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Re:Why the Number Line Freaks Me Out (2016) on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @11:46PM (#43098684)
You can't show me zero of something which is why you can't divide by it. Zero is a placeholder for what we can't show which is also why negative number exist on the opposite side of it. Zero isn't a number, it too is a name.
Re:Why the Number Line Freaks Me Out (2016) on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @11:17PM (#43098505)
Math is the study of futility. Futility to calculate, to understand, to define, to rationalize. 1 is the only number. Everything else is a name.
Re:Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:13PM (#42937189)
The chat interface modality is a fleeting one in the grand scheme. Billion token context windows with recursive Ai production based on development documentation and graphics is likely the next iteration.
Sure you're not thinking of Grooveshark which was the original Spotify?
Re:Large Enough – Mistral AI on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @05:15PM (#41062220)
Considering Googles progress and censorship history, I'm inclined to take their assessments with a grain of salt.
Re:Large Enough – Mistral AI on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @03:27PM (#41060888)
Multiple input and output processes in different languages has zero effect on associative learning and creative formulation in my estimations. We've already done studies that show there is no correlation between human intelligence and knowing multiple languages, after having to put up with decades of "Americans le dumb because..." and this is no different. The amount of discourse on a single topic has a limited degree of usability before redundancies appear. Such redundancies would necessarily increase the processing burden, which could actually limit the output potential for novel associations.
Re:Large Enough – Mistral AI on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @01:01PM (#41059171)
Yeah clearly, OpenAI is rocketing forward and beyond.
This reminds me of Lord of the Flies. The real version of the events turned out very differently.

https://www.newsweek.com/real-lord-flies-true-story-boys-isl...

Re:Large Enough – Mistral AI on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @12:50PM (#41059011)
Personally, language diversity should be the last thing on the list. If we had optimized every software from the get-go for a dozen languages our forward progress would have been dead in the water.
Wasn't if Phil who said something to the effect of, "If it wasn't for luck, I'd win every hand!" Which seems pretty much the thesis of this writing (though without the arrogance); ultimately resolving in, process as a better indicator of skill than results, and the best deduction of process in luck skewed results is consistency over time which essentially requires more data to deduce.
Re:Ask HN: What martial arts do you recommend? on Monday July 22, 2024 @03:56PM (#41039099)
Learn how to get hit. How to absorb punches, turn them into glancing blows, and disengage grapples. Escaping is the best martial art.
Re:Panic at the Job Market on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @01:13PM (#40988049)
Kinda hard to have a SWE sector worth protecting when its all H1B Visa applicants. You guys realize these companies have to be unable to find suitable candidates in order to import workers who will undermine labor, right? In addition, the mass influx of illegal migrant workers are reducing the otherwise buoyant wage effect of menial labor.

The idea that a mass influx of Indian workers taking top-tier STEM jobs is good for the USA is absolute self-accepted denigration of our society. But, Hacker News doesn't care, YCombinator has led the way in undermining high-end domestic labor for over a decade. Drink the Kool-Aid to get the funding, ammiright?

Re:Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever on Monday July 15, 2024 @07:31PM (#40972395)
The truth of the premises do not require empirical evidence as you seem to require, they require the premises be true.

- Oncology is a for-profit business

- Curing customers reduces profits

- Treating customers increases profits

- Curing cancer is bad for business

Do you understand how logic works or is your brain fried by "where's the study bro..." Give me a break, man. Do you have any interest in sincerity or is your job at stake otherwise?

Re:Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever on Monday July 15, 2024 @04:41PM (#40971303)
A cure is something that solves a health condition 100% of the time. A treatment is a prolonged procedure with only a chance of success. One is a profit generating machine, the other loses customers.

You know, a cure - like what they pretended the vaccine was that somehow was forced through the almost impossible system of medical approvals that has stalled real cancer research for decades.

Re:Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever on Monday July 15, 2024 @03:52PM (#40970928)
No, please provide evidence to the counter since it's the Cancer Industry constantly pitching a goal of a cure that always seems to turn into a treatment. You don't need evidence when logic will do. Don't convince yourself that studies in a captured industry of academia would even be allowed to surface.

I'm not a debate-me-bro, you seem to an evidence-shill.

