MinimalAction

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by MinimalAction 1mo ago
I am surprised by the title and the story. Understanding has always been the bottleneck; there is nothing new about it. The argument goes like we humans should understand so we can verify and participate. How bold! Maybe we should have be
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by MinimalAction 1mo ago
For what it's worth, I use Brave and it didn't render properly in a normal tab, but rendered correctly on a private tab! Underlying engine is Chromium anyway, so make of that what you will.
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by MinimalAction 1mo ago
No. If they still draw an enormous amount of water, that's the finite resource that's getting wasted no amount of money could immediately retrieve. Paying for electricity doesn't mean the resources are not shared.
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by MinimalAction 1mo ago
It is the very humanity that is absent in all of this. The power is still in the hands of a very few. I feel you're dismissing this with a grandeur vision of AI developement.
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by MinimalAction 1mo ago
So, you're arguing that just because mathematicians are a minuscule, it doesn't matter for prosperity? Because, if so, that is an insane take honestly.
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
Absolutely not the same! People need jobs to bring in income. I don't believe those who profit off of this will share it with the world. The power is all concentrated in the few hands that decide whether or not the rest get any semblan
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
I hate this timeline. I might be excited for the kind of answers this AI builds for unsolved problems, and also for learning new things by talking to it. But, I feel like I'm in the minority of people here who feel this could be a net
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
Thank you! I don't like substack at all. I hate the typography overall. It's not hard to power up a static website, especially these days using Jekyll, Hugo, or hundreds of other such framework in so many different languages. The
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
That's fair as well. It occured to me as I wrote my post that not everybody would glue themselves to screen while eating. But how do you read? On a device?
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
Sounds like I'd enjoy those videos as well! Any particular recommendations?
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Ask HN: What do you watch during lunch or dinner, if you're by yourself?
5 points by MinimalAction 2mo ago|21 comments
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
I feel seen and heard. I'm conflicted in feeling there's now a lot more to do with AI, but also if it ain't me doing most of it, where's the fun in that? Days feel meaningless, and don't know who will pay for what I
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
Disagree. In many professions, people were paid to endure the boring parts to be able to finally do fun parts. See academia; a professor writes grants, attends committee meetings, teaches (sometimes undesirably) and such, to finally go do r
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
True, but many of us have grown identifying ourselves with the kind of work we do, the discoveries that follow from our hard work. Even in the case of rockets, we designed the rockets! Here, I've to let the oracle take care of things
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
As an academic, I concur with the findings. However, some points for discussion: 1. I don’t believe iPad doesn’t offer the same benefits of writing with pen on paper. I mean iPad writing can be made to be almost as realistic as pen on paper
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
A random professor's academic website is usually barebones, no CSS, only HTML, mostly text. But the value one finds there is incredible. As opposed to this, vibe coded slop which neither explains the stuff that's already there, no
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
Yes, of course mathematics is a tool to model nature as accurately as we could. That still doesn't mean mathematics is as trivial or frivolous as manipulating symbols.
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
That view is incredibly reductionist. It really is an efficient encoding of how nature behaves. It might be a human construct, but given how best it allows to understand nature (through principles of physics), it is uncanny to be any differ
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
Extremely cool. I'm sure they'll eventually be trained to read it, but it's nice until then to trick AI. I'm mad at AI companies for stealing texts from the entire internet knowledge base and now privatizing those profit
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
As a scientific adventure, SpaceX is a worthy company full of awesome people. But the management and VCs is another story, as usual. To price it at a market cap of $1.8T, somewhere double that of Walmart is insane.
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
I'm tired of these types of articles making it to the HN frontpage. None of these articles can say anything definitive; all they could do is speculate. We are trading away the old HN which was full of really interesting links that us
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by MinimalAction 2mo ago
I liked the idea, but this literally could have been a list. The AI-generated pages with filler text create a stark contrast in utility compared to the influential nature of the listed papers.
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by MinimalAction 3mo ago
It is insane to me that Apple couldn't build its own source of RAM given its 250B war chest. Could have bought some RAM company at an opportune moment.
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by MinimalAction 3mo ago
That makes a lot more sense when you put it that way. Nevertheless, it is ever more harder to prove something is legitimately one's own work. That is worrisome when it comes to science where credits matter more than for glory; job mark
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by MinimalAction 3mo ago
Given the advent of LLMs, I don't know if plagiarism is ever a thing anymore. Nobody is stupid enough to include verbatim unless citing those works. Feed into an LLM to get a paraphrased version conveying the same meaning. It is worris
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by MinimalAction 3mo ago
What's the biggest draw of GrapheneOS apart from de-googling? Does it have a better battery life? And compliance with NFC payments?
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by MinimalAction 3mo ago
Well, for some reason Pixel 9 series and also 10 pro is excluded?
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by MinimalAction 3mo ago
Interesting that they disclose this right after IPO.
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by MinimalAction 3mo ago
Often this is the conundrum in research as well. What should one spend their life working on? Especially if you want to make an impact. Choosing the right problem is often harder than coming up with a relevant solution.
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by MinimalAction 3mo ago
Just looked up Chinese production capacity (~1700 GWh). That's orders of magnitude higher than the rest of the world. What did they do differently?

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