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xqcgrek2··on Incentives in Academic Research
Error-free is not the goal, which is the author's point. Citation metrics and grant funding chasing mean the goal is not to be error free but attention grabbing, sensational, a step towards getting a big fat grant or even error filled so other people are forced to tackle the problem and cite you
xqcgrek2··on WSJ reports OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns
benchmarks must have been worse than Sonnet 5.5
xqcgrek2··on Every U.S. State Ranks Above Every Foreign Economy in Household Consumption
Measured in overpriced US dollars.

No one would willingly live in Mississippi over France or Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Lasker

xqcgrek2··on Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
OpenAI must be under a lot of pressure to make the books balanced. A bleak sign for Anthropic's IPO and the stock market.
xqcgrek2··on Ad Astra Initiative
No relation to Open AI's Astra as far as I can tell
xqcgrek2··on Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics
No self respecting mathematician is going to willingly become a marketing tool for these companies solving neglected and irrelevant puzzles.
xqcgrek2··on Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe
Quanta magazine is a glorified university press release and marketing shop for Simons associated institutions.

Take it with a grain of salt, and know for sure its leaving out a huge range of scientists views.

xqcgrek2··on How to earn a billion dollars
What an out of touch buffoon. AOC is right, billionaires are a policy failure, and pg is making her point.
xqcgrek2··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
money laundering and tax avoidance
xqcgrek2··on 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
These teen science fair winners almost never amount to anything exceptional, and are a product intense parental supervision. Most universities have wised up.
xqcgrek2··on Robert Duvall has died
why do people venerate actors?
xqcgrek2··on ICE List: the small European website exposing US immigration agents
Important work. The time will come when this will be indispensable.
xqcgrek2··on The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
path integrals existed since the 19th century
xqcgrek2··on Tyler Cowen: 'Buying' Greenland Is Not an Option
They would be geographically close once Canada is a US state
xqcgrek2··on The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/former-google-ce...
xqcgrek2··on Max Tegmark wants to halt development of artificial superintelligence
It's unclear why anyone should listen to Tegmark. Frankly, its baffling to me why Tegmark even got tenure in the early 2000s at MIT for relatively trivial CMB data analysis techniques.
xqcgrek2··on 'They sowed chaos to no avail': the lasting legacy of Elon Musk's DOGE
Electoral consequences for such a failure aren't enough, there need to be criminal indictments.
xqcgrek2··on The Year America's Economic Edge Evaporated
https://archive.is/TJJSM
xqcgrek2··on Tech billionaires threaten to exit California over proposed wealth tax
ironically, the more they crow, the higher the likelihood of it passing
xqcgrek2··on Tesla owner completes first autonomous drive across America
anecdotal, no evidence of number of disengagements or interventions, or light/weather conditions
xqcgrek2··on Sergey Brin thought he had his Steve Jobs moment with failed Google Glass
To have a Steve Jobs moment one has to have a sense of taste. And Brin has no taste.
xqcgrek2··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
Tahoe has to be the worst software Apple has released in three decades. It's unbelievable it got through. If Macs and macOS were not a tiny portion of their revenue I would short the stock.
xqcgrek2··on America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth
There's only a couple of ways this ends.
xqcgrek2··on High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects
Most archival astro data have a lot of junk in them. Most of it is not worth the time of serious astronomers, because it's all rather inconsequential or incremental finding the Nth example of something rather than N=1. A good project for a high schooler as an exercise and signaling, but ultimately nothing will come from this work.
xqcgrek2··on A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
The billionaires have shown they are emperors without clothes without competence (thanks DOGE) and have a disproportionate negative affect on society. Tax them out of existence.
xqcgrek2··on Science says we've been nurturing "gifted" kids all wrong
This research rings true. All the child and college prodigies I knew never amounted to much.
xqcgrek2··on Miriam Adelson pledges $250 million for a third Trump term at White House party
The US is a flailing gerontocracy in steep decline.
xqcgrek2··on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
robot vacuums never made economic sense over a maid service
xqcgrek2··on String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof
A few hundred people working on String Theory for about four decades is about $500 million. Hope this proof was worth it.
xqcgrek2··on Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands
This shouldn't be flagged. This is valuable information that might save countless lives given the current trajectory.
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