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jacknews··on Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters
That's just a guess.

Do you and your cat make better predictions than your friend without a cat?

jacknews··on Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters
Of course model predictions will be acted upon, which will invalidate the predictions.
jacknews··on How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?
Obviously it tricks a human, even if it can't hack the lab's rs423 or modbus or whatever network.
jacknews··on How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?
releasing it.

deliberately, instead of accidentally.

jacknews··on Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study
TY I was not aware of that, it sounds extremely useful.
jacknews··on Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study
Snap is a little intimidating compared to Scratch.

It's clearly designed for older students, but at that point some of the advantages of blocks are lost.

Most of these systems suffer from the 'canvas' model, where you have many stacks of blocks scattered around the canvas as they are created, possibly in no particular or logical order. It's difficult to find things or to get a good overview, and really becomes a navigation problem as projects get bigger. I think they would greatly benefit from a more traditional ide/file type structure, or some other way to structure 'stacks'.

jacknews··on Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety
I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty, and content, or the peace of unburied death, the choice is yours.
jacknews··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
So who is the original manufacturer of these readers?
jacknews··on The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax
Like a slavery index?

What if you spent 10 years building a business abroad?

I remember early in my career being send by my employer on 'contract' assignments to other companies for 3 or 6 months. When I left that company and went interviewing, everyone was extremely concerned that I had been an independent contractor, some even saying they never employed such people. As though, once you've broken the chains, you're no longer employable.

jacknews··on How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
It's perhaps the least-efficient method of dealing with collisions, in keeping with the rest of his project, lol, but less code.

He researched different methods. My favourite for elegance is to recursively hash the hash n times.

jacknews··on How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
Only passingly related, some fun rust stack-allocation insanity by my 17yo son:

https://ogghostjelly.github.io/slog/alloca.html

jacknews··on Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug
Maybe the extra sex is the main benefit?
jacknews··on Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
woah 4 years is considered obsolete?

My kids still using thinkpad 430 from 2013

jacknews··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Trump literally just paid money (taxpayer money) for nothing
jacknews··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Texae surely
jacknews··on Discovery Loop
"making solar energy economical"

judging by the amount being installed, it already is.

jacknews··on Show HN: For 10 World Cups, my model's 2 favorites had the champion every time
The FIFA-planned game schedule is also surprising. Argentina have not had to face a single 'big' contender through the tournament, until now.
jacknews··on Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
By 'advance' I meant 'a further exploration', moving on to something new, not necessarily better.

But it seems like we're just going back to a previous time.

jacknews··on Show HN: Analog Watch
I don't disagree you should improve your skills. but I don't think your app is optimized for that.

But, ok you're the gamemaker, then well done building something, and I hope people enjoy it.

For me, an analogue watch is good for giving you an extremely glance-able approximate time. And potentially as exquisite mechanical jewellery. If you need to know the really exact time to the second and want to be able to tell it quickly, you might be better with a digital watch, especially vs a mechanical watch where a mickey-mouse digital is more accurate than even a COSC mechanical.

But my initial point is that your game is not so much about recognizing the time, even the exact time, but about entering it into the keypad.

Maybe add a multiple-choice mode - show the analogue clocks, pick the digital match.

jacknews··on Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
We've got used to 'reasonable' society and politics in the last few centuries, but check out politics in developing nations or dictatorships, or woke, or Trump or places like pageantry. All fake news and gossip and performance, and AI just makes this potentially much much worse.

It already has a name in academia I think, post-truth, or post-reality or whatever, I think it all started with the French post-modernism thing, then critical theory, etc.

But I'm not sure it's a post- 'advance' at all, but more like a rejection of the enlightenment and a return to the tribal village.

jacknews··on Show HN: Analog Watch
Then just show them the watch, or look at your phone or whatever.

How often do you need the exact time, and don't have a means to get it, like in tv broadcasting etc?

jacknews··on Show HN: Analog Watch
lol, this completely misses the point of analogue watches or clocks.

It should be called 'keypad data entry game' instead.

The point of an analogue clock is that it gives you an instant sense of the rough time at a glance. I can immediately see it's 'about half past' or 'only a few minutes left until the meeting at 11' or whatever.

jacknews··on Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
Semple's humorous long-form performance art, pillorying Kapoor, while developing a menagerie of new pigments, is much more interesting than Kapoor's sculptures.

Anyone could have made at least the same with the given material, and a more talented artist could stun, but sadly they are not allowed to because contract.

jacknews··on Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
Also erase stars.
jacknews··on Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas
It actually does work for a whole range of things.

Is it a panacea? Of course not, but it is potentially a sustainable business.

Except - open models are barely months away from the same performance and there is no moat, so we will see commodity pricing, and the billions being heaped on the fire currently will probably not see a return, unless someone comes up with a genius trading bot perhaps.

jacknews··on Why Won't Europe Build AI Data Centers in Iceland?
The whole idea of a 'sovereign' data center is that it is under your control and jurisdiction, and you can protect it.

Iceland is not an EU member, and is remote. What happens if Trump decides Iceland should be a US state?

jacknews··on Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
The first example only tells me that the energy is dependent on your frame of reference, since the collision seen from the train appears to have more energy than the head-on collision, simply due to the moving viewpoint, whereas they must be the same.
jacknews··on Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom
Surely the roots, if we skip over the early preceptron work', are in backpropagation and Hinton, and the work going on at Edinburgh and elsewhere in the 80s.

Indeed I remember buying a set of three conference-papers-as-books around that time, titled Artificial Neural Networks .. proceedings of the whatever the conference was.

No doubt Schmidhuber made important contributions, but I see him pop up claiming to be the 'root' of it all every couple of years.

jacknews··on The 2-Year Apartment Rule
I think the rule applies to far more than apartments.
jacknews··on Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity
But also, there are no ants. Everything is made of table-cloth.
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