mattmcal

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by mattmcal 3d ago
Haven't seen any sources citing that as a rationale.
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by mattmcal 3d ago
> [H]ad Henry left the crown to a 33-year-old, intelligent, well-educated, politically experienced son, such a situation would not have arisen. > However, even such a decisive military victory was not enough to overturn a genuinely de
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by mattmcal 4d ago
> (Note: Rust also uses exclamation marks to indicate calls to macros. The way the syntax is constructed, a place where it is valid to use the never type is not a valid place to put a macro invocation and vice versa. Yeah this statement
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by mattmcal 4d ago
> the least efficient healthcare system in the world > the more free you make those markets, the better they'll get. How can you concede the first point and argue the second in the same breath? Are you about to tell me European h
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by mattmcal 7d ago
OpenCode but I variously use DeepSeek API/OpenRouter/Vercel AI gateway. I'm sure it's the combo of model + inference provider that is the issue and not the model alone. DeepSeek API also has far better inference speed an
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by mattmcal 7d ago
If you buy tickets online from AMC, they now show a disclaimer that tells you the movie starts around 25 minutes after the listed show time, though usually it starts 30+ minutes after.
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by mattmcal 7d ago
It's not just web chat, V4 Flash 7/31 suffers from a lot of pathological behavior in coding harnesses as well, e.g. infinite loops, hallucinations, premature termination, and invalid tool calls.
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by mattmcal 9d ago
If you're interested in the topic enough to comment on it, you'll probably find it worthwhile reading a mathematician's perspective. Here's the prolific Terry Tao: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172195
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by mattmcal 9d ago
Well, for one, most math proofs don't have any practical applications, so a proof that no one reads is basically a digital paperweight. You might as well suggest AI write novels for other AI to read.
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by mattmcal 13d ago
A lot of movies gave the impression that making phone calls and balancing checkbooks would be the easiest tasks for consumer AI to solve, while math and science might require exceedingly advanced AI. Turns out to be the opposite: computers
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by mattmcal 15d ago
Who complains about sync thought? What tilts me is Pocket, AI features, integrated ads, and a plethora of other random acquisitions and side projects that constitute outsized expenses yet do zilch to drive adoption. I also used to be a Thun
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by mattmcal 17d ago
As interesting as all this is, I still feel like the threat model for "unconstrained black hat AI agent cluster" is probably weaker than that of "highly infections network virus" because it is much harder for an AI agent
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by mattmcal 17d ago
There is a section in the article answering your question if you read it. > Suddenly, the crawlers were coming from millions of random residential or mobile IPs, all pretending to be random modern browsers. An IP like that would make 4-5
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by mattmcal 26d ago
Not doubting this one bit but is there actually any research linking AI use to Alzheimer's? I think that takes long-term studies.
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by mattmcal 28d ago
I argued this idea to a couple of my classmates when I was a physics undergrad, and they agreed. However, I later changed opinions because of what this does to the derivatives/integrals of your trig functions. For general periodic func
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by mattmcal 1mo ago
I've seen many accusations and exposes of clothing brands secretly sourcing sweat shop labor, but this is the first time I've seen anyone allege that sellers are secretly hiding the fact their clothing is made in high-tech ethical
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by mattmcal 2mo ago
The particular choice of the marketing phrase "from the ground up" sort of invites this kind of commentary on HN. This is hardly the first WebKit-based browser, so any commenter specifically holding their breath for a new, indepen
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by mattmcal 2mo ago
I can see the economics of open vs. frontier models turning out similarly to pharmaceuticals, where generic drugs cost a fraction what the name brands do and Americans end up paying the highest prices in the world partly as a consequence of
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by mattmcal 6mo ago
DuckDuckGo allows you to blacklist websites for free
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by mattmcal 8mo ago
I had to read this twice to understand it. Stated succinctly, it sounds like the company's sensor measured the rate of flow of oxygen through the sensor, which would give a reduced reading if the cross section is obstructed. Feynman&#x
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by mattmcal 9mo ago
Depending on how the courts weigh in on the role of fair use in AI training, it's possible that a "copyleft for AI" clause would end up either redundant with the existing GPL, or legally void. It would be crazy complicated to
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by mattmcal 9mo ago
I've been using Linux on my desktop for ten years and I definitely experience bugs and performance issues with Firefox from time to time that don't occur in Chrome. It's rare but common enough to keep Chrome around as a fallb
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by mattmcal 10mo ago
You're not wrong, I edited my comment. That said, I think it is important to use clear terminology that doesn't blur the lines between spending that can theoretically be reduced, versus spending that requires an act of Congress to
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by mattmcal 10mo ago
Social security, Medicare, and Medicaid are properly termed "entitlements", not "cost centers". You're right that non-discretionary spending dwarfs discretionary spending though.
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by mattmcal 10mo ago
I believe the saying is "no taxation without representation", not "no taxation without personal approval".
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by mattmcal 1y ago
Yes, you just need to maintain a stack of rectangles ordered from lowest to highest. You only ever have to push and pop the top of the stack, so the runtime is O(n).