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wumeow

1,165 karma · joined March 15, 2024

This site is fucking shot through with MAGA retards and Chinese shills. Get out while you can, save your sanity, hug your loved ones.
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wumeow··on [dead]
All of latam is going to be BRICS members by the end of this term.
wumeow··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
When Google did this with the recent Gemini paper, no one had any problem with calling it out as credential stuffing, but when Deepseek does it, it’s glorious unity and camaraderie.
wumeow··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
Yea, I’m sure they’re devastated by my comment
wumeow··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
Because that’s the way China presents itself and that’s the way China boosters talk about China.
wumeow··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
It’s credential stuffing.
wumeow··on [dead]
Trump just ceded the biotech sector to China.
wumeow··on Reddit won't interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans
Pro tip:

x.com → xcancel.com

wumeow··on Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation
The meshes generated by the huggingface demo definitely look like the product of marching cubes.
wumeow··on Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless
> Meanwhile the US life expectancy has been decreasing.

That was a blip due to covid and has been slowly recovering to pre-pandemic levels.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/health/us-life-expectancy-202...

wumeow··on The Cognitive Footprint of Medication Use
The big question is if ceasing a medication can restore cognitive performance.
wumeow··on the US is in a steep decline of food enjoyment – which has impacts on health
I'm not sure what conclusions can be drawn when there's only 2 data points.
wumeow··on DeepSeek-R1
Many such cases

https://x.com/dkaushik96/status/1881383961030807599

wumeow··on Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship
> Subsection (a) of this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order.

Well, at least they aren't trying to enforce this retroactively.

wumeow··on Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization
> Withdrawing diminishes the WHO China controls.

Unless they decide to step up their funding as a soft power play.

This is a better page for viewing the WHO's sources of funding, at least for 2022-23[0][1]. There are three separate categories of voluntary funding and only 6.6% of funds come from Core Voluntary Contributions as displayed in your graph.

[0] https://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/contributor

[1] https://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/top25

wumeow··on United States Digital Service renamed to DOGE
Not quite, it’s renamed to United States DOGE Service. This will surely help attract top talent.
wumeow··on Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization
“China has too much political influence over the WHO, so we’ll withdraw, giving them even more influence over the WHO”
wumeow··on 'Everyone wants him out': How Musk helped boot Ramaswamy from DOGE
I was skeptical that race played a role, but after Musk’s Hitlergruß today, I can see it.
wumeow··on Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
You too may be a big hero

Once you've learned to count backwards to zero

"In German, und Englisch, I know how to count down

Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun

wumeow··on American TikTokers Get a Taste of Chinese Censorship as They Rush to RedNote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
wumeow··on Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?
Anyone who has payed attention to his Twitter feed will not be surprised by this.
wumeow··on [dead]
Ok, this is just very funny. I literally lol'd.
wumeow··on DeepSeek-R1
No, they absolutely export malware still. All of DJI's apps need to be sideloaded on android because the obfuscated data collection they do is not allowed in Play Store apps[0]. TikTok uses an obfuscated VM to do user tracking[1]. Then there's the malware that the US government has to routinely delete from compromised computers [2][3]

Chinese software deserves the reputation it has.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/chine...

[1] https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/fbi-forces-chine...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/chinese-malware-rem...

wumeow··on DeepSeek-R1
> To my understanding, most people, even in tech, disregard and look down on Chinese software

Historically, if Chinese software has been installed on your computer, it's been malware.

wumeow··on DeepSeek-R1
Yep, it's a national strategy.
wumeow··on Houthis Say US and UK Ships Can Safely Take Red Sea Passage
It's a national embarrassment that they were able to deny passage as long and as effectively as they did.
wumeow··on Musk Opposes TikTok Ban
China is Tesla's second-largest market and the company is granted special privileges there that other foreign-owned companies don't receive thanks to Musk's warm relationship with China. He will not rock the boat that hard.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230813015210/https://www.nytim...

wumeow··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
It gave people all of Sunday to react to the shutdown on TikTok ahead of Monday where the focus will be the inauguration.
wumeow··on Fat cells 'remember' being bigger–and act like it
> When a person gains weight, the number of fat-storing cells in their body doesn’t change; instead, each one expands to store more fat within it by changing the way it responds to and stores nutrients.

Is this true? I thought the number of fat cells increase when you gain weight but don't decrease when you lose it.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29991030/

> A decrease in body weight only changes fat cell size (becoming smaller), whereas an increase in body weight causes elevation of both fat cell size and number in adults.

wumeow··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
If TikTok was concerned that Biden’s statement wouldn’t be honored, they wouldn’t have turned service back on today while Biden is still president. They’ve had months to work out some sort of deal with Trump, this whole show they’ve put on the past couple days is propaganda.
wumeow··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
Everyone got played by what is effectively joint CCP/Trump propaganda and they’re cheering about it. Bleak, bleak, bleak.
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