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quantumwoke··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
It's so rare in adults it's got the cute name maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY).
quantumwoke··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Some observations:

1. It seems at least possible that some of the proof of NS was contained in the training data, making it less novel.

2. The formalisation of mathematics into lean has been an underappreciated force multiplier on discovery.

quantumwoke··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
The named OAI employee has released a statement: https://xcancel.com/SebastienBubeck/status/20973794116915163...
quantumwoke··on ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
I was six months ahead of vo.codes, well aware. Anyway, UGC was a good pivot and wish you all the best.
quantumwoke··on ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
You were a year behind 15.ai with FakeYou. I know, because I was six months ahead of you and didn't execute in time. Momentum is everything.
quantumwoke··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
As explained to me, the notes are verbose and do not focus on actionable parts of the consultation. Doctors often have to add a lot of missing detail for legal reasons and if they had to tweak the output through multiple LLMs they would have even less time for their consults.
quantumwoke··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
Not for code, but my wife is a doctor and has gone from using AI scribes back to manually typing out notes and has multiple friends who've done the same. Turns out the gains were eroded by having to check the work and turn verbose prose into an actual note.
quantumwoke··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
Feels like Fable's edge ended up just being long horizon task scaling, which post-training seems to achieve as seen here. Wonder what the next frontier is? Improvement in specialised tasks or computer use?
quantumwoke··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
Just a small meta note: most of the comments in this thread appear to be posting their own codebase (typically AI-generated) that accomplishes the same goal. It's interesting that this problem is simultaneously in high demand and yet considered trivial enough to vibe code per-user solutions to it.
quantumwoke··on Muse Spark 1.1
It's his job, and this is advertising (he is very good at native advertising on HN).
quantumwoke··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
And what about the rest of the world? I can't imagine US partners will abide this for long.
quantumwoke··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
This is for the preview period, but it's not a good sign. Opus 4.8 may be the last frontier model available to the masses...
quantumwoke··on Claude Fable 5
Variations of this comment have been posted for over a year. The pelican has now morphed into part of HN culture rather than a legitimate benchmark, but it's still valuable as a meme.
quantumwoke··on Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
Exactly my experience. I don't even use em dashes as a signal these days, the sentence structure is enough.
quantumwoke··on The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
This is terrifying, but I couldn't help myself from frustration at the LLM writing that only worsened over the course of the post. Bloggers, it's not subtle. Please, stop, or at least disclose it.
quantumwoke··on Refuse to let your doctor record you
It's not just transcribing text, there is also a post processing step to turn it from an interview transcript into an actionable summary.
quantumwoke··on Refuse to let your doctor record you
A pretty insightful viewpoint I heard recently from a doctor friend: doctors and hospitals believe that only a corporation could possibly implement this, so they fall into the SaaS trap and lose data sovereignty.

Under the hood, a lot of the companies are Llama or Gemma wrappers connected to whisper.

quantumwoke··on Refuse to let your doctor record you
It's crazy that the hospitals justify this approach. The major scribes are literally connecting Llama to Whisper and that's it.
quantumwoke··on Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages
It's sad that I didn't see any languages on your website from Australia, where there are hundreds of languages that need translating.
quantumwoke··on BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
There's a lot of people in this thread that don't seem to have caught up with the fact that AMD has worked very hard on their cuda translation layer and for the most part it just works now, you can build cuda projects on amd just fine on modern hardware/software.
quantumwoke··on Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss
Can you give some examples of immune overreach that are improved?
quantumwoke··on Vouch
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961
quantumwoke··on I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor
Those efforts were for diseases without treatment. But, prolactinomas already have treatment (surgery plus medication). I always ask myself what is the desired outcome from research effort - in this case it seems to be an attempt to cure/totally eradicate a prolactinoma, which would require hundreds of millions of dollars and custom medication (probably immune checkpoint inhibitors) to do, and this disease already has a treatment available.
quantumwoke··on I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor
I'm confused by this post because it seems like his partner got best therapy possible with two surgeries followed by medications without going blind or having other major hormonal issues which can happen after surgery. As correctly stated in this thread prolactinomas aren't a death sentence or even (technically) a brain tumour, and the major risks have been avoided so far. What exactly is being accomplished by a VC deeply researching this case beyond satisfying the valid desire to help your life partner?
quantumwoke··on Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries
There are actually a lot of freely available medical articles on PubMed. Agree about the proliferation of lower quality journals and articles necessitating manual restrictions on citations.
quantumwoke··on Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries
It's crazy to me that somewhere along the way we lost physical media as a reference point. Journals and YouTube can be good sources of information, but unless heavily confined to high quality information current AI is not able to judge citation quality to come up with good recommendations. The synthesis of real world medical experience is often collated in medical textbooks and yet AI doesn't cite them nearly as much as it should.
quantumwoke··on Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows
I think this summary is reductive, because it ignores the surprisingly dense layers of middle management in hospitals and clinics that are paid more than the medical professionals (and even that ignores external middle managers like PBMs etc).
quantumwoke··on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
Nope: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1p0huk5/pebble_rebb...
quantumwoke··on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
For some additional context, the screenshotted Rebble board member has commented here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1p0huk5/pebble_rebb...

Looks like they were not consulted by Eric before this post.

quantumwoke··on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
Developer time?
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