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Sure but... this is the technology at the most expensive it will ever be. I'm impressed that o3 was able to achieve such high performance at all, and am not too pessimistic about c…

It's funny; I spent a couple of hours last week helping some students debug out-of-bounds indices in their Rust code. I've written bugs that would have been caught by the compiler …

I think it's simply that the blog author and commentators have an unrealistic threat model when it comes to how the legal profession uses MD5s. After the first high-profile case wh…

Who picks the reviewers and nags them to complete their reviews? This is the principal actual useful work journals do these days.

The situation is now counterintuitive in the other direction: if Monty Hall had opened those 48 doors at random and they just happened to not contain the car, then there is no adva…

It's not so easy for several reasons: 1. It's easy enough for a lone entrepreneur with no investors to make principled long-term decisions. It's not so trivial when you owe a fiduc…

I've spent hours helping my students debug their Rust programs of incorrect array-indexing logic, incorrectly-reasoned loop invariants, incorrect conditional logic, and everything …

The store may or may not be telling the truth. Either way, it's undeniable that SF has changed dramatically over the last several years, with dramatic upswing in property crime and…

Because after your lean, highly-productive startup team creates the app that everyone loves, you get a bunch of funding and hire thousands of extraneous software developers and the…

How much of the cooling cost of current chips is due to wires, vs. the transistors themselves? Superconductors will not help with the latter.

“Most important one in physics this century”: I’m hoping the room-temperature superconductor pans out, but even if it does, the century is young! This time in the 20th century, rel…

Arxiv has its own problems. You can find dozens of proofs on the arxiv that P=NP and that P!=NP. What does peer “review” look like here? Most people won’t bother to write an articl…

What I really like about this explanation is that it highlights the fact that entropy is not a natural property of the physics system: entropy is only defined with respect to some …

Well since circa mid-2010s the Internet is apps. Or app-like centralized web sites (like Hacker News). People want to install a single “Lemmy” app on their phone that shows them al…

What’s the endgame here? Who is buying ripened accounts with lots of karma and why?

Leading up to the blackout, there were multiple threads on Reddit asking for alternatives to visit instead. None of those threads received any non-joke replies. The only thing that…

There was a magic period of time lasting about a decade when internet search Just Worked. If it was on the public web Google would find it. Search worked so well I took it for gran…

What you say is true, but the rolling hash solution is susceptible to potential hash collisions while the trie is not.

The AI boom has been 6 years of massively-overhyped vaporware followed by 6 months of massively-overhyped services that occasionally deliver the goods. People need some time to rec…

Seems like a flagrant strawman to characterize AI as a “well-poisoning machine.”

I passed Calculus BC almost 20 years ago. All this time I could have been designing and implementing a practical self-improving AI architecture? I must really be slacking.

“no one emails”: that hasn’t been my experience or observation at all. Email remains by far the most common channel for professional communication. Sure, my coworkers will send me …

It makes sense to me that the economy overall is doing well but that the tech sector specifically over invested during the pandemic and is now contracting.

There is not really any new insight in the post, though cellular automata are indeed a good way to explain entropy, coarse-graining, etc. The breakthrough (if it exists) must be in…

I think a lot of what's happening is that there is not necessarily a correlation between the technical quality of a piece of art and its cultural influence and legacy. The former i…