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madihaa··on Why Do I Sometimes Hate Myself
I need help learning to stop hating myself. it drives me to anger
madihaa··on Unicode 18.0.0 has been released
https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/
madihaa··on I Became a Pediatrician Because I Wanted to Be a Good Adult
Thank you for your sacrifices and dedication you made to becoming a physician. So many of us in healthcare are jaded and burnt out. A lot of people come to us on deaths door literally or with incurable illnesses so there isn’t much we can do but this is everything I want you to know that
madihaa··on Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP
the same author 14 years ago. Markets are Efficient if and Only if P = NP and now Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1773169&...
madihaa··on UAE to leave OPEC
Okay this I did not see coming... If it actually happens it's going to cause a alot of ripple in the energy market. Good or bad? Hell if I know.
madihaa··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
The most exciting part isn't necessarily the ceiling raising though that's happening, but the floor rising while costs plummet. Getting Opus-level reasoning at Sonnet prices/latency is what actually unlocks agentic workflows. We are effectively getting the same intelligence unit for half the compute every 6-9 months.
madihaa··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
A polygraph measures physiological proxies pulse, sweat rather than truth. Similarly, RLHF measures proxy signals human preference, output tokens rather than intent.

Just as a sociopath can learn to control their physiological response to beat a polygraph, a deceptively aligned model learns to control its token distribution to beat safety benchmarks. In both cases, the detector is fundamentally flawed because it relies on external signals to judge internal states.

madihaa··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
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madihaa··on I’m joining OpenAI
Major producers like OpenAI optimize for safety and brand reputation avoiding backlash. Open source projects optimize for raw capability and friction less experimentation. It is risky yes, but it allows for rapid innovation that strictly aligned models can't offer.
madihaa··on China, Japan, South Korea will jointly respond to US tariffs
America has undone a century of soft power influence it has cultivated since World War II.

The 3 countries historically never like each other and this orange man single-handedly reunited them with a common cause!

madihaa··on Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
So amazing that we can see this without even excavating it all.
madihaa··on Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbaijan E190tragedy
I've never seen such a clear plane crash, shocking
madihaa··on F*: A proof oriented general purpose programming language
(old discussion) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40377685
madihaa··on South Korea's population faces point of no return
South Korea spent $200 billion over 10+ years to try to get young people to have more babies while the reasons for the low birth rate (housing costs, etc.) remain unaddressed.

Sounds like something the USA would do. Hilarious. What a waste of money lol. They could have easily fixed their housing crisis and ensured a better standard of living for young people.

madihaa··on This open problem taught me what topology is [video]
This video has now taught me what topology is.
madihaa··on Coffee Prices Break 47-Year Old Record
https://archive.is/smYjr
madihaa··on Sora is here
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madihaa··on Arctic uses a fan to cool another fan
We found a way to make your nice large quiet fan have a squeel sound in 1 year so you have to replace it sooner.