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Re:Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:28AM (#50285555)
Solar energy output has exploded the past few years, it's not all bad news out there.
If you think Brazilian courts are neutral in general, ummm
Re:Anthropic logged net loss of over $80B in first half of 2026 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:58AM (#50176262)
seriously. today's models are good enough because they're... today's models.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:32AM (#50149837)
It's interesting to see this all play out. Yes, on a personal level, it's a bummer for mathematicians that have the goal of figuring something out, and getting personal recognition and prize money. But now that AI can do this work better, I think we should mostly just celebrate that we can suddenly solve a lot of problems, and figure out how to use these abilities in a productive way. Math needs to change, just like software development has massively changed.
Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:30PM (#50112192)
Apple should have morphed Siri into a Muse-like experience a year ago. But they didn't. Muse is great and millions of people are already getting used to having it be a part of their daily lives.
This type of sentiment made sense a year ago. It's a joke in the age of Astra and Opus 5.5.

Of course you can accomplish in 3 hours what used to take weeks.

You'd rewrite the Bible in Rust at this point
Re:The Mathocalypse on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:54PM (#49998658)
more like 3/4 of the comments but yea
I’ve been burned before on this topic
Fair points, thanks for the thoughts
Is it really "blanket surveillance" when it only sees exactly what you put into it? That's like saying you're being filmed against your will while... filming yourself.
I think the recent AI summit (sorry, SI summit) in Washington established the good precedent that these model companies are responsible for making safe products. If a swam of agents breaks out of a sandbox and causes damages, the company that was running those agents should be held accountable. No better motivation for corporate good governance than massive lawsuits and possible criminal investigations.

Get's a little tricker when a customer intentionally manipulates/uses a model for crimes, I suppose.

Imagine calling it racist to suggest this person became infected from a Russian lab.

Because that's what happened when people suggested the most obvious origin of the Covid pandemic.

What's your point?
A lot of Europeans are salty about the continent's decline into near irrelevance in terms of leading edge innovation. It's 90% the US and China at this point. But would be great to see that change.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:55PM (#49914997)
Wen gemini desktop coding app?
Re:Coding Is Not Solved on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:18AM (#49879425)
If you've used Opus 5.5, it's clear that coding is solved in the practical sense, beyond the endless march of 9's.
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:16AM (#49879411)
thanks!
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:13PM (#49835516)
Sir I despise your ill informed debacle of a speech
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:12PM (#49835498)
Imagine having to virtue signal your comment first like that
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:38PM (#49835012)
Congrats on the dumbest rant I've read all week. Can't even get the company names straight.
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:37PM (#49834995)
He has concerns about your politics too
Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:28AM (#49802926)
true, but I think the space mining talk is mostly about asteroids and the moon
now we're talking
Re:Grok 4.7 on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:09PM (#49794116)
You don't have to go into conspiracy mode about this. Musk clearly stated on X the other day that they delayed the release because they got some thing wrong with the RL behavior.
Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:08PM (#49794103)
Please explain the "worse" part. Should we be in a moral panic about lifeless barren chunks of rock being put to some use?
Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:06PM (#49794090)
There is no relevance, just another political sheep.
Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:06PM (#49794083)
Oh do you mean like shunning scientists wanting to investigate if covid leaked from the nearby covid virus lab that was researching gain of function?

And kicking people off of twitter and facebook for similar banned thoughts?

Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:04PM (#49794069)
yeah seriously
Re:EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:47AM (#49726996)
Seriously. Not to mention that Alberta is trending towards independence (still unlikely, I know).

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