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conmod278··on Build your own decision model
A biased coin flip with accuracy on my domain is what I all care.
conmod278··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
You are also forgetting the undersea cables.
conmod278··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
When the pager attack happened, there was a implicity sentiment on focusing on the technical details and not focus on politics. But I didn't see the same sentiment when Iran ballistic missles did their job.
conmod278··on Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
There is cantillon effect happening here with respect to trust in govts. media and institutions in general. People are becoming distrustful but slowly. Those who are on internet a lot know about these topics in depth but people farther away take time to adjust to New Reality.
conmod278··on The value of not getting to the point (2015)
The metaphor I use is we have lot of distinct ideas or topics. Consider them as gold nuggets. Then through these glue sentences we flatten these gold nuggets creating a big foil or fabric which are laid on top of each other and they intermingle. This allows us to remember the same main ideas across multiple scenarios. That's how our brain works most of the time. The stronger match is Hopfield-style associative memory
conmod278··on The value of not getting to the point (2015)
Jean-Claude Juncker line, from 2007 when he was Luxembourg's prime minister and head of the Eurogroup: "We all know what to do, we just don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it."
conmod278··on Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data
Even porn ads are linked with your normal browsing
conmod278··on Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
botspeak
conmod278··on Religious scholars met with Anthropic
You are missing the point. Biology is a kludge over billions of years and evolution is a blind process. It had many constraints that are not necessary for modern machines or systems. e.g. a GPU doesn't have to reproduce. Why didn't you drop yourself to planck scale or string theory scale and say we need all that detail to actually get a functioning AI.
conmod278··on Religious scholars met with Anthropic
Is all that complexity necessary? Haven't we learnt that doing things in Latent space is effective as compared to Pixel space.
conmod278··on Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason
Garbage In Garbage Out
conmod278··on Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
If you have a very intelligent swiss army knife like hammer, that hammer will adapt to almost any nail, which is a good thing.
conmod278··on Clef: Open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
Live coding Jev from Scratch | Understanding Qwen architecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzxoU7kxjig

conmod278··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
One thing I have noticed is "It is very easy for the Empire to vassalize Muslim countries". Try to notice next time.
conmod278··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
Demis Hassabis decided not to sell DeepMind to Facebook after testing Mark Zuckerberg at dinner and realizing Zuckerberg sounded "Equally Excited" about every tech trend brought up.
conmod278··on Coding Is Not Solved
Most of the problems people commonly encounter is solved by someone somewhere sometime. Today I wanted to add a simple search bar in a UI over log files in a directory. LLM ("through their unique ability to make the glue code adapt to any problems") solved my problem. That's all I care for now. Let people like Terry Tao push the frontiers. I am happy in my circumstance.
conmod278··on Coding is not solved
We developed languages that removed GOTO so that developers don't shoot themselves in the foot. We will surely develop harnesses that will ensure that majorly occurring problems are solved before they hit production.
conmod278··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
In thermodynamics, through cycles of expansion and compression, useful work can be extracted. Similarly through economic cycles, America is able to extract wealth from rest of globe.
conmod278··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Reservation in education institutions and government job which is used to solve caste system are just doing Eugenics in disguise. Only gene pool of rich lower caste people benefit.

The people who suffered are dead. The people who committed discrimination are dead. Yet the whole nation has to accomodate. Reservation must be done on Pro-Rata basis. If one state like Kerela is advanced, doesn't do caste discrimination and another like Bihar is very much into it. Then only Bihar state should reservation, not whole of India.

conmod278··on Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
All possible subsets of a Universal Set can be considered as Observers. So a Power Set is collection of observers. Power Set of Power Set is another such collection. So on and so forth. Powersets all the way up.
conmod278··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
If you read the article, one of the analogy points to this. Compressing everything to a point.

But I had the same question few months back. Asking Claude is fruitful in this case.

conmod278··on Jev Can't Be Calibrated
In future, we will see intiatives similar to OpenStreetMap for Textual data or Web similar to high quality non-contaminated steel.
conmod278··on I Don't Want the Details
How about explain the problem and solution in 3 to 5 levels of details in a top-down hierarchical manner sort of like a decision tree. Let people decide how far they want to drill down.
conmod278··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
Keynes didn't want USD to be reserve currency but he was overruled.
conmod278··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
What many people don't realize is why is America suddenly caring about manufacturing everything inhouse when Elites decided earlier Globalization was good, because China wants to command respect more than America. That is also the reason why Gold is pushing higher. If China was nobody, no nation would care for gold. So all these unnecessary downstream reasons distort what is actually going on.

If there was no China, Globalization would spread very strongly with Bangladesh manufacturing clothes and Milan doing the fashion show. All those calculations are coming undone. So please keep this main reason front and center when we discuss this matters.

conmod278··on I am often wrong
you can ask Claude to see how much of your process is similar to scientific process.
conmod278··on A Model for Winning Survivor
"There are three ways to learn. The most noble is by thinking and getting to the truth yourself. The second, which is still pretty good, is by imitating those who do. And the third one is through pain."

In prediction markets, imitation is the best policy

conmod278··on I think you should almost never use AI to write
What if I am using Claude as a rubber duck where Claude is the crowdsourced version of all the human thoughts on that topic. It is rerouting all the thoughts ever recorded on that topic through the chatbox to me. Something synergistic could emerge.
conmod278··on GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
I remember vaguely a documentary where Germans were supposed to change their keys frequently but being lazy and confident didn't. Lol
conmod278··on How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
The successive generations of spaceships won't built themselves. Who will be responsible for setting up real world and software feedback loop?
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