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zeofig··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
Am I supposed to not like that?
zeofig··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
Buy signal
zeofig··on Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here
It's $(a lot) because only a tiny fraction of the population can live without goods delivered and produced by diesel fuel.
zeofig··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
I don't consider self-reported nonsense to be empirical confirmation. There can be correlations between different self-reports, that doesn't mean that our idea of why those correlations exist is correct.
zeofig··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
It remains godawful slop in every instance I've seen, no matter how expensive it would be to produce without AI.
zeofig··on Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Some data centers, sure. 23% of the country's energy worth? I don't think so. Training LLMs is not critical digital infrastructure.
zeofig··on Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
I agree with your analysis, but doesn't that make this blogpost by google a bit overoptimistic, or even disingenuous?
zeofig··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
Marketing
zeofig··on Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
proompt didn't work
zeofig··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
I do know their names. However I'm not in the field and there are many cases in recent years of high-profile scientists putting their weight behind highly dubious claims. Thanks for the advice, by the way.

Note that I'm not disputing the validity of the counterexample itself.

zeofig··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
Do you have enough knowledge? I laugh at everyone who accepts these claims in the light they're presented despite knowing so little.
zeofig··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
I don't have enough information about the announcement for it to mean much to me. I don't know much about this field of maths. I don't know how many mathematicians were actively working on this problem. It could be zero, which would indicate it's not really that interesting. The article gushes about how it's a Very Important Problem, but it's not even mentioned on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjectures_by_Paul_Er.... I'm sure the busy folk at openAI will fix that soon however. Furthermore the extensive dishonesty of companies like openAI makes me suspicious of just how this was achieved. Overall the announcement is of little interest to my "priors", although I don't typically think in such terms.
zeofig··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
I still laugh.
zeofig··on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
I agree polymarket is "bad", but it's also highly relevant and should absolutely be included in this web page.
zeofig··on Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
The problem here is the word "will". Because they don't exist.
zeofig··on Quartz crystals
The account of the youtube video linked in the article has been terminated apparently. Anyone know why or if there's an alternate link?
zeofig··on Data centers in space makes no sense
"Planning" is a strong word..
zeofig··on The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
Just print so much money that people (yes, banks are people!) have nothing better to do than buy stonks. Problem solved!
zeofig··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
Damn that's a considerable body of work.
zeofig··on Iran Protest Map
It would be cool to have protest maps in another politically unstable middle eastern country too.
zeofig··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
I still don't understand how it's world-changing apart from considerably degrading the internet. It's laughable to compare it to railroads.
zeofig··on Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
Are you actually making that article, or just "quoting" it as some kind of hypothetical? Regardless, without mentioning heat capacity, I don't see any point to your quotation in this context.
zeofig··on More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance
This is because peer review has become a bullshit mill and AI is good at churning through/out bullshit.
zeofig··on Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
I think otherwise.
zeofig··on Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
A perfect vacuum might have no temperature, but space is not a perfect vacuum, and has a well-defined temperature. More insight would be found in thinking about what temperature precisely means, and the difference between it and heat capacity.
zeofig··on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
HAMAS? We're talking about an attack in Lebanon my friend, not Palestine.
zeofig··on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
Yes, since conveniently the attacker also gets to define who is a civilian.
zeofig··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
We're past the point of civility when it comes to things like github and M$0FT's involvement.
zeofig··on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
You're right. I'll send them some thoughts and prayers too.
zeofig··on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
Two idiot judges.
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