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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:39AM (#50348802)
Only the context window, right? Which seems....not that big of a hurdle to overcome or navigate around.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:57AM (#50348583)
Why not? What is the differentiator?
Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:16PM (#50343877)
Yeah I thought about that, but I just assumed it would be very unlikely that everything would be initialized at the same time. I suppose your scenario of power being lost simultaneously makes sense when that could happen.
Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:43AM (#50336709)
A better solution might be to make the intervals coprime with 60. 59 or 61 seconds should work fine.

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Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:38AM (#50336660)
Reminds me of hunting tooth gearsets. Perhaps these systems should be checking battery every 59, or 61 seconds, as those numbers are coprime with 60.

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Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:37PM (#50278794)
If, as a society, we wanted to publicly shame every major corporation when a violation of this magnitude occured then each headline would be up for a minute or two.

There is limited public attention. Wasting it on such a minor infraction is unwise. Much better to focus on more egregious examples of corporate wrongdoing.

Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:16PM (#50278422)
Disagree. 1.5 sq miles of forest is miniscule. Shouldn't even be local news where it happened.
Re:Genie 4 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:50AM (#50274641)
I think the only thing your downvotes say is that many people disagree with your opinion.
Re:Genie 4 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:45AM (#50274543)
Until it gets good enough that you can't tell the difference. It will climb out of the uncanny valley eventually.
Re:Genie 4 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:44AM (#50274505)
Exactly. Also, for practical purposes, an AI's capability to meet or exceed human performance is a very important benchmark. It makes the decision between using AI vs paying a human creator very easy.
A remarkably individualistic trend. You no longer need to rely on the central authority for your electric utility.
I hope it's more like discovering islands of information which we can use as footholds to connect the dots between them.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:20PM (#50247415)
It matters from the perspective of tech dependency.

If a medium/small country deemed it a threat to rely on US/China for AI capabilities, they can get 95% of the utility by banning all American and Chinese models and just using local ones.

This contrasts to something like oil or nukes, where if you're not one of the countries blessed with them, you have a serious power imbalance.

Re:Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:25PM (#50246488)
Right. My point with that comment was to mirror fezoracer's comment that "you are not entitled to someone else's money and people aren't required to pay for something they can make themselves"

Both are strawman arguments, so my mistake on mine.

Re:Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:19PM (#50246386)
Of course you're allowed to criticize.

Likewise, others are free to criticize your criticism.

My point is it's silly to be upset about others charging for products that are easily vibe coded. If it's that easy to make, and they are charging too much, then someone else (it could even be you!) will come along and undercut them.

Re:Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:02PM (#50246051)
Yes it is. I can go to the grocery store and buy one in 10 minutes from where I am now. And it would cost me very little to do so.

That's the analogous equivalent of spending the tokens to use AI to make this project.

The analogous equivalent of growing a potato yourself over months would be creating this website without AI.

Re:Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:50AM (#50244731)
It's not just their refusal to pay for something that's low-effort. It's the fact that they are criticizing the creator for charging anyone at all.

You're not entitled to dictate what someone else charges for their product, no matter how easy it is to make.

Re:Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:42AM (#50244577)
It is surely much easier to replace a potato than to recreate this. Yet we still pay for potatoes.
Re:A Mathematician Reads the AI Future on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:08PM (#50237329)
What makes you think that computers will be unable to pick relevant questions for humans?

Surely an AI could consider the human's needs, wants, and interests, and then provide a likely candidate for a good question.

This is the goal of some, but very few overall, government regulations. Not even close to "all".
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:59PM (#50227519)
This only happens in very mature industries. AI is obviously moving extremely quickly with lots of new entrants and moving parts. That's why all the model providers are losing money fighting for market share.
Re:Voxtral 3 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:42PM (#50169948)
Or, cynically, for creators who pay an extra fee.
Re:Voxtral 3 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:40PM (#50169915)
They should just do it on the subset with the most views.
Re:AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:47AM (#50164860)
Yes? Isn't that what humans do when teaching each other math? I don't see why, however any human prefers to teach/learn math, LLMs can't do that too.
Re:AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:37AM (#50163026)
What is the reason that we won't eventually be able to ask AI to simplify the lean proof, or make it more readable to humans? Or to read the swarm communication logs and summarize the process by which they arrived at the solution?

I don't understand why there seems to be a fundamental limitation on that front.

Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:08PM (#50121171)
The cost to take a picture today and keep it on your phone is not more expensive than it was when you had to get them developed in a darkroom.

The cost to watch a movie today through streaming is not more than it was when you had to go to a movie theater to see one.

The cost to buy and sell financial instruments today through Robinhood or similar products is not more than when you had to have a broker to place orders for you.

The cost to find vast amounts of information through search engines is negligible today. To do so previously would take immense amounts of time, effort, and money parsing through encyclopedias is the information even existed at the time.

The cost to print a few drafts of a memo today requires a single session typing into Microsoft word and then printing to your office printer. Previously you had to pay a typist to put together multiple drafts for you.

On autonomous vehicles:

Yes they will absolutely be cheaper, as long as a complete monopoly is avoided. It's not just that you don't have to pay the driver. You also will have vastly lower insurance rates due to how safe they are. Maintenance costs will be lower due to economies of scale when fleet operators can have the car deliver itself to a dedicated massive maintenance facility.

Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:24PM (#50120419)
But, as a whole, the entire population's pay goes a lot farther since no one has to pay drivers to drive them around anymore.

Living standards would be a lot worse today if we still had to pick crops in the field by hand.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/research

1 : studious inquiry or examination especially : investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts, revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts, or practical application of such new or revised theories or laws

2 : the collecting of information about a particular subject

3 : careful or diligent search

Nothing here requires human understanding to be the goal. In fact, it explicitly calls out "practical applications" as one of the purposes that can be aimed at.

The whole field of applied mathematics is for the purpose of finding practical applications. Therefore any research conducted in this field is not for the exclusive purpose of human understanding or knowledge.

I'm not complaining, you're just restricting the definition of mathematics research in order to discredit what the AI labs have achieved.

I don't know, this just seems like gatekeeping of the term "research" simply because you don't like the way it's being done.

Many modern medicines do not have understood mechanisms of action, yet we know they work. Are the people who found them not conducting drug research?

Do we even have a different term for what the AI labs are conducting if it's not mathematical research?

Additionally, I would argue that any work that adds to the total corpus of known facts increases human understanding, even if the path to get to each fact isn't understood. It's hard to argue we'd be better off with less total information.

Who determines the objective of mathematics research?

All mathematics researchers in the whole world have agreed upon that objective apparently?

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