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by epestr 7d ago
It is pretty obvious that having "a screen which optimizes itself to keep you hooked for hours while you still have a developing brain, and no previous generation had anything similiar" is not very comparable to being able to thro
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Why Does Greek Music Sound Eastern? (2023) [video](youtube.com)
5 points by epestr 8d ago|4 comments
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by epestr 8d ago
Something I stumbled on while looking for why Odyysey recitals[0] which keep popping up recently sound "Sanskritty" The video style is quite ranty, and shows some clear frustration. But I did find my existing views challenged and
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by epestr 8d ago
I'll go ahead and assume you are from India. While all suicides do carry certain commanalities, the academic ones seem much more Indian. The meritocratic view perpetuated has caused generations of kids who's belief becomes that be
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by epestr 8d ago
Torment run would be becoming a masochist to cope. The comment likely refers to the ability in being able to identify the alternatives, and being flexible. Torment run would be slogging under the student's adviser, the other option bei
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by epestr 8d ago
And the other an appeal to tradition. There was only one Gauss to scoop and focusing on him misses the larger math culture which Terry might be aware of, where most trust others to not scoop. And if any mathematician's AI usage on a pr
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by epestr 13d ago
If not, someone is a native in LLMese. Conveys little about what it actually is, or connected to how Delta works and is mostly talking about some abstract metaphoric relation. I remember some article on how LLMs throw in identifiers without
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by epestr 13d ago
> If too many people can’t make a living anymore the system is going to change. They seem to have not yet come to believe the "is" part.
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by epestr 16d ago
The posted one also removes a link to the original author's Google scholar page.
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Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium(bbc.com)
109 points by epestr 24d ago|73 comments
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Wiring up seven ESP32s to create a ~0.4B LLM(xda-developers.com)
4 points by epestr 25d ago|0 comments
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by epestr 1mo ago
My bad, HN doesn't allow editing after an hour of posting
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by epestr 1mo ago
My bad, but I don't see an edit option anymore.
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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs(github.com)
382 points by epestr 1mo ago|107 comments
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by epestr 2mo ago
PART 2: > When Macron bans the burqa, people default to it being for cultural preservation and safety. Macron did not introduce France’s public face-covering ban because the law was enacted in October 2010 [8]. Macron became president in
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by epestr 2mo ago
PART 1: Most of this does not answer what I wrote. You do not address Teesta, border killings, India’s support for Sheikh Hasina, the CAA’s religious filter, or the fact that Savarkar explicitly excluded both Muslims and Christians from his
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by epestr 2mo ago
You are collapsing different propositions into one: There is anti-Hindu persecution in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Therefore Bangladeshi distrust of India is mainly religious. Therefore Hindutva is essentially a defensive reaction rather than
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by epestr 2mo ago
Largely uncited and generalised exposition of Bangladeshi's misses other factors which could be involved in their decision towards distrust of India. India's initial decisions need not be merely humanitarian but also political. h
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Koppen Climate Lookup(epestr.com)
4 points by epestr 2mo ago|0 comments
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by epestr 2mo ago
Not a fair comparison. IITs are a bottleneck given there aren't better (in terms of reputation and outcome) schools here. And plenty more apply simply because it's a rite of passage for every Indian kid. I'd guess less so for
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by epestr 2mo ago
That misses the mark here. Every other Kelley's claim has also been unsourced and not cited. I was able to guess that the integration might've simply been something which happened after they'd once not had it. Given the lack
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by epestr 2mo ago
Even more comical when you realize he couldn't stop himself from immediately following "no personal criticisms of Jarred" with > gets to live out his productivity fantasy fever dream, he's probably already super wealt
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by epestr 2mo ago
The "some good" part reads like it exists as a buffer between other parts which don't sound objective, but rather defensive and personally angry. > Fun fact: people talk to each other. The intention here seems to indicate
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by epestr 3mo ago
It's good to agree that some don't have a conscience, and maintaining an appearance matters more. And appearances change based on what's legal or not. They could detect the other AI labs and also silently burn the tokens at a
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by epestr 3mo ago
There seems to be a lot of discussion on economic incentives (harder to raise, stronger pensions and less personal involvement) and other modes of entertainment being the reason for this trend, but I wonder if it could be attributed to more
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Bromism Influenced by AI Psychosis (2025)(acpjournals.org)
3 points by epestr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by epestr 4mo ago
I went down a bit of a search looking for counter evidence that crypto is likely less available to them, and it turns out both perspectives are true depending on the scale you look at. At the micro-level, survey data from emerging markets[0
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by epestr 4mo ago
There does seem to be some with AI psychosis[0] but it's fewer in number than other places and downvoted on posts with moderate amount of comments [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis
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by epestr 4mo ago
Ante has some points on this issue: https://antelang.org/blog/why_effects . All of this is just different syntax in other languages and solved but the abstraction provided seems to be neater.
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by epestr 4mo ago
I'm quite surprised by how the HN audience has multiple stakeholders with deep expertise and lived experience associated with any post, without all the generalisation and hollow speculation present elsewhere. And these comments get pos

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