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freddealmeida··on Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1
how is this open vs whatdeepseek did?
freddealmeida··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
funny thing is they prob had a position to make bank off that. smart.
freddealmeida··on Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019)
we are never really dead
freddealmeida··on I Met Paul Graham Once
I met many people that met Paul Graham once. 2 > 1. right? Not sure Paul would ever have invested in my companies. But the world is smaller than you think.
freddealmeida··on Research Finds Vaccines Are Not Behind the Rise in Autism. So What Is?
These studies are not well formed. There is an easier way to test for vaccine damage leading to autism. Compare children with any dosage of vaccines vs children that never received any dosage of a vaccine. The Amish in a very good study found that no Amish born children had autism. A rate of 0. Compared to those children that had autism all have been vaccinated. This enough is for me to know that while one or a single dose does not lead to autism possibly (though i have doubts here too) that many dosages of various vaccines combined in certain ways may lead to autism. This causal path is complex, for certain, but it is clear it is a non zero probability that you will be autistic (and if you watch that new show, telepathic).
freddealmeida··on America Is Suddenly Getting Healthier. No One Knows Why.
If you want to see if America is getting healthier, look at any large insurance firm's actuaries on current rates of mortality. They are predicting fairly unusual patterns suggesting American's are becoming unnaturally sick and dying at a higher rate than before 2020. These kind of articles are just trying to undermine the new administrations attempts to correct for this.
freddealmeida··on America Is Suddenly Getting Healthier. No One Knows Why.
If you want to see if America is getting healthier, look at any large insurance firm's actuaries on current rates of mortality. They are predicting fairly unusual patterns suggesting American's are becoming unnaturally sick and dying at a higher rate than before 2020. These kind of articles are just trying to undermine the new adminstration's attempts to correct for this.
freddealmeida··on 1/0 = 0 (2018)
God. No.
freddealmeida··on Feds: Tether has become a money laundering tool for Mexican drug trafficker
Tether accounts can be frozen by the FBI. Not sure how it can be used by the cartels? What am I missing?
freddealmeida··on All Here founder's arrest shows it's easy for startups to scam investors
Most solid firms, like my own, have strong financial controls, a CFO, and a board with strong oversight. Absolutely never had a problem.

If you are going to build a startup, build a board, get your finances in control and very transparent to investors.

Fraud will never be gone but you can ensure your firm will never be accused of it.

freddealmeida··on Arbitration – Disney Abandoned a Brazen Legal Tactic. Uber Is Doubling Down
Arbitration is not as bad as everyone thinks if you are smart and know the law. First it allows you to talk to the other party in a way that illuminates you are willing to go far enough to seek remedy to your grievance. Secondly, it does not oblige you to make a deal. In fact, a no deal finding will help you when you sue in court after. Many arbitration agreements suggest you give up this right but that is an illegal clause. You can always sue. Just not in a class action. But for the most part, if you go to court they will likely (knowing you know the law) offer you a settlement.

Remember contracts can be changed by you for any reason at any time. And any contract that removes your rights is by law, unlawful and void. You can even sue them for the denial of rights under the color of law. If you have the time.

freddealmeida··on Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
Sadly very true. Makes you wonder why we have big government.
freddealmeida··on French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy
I think these firms are all compromised. Poisoning dns is such a bad idea.
freddealmeida··on Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021)
I think both are wrong. Replit should have used care considering their customers are developers that like to code, especially open source. Also Radon(?)while inspired by his internship played very close to a line. As an employer, I would be worried how easily it would be to cross the line.
freddealmeida··on Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees
Somehow however the NSA was reading Signal chats...
freddealmeida··on Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes
I built this firm a decade ago. https://www.cogent.co.jp/en/

Works with English and Japanese. Sadly I'm no longer with the team there but the work is solid. Try it out.

freddealmeida··on Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist
"Top Scientist"

lol. There is no risk.

freddealmeida··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
No
freddealmeida··on Georgia Tech, Meta create open dataset to advance solutions for carbon capture
Trees are great for carbon capture.
freddealmeida··on Are Hackers the Biggest Threat to America's Critical Infrastructure?
No. The lack of infrastructure investment for the last 40 years is the biggest threat to America.
freddealmeida··on Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What's Happening?
The way we measure ocean temperatures changed. The oceans are actually within normal bounds if you use previous measurement methods. The new approach however shows more volatility that is not reflective of what is actually going on.
freddealmeida··on Artificial Intelligence's 'Insatiable' Energy Needs Not Sustainable
ridiculous
freddealmeida··on Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen?
Does a $400k degree make any sense? That seems like a massive amount of debt to take on for knowledge you can get from watching youtube and personal learning. I'm not sure the elite status of schools is worth this much. Especially for non technical studies.

Are we moving back to when elite schools are only for the very rich?

freddealmeida··on Apple cuts 600 jobs after dropping self-driving car plans
600 jobs is impressive. I guess they won't be building robots either. Figure and Tesla will benefit.
freddealmeida··on Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders
I actually liked Artifact but it made two mistakes when launching. i) they limited access thinking people would be driven to join even after they fell off the news cycle. This was mistaken. No one wants to be limited on access. And when your business model is eyeballs, limiting them is ridiculous. ii) The over focused on design rather than content. Almost no one trusted it. And trust should have been the focus in the team. That yahoo is buying it is probably driven by the investors trying to get out of it.

If you want to build a news app, with AI or not, then focus on deep investigation and truth and avoid propaganda. I'd join that. I'd pay for that. Otherwise, get your books in order to sell to another bullshit tech company that doesn't care about truth or reality.

freddealmeida··on Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing
Who is paying for all this?
freddealmeida··on If gravity isn't a force, then why does it "need" a boson?
No they don't. Experimentation is all we need. Nothing in this can be determined without error. It is easier to believe it is not true. It is no different than the priests that tried to figure how many angels can stand on a head of a pin. But 1) you lack that deep domain knowledge and 2) you are biased. Your arguments are empty. First principles.
freddealmeida··on If gravity isn't a force, then why does it "need" a boson?
It doesn't. Modern cosmology is so full of holes. Nothing can be determined through experiment.
freddealmeida··on The Google employees who created transformers
Attention models? Attention existed before those papers. What they did was show that it was enough to predict next word sequences in a certain context. I'm certain they didn't realize what they found. We used this frame work in 2018 and it gave us wildly unusual behavior (but really fun) and we tried to solve it (really looking for HF capability more than RL) but we didn't see what another group found: that scale in compute with simple algorithms were just better. To argue one group discovered and changed AI and ignore all the other groups is really annoying. I'm glad for these researchers. They deserve the accolade but they didn't invent modern AI. They advanced it. In an interesting way. But even now we want to return to a more deterministic approach. World models. Memory. Graph. Energy minimization. Generative is fun and it taught us something but I'm not sure we can just keep adding more and more chips to solve AGI/SGI through compute. Or maybe we can. But that paper is not written yet.
freddealmeida··on Google Left in 'Terrible Bind' by Pulling AI Feature After Right-Wing Backlash
Bloomberg is about as woke as Google is today. Of course they consider clearly bigoted bias against White people to be 'rushed' rather then inherently wrong.
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