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dombiscoff··on Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
Hey do you have any good sources for that? Would like to read more
dombiscoff··on E Ink Kaleido 4
I agree it's probably an unnecessary expense for 99% of people, but I actually find it very useful reading articles, news and academic work. Also, I really like the washed out newspaper look the colours have even though this makes them ill equipped for graphic novels.
dombiscoff··on Thinking will become a hobby
All this says is that America has been specifically altered by those prior advancements, and nothing on the rest of the worlds or their handling of LLMs
dombiscoff··on Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
What I found interesting was that he adapted and shifted to a very unconventional strategy of play, opposed to the AI who primarily seems to play high probability moves. Does this not demonstrate the human edge against AI in novel / unconventional thinking?
dombiscoff··on Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
Semantically you wouldn't, because they require their specific run-times. The difference is that those run-times are built to work natively on Linux (and often are enmeshed within its distributions), whereas any software requiring WINE is built to natively work on Windows, but is able to be translated for Linux. That distinction, between a native built runtime and a translation layer, is pretty major, and I think is why you can argue the colloquial usage of the term 'runs on Linux' differs between the two.
dombiscoff··on Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
Wouldn't this only check their social and health related abilities?
dombiscoff··on Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
99% of the replies here speak from the point of view that they are of the intelligent group. Hmmm, either hacker news is some sort of naturally forming mensa community or there's a lot of ego being put on display here.
dombiscoff··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Art is information, always.
dombiscoff··on Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
I think he just enjoys terminal styling, man.
dombiscoff··on Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
I think the line of reasoning that a method should provide as much accessibility as possible to not alienate real humans is a good one. You use 'have to' as if there aren't better solutions that could be invented, but such will only occur if we challenge the imperfect solutions we have now.
dombiscoff··on Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
Quite frankly I don't understand why the cat and mouse argument here is meant to serve as a shutdown for anti-AI methods. Whole industries entirely exist in a cat and mouse state (cybersecurity, anti-cheat, etc) and no one in those industries imply that any solution is or can be a permanent dunk. If anything, the very fact that theres no permanent dunk is what leads to such industries developing a competitive service based industry to begin with. Why can't a theoretical anti-AI industry develop into the same thing? These fonts just seem like the infancy steps for such.
dombiscoff··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
A lot of people are saying to stop using facebook as if its such a simple, catch-all answer. For a lot of people, and a lot of countries, facebook (whatsapp, too) is still the primary(only) way of communication. If not with your friends, then with your family. There's a big demand from those people to have a way of interacting with this pseudo-essential service without having to oblige to complete data rape.
dombiscoff··on Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
Says you, wouldn't historians find this interesting? The medici family is a prominent part of Italian history. But again, think of the vulture capital!
dombiscoff··on Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books
All the better for it. Although I apologise if my wording came off as 'bad faith.'
dombiscoff··on Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
I too am astounded by humanities desire to know things without a monetary benefit. Don't they understand the money spent on this could've gone to a vulture capital?
dombiscoff··on Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books
I ask you to question why those 'avid readers' are looking for a shortcut to increase their volume rather than a shortcut to increase their comprehension. Looking at this users are comments, his desire is simply to increase the tally rather than any genuine interest in reading.
dombiscoff··on Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books
You're right, I agree.
dombiscoff··on Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books
What do you read?
dombiscoff··on Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books
Sounds like a pointless endeavour to me. This infinite efficiency quest for speed reading is chief pursued by those who don't read regularly, and so don't understand that ones comprehension comes from the pauses, the page turns, and the backtracks which make up reading traditionally. If one has no time to digest, are they truly reading a book or just an impromptu script?
dombiscoff··on Stop Killing Games
It just wouldn't
dombiscoff··on Googlebook
This sounds like a terrible idea. Why not just have a simulated fashion shoot of yourself rather than requiring a database of the entire populations likeness to find your doppelganger? Very dystopian
dombiscoff··on FreeBSD Device Drivers Book
very lucid idea for a book, though the ai generated cover doesn't inspire much confidence in me.
dombiscoff··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Depends on the countries water quality. Some countries don't have water good for drinking, and others have poor taste which many are put off by. That being said, many EU airports do have water refill machines. Germanys airports for example..
dombiscoff··on Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11
Why is this here? Extreme clickbait for those without tech literacy