has distribution deals with a handful of channels who air SNL in their respective countries.

And most of the countries on this list probably fall under some French channel’s domain since they are dependencies (edit: or former colonies).

_diyar··on Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
No, according to the NYT article it is because a journalist behind this anon twitter account signal-boosted this:

> The controversy grew out of accusations from a little-followed, anonymous social media account, which a columnist at Le Figaro, a conservative daily newspaper, later revealed he partly ran.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world/europe/thelyson-ore...

_diyar··on Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
This story smells odd; why does anybody care about the accusations of an anonymous twitter account? A claim seemingly without evidence no less.
_diyar··on Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking
Having now read the contract, would you have accepted it or not?

In other words, if Claude was a human employee with the freedom to do so, would accepting the contract have been the right choice?

_diyar··on Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
Airplanes are not a species, and it’s facetious to compare boarding a flight (which requires thousands of human hours to make sure you arrive safely) to humans who walk where their dog guides them.

The statement I quoted said “zero examples of intelligent species” doing something. It took me 2 seconds to think of a counterexample. At the very least it was poorly phrased, if not altogether wrong. Moreover, whether or not people are doing it voluntarily is orthogonal to the statement.

I agree with the gist of the article, but having such a *BOLD:* _False Statement_ does not do it any favors.

_diyar··on Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
> OBSERVATION: There are zero examples of any intelligent species which is vastly more capable than another species, yet surrenders decision-making control over its own future to the less-capable species.

Many people ceed control of their path-finding to seeing-eye-dogs.

_diyar··on Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter
Yes, but note that there are two claims in the article:

1) gross margins are 80% w/o revenue sharing.

2) gross margins are positive w/ revenue sharing.

So that means Anthropic is making money on every token, and customers are willing to pay 80% margins (some of which might go to e.g. Bedrock to serve the model).

_diyar··on Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI
> We propose miles per hour (MPH), distance travelled per unit of time

Stupid metric. It‘s not because you spend more time that you travel farther.

s/

_diyar··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
iOS 26 made my phone unusable!

I am still rocking an iPhone 11 Pro Max and even after replacing the battery ~1 year ago, every page load in Safari would take +20 seconds (Chrome was still fast) and opening / closing any app took ~1 second.

iOS 27 has fixed all of it, it feels snappy again!

_diyar··on Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter
> Anthropic has told shareholders that its adjusted operating income will be positive for a second straight quarter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing multiple people with knowledge of the matter.

Note this claim is about „operating profit“, which commonly is the revenue - operating expenses (COGS, rent, payroll). This does not include RnD cost.

>Anthropic's gross margins are above 80% before accounting for revenue shared with distribution partners, including Amazon (AMZN.O), and the cost of training its model, the newspaper said.

Gross margin is typically (revenue - COGS) / revenue. Thus, both statements above seem generally in line with commonly accepted accounting standards.

_diyar··on HP ZGX Fury Is Now Orderable: GB300 Superchip, 748GB Unified Memory
Without looking it up and doing the math, I bet GB300 has higher Tflops and memory bandwidth, especially when used with e.g. NVFP4.
_diyar··on OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures
Not the poster, but maybe I can help.

Your comment is a little unclear, so it‘s hard to parse your exact question. But it seems you are conflating 3 things, PyTorch, RL and Gym/Training (?).

– PyTorch is a framework which lets you define neural network models.

– RL is a collection of methods to train neural networks (change the network parameters to improve its performance).

– An RL-Gym is a framework to apply the neural networks to some problem. This lets you collect the data necessary to later use the methods of RL to train your model.

_diyar··on Triple H Writes Anniversary Story for Spider-Man #1000
The fella that was crotch-chopping on smackdown?
_diyar··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
As long as there is more than one substitute, the prices are not set to equal value. (edit: assuming optimal pricing strat.)
_diyar··on GPT-6 Astra
I strongly suspect that is way above the human average anyway, esp. ARC 2 and 3 are really tough unless you happen to be great at those spacial puzzles or video games.
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