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vinaigrette··on Academia as a d-index measuring contest
Interesting article and methodology. I wish you could play with the ranking features to see how the ranking evolves.

I didn't know Kevin Munger. You could definitely seen regarding his field and publications why he would weight 25% of the score to the methodology citations though. Which is partly why his index is very flawed, seeing how qualitative endeavors would be squashed (Qualitative methodologies being very dependant on context). Maybe it does bridge a gap between disciplines that are quantitatively oriented ; STEM and social sciences. The humanities would be nowhere though.

It does beg the question of rankings to begin with ... A dean should know better than to statsmaxx (note the irony).

vinaigrette··on How AI is breaking the British state
No : rights were put in place because poor people struggled to get them ; the governments then placed hurdle to "control" expenses. On garanteeing housing, the only thing that works to get people out of the streets is state controlled housing. But maybe getting things built is more important ?
vinaigrette··on How AI is breaking the British state
Controlling real estate supply should be in every local government playbook.
vinaigrette··on Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
Great memory, great reference!
vinaigrette··on Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard
I don't know you but I doubt you're largely responsible for the climate crisis. What I mean is that the "we" is a unsteerable concept. As such, I don't consider myself responsible. I do as much as my limited power lets me (also i guess I could resort myself to more potent ways of political expression). People that have power are responsible.
vinaigrette··on People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more
What do you mean by "go" ? Talk ?
vinaigrette··on Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
I must say right of the bat this is the best research paper/working paper in regards to its styling. Beautiful
vinaigrette··on Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
I wonder if submerged system with coolant could mitigate this ?
vinaigrette··on RamenHaus
What's crazy is that there is a shot in the car where a guy is reading to the driver ! Never have I seen that elsewhere, but what a brilliant idea !
vinaigrette··on The great wealth transfer reality check
I was equally stunt, but get this : Visa wants to know how much people are going to spend using their services. This is not a sound socio-economic analysis of the wealth transfer. I think overall few people read this type of report.

Instead, it gives insight on a phenomenon that is expected to be an "event". They show that it's going to be gradual, that it already started. Maybe it is a way to inform potential investors in Visa ? Maybe it is a report intended for the business side customers (i.e. commerces) ? I don't know.

Plus, it gives an interesting insight on how the "_real_" economy is still a topic of research where every discourse seem to be on financial performances. I found it interesting after having a repulsed reaction to what I considered a grossly irrelevant account of socio-economic dynamics of the so called "great wealth transfer" (horrible name), like you.

vinaigrette··on Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?
This is great. I suck, considering how much I like anthropology and history ... Would be nice to have access to other museum collections, considering the Met has a bias in collecting from such and such nation (at least i'm pretty sure, maybe less than the british museum ?). Anyway, I had a blast :).
vinaigrette··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
I generated a very stylish Pelican using the webapp. Hard to put a judgement on it relative to yours https://share.gemini.google/XSfmve2mEGDV
vinaigrette··on The kids with phones are alright
Maybe the problem is power
vinaigrette··on GPT‑Live
Fair question, although I think he really has a hard time living with it ...
vinaigrette··on Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API
I'm surprised at the low rate every model manages considering the (apparent) ease of the benchmarked document. Can your pipeline produce ground truth as a byproduct ? How do you think open-weight ocr models compare to the one showcased ? I've had good results with glm-ocr on complex documents (complex by their handwriting, pretty easy layouts).

What I like about your solution is the traceability of the information. A scruffy pipeline I used was gemini-flash 3.0 to pdf to notebook-lm (really amateurish work i know), but it yielded tremendeous time gains to extract info from documents (that could be borderline impossible to read for me). However, to trace back the info was obviously very tedious. But from my experience, notebooklm can now manage ocr/htr without a third party. I wonder how competitive your solution might be compared to messy workflows that work -- albeit with efforts -- but let's the researcher be "in contact" with the material.

What I really want is obviously an easy to setup local rag system, with the (very) light model that goes with it ... sweet dream.

vinaigrette··on Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API
This looks great for digital humanities, specifically archival work. Would love to try it.
vinaigrette··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
Some of the points you are making are great. I would however argue that a small group of people trading is still an economy albeit a shrunk one. But what I believe the point the author is making is the following : consumption based economy isn't required to an economy. In some aspect, I believe that it is false : we are *required* to have a bunch of strictly unnecessary stuff to survival (cellphones and data plans being one example) to be considered as a functionnal human being (pretty much everywhere in the planet at that). I also believe that he points out something that is true however : most people have been unable to partake in consumption society (see Lewis' 1954 article on unlimited supply of labor) for a long time. This, and chronic unemployement that appeared in the 70's, showed that a 2 speed economy is possible, even preferable for the capitalists ; and what was limited to the global south at Lewis' time (though some more recent historical work tend to disagree) is happening in the North. My conclusion would be that the acceleration of inequalities to the point of "uneconomicness" of a large part of the population is what the author points out to be a "peopleless economy". I personnaly found the article to be stimulating, even with its many shortcuts. What I make of your points are less a contradiction but a optimistic point of view of the situation : secession of the capitalists mean freedom for the rest. But empirical observation show that ressources being limited (although standalone freedom being unacceptable as well for them), auto-organization is confronted with the armed forces mentionned in the article.

Also, enterprises trading capital endlessly isn't exactly what is happening with the ai (alledged) bubble ?

vinaigrette··on The Importance of Being Idle
Poverty levels are roughly the same between Vietnam and the US from a quick search. Mean standard of living is a poor way to calculate inequality. If you have a link to a median one it would help to compare.
vinaigrette··on Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
Isn't text a basic linear structure that can cover sufficiently complex topics ?