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10,019 karma · joined November 15, 2012

This account is no longer active. Sam Altman threw us all - AI folks, under the bus for his own benefit - how can I trust YC now?
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bitL··on Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
Countable or uncountable? ;-)
bitL··on Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
Not really. One could argue some math is innate and we are just rediscovering it. See the disconnect between natural language and math which happened early 20th century because of material implication bringing vacuous truth, leading to "impedance mismatch". Medicine is still using counterfactuals precisely because of weirdness introduced by Russell in order to make all Boolean values defined for inference.
bitL··on Anonymous Tor Phone
How does GrapheneOS help with broadband chip firmware bypassing whatever it wants to prevent? All cellphones are rooted by default, just not by their owners.
bitL··on Anonymous Tor Phone
When I think about it, rental e-scooters would be probably even better.
bitL··on Google Cloud Storage FUSE
Moreover, there is no SLA on those FUSE adapters so putting it into any part of production is too risky.
bitL··on Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
I really hate these mathematical technicalities spawned from material implication, chosen way of making a definition and vacuous truth - why can't we even consider some questions to be marked as non-sense/non-relevant like in relevance logic?
bitL··on Anonymous Tor Phone
Isn't it better to have a bunch of relay phones glued to random cars and making calls via them?
bitL··on Vice is said to be headed for bankruptcy
Vice used to be pretty innovative in the beginning, then something snapped and they ended up bland.
bitL··on Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
There was no hugely scalable approach before transformers, RNNs, the previous SOTA, were notoriously bad at scaling.
bitL··on Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
49 >> 9 but 49 << monthly ticket at any regional transportation company so one could assume most people will own it and trains will be packed again.
bitL··on Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
150 EUR vs 9 EUR and one still had to use slow regional trains once reaching Ulm so it was not that much different time-wise to justify much higher cost. Regional Express trains I used from Frankfurt to Ulm are also pretty fast (not ICE level, but not much time lost either).
bitL··on Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
While in Germany last summer, I used the 9 EUR ticket and regional trains to go from Frankfurt to Bavarian Alps. The trains were packed, one could not move there and it felt more like being in India than in Germany. I am wondering if that's going to be a norm in the future.
bitL··on Vacations in the Soviet Union
I still can't forget how the immigration tried to disassemble my camera lens in Shanghai (not just remove them from the camera, but also tear them down), so visiting China might lead to some unexpected bad impressions. Also being barely able to see sun in Beijing due to fog/smog everywhere when arriving from pristine New Zealand looked very unwelcoming.
bitL··on Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
GPT basically showed that scalable brute-force trumps clever theoretical models which makes many academics salty.
bitL··on Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
Most doctors would laugh at vitamin supplementation even at pharmaceutic megadoses despite people reporting they feel much better. I have seen both GPs and a neurosurgeon laughing about it.
bitL··on Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
I read somewhere that gut can only let around 80mg thiamine/day and gut gets saturated over time, so only IM/IV would work long-term.
bitL··on Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
Is it because of thiamine dysfunction or because thiamine at 2000x RDA doses acts as a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, i.e. would acetazolamide work the same?
bitL··on U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence
It's similar to swengs - before remote work one could be a king of their own place for a lot of money, now swengs need to compete for much cheaper with people from all around the world who might cheat in unimaginable ways to land a job. Like all those plastic-perfect pseudocelebrity influencers on Instagram sucking all ad money, making droves of people super depresses when they look in a mirror. It's also much easier to get in touch with them directly, damaging opportunities of worse-looking real people to socialize.
bitL··on Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?
...which means your movement is completely predictable if your thrusters work within the specs.
bitL··on Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?
That would be very near the surface and with 10x lower gravity one could afford some error.
bitL··on Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?
Dumb laser distance measurement should solve that easily for you. You can literally use some very basic math with thruster output based on your downward distance/speed.
bitL··on Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?
Frankly, why is it so hard? The article doesn't really show anything outside dust playing role in the very final stage but most landings failed higher above ground. These days we even have lasers to instantly detect distance to the ground that could be incorporated real-time to thruster output. There is almost no atmosphere for friction so basic Newtonian mechanics should be able to make a decent landing. Orbital mechanics is also out of the question near the ground. Why is this still an unsolved problem?
bitL··on Amazon omits India business in earnings, a first in years
As a former 3rd party seller on Amazon, selling clothing online is a waste of time/money as return rates are enormous and people cheat all the time so no non-manufacturers can actually make any profit. That was in the US, I assume in India the situation is way worse.
bitL··on Why did Google Brain exist?
I think the main problem was debugging tensors on the fly, impossible with TF/Keras, but completely natural to PyTorch. Most researchers needed to sequentially observe what is going on in tensors (histograms etc.) and even doing backprop for their newly constructed layers by hand and that was difficult with TF.
bitL··on Aspiring partners accuse Apple of copying their ideas
There was some ancient startup wisdom summarized as "never talk to business development of other companies".
bitL··on Aspiring partners accuse Apple of copying their ideas
Can't you get them to sign a contract before the brain rape starts that they pay close to acquisition sum when features resembling yours based on similar decisions end up in their portfolio?
bitL··on My high-flying life as a corporate spy who lied his way to the top
College education sometimes kills some major talents so one could also imagine that people who avoided higher education might keep some rare talents distinguishing their performance from the others. Tiny chance but it might happen.
bitL··on My high-flying life as a corporate spy who lied his way to the top
This is done via parchment.com these days, they send you a nice e-diploma whose signature can be verified in Acrobat Reader or on their site directly.
bitL··on Xiaomi 13 Ultra: “Real camera” phone makes Samsung, Apple shake nervously
I expected real camera lens in a "real camera" phone instead of multiple tiny lenses covered by a shield that introduces its own problems.
bitL··on Russia killed its tech industry
Is it because of occasional skirmishes in Himalayas or something else?
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