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wyan··on North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes
By definition, a black swan event cannot be predicted. It doesn't just mean "a larger fire" or "the event of a lifetime".
wyan··on Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
Your examples are cases in which you know what the bill is going to be before placing your order. With LLMs, you're paying per output token, not per request, yet you don't get all the tokens.
wyan··on Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
They offer both a subscription model and a lifetime purchase. Or that used to be the case, at least. But I agree that it feels like it's getting behind.
wyan··on How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]
In softness I guess? Because I wouldn't consider any of the "B" series really matte :)
wyan··on How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]
How do they compare with Faber Castell 9000? (I normally write with these, in HB or 2B hardness)
wyan··on Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?
How are laptop GPUs these days in terms of energy consumption? My last experience was a while ago, but the battery drained fast with them active.
wyan··on Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating
I only know the Uni system of a few European countries, but generally I would expect Philosophy to be a prerequirement that you take for your entrance examinations, not during studies per se (unless you're studying humanities, of course).
wyan··on Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
Taking propranolol in this case is, in fact, an example of being a functioning adult, and a solution that also works for oral examinations.
wyan··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
I would claim the difference between being rejected an API request and being potentially jailed/shot is significant.
wyan··on Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
Not WW2, but GPS depends on General Relativity to calculate time differences between satellite signals and ground correctly.
wyan··on Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
Not lawmakers in this case, but judges having no understanding of what they're ruling on.
wyan··on Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
How much is it spending in the Anthropic API so far?
wyan··on Spanish legislation as a Git repo
The fact that the oldest current law in the list is about places where nuns are allowed to be buried is quite amusing, in some sort of way.
wyan··on Spanish legislation as a Git repo
To be fair, the BOE website often offers the consolidated version for many important laws, which includes further amendments by other laws in one text.
wyan··on Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android
It says it's OSS, but I can't find a link to the source code in the website, am I just being dense?
wyan··on Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems
Having been both in academia and industry, to me Stephen always sounds too academic for business, but for academia, a mix of too "industry" and a crank.
wyan··on Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems
Or accelerated, since development would have ceased to be restricted to Wolfram's employees
wyan··on Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems
Isn't there already Maxima which is several decades old?
wyan··on A4 Paper Stories
The golden ratio makes for even less balanced paper than sqrt(2)
wyan··on Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
Not closer to the spoken sounds, closer to English orthography.
wyan··on Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game
This was my experience too, lots of cities to choose but all of them US-based. Not even London or Berlin. I'll wait and see :)
wyan··on Murex – An intuitive and content aware shell for a modern command line
Wasn't Murex some sort of backend software for financial institutions?
wyan··on Using AI to generate a JUCE tutorial
I used my $20 welcome credit and the Orchestrator mode to generate a JUCE tutorial with kilocode.ai, hopefully I can use it as a base for teaching myself to code audio plugins.
wyan··on KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland
Thankfully it's quite easy to go for several weeks without rebooting, but this is so annoying.
wyan··on New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source
The purpose of a PhD is to certify that you're able to do independent research. Many researchers retrain (or just add a research interest) in adjacent fields during their postdocs or later. At that point it's just research.
wyan··on Nightmares Linked to Faster Ageing and Premature Mortality
This happens to me, but only while brain adapts to the new chemical balance. After that it's back to no remembering dreams.
wyan··on The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?
Ugaritic certainly didn't remain readable and it was alphabetic. The only reason alphabetic systems remained readable is because they remained in use.
wyan··on Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests
As an anecdote, there seems to be increasing evidence of correlation between infections by virii of the herpes family and dementia.
wyan··on Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
It is taking decades to achieve though!
wyan··on Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem
OVH is pretty fairly priced, includes the DNS zones, and is EU based
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