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jey

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About jey

Human interested in bits and humans.

Berkeley, California

Email: jey#kottalam!net

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    Comment #49203622

    This might just be realistic about the median American's tolerance for walking. Most Americans live in suburbs that are not walkable. At least, I know my own tolerance for walking …

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    Comment #49176705

    Obviously the costs will come down over time. And quickly.

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    Comment #49072066

    The author cites a study (Rozado, 2024, in PLOS ONE) that supposedly shows the base models (before assistant-specific post-training) basically scored at the center (0, 0). https://…

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    Comment #48864174

    I'm not a mathematician, but I don't think that's true..? It's just that some problems are considered "hard" or known to have been "open" for a long time or that involve some cleve…

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    Comment #48766708

    > Emojis don't even render the same on every platform This is a feature, not a bug. That it's using your platform-specific emojis makes it easier to scan, since it's the ideograms …

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    Comment #48439983

    Relevant: The Breakfast Simplex ( https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-... )

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    Comment #48419454

    I thought other reporting claimed that a ground handling truck crashed into the door, thereby detaching it?

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    Comment #48153231

    I'm not convinced this is a problem. For example, all the folks who developed convex analysis for its pure geometric and mathematical beauty in the land of pure Platonic forms, wel…

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    Comment #47699613

    Try the textbook Elements of Information Theory by Cover and Thomas (2006)

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    Comment #47622585

    It targets x86-64/ELF? I thought it would target `sh` to be portable?

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    Comment #47224839

    That doesn't really explain anything biologically. Just vaguely says "potentially helps heal and protect"

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    Comment #47222835

    What does the stem cell treatment help with beyond the existing fetal surgery? Since it's in addition to the usual surgical treatment

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    Comment #47177799

    And I would further add: In addition to performance, Julia's language and semantics are much more ergonomic and natural for mathematical and algorithmic code. Even linear algebra i…

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    Comment #47159661

    I wonder if there's a law+econ analysis of comparing the current framework (regulations and upfront permitting) vs having the regulations but then enforcement via combination of ra…

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    Comment #47107682

    This seems to be the English landing page: https://github.com/Leading-AI-IO/palantir-ontology-strategy/...

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    Comment #46957117

    have you tried vim or neovim?

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    Comment #46770574

    lmao okay, touché. I did not realize it had servo as a dependency.

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    Comment #46770466

    I don't think the point was to say "look, AI can just take care of writing a browser now". I think it was to show just how far the tools have come. It's not meant to be production …

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    Comment #46507186

    Dan Romik has a nice intro on the moving sofa problem: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~romik/movingsofa/

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    Comment #46496048

    Yeah maybe time to send a sample to the “mass spec everything” guy

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    Comment #46471343

    Here's a less editorialized article from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/banks-tap-record-li...

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    Comment #46350049

    That makes sense, but how do you efficiently evaluate the Gaussian kernel based approach (“operator-based data structures (OBDS)”)? Presumably you want to do it in a way that keeps…

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    Comment #46299460

    > When I ran this program, I expected the `CF_OEM­TEXT` string to have the byte 44, but it didn’t. It had the byte 90. We will start unraveling this mystery next time. Whoa there e…

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    Comment #46099808

    This seems to be incorporated into current LLM generations already -- when code execution is enabled both GPT-5.x and Claude 4.x automatically seem to execute Python code to help w…