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dudisubekti··on Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech
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They've been making their own 5g phones since 2023 (mate 60)

dudisubekti··on Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech
What a strange sarcasm, nobody's forcing Qualcomm to do this.
dudisubekti··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
Lol what? Have you seen actual shilled threads?

Check GPT-6 thread for example, now that's Astra-turfed lol.

dudisubekti··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
The archive guy actually called Wikipedia on this lol.

Like if a very infamous site, KiwiFarms can have their own archiving engine, why cant multimillion dollar site like Wikipedia can't? He's absolutely correct that Wikipedia is a freeloader that doesnt want to deal with copyright.

However, I'm not sure if the archive guy is paying it out of his own pocket. It's a massive ad-free site servicing tons of requests everyday, and it has a very impressive technical abilities.

That has to be quite expensive, like he must've some seriously rich sponsors. And his sponsors might be okay with Wikipedia using the site, but this is all just my guess lol.

In the end, it's also perfectly valid for him to refuse servicing Wikipedia: it's his site.

dudisubekti··on As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'
Im a bit Darwinistic on this, like if a system can be disrupted easily, it means there are existing weaknesses that need to be addressed (taxis vs Uber, hotels vs Airbnb).

If the established system can adapt to the disruption, then as consumers we have more choices.

If the established system dies and the disruptor replaced it (DVD rental vs Netflix), then the disruptor, despite their weaknesses, do answer the consumer needs better.

If both the established and disruptive system dies, then maybe they're not that important in the first place.

dudisubekti··on As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'
I mean that's just how life is? Exploit opportunities when they appear, find new ones when they run out.
dudisubekti··on There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
But then we can't claim "There is no epidemic of loneliness" without proper data too. The honest (shame this word is ruined by LLMs) conclusion is "we don't know if there's an epidemic of loneliness," which can go either way: either there really is no epidemic of loneliness, or is undetected.
dudisubekti··on There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
This "loneliness" part of this article is confusing to me.

> People are more alone than ever, but they’re not feeling much lonelier than they used to. So maybe all this extra solitude is...fine?

Okay but the data examined for "more alone" is US data with unclear age range (most likely adults). But the data examined for "not feeling much lonelier" is UK data and US school teenager data. I feel like there's a massive blind spot with the fact there's no US adult data...?

dudisubekti··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
I had a favorite benchmark, SWE-rebench, but sadly it's no longer maintained.

But yeah, I'll just take these benchmarks with a grain of salt. Only hands-on experience matters in the end, and these days it's very easy to switch models.

dudisubekti··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Artificialanalysis benchmark is a combination of a several benchmarks which might or might not represent realistic coding:

"Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index combines performance across 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, and AA-LCR v1.1."

Not saying it doesnt have any value but it's probably irrelevant if you use these AIs for a specific use case. Like for example Humanity Last Exam tests general knowledge, which is not very useful for coding.

It's best to go to the specific coding benchmarks and compare there.

dudisubekti··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
Well I kind of get why he really doesn't want to be identified, because of all those copyright infringements. The moment he steps in the West, he could be arrested.

But despite this I feel like what he did was very counterproductive to this goal. If he did nothing, people would just forget about it. Wikipedia would still use his service because they don't want to deal with copyright.

Besides if western intelligence really wants to find this guy, they could probably do it without the journalist's help.

dudisubekti··on PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022)
https://gwern.net/nicotine

This one?

It seems to be listing the pros and cons of nicotine and is well-sourced...

What "damage" do you see caused by this article?

dudisubekti··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
Yeah, the archive guy should just leave the blog alone instead of triggering Streissand effect lol
dudisubekti··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
https://web.archive.org/web/20260920061809/https://reclaimth...

Vs

https://archive.is/2YdN9

One has paywall, one doesn't...

Sorry man, people will keep DDoSing some random guy's blog. It's a service problem lol

dudisubekti··on The Future Belongs to the Weird
Thing is they keep creating castes to the point there are too many of them to manage in modern times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_castes

dudisubekti··on TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings
I agree. Most of the life-changing content I've consumed has been either freely available (in the public domain or online) or a one-time-purchase, ad-free book.
dudisubekti··on The Future Belongs to the Weird
> but the general rule for the vast majority of the population was: don't be weird, or get killed.

I suspect this is a very Eurocentric view. Take India for a counter-example, it has always been full of weirdoes starting their own cults.

dudisubekti··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Going straight to surveillance and unable to think "nicer" ways... is strange.

1. process graphs and charts

2. process handwritten math formula, also chinese characters writings

3. process design sketch and wireframe

4. process scanned documents

... etc

in fact these transformer models currently suck for surveillance, too slow and expensive. There are already faster and better facial/gait/object recognition models out there.

dudisubekti··on It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use
Culture of contempt is the name of the game: being outraged all the time is tiring, and tired people are easier to control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrage_industrial_complex

dudisubekti··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
I mean yeah, of course. We don't need as much as fiber as gorilla.

My point is just modern diet is severely lacking in fiber, when our gut evolved to process them.

It's not a surprise this evolutionary mismatch will cause so many problems in our body.

dudisubekti··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Fair but resistant starch that we're speaking of behave more like soluble fiber:

https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/carbohydrates/fiber...

> Resistant starch – Soluble fermentable fiber found in legumes, unripe bananas, cooked and cooled pasta, and potatoes that acts as a prebiotic. Adds bulk to stools but has minimal laxative effect. May help to normalize blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

For stronger studies, these guys have you covered: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559033/

dudisubekti··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Good thing we're not just assuming, we're actually studying it too: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559033/

Also savannah human diet is chock full of fiber too: baobab pulp, grass seeds, tuber plants, etc

dudisubekti··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
I hope you're not being serious, but they're not "supplements", they're food. You can easily get them from fruits and vegetables.

While they're not essential in short-term survival, they're essential for long-term health:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559033/

We have enough peer-reviewed studies on this.

dudisubekti··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
> not generalizable

But there's already a general advise on this: eat more fiber.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/08/hunter-gather...

We're a great ape, our body evolved to process a lot of fiber from fruits and starches. It's the modern fiber-deficient diet that's really weird.

90g/day of fiber is similar to the Hadza tribe diet, where they can consume 100-150g of fiber per day.

dudisubekti··on First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists
If it's any consolation, people tend to get their sh*t together after they're tired of everything around them failing.

China basically experienced this last century, collectively asking themselves "maybe we shouldn't suck this bad??"

dudisubekti··on First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists
> demoralizing

Why? China could do their own thing, and your country can do yours.

dudisubekti··on The Water Footprint of AI
I... don’t follow?

LLMs rely on many core AI concepts and techniques: neural networks, backpropagation, transformer inference, etc. An LLM is essentially an implementation of AI.

The term AI has been around since 1955, and has been used by the academics ever since then.

You might not like ChatGPT and co, but they're definitely AIs lol, at least in academic sense.

dudisubekti··on The Water Footprint of AI
lol no, if this is the case then we would have banned beef: a grossly inefficient protein source that takes absurd amount of energy and water, and produce significant greenhouse gas waste. We would also ban disposable cheap goods.

Yet we don't.

If people don't like AI, they should just say so, no need to skirt around.

dudisubekti··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Gpt 5.6 Luna cache read is $0.02 per mtok

V4 flash cache read is $0.0028 per mtok

That's not "a bit cheaper", just saying

dudisubekti··on IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides' Melian Dialogue

Given how clownish the US is handling this war, I'm afraid you just have to get used to it.

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