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michaeljx··on OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out
Knowing something is proven true is knowledge, even if the mechanics of the proof are not understood.
michaeljx··on Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage
Like the good nepotistic society we are
michaeljx··on AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxy
Have your MCP talk to my MCP
michaeljx··on Flock CEO Apologizes for Calling Activists 'Terrorists'
It is insane to me that US allows a private entity to video and catalogue individuals on any pubic space they want. In my country (EU), you are not allowed to point a security camera on a public space, to the point where evidence from such cameras are inadmissible to court
michaeljx··on GTA 6 will cost $80
If it lives up to the hype it will definitely recoup the expense.
michaeljx··on Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
METEOR STRIKE IN 8 MINUTES
michaeljx··on David Sacks on Anthropic export control
might be easier to align the super intelligence than Trump
michaeljx··on I hate soldering
Nice iron,a good clamping set-up, and a high-quality correctly specked (to the task) solder make all the difference
michaeljx··on When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality
Accept that you lost. Apologize for the mistake. Pay a few billions for repatriations, lift sanctions and open dialogue. But engaging into a multi-year trillion war is more likely, than accepting defeat upfront
michaeljx··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
My mind went to K&P rap confession skit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs
michaeljx··on Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020)
Any recommendations on pre-cut wiring kits?
michaeljx··on "Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?"
I ve modified my ZigBee bathroom led light. Replaced the daughterboard with an esp32, integrated a humidity sensor and a presence sensor, another rely and a power circuit, and I now have a bathroom light that lights up automatically when someone is in the room, and turns on the extractor only if the humidity is a ove a certain level.

I ve done all this by taking photos of the circuits and asking Gemini how to do it.

michaeljx··on Non-Zero-Sum Games
Look into cooperative game theory. If I remember correctly, trust is modelled as a way of exchanging information and influencing the probabilities that other players place on your next action
michaeljx··on YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same
It's part of the parental responsibility to provide enough structure and instill enough discipline to your kids so that they grow to be complete persons. Sure it will be nice if social media was restricted like tobacco, and I am sure one day it will, but you can't relegate all responsibility for everything to the state. I don't want to live in a bubble wrapped society for the sake of the children.
michaeljx··on YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same
I am sure the coca-cola boss limits his kids soft drink consumption too.
michaeljx··on The Death of Arduino?
I've been programming esp32 connected with soil moisture sensors and solenoid valves to water each individual pot of plants according to its own readings, instead of having a centrally controlled irrigation system. Overkill, I know, but with a cost of 8-10usd per set up it is not expensive
michaeljx··on Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment
Don't know about mRNA but individualized remedies based on CAR-T technology have been making significant strides in this area, with major commercialisation expected in the next 1-2 years
michaeljx··on Humanely dealing with humungus crawlers
For some reason I thought this would be about dealing with very large insects
michaeljx··on A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes
I am doing my movie selection via Plex, which has both tomatoes' and IMDb scores in the movie description
michaeljx··on Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
You grossly underestimate the pettiness and pedantry of those involved
michaeljx··on Ask HN: Earth's Pulse
Thank you
michaeljx··on Mr. Secretary, Reclassify the Statin
My layman take is that like the oil in your car, there is a minimum value you need to be above, and a maximum value you need to stay below. Statin is for treating people that are above the max, so that they drop within acceptable range. Not for lowering the cholesterol to be a slow as possible
michaeljx··on Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper
I was in a similar boat with my scrapers. Started with Selenium 5-6 years ago and only discovered Playwright 2 years ago. Spend a month or so swapping the two, which was well worth it. Cleaner API, async support.
michaeljx··on You sent the message, but did you write it?
I "prompt prong", i.e pass all the AI emails that I receive through an AI and ask it to write a response. At what point do we get the 2 AIs to email each other directly, without as bio-agents having to pretend that we wrote/read them?
michaeljx··on Engineers Who Won't Commit
Exactly. I think both parties (him and his VP) are now realising that maybe this person will be happier/better suited as an IC
michaeljx··on Engineers Who Won't Commit
Thinking about this more. I guess my n=5 observation is that committal engineers tend to have specific expectations about the performance of their teammates, and hence produce similarly performing teams to them
michaeljx··on Engineers Who Won't Commit
We have 5 different engineering teams in our company.

The 4 are being led by benevolent-dictator-type of engineers, the 5th by a person extremely non-commital. This person avoids exerting any technically authority, so as not to disturb the team's balance. All decisions are made democratically, all votes being equal regardless experience/seniority. Same goes when being called for estimates.

Two of the 4 teams have become so big and independent, that the dictator-leads no longer need to participate in the d2d operations/decisions, to the point where they now work mostly on individual RnD projects.

The other 2 are small specialized teams, whose members have become domain experts in specific areas, to the point that they can talk with the business and move on development, with little need of interaction with their lead, and absolutely no need for a PM/PO layer.

The only team that struggles to perform is the one with the non-commital lead. It became so bad, that the current discussion is to dissolve the team, and have it's members/responsibilities be absorbed by the 2 big ones.

michaeljx··on Ask HN: Why is Generative AI non-deterministic
A ok got it, the next token is sampled from a deterministic probability distribution, hence the random output. But why not get the token with the highest probability/weight? Is this to avoid some local minima?
michaeljx··on Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum, fails early in first stage flight
Does the flight termination system consist of the rocket free-falling into the ground resulting in a fiery explosion?
michaeljx··on The FBI's lab leak investigation
There was a very fun debate on this, summarised nicely here[1]. Two parties took opposing positions on lab leak theory, with 2 independent expert judges (accepted by both participants). Loser had to pay the winner 100K USD

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-r...

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