Re:Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever on Monday July 15, 2024 @03:10PM (#40970600)
Cancer is a for-profit business model where the owners of capital benefit from sickness. Curing cancer was never the goal. Finding out how to give people cancer and treat it was. But, changing the narrative which began under Nixon, is impossible with an AMA chokehold on our societies healthcare.
Exclusion through technological adherence.
Criminal charges need to be filed and class action lawsuit for fraudulent services for all the customers duped into renewing monthly services ignorant of the fact the service is not secure as plainly stated it must be in federal law.
Really? Which group did that land belong too before it was occupied by semitic pretenders?
You might want to read some select passages from the Talmud.
why is the NYTimes such bigots? They don't call themselves Hothis they call themselves Ansar Allah. The NYT seems to pride itself on forcing naming conventions for those they support but push disparaging handles for movements or those they don't.

Digusting.

Re:Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:12PM (#40638339)
>Be me, have iPhone 6s

>Can't get many apps these days

>Can't use AI apps at all

>Battery last about 2 hours

>Never used iCloud, barely used iTunes

>Apple announces new "free" Ai Assistant for everyone

well...not everyone

Re:The Age of the Drone Police Is Here on Thursday June 06, 2024 @11:41AM (#40598775)
Fight fire with fire. Those of us who oppose mechanical oppression will do everything we can to set your dogs against you.

"The Age of Drone Police" is not acceptable, at all. Red line, for complete destabilization. The fact people on this forum seem to be nonchalant over this only shows how detached from reality everyone is becoming, mostly due to massive waves of propaganda and political bullshit creating a never ending stream of "us versus them".

When clearly the US are those subject to drone police actions, while the THEM are foreigners and the 1% who somehow get to dictate the lives we all live without physical consequence or fear.

Anyone who thinks this is just "business as usual" or the never ending procession of progress is truly lost to the world of safety and possessions.

So glad to see this guy finally outed as a complete fraud. Can't believe he was able to get as far as he did with it all being bullshit. A true testament to the power of abject lying.

Edit: Though now that I say this, considering the extent of Wrights fraud, lies and likely debts to get this far there is a very high likelihood of suicide.

Re:America's Colleges Are Reaping What They Sowed on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:53PM (#40240056)
The only question that matters as a citizen of any nation is, "How much does changing the status quo really matter to me as an individual?" If the answer is, 'not enough to go to prison or die' then the change will likely stay as it is, otherwise it will simply be subject to morphing into an amalgam of power broker sentiment.

There is a reason individualism and market segmentation work hand in hand to disempower everyone as very few issues have enough disruptive overlap in the populace to create a real powerbase to threaten the ruling class.

>I don't care if we burn $50B a year...

Neither have any other tech loss leader businesses designed to create barriers to entry though sheer size of war chests. Amazon lost money on retail for decades, Google lost money on tons of side projects as a means of hiring talent away from would be start ups.

Wall Street doesn't care about fundamental value, it cares about capital gains realized through 'too-big-to-fail' structures which require high barriers to entry and require gross revenue to justify overinflated valuations (which have zero restrictions).

https://app.cannon-chat.online/#/newcontact?deviceId=jealous...

contact for testing at your own risk...

Just a heads up for those testing it out on iOS: "Why can't I reply directly through the push notification? Because your browser that doesn't offer this capability. For example, Safari on iOS doesn't support this feature."

"Science" isn't somehow immune from human need for recognition or be the best. That's why "trusting science" is the absolute lowest common denominator method of feeling secure.
"may have an affect on legal charges" - for which there are many levied that don't directly correlate to a drug offense; such as the Texas cannabis tax stamp requirement. If you don't pay taxes on your illegal cannabis in Texas they can charge you with tax evasion. Making it federally "legal" in a certain context, may have an affect on states ability to make jackass laws like the Texas cannabis tax stamp law.

Banking, isn't necessarily limited by the UN treaties - but since huge amounts of cash are flowing into cannabis businesses that are unbanked, it means Wall Street is without a massive influx of investment capital and return opportunities. Allowing the DEA to make changes to a schedule may help remove domestic barriers so banks can capture what they don't directly control.

That's because you're intentionally missing the first point where I said that's under a different treaty. Probably because you aren't actually interested in learning the complexity of international drug laws, but simply buying into political nonsense.

Edit: It makes sense you think I'm being hostile by pointing out facts since that's what you took issue with to begin with.

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