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nemonemo··on OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
Nobody on the outside knows for sure, but two key signals to watch are project sunsets and brain drain.

If the rumors of fundraising difficulties are true, OAI will have to prioritize its most profitable projects, potentially slowing down new training runs and optimizing existing models for efficiency at the expense of user experience.

Insiders are also the first to sense internal trouble, so if top talent starts leaving for competitors preparing to go public, it won't bode well for the company.

nemonemo··on OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
No, they sell different products in the same category. You are basically saying Google and Bing as the same product when Bing is superior to Google search in some non-critical metrics.
nemonemo··on Anthropic S-1
It does not seem as bad as it sounds like. The numbers are quarter-by-quarter and the market is fluctuating day-by-day basis. To me, growing in this fierce market by 45% qoq seems amazing by itself.
nemonemo··on Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD
Scientists choose language very carefully. This TLDR is a good example of ruining that effort.
nemonemo··on Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD
If one eats less, perhaps that alone could lead to hair loss.
nemonemo··on State of Devs 2026
What are the real reasons you think?
nemonemo··on GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
Why does this sound very much like the argument toward full self-driving? If drivers need to be watchful of mostly autonomous ones, they get bored and lose attention or sometimes take nap in front of the steering wheel. Waymo came out of an extension of this argument..
nemonemo··on English: A vs. An
Maybe this could be used to track how some spoken language changes over time in a region or across regions.
nemonemo··on Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Isn't this basically the mythical man-months LLM edition?
nemonemo··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
What do you think EB visas are: immigrant visas or work visas? Answer: they are both.
nemonemo··on Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Isn't a literal "moat" about temporary deterrence? I can imagine makeshift bridges could permanently make the moat useless.
nemonemo··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Maybe in 10 years when the tech matures, but IMO now seems a bit too early to have a tech like this. It is like intelligence without evolution or progress.. yes it can be used in some niche markets, but difficult to be generic.
nemonemo··on Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
Just like any useful tools, there would be an expert super tool user who could probably generate enough profit based on the tools. The majority would not profit from it in the long run (the monopolistic tool makers would reap any profit from the value chain.)
nemonemo··on Claude March 2026 usage promotion
Not sure what you mean by "it", but the doubled usage would be 18h a day.
nemonemo··on Claude March 2026 usage promotion
Yes, it overlaps well with the market open time. But I thought Claude was good with coding... Does this mean major trading agents write code using Claude to make trading decisions? Or Claude models are relatively better than other models in non-coding trading work?
nemonemo··on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
One thing I don't understand is how come Gemini Pro seems much cheaper than Gemini Flash in the scatter graph.
nemonemo··on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
Fair point. Asked Gemini to suggest alternatives, and it suggested Gemini Velocity, Gemini Atom, Gemini Axiom (and more). I would have liked `Gemini Velocity`.
nemonemo··on Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use
The danger of short form videos is because the form enables the algorithm designer to artificially maximize the reward with minimum effort by the viewer. It doesn't matter whether you watch kitten ones initially. After watching it for a month casually, chances are you would end up watching some addictive videos for hours with little effort. It could be some endless stream of Buddhist monks talking about suffering, if someone likes that kind of thing. It's just designed to be addictive with crazy high reward/effort ratio.
nemonemo··on LLMs can get "brain rot"
Have you considered a case where English might not be the authors' first language? They may have written a draft in their mother tongue and merely translated it using LLMs. Its style may not be many people's liking, but this is a technical manuscript, and I would think the novelty of the ideas is what matters here, more than the novelty of proses.
nemonemo··on LLMs can get "brain rot"
What you are obsessing with is about the writer's style, not its substance. How sure are you if they outsourced the thinking to LLMs? Do you assume LLMs produce junk-level contents, which contributes human brain rot? What if their contents are of higher quality like the game of Go? Wouldn't you rather study their writing?
nemonemo··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Are you saying human brain is kind of similarly vulnerable to well-crafted facts? Does it mean any intelligence (human or non-human) needs a large amount of generally factual data to discern facts from fakes, which is an argument toward AIs that can accumulate huge swath of factual data?
nemonemo··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
Agreed in principle, but has anyone seen any practical difference between these DNS services? What would be a more detailed downside for using these in parallel instead of the ISP default as a fallback?
nemonemo··on Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion
Wikipedia article about Consciousness opens with an interesting line: "Defining consciousness is challenging; about forty meanings are attributed to the term."

Perhaps "consciousness" is just a poor term to use in a scientific discussion.

nemonemo··on Why English doesn't use accents
How can writing marks help in this regard? I can imagine a language with both a lot of exceptions and writing marks.
nemonemo··on German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
We need to balance the benefit and the downside of the limited liability in corporations. If innovation no longer becomes beneficial for the society and only beneficial for a small number of people, perhaps the society may need to reconsider the concept.
nemonemo··on AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
Thank you. Updated my comment again.
nemonemo··on AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
The answer says "For rings in which division by 2 is permitted". Is there the same constraint for AlphaEvolve's algorithm?

Edit2: Z_2 has characteristics 2.

Edit: AlphaEvolve claims it works over any field with characteristic 0. It appears Waksman's could be an existing work. From the AlphaEvolve paper: "For 56 years, designing an algorithm with fewer than 49 multiplications over any field with characteristic 0 was an open problem. AlphaEvolve is the first method to find an algorithm to multiply two 4 × 4 complex-valued matrices using 48 multiplications."

nemonemo··on How Silica Gel Took Over the World
This sounds like a great idea, but how do you keep it from being "drained" or hydrated?
nemonemo··on ChatGPT Pro
Wouldn't you say the same thing for most of the people? Most of the people suck at verifying truth and reasoning. Even "intelligent" people make mistakes based on their biases.

I think at least LLMs are more receptive to the idea that they may be wrong, and based on that, we can have N diverse LLMs and they may argue more peacefully and build a reliable consensus than N "intelligent" people.

nemonemo··on South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
According to the Martial Law Act, there's an extra power by the martial law commander to move the military as they want.

Some translations say "guarding martial law" instead of "precautionary": https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_mobile/viewer.do?hseq=45785&type... "Once guarding martial law is declared, the martial law commander shall have authority over the administrative and judicial matters concerning the military of the area where martial law is declared."

But this time it was the emergency one.

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