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kensai··on Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving
So is the Economist here lying? If the fact of the matter is that the guy has not contributed to philanthropy and is backed by the cited numbers, why is it envy? We can do better and certainly HE can do better.
kensai··on Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving
Got flagged meaning? Did not go well with fanboys and investors? Or is the Economist outright lying?
kensai··on Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving
https://archive.is/02SvK
kensai··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
There is definitely more to the story. There is a huge financial interest for each side to discredit the other. Fact of the matter is, we still don't know who will prevail. These are cutting edge tech stacks and they were just released.
kensai··on Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
I always find icons better than text, given that you don't know the exact linguistic background of the user. Thus for me the Canadian keyboard makes more sense than everything. I think the latest keyboards from Apple also go this direction, exchanging text for icons.
kensai··on Mistral raises €3B
Mistral has a huge advantage that will shine later... it's a EU-based company. We are already seeing signs of digital sovereignity everywhere. The clients will flock to them, I dare to say government will be even enforcing clients to contract Mistral. So actually being the top dog in benchmarks matters less, than having secure servers and datacenters which are physically based in Europe.
kensai··on Htmx 4.0
According to their docs "htmx is a library that allows you to access modern browser features directly from HTML, rather than using javascript"

Can anyone confirm this claim? How good is this? Doing everything in HTML/CSS might have some advantages. Is it quick and compatible enough?

kensai··on People Are Saving Up Their Vacation Days to Binge 'Grand Theft Auto VI'
https://archive.is/bQFof
kensai··on Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance
Wow, I thought this could not be possible. May I ask, where did you grow up? I mean, in the 80s the Star Wars were already a cult thing.
kensai··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
the most pragmatic approach indeed!
kensai··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
Although in principle I agree, cultivating founders could be an added mission.
kensai··on One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
Even portrayed in Japanese-related games: https://shogun2-encyclopedia.com/techs/gempei_civil_core_tan...
kensai··on c100
Are there any independent reviews of the c100? I want to know more about the keypads and bindings they added.
kensai··on Neuro-Inspired Inverse Learning for Planning and Control
“The mammalian brain achieves fast, highly effective goal-directed behavior leveraging paired forward/inverse internal models, open-loop multi-step motor commands, and the hierarchical organization of action.

Our findings show that the Inverter framework, built on the same three principles, enables fast and effective planning and control through a feedforward, sequence-level FoM-and-IM core that emits entire action sequences in single forward passes. We find that Inverters offer consistently high task performance at a fraction of the inference compute time used by step-wise RL or iterative planners.”

kensai··on Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts
"Disagreement on AI philosophy shouldn't be a reason to flag a contribution."

Amen!

kensai··on The Dark Night of Mathematics
"like... programmers enjoy the act of typing lines of text into a file on their computer"

ehm, no!

kensai··on Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models
Are you American? We would prefer it to stay a European company. I personally hope Mistral buys them or somehow they unite to make a stand.
kensai··on Flux 3
You are completely ignorant. This is one of the best places to live and work on earth. Nonetheless, they also have positions in San Francisco for what is worth.
kensai··on A road to Lisp: Why Lisp
My question always remains. Which variety/implementation of Lisp is it worth it to learn as a hobbyist and which as a professional?
kensai··on Is The Economist Always Wrong?
Valid comment, but prolly because this is the reality he knows. Which is fair.
kensai··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
That's a very harsh take. Most of us would not be alive by the end of the century to personally witness or attend the 1000 years of the University of Bologna, but that goes enough to say how ancient these institutions are: meaning their role obviously changed over time.

Historically, universities BECAME bastions of truth and knowledge, particularly with the introduction of Alexander von Humboldt's ideas for research. And that was already happening by the mid-end of the 19th century. You can not seek seriously truth and knowledge before the establishment of serious metrics and research methodology.

kensai··on l: A new runtime for k and q
What's the problem if a site is vibecoded? We will be seeing it more often, I recon. Let's get used to it. On the other hand, perhaps a disclaimer is in order.
kensai··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
As a neurologist I read often imaging findings myself. However, one ability of the radiologists I appreciate is their ability to discern through artifacts by years of experience. I am not convinced the current AI crop can reach this level of discerning yet. But I am pretty sure they will reach us and surpass us there as well.

For the moment, I would prefer the final opinion always to be from a human (the human-in-the-loop approach in medicine). Best course of action is to run these LLM assessments and bring them to the next appointment and challenge constructively the doctor.

kensai··on Midjourney Medical
The problem is the other way around. That we somehow accepted that X-Rays/Röntgen is the only way to do CT.
kensai··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
"Prompt "engineering" and working around your tools will be over in a year or so."

What do you mean by that? What is happening in just over a year or so?

kensai··on Snap Keynote at AWE USA 2026
Original iPhone presentation vibes! Maybe the technology is mature enough now for a prime product, although at around $2200 still expensive for the average consumer.
kensai··on Even more batteries included with Emacs
Probably this category of mental tasks. For politicians it's the other way around. Prolly you need to have some 'elder statesman' skills as well as wisdom to achieve greatness. Deng Xiaoping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping) started changing China at the venerable age of 70+ moving forward until his death almost two decades later.

Do not underestimate wisdom as a cognitive skill, even if in today's world we tend to discredit it because of agism.

kensai··on Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million
Who told you that? Swiss don't even want Germans, which is actually the biggest minority apparently. FFS, Germans! The original racists.

PS. I am German.

kensai··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
You expand my comment to uses I had not envisioned. It was simply an analogy to correct the analogy of the OP comment.
kensai··on The Ü Programming Language
Not if you have a German keyboard.
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