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bananzamba··on A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting
There are many more of these : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...
bananzamba··on Berlin-based Langdock moves its parent company from the US to Germany
The difference is with European data stored by American companies
bananzamba··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Also doesn't the very good ARC AGI 2 score of GPT-6 Astra kinda contradict this, since each problem is its own game with very different rules
bananzamba··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
But that lead happened to be the same approach Levent and Tristan had found...

Meaning they would have found it first if OpenAI hadn't spent millions in compute on following their lead to its conclusion faster than them.

bananzamba··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
The accusation is that they stole his approach of solving it. If OpenAI didn't bruteforce it with dozens of agents, he would have solved Navier-Stokes eventually since he evidently had the right approach. So knowing which approach to take makes all the difference, if they didn't know the approach they couldn't have solved it.

It's like he had a treasure map and was about to find the treasure, but they copied his treasure map and scooped him with a faster boat and found the treasure first. But he would have found it if it weren't for them.

bananzamba··on IBM Bob
It's a reference to Bob the builder, the children's TV show. You know, because AI IDEs help you build stuff
bananzamba··on Don't paste the AI, please
The angry version is even more obviously AI
bananzamba··on Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym
I've started the same, but instead of the gym I go to random meetup events. Which feels easier since most of them are exactly for talking to strangers. Also went bars sometimes with people from the group. I have to get more confident about exchanging contact information though, only did that twice.
bananzamba··on Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
User Were there people in opposition of automatization and industrialization? And if so, what were their reasons?

talkie-1930 Yes, there were people who objected to the introduction of machinery, on the ground that it would deprive the working classes of employment. It was argued that, as the new methods of production must necessarily lower the cost of articles, and so increase consumption, more would be produced than the country could take, and that a surplus of manufactured goods would be left on hand, which would oblige the manufacturers to discharge a portion of their hands. The opponents of machinery also predicted, that the operative classes would be reduced to starvation, in consequence of the cheapness of articles of food, which would enable foreigners to undersell the home producer in the home market. They contended, further, that the mental cultivation of the artizan must suffer from his constant application to a purely mechanical process; and, finally, they maintained, that the proposed system must have a demoralizing effect, as it would remove all inducements to personal exertion, and substitute a state of things, in which the industrious and the idle would fare alike.

bananzamba··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
Or like Meshico
bananzamba··on It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
If you need equality, just use fixed point
bananzamba··on Why AI Sucks at Front End
The last time I tried to make AI built a drag and drop UI, it failed miserably. Things wouldn't line up or even didn't work at all. Any tips for that?
bananzamba··on Music for Programming
In the morning I listen to chill electronic music without lyrics: Tycho, Emancipator, Blackmill, Jon Hopkins

Later in the day I listen to more energetic electronic music (a lot of which is from the Hotline Miami soundtrack): M|O|O|N, Dan Terminus, Carpenter Brut, Daniel Deluxe, 1788-L, Pendulum

bananzamba··on Music for Programming
Alive 2007
bananzamba··on Music for Programming
In Motion is my favorite productivity track as well. Most of the time I just listen to the whole The Social Network soundtrack
bananzamba··on Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)
So that is where Silicon Valley got the "Consider the X" running gag from.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KuVEbBmu1EM

bananzamba··on Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet
"Also, we’ve learned more about the bad effects of lighter-than-Earthly gravity on human bodies,"

How can he confidently use that argument when we don't have any data between 0g and 1g, other than 12 Apollo astronauts, that spend less than 3 days on the moon?

It might very well be that the 0.38g on Mars are sufficient to make many problems go away. The two simple facts of your blood being pulled downward and moving your body around taking effort could already fix a lot of the medical issues astronauts face in 0g.

bananzamba··on Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet
Of course that is true, every Mars enthusiast will agree. Not a single person is saying to leave Earth behind to rot. Agree with Mars proponents or not, but at least don't argue against strawmen. Their actual argument treats Mars as a backup strategy for humanity and a science outpost
bananzamba··on How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly
I had exactly the same question. In the linked tweet the CEO claims it's not an animation. But in the article they imply certain animations are played when a specific signal is detected.

I think a full simulation without these precreated animations would be more convincing that they actually fully simulated a fly's behavior. It's very easy to make it look like real behavior using animations, videogames do exactly that.

bananzamba··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
Malus Corporation = EvilCorp
bananzamba··on Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
Air quality will improve, just not CO2
bananzamba··on Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
I like how it runs out of ideas at the end and just changes the random seed
bananzamba··on 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)
I found some nice books in German paper recycling containers. Including a nice old etymology dictionary that I treasured
bananzamba··on Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015)
Almost the same game but in C++ was an assignment in my Software Development class. The last challenge had multiple elevators that each would only service specific floors. You were intended to do some kind of pathfinding to get all passengers to their destination in time. But I just tried multiple heuristics until one passed the hidden test set.
bananzamba··on The First Fully General Computer Action Model
Awesome! That will be very interesting
bananzamba··on The First Fully General Computer Action Model
Very impressive stuff!

Can you prompt it or is it strictly Copilot-style prediction?