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There's some good points made here about losing fidelity by over-simplification. As an ADHD sufferer, I'd take this piece much more seriously if the title wasn't so belittling. I d…

Sure they are. You made this claim: > My base 2019 macbook pro 15 on Mojave is actually faster than new macbook pros today on some tasks. Then someone called your bluff and asked y…

Tell us what to test.

Since when did asking someone to give a single example to support their point become "noise"? How can they do any testing, if you refuse to tell them what to even look for?

It reads like OpenAI has been taking PR tips from the king of juvenile, ill-advised blog posts during legal proceedings — one Matt Mullenweg. Guys, just stop posting. Listen to you…

I played about 8 rounds and I still don't understand the goal.

Yup. I remember Google making this exact same promise with AdWords and then slowly but surely rolling it back, quarter after quarter and year after year.

Thanks, that was poorly worded.

The original scans are also available.

It would be great if an LLM could be trained to generate interpolated images between the 10m intervals of the full disk geocolor product. The animations would be fantastic. I've go…

This is cool. I'd love to see a collection like this for date representations. Anyone?

I watched the 1:30 video and didn't see a single code visualization. Not one. The closest was a "visualization" of a single, unconnected node that can be moved around — all by its …

We need to make an effort to distinguish “this is a thing for humans” vs “this is a thing for bots” in our naming IMHO. In that respect, “open wiki” is not such a great name. “Agen…

That’s just what was officially disclosed.

How many of those other groups have openly lobbied for war? I have no doubt there are a few others TBH. The oil industry comes to mind. The point being, it's not just the amount of…

Well it's also bad when it's done by highly trained medical experts in a modern hospital as part of gender affirming care. It's only when performed as part of a pre-medieval ritual…

You’re right, I don’t see it. I can’t even imagine being against people coming together for a common cause. What a miserable world that would be.

I'm old enough to remember the 1980's when people largely adopted a strikingly similar "new religion" that advocated for a free South Africa. The Free Tibet "religion" was also a h…

This is a key point. I don't know if you can still edit your submission, but I think this would be helpful to mention up front. I'm looking forward to testing this.

It’s the same logic behind the Trump tariff regime: “We love capitalism and free markets, except when we’re losing at it”.

Given that Grok is selling all of the compute capacity from its flagship data centre out to a direct competitor sorta speaks for itself. Does it mean they are out of the race? I ha…

Same problem here. I sure wish 1Password + Fastmail would let you generate them within the 1Password app without requiring a browser sign-up page in the middle.

That's a weird way of saying there hasn't been an election in 20 years.

>Many countries use census data to target (or even round up and murder) specific groups of people by religion, ethnicity, etc. You were asked to back up this claim but haven't cite…