iandanforth

"For instance, if landlords reflexively pass on costs (including holding costs like land value taxes) as higher rents, doesn’t that also imply they should cut rents when their costs decrease?"

Generally enjoyed this blog post, however this is either the most naive question, or worst strawman argument I've read in a long time.

If you need pseudo-originality I have a skill for that: https://github.com/iandanforth/force-associations

What is the scenario you're thinking about? This is kinda what happens with VLAs, the latent knowledge of an LLM can help in action generation pipelines, but it's also kinda slow.

FWIW scaling up from https://huggingface.co/avlp12/Qwen3.8-27B-Alis-MLX-6bit and some other sources:

You might expect the M5 Ultra to produce 50 t/s from Qwen 3.8 27B with a good context length.

Meanwhile in Norway much of this wouldn't matter because the accessed information would have been public anyway. The non-tax PII is still a loss of course.

The writing here seems very odd. It reads like a product announcement or blog page, not an article in Nature. I'm left questioning its validity.

I clicked away when it took ages to load the data.

No? This is just giving up and hoping.

I don't understand the 'custom patch' strategy over 'fix the app with a major version change' strategy.

I didn't understand how a black hole could pass through a star when I read this. I think of black holes as large. Apparently a primordial black hole can have the mass of an asteroid compressed into a space smaller than a proton. I also thought very small black holes evaporated quickly via Hawking radiation. I was wrong on the scale there too. A PBH with the mass of an asteroid can easily live for longer than the universe has been around. Something about the very very early universe let matter collapse into these things without the normal processes that form stellar sized black holes.

This article seems very one-sided, as do many others I looked through. The 'why' of people trying to cross seems to be totally ignored.

Very low quality sources say things like:

- The police are shipping people to the border

- These are all criminals that the police are letting get away so they don't have to deal with them

- People are fleeing the absolute monarchy and poor economic conditions

If anyone has any high quality sources about the above please post them!

Can you please do a separate post about your job? The technology sounds amazing and I'd love to know how AI is now interacting with this stack. Also, which firm? Might need a design soon!

Is it just me or does this read like a re-implementation of LSTMs?

The most interesting point of the article for me is that this vaccine appears to be a series of shots which act as a curriculum for the immune system. Each one slightly different and targeting a different stage of B-cell development. I've never thought of vaccine series working like that, so it was a new and impressive idea.

If true this is basically unforgivable. The wanton destruction of history is the stuff of the Third Reich and the Taliban. You simply cannot profess to care about knowledge, culture, or civilization while destroying the physical manifestations of the same.

Guess who's getting an air gap!

I have. They are not to my taste.

Here's a voice I really enjoy listening to. https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?search=zNsotODqUhvbJ...

If I could have Christopher Lee, or Stephen Fry, I would.

For a bit of context there are some classically very hard things going on in this video, so if you're not impressed, be glad you didn't have to try to build this 10 years ago.

- Coordinating two hands

- Mobile body

- Deformable objects

- Thin affordances (bag zip in particular)

- Multi-object single grasp

Really a host of things that had individually been tackled as either perception or manipulation problems and probably led to more than one person's PhD here on HN.

"Steel is one of the classic alloy examples: mostly iron with a dash of carbon and other elements, making it much stronger and harder than iron on its own."

Statements like this had me confused for years about how steel is made. Steel is raw iron ore with some carbon removed. (Among other things) Pure iron isn't common in nature, it's usually found instead with too much carbon. That is, to have the properties we like in steel.

The article sometimes makes it sound like this is a diagnostic tool but am I wrong in thinking it's a reference constructed from a small number of individuals?

Fight extremism with extremism I guess? Maybe we don't have to be either "world govt" or "help me get away with murder". It's ok to say things will be messy and complicated and that limited regulation is probably good even if we agree totalitarian control is bad.

Nice! Thanks for confirming. If the last instruction is 'go back to where you started' does it work?

Can we have less terrible voices please? Nothing that sounds like a bubbly millennial. Literally anything that has gravitas.

It's implied, and I'm hoping it's true, that this is a map-less navigation. Which is impressive. This kind of task is much easier if you have a pre-captured map of the environment, but if they are doing this without a map it's great. Historically you were always faced with "The Kidnapped Robot" problem where robots that didn't know where they were couldn't navigate even a little bit. Here the robot appears to be able to follow directions as long as they are interpretable from its current vision (or via dead reckoning).

Even though it said ""Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry in disguise?" it still estimates I know less than half the English vocabulary. Humbling.

Crazy, such memories. Thanks!

This is search. Please don't reinvent search with a new acronym.

Agents can use Google. They can also see all the same signals humans do to judge quality. Maybe there's a need for a specialized directory, but does it need a spec or an acronym? No.

Not a physician. Some observations on these statements.

The predicate is "given how we practice medicine and the limits of humans ability to interpret the imaging modalities we have."

The more specific predicate is "for my specialty would this replace or prove superior to the tools that I have?"

Both of these are totally reasonable, however the history of medicine, and science in general, is that creating new ways to look at things has a tendency to reveal information that we never knew we needed.

For example, for years I thought of blood sugar as something that was either in a good or bad range. Then I tried a continuous blood sugar monitor. The full picture of the body's response to specific foods that I ate was eye opening. There's so much more to learn when you get a higher resolution (temporal in that case) view into your body.

Another wonderfully hopeful example is the retinal imaging ML work done by google. A completely non-invasive image of the retina for diabetic issues, that also happened to be able to predict things like age, sex, smoking status, previous cardiac events and more! Just take high-res pictures of things! The body is interconnected in ways that you can infer from one system so much about others.

So while I don't think anything the Dr. said is "wrong", I think it represents a very common blinkered mindset of pragmatic practitioners who need to deliver reliable performance daily.

Funny you mention that, since that's what I pilot LLMs to build :)

Shutting down the growth prospects of a company based, not on its behavior, but on the capability of its models right before the IPOs of the companies you're going to profit from is staggeringly dumb. Yes the public is stupid when it comes to investing in stocks, but come on. If these companies growth prospects rest in large part on continuing to improve their products and the government said that if they do they face National Security Cease and Desist letters, then investing is a bad idea.

The selfish / corrupt thing to do is to do this after you've fleeced the public.