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utopcell

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utopcell··on Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?
why?
utopcell··on Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I
..that don't have AI integrated?
utopcell··on Gemini 4 Carbon
It's in preview, no?
utopcell··on Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2026 Results [pdf]
not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is pretty much the reason.
utopcell··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
Allegedly.
utopcell··on ZX Spectrum Next Laptop
Ok avadodin@, we'll give you your money back.
utopcell··on ZX Spectrum Next Laptop
Most clones I've seen don't look that great, but this one's nice. I noticed that the PCB has no ULA. I'm reading that it was impossible to procure in the USSR because of embargos so the designer, Sergey Zonov, reverse-engineered it and used 74xx ICs. That ..is an impressive feat. It has been replicated by Chris Smith, but by actually opening up a ULA and looking at the circuit. Doing this blindly is just awesome.
utopcell··on Tesla Roadster
Free speech was created to protect dissent against state censorship, not to serve as a shield for straw-man arguments or online virtue signaling. Pointing out that a criticism misunderstands private capital allocation isn't an attack on anyone's rights: it's just noting that a private automaker's R&D budget isn't a zero-sum public works fund.
utopcell··on Tesla Roadster
This is not a gov-owned business. It's not your money to decide how they should spend their resources to benefit yourself.
utopcell··on Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
(-:
utopcell··on Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
Nicely done!
utopcell··on The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
> "The problem of the proof was that we knew that FCT was true"

Citation needed.

utopcell··on Knuth reward check
I bet the mailing cost was more than 0x$2.00 for Knuth.
utopcell··on Knuth reward check
If that's your biggest shame then you must have lived a good life.
utopcell··on Lobbying
> No no no that can’t be a bribe you see, that happens after the laws were passed, a bribe would have to be before.

That's how you can tell that lobbying is different from prostitution. In the latter, money exchange is illegal both before and after the act.

utopcell··on The Mathocalypse
The argument is that it's not tens of $m.
utopcell··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
Why would they do that, knowing that the one known to be correct is the Lean one? Just to claim that the (correct) Lean proof did not translate well to English? That would be weak, and a colossal waste of energy and time.
utopcell··on Integer multiplication below n log n
You didn't believe!
utopcell··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Nobody needs you to do anything, not with that attitude.
utopcell··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
What the hell, indeed.
utopcell··on Gemini 4 Argon
until November, probably.
utopcell··on On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
We also live in a very different world now compared to 2021 when the problem was reported. A brief Gemini query to translate the old diff format to the new one returned in a few seconds with what appears to me a correct, < 40-line, solution.
utopcell··on On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
While I agree with the article's point, we should note that collisions do not happen out of the box because Neovim defaults undodir to $XDG_STATE_HOME/nvim/undo/ (~/.local/state/nvim/undo/), while Vim defaults to storing .un~ files alongside the edited file or inside ~/.vim/undo/. Data loss only occurs if both editors are configured to share an undo directory or save inline .un~ files.
utopcell··on Transformers Explained Visually
Great site, intuitive description. I also found [1] very useful in the past.

[1] https://bbycroft.net/llm

utopcell··on Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
They obviously did not send the proof to Claude.
utopcell··on Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
I'm pretty sure they were sending a prompt for Claude to _find_ the Navier-Stokes proof, using ideas that have been publicly shared before online, but not necessarily used for the problem.
utopcell··on Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
"BaW Music Theory", for that click-bait effect.
utopcell··on The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor
What's surprising (to me) is that there exist 3840x2560 28" IPS panel monitors on Amazon for only $150.
utopcell··on The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor
External 16" 3840x2400 monitors are ~$150 on Amazon.
utopcell··on Muse Spark 1.3
> You can ask 100 people and they'll all give you a different list.

True. With 5 choices you need at least 126 people before you can guarantee that two lists are the same.

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