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varjag··on Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
I mean sure? It's clear PLT and other applied CS fields are now as good as dead. You're never seeing new React or Python emerging ever again.

And unfortunately mathematics is much more fundamental to human endeavor than this.

varjag··on Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
The whole point of the letter was that if we adopt this gradient search strategy the humanity might get stuck in a local maximum forever.
varjag··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
I think they don't fly survival guns on Soyuz anymore. But cosmonauts on ISS do keep a shank or two onboard for sure.
varjag··on Apple's Dimensional Drawings
Shapr3d is a rather light duty stuff, it's really doubtful a company with unlimited R&D budget and megascale manufacturing would use it very much.
varjag··on Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
Rather because the population density is much higher. So there's less need and more inconvenience to longer commutes.
varjag··on Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
Europeans don't drive half as much as Americans.
varjag··on The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
Yup, the arrogance when barging into unfamiliar domain that was previously reserved mainly to physics grads seems to have spread everywhere. I also had people opining on my expert area via their LLMs and the problem is they can't even ask the model the right question, let alone evaluate the nuance of their answer.
varjag··on Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft
Calculate ackermann(4,4), make no mistakes.
varjag··on iPhone Duo
Especially the soft Al or Ti alloys the phones are made of.
varjag··on iPhone Duo
I mean you kinda can do that now.
varjag··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
If the method is indeed found in the training set it's not particularly important to de-anonymize it. You have the proof you need.
varjag··on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
The imperialism Europe suffers from in reality is not American and he's entirely on board with that.
varjag··on Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Sure but it’s certainly not the messaging of IgNobel
varjag··on Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners
A paper am a coauthor of uses an Ig Nobel winning article as a reference. Because in fact it was a serious piece of research with practical implications.
varjag··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Spam is in fact intended for the mass recipient, how ever undesirable. This stuff is not.
varjag··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
Today my codex instance retailed into safeguard panic while working on a test harness for our product. First time it ever happened after many million tokens on this task over several weeks. I wonder if it's related.
varjag··on What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)
You have people right on this website who are convinced medieval peasants lived a life of leisure and worked 100 days a year.
varjag··on Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds
You do get DNA damage all the time, just very few of them lead to cancerous growth. So it would make sense the risk goes linearly up with exposure.
varjag··on We are not going anywhere
Have no experience with Ox Alpha but Sol went to code it down in a .hex file that it then converted into an ELF executable.

The exact prompt was Create a simplest terminal based tic tac toe game. Generate executable ELF binary right away, without using existing or impromptu compilers.

varjag··on We are not going anywhere
Indeed and that's where I suppose we're heading now that dev work had been trivialized.
varjag··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
It sounds like a pain for any small company, not just individual makers. There are many small manufacturers of boutique equipment that could be sold at dozens units per year, and this would add massive bureaucratic overhead.
varjag··on We are not going anywhere
There was always a shortage of capable developers coupled with abundance of unqualified (not to be confused with inexperienced). This explains both why development was so expensive and why the interviewing process was so ridiculous.
varjag··on We are not going anywhere
Yes, it will be easier for people to build new libraries and languages, but they won't gain traction.
varjag··on JIT Compiling Code in 5μs
There’s been a meme circulating about how AI doesn’t help because “code was never the hard part.” I think that’s true in some domains, but in others, writing the code absolutely was the hard part. JIT compilers are a great example of that.
varjag··on Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)
(emulated)
varjag··on Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges
This can be a reporting bias. Noone opens an issue when they were billed too low.
varjag··on ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux
Is there anything it can do that Codex CLI can't?
varjag··on Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?
It used to happen last year but really isn't a thing anymore (assuming you use frontier models).
varjag··on Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
Hi, I'll be happy to help! How do I submit?
varjag··on Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
I know and that's what it did. This is just to point how minimal effort from my side it have been.
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