Mathnerd314

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by Mathnerd314 8d ago
Or you could just play the original Pandemic https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/360724 I think that's one detail that this analysis glosses over is that you design the virus to mutate and develop lethalit
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by Mathnerd314 19d ago
To quote from https://www.txdmv.gov/sites/default/files/body-files/MVCPA_F... Number of times an ALPR was deployed. 61,875 Number of LPR Deployments by taskforce investigators 42,878 Number of vehicles r
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by Mathnerd314 26d ago
I read the title and the concept I had was to replace highly-paid CEOs with AI. Given the concept of co-ops etc. that seems like it would be a popular idea.
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by Mathnerd314 1mo ago
A philosophical task manager, based on notable philosophers such as Baudrillard, Foucault, etc. It's been a fun game of reading these works, trying to distill their essence, and putting them through the LLMs to see what comes out. Curr
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by Mathnerd314 1mo ago
It sounds like that was a good outcome, they sold out and got rich? There's definitely a stage that comes where a startup no longer needs founders.
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by Mathnerd314 2mo ago
Paper is easier to read https://www.researchgate.net/publication/410906746_The_Havel...
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by Mathnerd314 2mo ago
I think this calculation is bad? I mean, they take sand and produce AI chips, and then the AI chips turn electricity into entertainment. So highly productive use of resources. Global entertainment industry is $3 trillion, easily justifies i
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by Mathnerd314 3mo ago
There are some state laws - California, Virginia and Colorado, a bunch of others. And the SECURE Data Act currently in Congress. https://statescoop.com/house-subcommittee-secure-data-act-pr...
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by Mathnerd314 3mo ago
So I'm looking at Figure 2 of the study and it shows that risk is negative (I.e. it's a benefit) below 7 drinks per week or 1 drink per day. And then they say "There was no protective net effect of alcohol observed at any lev
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by Mathnerd314 4mo ago
This may help https://www.workboat.com/white-house-budget-would-slash-noaa... The administration wanted to eliminate everything ocean-related, seems like they are doing it program by program and this is yet another. Probabl
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by Mathnerd314 4mo ago
It is probably like with smart TV's where the value of the telemetry data ends up subsidizing a significant fraction of the hardware. Car manufacturers seem to be doing a lot of experiments with what they can charge for in terms of ong
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by Mathnerd314 5mo ago
Maybe we need Uber for airlines. Pilots don't lose their skills, passengers always have demand, the issue is that pricing is too predictable. You could see this with skiplagged, there really is room for fare pricing innovation. Start
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by Mathnerd314 5mo ago
The author sounds like he actually responds to feature requests, though. Typical behavior I'm seeing is that the maintainer just never checks the issue tracker, or has it disabled, but is more likely to read PR's.
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by Mathnerd314 5mo ago
website is not up to date, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqVN1fGNpZw is not on there
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by Mathnerd314 5mo ago
"Inference consumes 60–90% of total AI lifecycle costs." So shovel is not the right analogy, more like GPU = coal burning engine. And yes, coal was a big railroad expense, more so than financing construction debt.
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by Mathnerd314 5mo ago
The author is named Alok, so I would expect alokscript to be a self-authored programming language. But I checked the GitHub profile and I don't see anything.
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by Mathnerd314 5mo ago
Well, it's a little more than that, like they agreed to issue him a debit card
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by Mathnerd314 5mo ago
Yeah, it's like just ignoring the actual conclusions. I mean, it's easier to hit and then it hits less hard, which is actually good because professional baseball players generally hit it out of the park when they get a good hit. S
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by Mathnerd314 6mo ago
to quote: "in the Persian Gulf today, the Navy grasps the reality of the circumstances, recognizing that it simply can’t sail into the strait without risk getting blown to smithereens by Iran’s missiles. Today, its carriers are station
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by Mathnerd314 6mo ago
It is on Wikipedia under T-Bank, this seems the best source that announces the resolution: https://web.archive.org/web/20220905212700/https://www.tinko...
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by Mathnerd314 6mo ago
Well, if you come at it from the mindfulness angle, there are real studies showing that mindfulness works. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8083197/ and similarly, if you come at it from the religious angl
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by Mathnerd314 6mo ago
There's a specific writing style for globalized English that AI's use. And then this post also had none of the stylistic flourishes that a real author might add. And then simple things like constructing a table of 68 libraries or
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by Mathnerd314 6mo ago
Well, I mean, you can certainly say economic value doesn't capture all of the value. But you can also say that there are metrics of value that do capture everything. Thermodynamic entropy, for example - its steady march to zero is stat
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by Mathnerd314 6mo ago
At least with Gemini, I found the trick is to add anything in any system instruction about a task list. Then the follow-up prompt will always be, do you want to add a task for that? Which is actually useful most of the time.
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by Mathnerd314 7mo ago
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03622-w this is the paper they're basing the research on. So in primary care, the accuracy rates are in the 80s. So that's something like a 17% false positive rate. That&#x2
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by Mathnerd314 8mo ago
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/20/2025-20... Well apparently Congress passed a law that said TSA could just demand money as long as they published a notice in the federal register.
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by Mathnerd314 8mo ago
If you are flipping through the reading to find a quote, then printed readings are hard to beat, unless you can search for a word with digital search. But speed reading RSVP presentation beats any kind of print reading by a mile, if you are
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by Mathnerd314 8mo ago
I tried a thread, I got that both LLMs and humans optimize for the same goal, working programs, and the key is verifiability. So it recommended Rust or Haskell combined with formal verification and contracts. So I think the conclusion of th
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by Mathnerd314 8mo ago
I get that this is essentially vibe coding a language, but it still seems lazy to me. He just asked the language model zero-shot to design a language unprompted. You could at least use the Rosetta code examples and ask it to identify design
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by Mathnerd314 8mo ago
I update Linux maybe once a year. Sure, there are security vulnerabilities. But I'm behind a firewall. And meanwhile, I don't have to spend any time dealing with update issues.

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