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stevenalowe

772 karma · joined April 1, 2014

consultant, software architect/developer, musician, science fiction, author, ex-ThoughtWorker, Xoogler, retired
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stevenalowe··on Trump Signs Epstein Files Bill After Fight Straining Party Unity
427-1 house Unanimous senate Wow
stevenalowe··on Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares
What sounds?
stevenalowe··on 40% of young U.S. women want to leave the country: Gallup poll
It can’t be because the current administration treats them like cattle, could it?
stevenalowe··on CXOs suck at remote work so they mandate everyone for an in-office culture
The article seems to be disconnected from the title
stevenalowe··on Man Who Cryogenically Froze Late Wife Sparks Debate by Dating New Partner
“Late” == “deceased” so what’s the problem? Coffin or Freezer, still dead.
stevenalowe··on [dead]
“…variable-length integer parsing”

Lol

stevenalowe··on Taking prenatal supplements associated with 30% lower risk of autism
Meta-study also concluded Multivitamins give 34% improvement but no mention of controlling for genetic factors, age of parents, etc
stevenalowe··on Gov. Abbott's office redacts pages of emails about Elon Musk
Which is why I downvoted your off-topic diatribe :)
stevenalowe··on Ask HN: Are LLMs just the right-brain?
Yes I know how they work, the question is why they can’t self-evaluate
stevenalowe··on Ask HN: Are LLMs just the right-brain?
Of course, using left/right brain as an analogy. Read it as A/B brain pairs like Minsky’s society of mind if you prefers. Bag of experts under the hood doesn’t matter if the whole spews nonsense. Right now, we check the output, the model does not check itself
stevenalowe··on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
This feels like instructions for masking
stevenalowe··on Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares
ASMR FTW

Well done!

stevenalowe··on Ancient rock circles in California park defy explanation
No they don’t seems pretty obvious

“Archaeologists suggest that the rock circles may have been created by Indigenous hunters as a temporary place to sleep.”

stevenalowe··on High Levels of THC Associated with Psychiatric Disorders
from the article -

"Two reviewers independently selected studies with high-concentration THC defined as greater than 5 mg or greater than 10% THC per serving or labeled as “high-potency concentrate,” “shatter,” or “dab.”"

Two reviewers who apparently knew very little about THC dosages.

"Ninety-nine studies (221 097 participants) were included...; more than 95% had moderate or high risk of bias."

Or cared about evidence quality.

Who funded this?

"Primary Funding Source: Colorado General Assembly, House Bill 21-1317."

Ah. The People of Colorado. I wonder if they know?

stevenalowe··on Dan Brown: The human species has never created a technology it hasn't weaponized
Supposedly someone(s) tried to assassinate Miyamoto Musashi by trapping him in the bath
stevenalowe··on Doge is suggesting an AI tool that puts half of federal regs on a 'delete list'
"The tool is targeting regulations that are no longer required by law..."

seems reasonable - I wonder if a similar approach could identify laws no longer required by reality, laws/regulations that have no or negative effects, and/or laws/regs that are obsoleted by more recent laws/regs/rulings.

stevenalowe··on Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
immobile toy https://huggingface.co/blog/reachy-mini
stevenalowe··on Physicists Found the Ghost Haunting the Most Famous Particle Accelerator
tldr; it's resonance
stevenalowe··on Unsafe sax: study of impact of too much sax on the mortality of jazz musicians (1999)
a poorly-written and ill-designed pseudo-study for no apparent reason other than having "unsafe sax" in the title

the hypothetical culprit is a technique called circular breathing, but no evidence was presented that the musicians studied even used the technique, which is only required for playing very long legato passages without stopping to breathe

stevenalowe··on Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
if only he had spent 101 days...
stevenalowe··on Is gravity evidence of a computational universe?
Imma go with No.
stevenalowe··on Waymo recalls 1,200 robotaxis following low-speed collisions with gates, chains
"recall" seems a bit dramatic for a software update?
stevenalowe··on VR Design Unpacked: The Secret to Beat Saber's Fun Isn't What You Think
good examples of the notion of 'instructed motion' as a separable design element, and how this drives players' emotions
stevenalowe··on Google to embrace MCP
isn't that exactly how the Master Control Program started?
stevenalowe··on First-in-the-nation bill would let students live in cars
The actual article is at https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/13/ca-students-living-...
stevenalowe··on Google to embrace MCP
Master Control Program?
stevenalowe··on Object oriented programming deemed irrelevant
as is this article
stevenalowe··on Billionaires Have Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
lol yes that is the intention, i should have said "will never work as pretended"
stevenalowe··on What would it take for Bitcoin to fail?
fail to what, exactly?

so far it's failed to produce anything of actual value, but has been tremendously successful in consuming enormous quantities of electricity, suckers' money, and crypto-bro brain cells

stevenalowe··on Billionaires Have Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
The larger lesson here is that soak-the-rich laws will never, ever work as intended.
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