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jagaergladon Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

This is more like "meta-studying". The human equivalent would maybe be to do brain surgery on someone to make them learn something new about math

jagaergladon A Working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen Weights

The ones we're not thinking about is the computer program abstraction layer in our brains. I think consciously thinking about an equation in our brains is the LLM layer equivalent, we're reasoning about it with language logic or models of our spatial senses (the unconscious calculations)

jagaergladon If IPv4 were land

and one of the countries has an over-reported while the other is underreporting

jagaergladon How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

Yes, it's the verb though, "to fake". It's a quite recent loan from English,

jagaergladon How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

Although "Malm" is a common surname, it's a word first and a name second if that makes sense

The same way "Brown" is common surname in English but mostly makes you think of the color first

jagaergladon Everything you do is being recorded

I wonder how precise this will be? A flying object sounds reasonable but could it actually track say individual people walking on a street further down the line?

jagaergladon Nokia’s years of mobile-phone supremacy ended in an afternoon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310_(2017)

jagaergladon Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice

The pride and sense of achievement they ought to feel that members of their kind did something should be enough to feel superior though

jagaergladon Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

may I ask the reason your clients don't just generate these things themselves?

jagaergladon The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

Language in the scope of a cultural phenomenon is something way beyond just cost or efficiency in communication

thats way wi dont rayt English veri efishent ither

jagaergladon The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

mostly latin with a sprinkle of proposals to revive the avestan alphabet or middle persian script. I wouldn't say it's a huge debate at all in general though

jagaergladon The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

You are entirely free to put vowel diacritics when writing with the perso-arabic script and it's done in children's books. By that logic Vietnamese shouldn't be written with the latin script since it's sino-tibetian

Also, middle persian had a native abjad [1]. (As well as a derived alphabet [2])

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi_scripts

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avestan_alphabet

jagaergladon EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

how are modern riots being organized on a massive scale? I'm curious

jagaergladon The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

I sometimes hear the same in my circles about Persian ditching the perso-arabic script. I don't get it, why can't you align a country however you like without creating a huge rift between a big population and years of literature, material etc etc? One can learn multiple scripts and almost all literate people know the latin script globally nowadays. Besides, sad to see the whole world just use the latin script in the end but that's not the point

jagaergladon French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy

"It usually appears after a significant stressor, either physical or emotional; when caused by the latter, the condition is sometimes called broken heart syndrome"

jagaergladon French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

Yes, it's kind of the standard word for it in Iranian Persian

jagaergladon French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

Adding to what you said, it's worth to mention that her novel contains grave historical inaccuracies such that suggesting that the Cinema Rex fire was done by the Shah blocking the exits with police letting everyone burn, and later blamed on Islamists (what the revolutionary zeitgeist at the time wanted to believe), while in fact it was exactly the other way around

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Rex_fire

jagaergladon City birds more afraid of women than men, scientists have no idea why

"men could get about a meter closer to birds than women could before the animals flew away, according to the results. This pattern remained regardless of what the men and women were wearing, what their height was or how they tried to approach the creatures"

The journal article: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3...

jagaergladon Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s

It's often not allowed to sell nicotine or alcohol to those who aren't penalized either

jagaergladon Starlink satellites being lowered from 550 km to 480 km

So instead of having to launch new satellites to replace the deorbited ones ever couple of years, do they have to send new ones every couple of months? Or can the functioning ones maintain their orbits somehow and this is only for the malfunctioning ones?

jagaergladon Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

terrible take, it's ruined otherwise amazing potential countless times. Just see how over-represented ADHD is in the prison population

jagaergladon How does lossless compression in Fuji RAF files work? (2020)

I have the same one and I can definitely recommend it. It depends what your camera experience is, but if you have had one that collected dust on a shelf in the past, I can guarantee you that this one is more fun to use and has a much lower risk of dust collection

jagaergladon A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans

the "level 1, 2 or 3 autism" has started to gain colloquial traction recently

jagaergladon Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

I disagree (but also with the prestige theory) it's not really a thing in other countries with significant amounts of Persians such as Sweden or Germany, there the exonym is still more dominant and no-one tries to push "farsi" out of pride or anything.

I think it just was a random occurrence / perfect storm in the US where some Persian speakers moving there didn't know there was an English word for it, and where the local population were more used to hearing names of unknown languages, and it happened to stick around and start spreading. And _then_ it maybe became a cultural pride or whatever thing with media following suit like you said

jagaergladon Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

There are some people suggesting that, however at a small scale and not taken that seriously by many. What difference does it make? What about all the other words that underwent the sound change? Also, some nuanced people can keep languages and politics separate. The sound shift isn't even entirely clear to be due to arabic influence, how come it turned into 'f' and not 'b' such as the arabic approximation? How come sounds like 'g' remained?

And in the end, in English it should be "Persian" and not "Farsi", that is where the actual move should be. How sad and historically wasteful if we started to do that to all languages, "deutsch", "zhongwen" or "elliniki" instead of German, Chinese and Greek

jagaergladon TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

Perfect, longer time to scroll tiktok while the TV is on in the background

jagaergladon iPhone dumbphone

Well if you disable App Store you cannot re-install apps you find distracting that you have removed. I actually remove Play store from my android through the debug shell for this exact reason. And yes, it happens that when all other apps are gone, things like Ebay, Foodora, App store etc are scrolled mindlessly, it's a hierarchy of stimulation, you remove one and move on to the next best one. Congratulations that you don't have adhd, it's hell

jagaergladon Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

Oh my bad, yeah that's a cool idea, think I've seen something along those lines once actually, think it was someone on youtube that built one

jagaergladon Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

why spend the scarce energy of the battery in addition what's already being spent spinning the propellers

jagaergladon CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion

in a sense it's mind blowing that we had images of stars being born, black holes, cells dividing etc before earthquake faults in motion. Like how the process of how they happen have only been inferred until now