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*1: Work smarter, then also work harder

Wasn't it shown that DeepSeek was distilling OpenAI's models? Seems like a presumptuous claim by Liang Wenfeng

"A small porch, platform, or staircase leading to the entrance of a house or building."

- Google

> Passion and interest don't really come across ...

What an oblivious statement made by your actual reviewer!

The difference between Tolkien and this article is that this author uses extra words while Tolkien introduces extra ideas. Such ideas are for enjoyment like you said. On the other hand, extra words just makes it hard to understand the author's intention. Tolkien presents his ideas so clearly that you almost never have to reread a sentence because of lack of comprehension.

The author seems to use many qualifiers in each sentence.

So for example, rather than succintly stating: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", this author adopts the style more akin to: "The quick brown fox, which grew up Oakville near the rushing river, jumped, or, leaped mightily, over the lazy dog rather than simply walking around the dog like most would do normally".

Similar to Blaise Pascal's sentiment: 'I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.'

Indeed, Thomas Jefferson writes about this skill: “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

Related: https://gwern.net/doc/science/1986-hamming#the-importance-of...

Random thoughts: - Quantifying creative output of people becomes even more difficult because of the advent of AI.

- Working on solo projects / papers could be a way to verify your thinking.

- Research (i.e. submitting for publications) might be the best way to verify

I apologize for my naïevty: I guess I live in a bubble

I think there is a fine balance to this. I agree that going through life by experiencing as much as possible is futile. But on the other hand, spending all your time in thought is also problematic since your ideas never clash with reality.

E.g. see the "Open Door Policy" from Hamming's research talk: https://gwern.net/doc/science/1986-hamming#open-door-policy

I agree its quite annoying. But it only comes up because of the massive change it will cause across the whole country and it's important to remain prepared for implications.

I'm sure the NIH isn't the only entity with access to pharmacology information...

I think he's being sarcastic

> "All five were disease-free at their last follow-up, between 10 and 15 years after the CAR T-cell therapy, although the team note they may already have been cured when the therapy was administered."

> "The other two surviving patients had cancer that was actively growing or spreading when they received CAR T-cell therapy, but subsequently went into complete remission. One of these patients stopped participating in follow-up sessions eight years after treatment, but the other continued and has remained cancer-free more than 18 years."

Based on these statements, the evidence for this treatment is anecdotal at best. Only 2/27 patients lived longer than 7 years.

(There are probably more advancements in the last 10-15 years that have increased efficacy)

Worthy repost. Honestly, I've been at a loss of how I'd like to contribute to the world and this (along with Hamming's You and Your Research) have been very elucidating.

Just do stuff that you enjoy. Eventually, what you enjoy and what's important converge as long as you think deeply about the direction of the world.

Worthy repost. Been thinking about what role I play in contributing to the world and this has been very insightful.

To be fair, MSFT was not started as a research company and is more of a mass market commercializer of existing technology. Bell Labs' primary goal was to discover new science and invent practical applications. (Reminds me I should go read "The Idea Factory"! (story of bell labs))

IMO new breakthroughs in our understanding of physics would be needed first to make substantial progress in QC. As long as MSFT isn't investing in attosecond lasers or low temperature experiments, RSA will remain secure.

An open-ended question to HN: given the current rate of innovation in AI and the increase in popularity (hence more uni students studying CS), will learning a trade still be worth it 10 years down the line?

May I ask which region this happened in? Building things is the powerhouse of societal innovation and if you live in a democratic country, you can vote out bad policy!

It's easy to dismiss eccentric people as conmen. But you have to consider, he has been at least partially instrumental in at least 2 impossible companies: electric cars and rockets.

Regardless of what you think of his intellectual capacity, he has a proven track record of organizing people to produce exceptional outcomes !

An inevitable characteristic of his algorithm is chaos: delete as many constraints and parts as possible. When things break, re-add those necessary parts.

Yes, and there is anecdotal evidence of improved health and loss of gluten allergies when traveling to Europe for vacation! (Probably confounding factors but still worth considering)

It's a bit deceptive that o3 conveniently had access to ARC-prize-specific training material while r1 probably didn't. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42763231

A significant source of declining iodine levels in humans can also be traced to increased bromide found in food and medications. Most notably potassium iodate was used as a bread conditioner until the 1950s when it was substituted for potassium bromate. [0]

Excess bromide levels displace the iodide stored in the thyroid and is a contributing factor to the described increase of groiter. Bromide also has the added drawback of increased cancer risk and has now been banned in California [1] [2].

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3916868/

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20131203041405/http://www.oehha....

Let's also not forget Suchir Balaji, who was mysteriously killed when exposing OpenAI's violation of copyright law.

"You spent 46 seconds lurking on Hacker News just to end up here with your four Chrome cores and Linux OS in the tech capital of San Jose—did you compile the courage to click? Your 8.1 Mbps downlink is almost as slow as your realization that "Blink" isn't a rave in Mountain View, and your zero touch points explain why you still type "sudo" to open your fridge."

:sob: I'm getting roasted by an AI

Awesome, thank you for the resources!

Reminds me of the following proverb:

"The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity."

(Proverbs 11:3)

They are likely appealing to the common population who mostly think of speed in mi/h or km/h due to car speeds

Naive answer, but I think this exists and is called the FAIR plan. See here: https://stateline.org/2025/01/16/california-fires-show-state...

His parents are skeptical it's a suicide and are ordering a second, independent autopsy: https://sfist.com/2024/12/26/parents-of-openai-whistleblower...