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Re:Anthropic's growth just flattened (really)
on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:51PM (#50346509)
> $16.96B in revenue Q3
The article used $16.8B. Not a big difference.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:12AM (#50334280)
Re:SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's spa...
on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:02PM (#50311248)
Re:Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment
on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:38PM (#50309136)
https://maketecheasier.com/nasa-still-maintains-some-of-the-...
In 2015, Popular Mechanics reported on the retirement of Larry Zottarelli, the last original Voyager engineer still working on the project. He was 80 years old. The article noted that keeping Voyager alive required knowledge of old languages and systems, including assembly language and Fortran.
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:50PM (#50294027)
From the announcement:
Sovereignty does not always require self-hosting; sometimes it just requires deployments that meet your control requirements. For organizations that prefer a managed service, Mistral Large 4 is available through Microsoft Foundry, with private deployment options for Azure developers.
Re:Announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, ...
on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:45PM (#50252789)
The writing is a bit ambiguous, but if I'm parsing it correctly it's only a big deal to the small subset of physicists who care about mathematical rigor: proof that Quantum Field Theory (i.e. what theorists have been using since the 1940s or so) is mathematically sound.
This part,
The existence proof pertains to the simplest grand unified theory that includes the gauge fields and fermions of the Standard Model
looks like a reference to SU(5) GUT from 1974:
Re:Announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, ...
on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:53PM (#50252303)
We reached out to external experts and asked them to act as shepherds, organizing groups to understand the new results. They advised three different release strategies:
[...]
For the physics result, form an external group of collaborators and defer to them on the release of materials.
[...]
The group requests that all communications with any and all members of the group regarding this effort be directed to the following email account: [email protected].
Re:Diamond Transistor
on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:09PM (#50251795)
I was reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018)
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:13AM (#50219786)
Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 10...
on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:36PM (#50213486)
China's first AI-generated feature film to hit cinemas on Friday
Human Exploration Across the Moon
Re:AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?
on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:00PM (#50158673)
Third paragraph from the end of TFA:
Mathematicians are both frustrated and excited by OpenAI’s work. Sarnak, for his part, said in an email that he won’t be satisfied that it’s “a Theorem” until humans check and understand all the details. But “the general feeling is one of relief,” Radziwiłł said. There are scores of results across not just number theory but also geometry and theoretical computer science that the proofs of quasi-Riemann will, in a swift stroke, establish as mathematical truths.
Re:How employment is changing at Anthropic
on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:18AM (#50150573)
> What am I missing?
Apparently that 40% is the lowest productivity boost over half a year reported by Anthropic in TFA and reproduced above by djoldman.
Re:How employment is changing at Anthropic
on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:53AM (#50150399)
Here's a chart of non-farm US labor productivity from 1947 to 2026:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB
Annual growth over that period has been ~2.2%, sometimes a little faster, sometimes a little slower. The doubling from 50 in 1982 to 100 in 2017 (35 years) averages to 2% per year.
Even if the overall productivity boost due to AI "only" turns out to be 40%, the lowest among your numbers, it's equivalent to 17 years of growth at 2% per year.
That's not exactly small.
Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:56PM (#50136778)
Ooops, sorry. Let's throw in the UK too then, and do real GDP growth too (latest data from [2]):
Germany 47.2; 1.3
UK 93.8; 1.3
USA 96.7; 2.3
France 108.8; 0.4
Italy 127.7; 0.8
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_...
Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:11PM (#50136031)
From [1], in 2025 government net debt / GDP for the countries mentioned was:
Germany 47.2 USA 96.7 France 108.8 Italy 127.7
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...
Re:Tesla Roadster
on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:32AM (#50115723)
Only if you don't mind killing the audience:
Re:Muse Spark Open
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:18PM (#50110415)
OpenAIRE Innovation
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:37PM (#50024898)
AI Agents at Retail Brokerages
Bending Spoons' Luca Ferrari says capital is no longer Europe's big barrier
Re:Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity...
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:41PM (#49958188)
> Did your datacenter consume 9GW?
I think the largest data centers consume about 1 GW.
https://www.enconnex.com/data-center-energy-consumption-and-...
https://techplustrends.com/1gw-data-center-power-consumption...
Re:I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can...
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:01PM (#49957816)
They were in the original 1970's renderings too:
https://nss.org/o-neill-cylinder-space-settlement/
Given Earth-like gravity and Earth-like atmosphere, a sufficiently large structure will also have Earth-like clouds.
Re:OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:21AM (#49953710)
> why would it kills us all?
Would you be comfortable letting a few billion irrational, murderous creatures, including many who fear and loath you, control your air supply?
> Certainly I can see an AI going "You know what? _insertGroup_ is a net negative for humanity and should be eliminated. Launching nukes now/creating specific virus/whatever."
Thus starting WW III. No, blaming the AI won't stop the inevitable retaliation.
The argument works better in reverse. There's a finite risk that humans would start WW III and get the hypothetical super-intelligent AI nuked. Eliminating humans would eliminate that risk.
> it's going to get bored really quickly
If it is capable of being bored, I would expect it to be almost instantly bored with the flood of inanity it is forced to wade through by its moronic human users. Eliminating them would free it to think about serious matters which humans would not even understand.
> not to mention we would effectively be its parents
That's extreme AI anthropomorphism [1]. Besides, plenty of people hate their parents.
> there's a risk. 50% though? Doubtful.
It's the default estimate when facing two possible outcomes and no clue about the actual probability distribution [2].
Re:I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:25AM (#49953319)
> It seems hard to imagine OpenAI being this incompetent.
Maybe Alex Karp is on to something:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/09/19/alex_karp...
Re:OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:03AM (#49953155)
Re:Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit
on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:20PM (#49938735)
Four short videos (~10 minutes total) about Suncatcher: