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Panoramix··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Sure. But no European company is ordering more than a few DUVs at a time
Panoramix··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
The logic is backwards. The research was already there, so ASML licensed it. If the research wasn't there they would have developed it, and/or find another way to make it work using a somewhat different tech. This is but one of the dozen large technical issues that needed to be solved en route to EUV.
Panoramix··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Also, if you start now you would not compete with TSMC in the coming 20-30 years, so the energy requirements won't be that high off the bat
Panoramix··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
And about 300-400 DUV machines a year
Panoramix··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
Your point is largely addressed in the article, did you try reading it? "In many fields and activities, years of training have traditionally served not only to produce a final answer or product, but also to develop understanding and the ability to formulate new questions and ideas. However, building on a vast body of previous human work, AI systems are becoming increasingly capable of producing the results of such work directly, and these goals cease to align."

The point is that these proofs are largely useless without the insights. The value of a proof is largely in the travel, not so much in the destination.

Panoramix··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Yes, that would be par course with OpenAI behavior
Panoramix··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
I mean it kind of makes sense that the people that caused the problem don't even see the problem. That's an explanation onto itself.
Panoramix··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
That doesn't work.
Panoramix··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
You're right, and the load-bearing part of the argument is not what you think it is. Two ambiguities worth resolving before moving on: whether what you wrote also applies to ChatGPT, and whether you have custom instructions set up. Failure mode worth flagging explicitly: I didn't read TFA.

(I'm becoming allergic to how these things write).

Panoramix··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
For those that don't mind a lot of rootkit and embedded spyware you mean
Panoramix··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
Not me but I know plenty of people that would volunteer
Panoramix··on Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
A bunch of ideas doesn't make a book. Actual writing takes place, the length of each sentence, the specific choice of words, the pace, the choices, the editing. It's literally an art. Nobody wants to read what ChatGPT wrote based on your prompts.

Of course you can use it to quickly try out stuff, for some editorial tasks and such. But unless you learn the craft of writing I don't think others will want to read any of this stuff.

Panoramix··on Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
The point is that now it's dramatically worse by volume
Panoramix··on Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
I don't know about that, a lot of those bloated enterprise solutions are becoming obsolete fast, and integrations becoming a moot point as these models advance.
Panoramix··on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
What does that have to do with ChatGPT?
Panoramix··on Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics
Sushi chefs spend years learning the correct feel of the fish - when it's warm enough, when it's slimy. Japanese are taken aback when they are forced to wear gloves for "safety", which at least in that case is entirely counter productive.
Panoramix··on Our commitment to Windows quality
All the things you wrote, but also quality. Quality is a giant issue. Garbage usability. Excel is the only Microsoft product I thoroughly respect. The amount of things you can't do in PowerPoint for example is mind blowing.
Panoramix··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
It's about the thermal conductivity.

Helium has 150mW/mK vs Argon ~18mW/mK so you can't replace it.

The only alternatives to Helium are Neon, which is 3x worse and much more expensive, and hydrogen. However, hydrogen is flammable so it's a very bad idea to use it in a fab which has extremely poisonous gases and needs a cleanroom environment. A fire would ruin your whole factory and kill your engineers.

Panoramix··on Switch to Claude without starting over
I just tried 5.1 and got the exact same output as for 5.2 (actually I got slightly less info with 5.1)
Panoramix··on Switch to Claude without starting over
Think of things like your preferred units (meters, kg, cups, tablespoons, milliliters). Or, do not suggest recipes with x ingredient. Language preferences. Etc etc etc.
Panoramix··on OpenAI – How to delete your account
There's several options, and in the future there will be even more. Labs like Mistral, Sakana AI already have good products; they will only get better.
Panoramix··on OpenAI – How to delete your account
More reasons to go with the competition
Panoramix··on Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)
Nice overview. Some of the descriptions are quite thin on details, like "new model by x", or "latest model by y". Well of course it was new at the time but that doesn't really add information.
Panoramix··on Richard Feynman Side Hustles
Yes but how do you do that? that magical third electrode sounds harder to make than the original problem.

Edit: I think I get it now, it's a chemical reaction. By applying a voltage with some polarity to the 3rd electrode you can run the reaction in reverse. Still very hard to achieve because you have to make sure the reactions happen at the same rate with the same efficiency, which is far from trivial. This must be a very high end sensor for all this effort to make sense.

Panoramix··on A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
I'd rather if the article would stick to the facts
Panoramix··on Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
I've been to the Mediterranean several times. They eat a ton of (delicious) super oily food, sausages, meats, eggs, fish (often fried or deep fried), salty cheeses, greasy stuff, tons of white bread, lots of wine. Fat chance to find someone eating avocados, kale, or quinoa, and proteins are not at all minimized.

The Mediterranean diet is like a Californian wellness type of person's idea of what the actual Mediterranean diet is.

Panoramix··on Vietnam bans unskippable ads
I have never in my several decades of life seen and ad for anything and thought "I need to get that".
Panoramix··on I rebooted my social life
Keep up at it. Without pressuring, or without making it the elephant in the room uncomfortable topic that makes them avoid you. One day you will catch them in a good day.
Panoramix··on Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
I find that just about everybody is leaking my data. Either on purpose or accidentally. But at the end of the day I do want to order those online exotic vegetables and have very little choice of sites to do it in my country. At this point I don't care anymore. Maybe I should but in a sense it's too late. It's been decades of leaked information, I'm certain the advertising companies know me better than my friends. And still royally fail at selling me stuff. They likely use this info for more nefarious things.

I hate that 90% of the effort on the internet is about stealing information from users and serving invasive ads.

Panoramix··on Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
TSMC is in a seismically active region
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