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Re:Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:25AM (#50349812)
They can either do this or put enough analog circuitry in gear that firmware makes little difference. Both seem fine to me as a consumer.
Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:19AM (#50349783)
> The growing AI revenues don’t require everyone at the office to be using it.

Don't they? To match expected growth over the years? There's only so much money in software.

Re:US Jobs Pickup May Keep Fed on Track to Hike Rates Again on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:11PM (#50329944)
Has there been interest rates for multiple centuries?
Re:US Jobs Pickup May Keep Fed on Track to Hike Rates Again on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:10PM (#50329935)
Low interest rates cause higher house prices, because people can then afford monthly payments for bigger principals and they're all still bidding/buying from more or less the same pool of housing.
If that results in testable predictions, we check them, compare with representations and then are left with just one. And if it doesn't result in testable predictions it can be left for people to write papers on.
OTOH how much compute does Astra, Fable or Opus use? Is it just 24 times (1 vs 24 hour runtime) more than 27B Qwen?
Re:Hex Raises $100M on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:38PM (#50267425)
The way it's slightly off-center is unpleasant
What were the reasons to assume it would be true? I mean if you assume that NP < EXPTIME (which seems very likely) then you end up with algorithms that run in exponential time, but can't simulate turing machines with polynomial overhead. Obviously you can't simulate TMs with just anything, but most of the time... computation finds a way?
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:46PM (#50252801)
There's a chain of classes P, NP(aka Sigma_1), Sigma_2, .., Sigma_n, ... PSPACE, EXPTIME. What we know for sure is that P < EXPTIME, others are unknown (well, maybe this paper adds something to this, time will tell).

It's conceivable that each of them is smaller than the next, but also that e.g. P < NP = all the sigmas < PSPACE < EXPTIME or many other possibilities. I think the general consensus is that it's more likely that there are more inequalities than not, but the fact is that we can't even show that P is less than PSPACE so far, which would be extraordinarily surprising if it were true.

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:40PM (#50248823)
Not if they start making killbots.
Re:Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:31AM (#50229720)
It's natively Q4.
Re:Why is AI generated language so hard to understand? on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:53PM (#50225747)
They're picking among most likely tokens, which are ones with least entropy and so least information per token.
> But if the user thinks it looks fine, then won't most players think the same?

I have a suspicion that when you're looking at (and generating, because you then look at the results) AI generated images and text more you get desensitized and are more likely to say that something looks okay when to other people it won't.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:08AM (#50165079)
> nearly everyone is on the investor/owner side

I think that "everyone" needs some kind of an asterisk. Who's "everyone" in this?

Re:Revolut down as users report app not working on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:58AM (#50164969)
I don't know about other countries, but in Poland you must accept cash except for a few cases (over internet, large transactions, places without employees).
I think I've seen studies that they still aren't. ICE are really (thermally) inefficient.
Re:AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It? on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:14PM (#50135198)
I wonder how robust these linters are. E.g. In C you might find some library function that allocates and abuse it to get dynamic memory.
Re:Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:31PM (#50134854)
It can depend on implied information, e.g. 方 can be hou or kata depending on if you're talking about about direction or a person. And that information can be before it, after it, on some image next to it, etc.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:15PM (#50123968)
> Will anyone ever be allowed to drive this on a public roadway?

I can see this being a thing in a cyberpunk dystopia, so.. in a few years I guess?

Re:BB(10) > Graham's Number on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:34AM (#50103491)
If you want a function to compute BB(n) for any supplied n, then it isn't computable. But a specific number e.g. 123, BB(123) is just a number and for every integer i there is function const_i that computes i. You just will never know which f_i computes BB(123).
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:42PM (#50076588)
At the place where it splits in two it also goes shifts forwards a bit
Re:BB(10) > Graham's Number on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:59AM (#50073818)
Well, it's computable as in there is a function that computes BB(n) for a specific n, but you'll never know which function it is.
If you don't need ROI then with this kind of money I can make revenue grow even faster.
Re:Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:23PM (#50047444)
At first people played Starcraft for the campaign, internet access in late 90s wasn't common enough for a game to thrive on mostly online multiplayer. And it was popular back then. And playing on LAN was more of "20 mins no rush" thing.
Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:41AM (#50040978)
A lot of people who could get out of Russia after the war started, did get out.
Re:How Protein Took over the World on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:57PM (#50036561)
And somehow all the people I've met mentioning figures from papers (be it 1g, 1.4g or whatever) always seem to skip the "lean" part of "lean body mass" part, which is again a decent difference.
Re:REA Reverse – Engineer Anything on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:22AM (#50030844)
It could have access for code of an older version with how there has been leaks of sources of various commercial applications over the years.
These were a symbol of status and served a ritual purpose.
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:57AM (#50006598)
Extrapolating the rate, there won't be any left by the end of next quarter. I jest, but reading these is arduous and finding holes in them is going to take time for anyone daring to.
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:58AM (#50005882)
I'm no expert, but using multitape TM for this feels to me like a wrong level of abstraction. The whole thing has a lot of smell.

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