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basyt··on Atlas Mehs
Not even a shrug, just endless burnout.
basyt··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
just finance things. nothing to see here...
basyt··on OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
i would rather be incorrectly diagnosed by a doctor than have chudgpt treat me.
basyt··on A hallucination engine. Typed pseudorandom data via LLM
A hallucination engine. Typed pseudorandom data via Anthropic API. MCP server.
basyt··on Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead
the western mind cannot comprehend kinship...
basyt··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
he doesn't control his own future... chatgpt implodes in 18 months max depending upon how the strait of hormuz play goes...
basyt··on Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
yeah lol no shit. lets not get bothered by reactionaries...
basyt··on In the Beginning Was the Backslash
It was. Each and every word. Somehow missed adding my AI policy. Fixed.
basyt··on How I Wrote the Screenplay for “Arrival” and What I Learned Doing It
you mean \documentclass{screenplay} :P
basyt··on Time Management at Khan Academy
whats type A?
basyt··on Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft
> Not to mention many of the people on welfare.

Woah, slow down tiger :)

More seriously, please elaborate. Or maybe I am just a bleeding heart.

basyt··on #Love: Virtually No Sex
That was just a bit too much for me. Bionic people would still be using condoms - that is just common sense.

Also, will women still be getting pregnant in vivo? Because if so, then 'because bioengineering' wouldn't be sufficient protection from the hollow mutant zombie babies that would be produced (as a side effect of all the _bioengineering_)

basyt··on #Love: Virtually No Sex
depends on how representative the sample is? But yeah, a few thousand _might_ be good enough if you are able to pick sufficiently randomly - but still from each representative class!
basyt··on Why Probabilistic Programming Matters
seemingly the program is also run backwards. so maybe it will try coins with various biases until it determines the model that gives the fair flipping?

i am speaking from what i gathered reading the article and the other comments. seems pretty interesting to me.

basyt··on Why Probabilistic Programming Matters
The buzzwording was strong in that article. I am not an expert, but I will be looking at this in the future.
basyt··on The hack that saved the astronauts of the Apollo XIII
[x] duct tape

McGyver didn't lie.

basyt··on Is that whole gamification thing really over?
I didn't read the article but I am going to read your thesis. I have a question: Is it possible to have enterprise gamification? What should be the end goals - the achievements so to speak?

Isn't the whole idea of gamification(an idealization that didn't quite happen I guess) is to make crud work seem like fun? But, then, wouldn't repetition of the same joyless task be mundane to the point of being Sisyphean? I agree that a game achievement is fun to get but archiving mail day after day would get old pretty fast(I think).

And as a grad student myself I must ask, have you considered the possibility of gamification systems in academe(school in general)? I guess that's what the trophies(and convocations) are for, right?

basyt··on Google Dumps MapReduce in Favor of New Hyper-Scale Analytics System
Its fundamentally the same thing as MapReduce isn't it? Can someone explain the differences to me please? There isn't much of use in the article
basyt··on The Sprawling, Booming LA Tech Scene Is Having a Moment
> “The broader mindset here is not just code,” said Bill Gross, the well-known serial entrepreneur and founder of an incubator called Idealab. “We have engineers with taste.”

Shots fired.

basyt··on How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010)
Nobody's heard of Hy then?

https://github.com/hylang/tryhy

basyt··on Amazon to deliver by drone? Don't believe the hype
I am not trying to be obstructive or distract the discussion - but it occurs to me that anyone can shoot down the drone and retrieve valuable artifacts that are being transported.

How would you safeguard against that?

basyt··on Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History
I think the most important lesson is that traditional economists are just going to have to learn to live with the fact that their theories don't explain bitcoins.

or they might just be kicking themselves for not buying coins sooner. lol.

basyt··on A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail
Is Hadas going to be disappoint when Bitcoin touches 10k :P
basyt··on Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots
Hey, Oxford Dictionary here is your word for 2014.

I feel sad for people who think mechanized dildos bots are a good enough substitute for sex.

I hope I never get that jaded - or desperate :)

basyt··on Show HN: An open source note-taking app that respects your privacy
If the creator shared this, I give you full marks! I like this app, it is simple and it encrypts my stuff, so all is well.

But I have a Feature Request: In a further version, it should be possible to organize notebooks into folders(like Evernote)and my move from Evernote shall be complete!

basyt··on 14 Year old Thiel Fellow creates his own nuclear fusion plant [video]
I think there is a lot of sensationalization, because teens aren't really expected to do much while they are teens and you do something like this - then catch words like wizkid and wonder boy or whatever get thrown around - "he certainly has shown the stupid scientists spending billions of dollars building a fusion reactor!"

fact of the matter is - today there is just so much information available on the net that you can pretty much build a 3d-printer or a cat scanner or whatever else you fancy at your home.

the bar for being a genius has significantly lowered since the 90s.

basyt··on Show HN: Fully-featured Nil interpreter in less than 1 line of JavaScript
I fully endorse this, these posts were getting a bit ridiculous.
basyt··on This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan
Yeah, I agree. here I am watching the ad, getting all emotional (I have some family in Pakistan, who moved their out of their own volition frankly) and I suddenly realize, wow I fell for this nauseatingly sweet ad!

You got me (almost) Google. And since when did they start showing ads in India?

basyt··on The Only Sure Thing In Computer Science
true for all branches of engineering. pretty much holds for all of life.
basyt··on Try Hy
effin' finally. now to do some serious lisping!
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