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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:37PM (#50348141)
Actually, Intel's fab's are becoming their crown jewel. The whole "5 nodes in 4 years," where they tried to catch up with TSMC pretty much worked, which is why the stock originally rocketed up by 5x a few months ago. They aren't far behind TSMC now.

But, they still don't have many external customers for the fabs. Intels fab revenu is something like a tenth of TSMC's. Although, it'll probably grow year by year if they continue to match the capabilities of TSMC's chip processes.

Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:33PM (#50348107)
From what I read, Intel's recent chip production strategy was a miss, in that they focused on chips for laptops and not for the chips for AI data centers.

More specifically, they focused on making laptop chips like Panther Lake (Intel's latest and greatest) and they meant to make a lot of their money here, and the data center chips weren't focused on as much (I think these would be something like the Xeon 6, but not sure, but I read that they also could have boosted production of older data center chips). But, as it turns out, laptop sales are down because of the demand for DRAM is sky high from the AI data center build out, and not as many people are willing to buy a super expensive laptop. If they had forecasted more correctly, they would have focused more on making data center chips.

Also, their forward guidance for 2027 is lower than expected too, because it will take awhile to shift their production towards building more data center chips, which they are in the middle of doing.

But, you may want to check other sources because have only been somewhat loosely following what's happening with Intel.

Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:16PM (#50331394)
Ah, I see, that makes sense - and am guessing that most mathematicians (like most non-developers) who work with a programming language don't write "good" code and often ignore the organizational features like classes or namespaces. Yeah, could see how they really are just interested in the core feature-set of a programming language... although, have seen a bug in some high-usage low-level code before, which was greatly surprising. Still that was only one case in years of dev work.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:34PM (#50329530)
don't disbelieve you, but just looked at the reference language, it seems pretty full featured as a programming language, even with basic classes, polymorphism, scope, namespaces... But maybe most of the mathematicians who actual code with stick with the simpler language features? And also, didn't look to deeply, these could be very simple features that actually aren't very sophisticated.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:43PM (#50328989)
Hmm, am no expert at Lean, but on one hand, since it's a programming language, guessing it necessarily means like all other programming languages, it has bugs.

But on the other hand, agree with you that the chances that one its bugs causes a solved proofs to be wrong is probably very, very low. Yeah, each version of Lean obviously must be run against hundreds if not thousands tests of existing proofs to ensure it's working correctly...

... Although, one thing that is a little worrying is that some mathematicians have said the Lean code generated in these OpenAI proofs is supposedly really complex and undecipherable. It might be pushing Lean to corner cases that are not well tested.

Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:37PM (#50266847)
I agree, great coding is art too, and not just the code itself, but very much the problem solving process. It’s sad the highest levels of cognitive ability humans can do are no longer needed (or not nearly as much)
Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:15PM (#50261452)
Agreed, really enjoy solving tough problems. Like having some interesting enhancement that needs to be carefully and surgical added into a complex codebase. Or writing an algorithm that grabs a bunch of info, sorts it in multiple ways, and uses this info to generate a useful result for our API (am thinking of specific past situations that have done this).

What is not fun is the repetitive stuff, where you have to search a code base for the same change over and over again, but it's not something you can just do a search and replace. Am happy to have AI do this (although, even this, you still have to read through every change).

Think some of it this as we don’t have a strong safety net in the US. But also read that is because cities are just so expensive. Yeah, for people making something like $40k/yr it’s much easier to fall into major debt. Had a couple of roommates who went through this, staying financially solvent in the city was a huge deal. It seemed like they were constantly treading water.

But, agree that we as a country can strengthen to safety net, probably good for us as a whole.

Agreed, and probably has already started with the high usage of the internet and YouTube
Agreed, it’s incredible and scary how natural and human it sounds. It’s gonna be pretty much impossible for almost anyone to tell if they’re talking to AI
Agreed:) no one’s gonna mate and continue the our human lineage, haha
Actually, used to live in SF. And yeah the tenderloin is pretty bad. Saw drug use and and a lot incredible things walking through those areas.

But wondering if that is also just a city thing? LA has Skid Row and just looked it up online, many metros have a Skid-Row type area.

Not saying that lenient crime policies don't make them worse, but it also might just be a feature of cities?

Think the Philly DA situation is a bit more unique and interesting. Yeah, agree, he was one of the first progressive DA's elected in recent times, and he is in many ways light on crime. But he just got re-elected by a 75% in 2025 for a third term. That's incredible and think there is a reason for this.

Am no expert on him, but as we're all talking about here, the legal system is really messed up. Yeah, there are a lot of terrible processes and laws that get in the way of justice, and a lot of the things his office did made a lot of sense.

Probably one of the biggest was the "Elimination of Cash Bail for Low-Level Offenses." The cash bail system for minor crimes really screws poor people, who can't make bail for things like shoplifting, and have to stay in jail until their pre-trial. (it's often something like $1000, which for middle-class people is not a big deal at all). But imagine a teen who had to stay out of school for a month or even two just because they stole something for $20 and his family can't put together $1k. The teen gets behind in class and stops trying, and this becomes the start of getting further and further behind in life. And a similar situation happens with poor working-class people for a minor crime, they can't pay bail, so they are in jail and can't work. They are often fired or just get into debt because they're not drawing a salary.

I don't know about anything about open drug markets, but think overall what the Philly DA seemed sensible (and just looked briefly and it seems like the crime statistics turned out well in Philly, but that could be from a number of things).

Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:32AM (#50127966)
Makes a lot of sense:)
Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:31AM (#50127955)
Yeah, as mentioned in my comment, there are uses other than for this rocket-jump maneuver they did that thrusters would be useful for.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:08PM (#50124744)
Well, think you're only seeing the most splashy uses. For instance, at high speeds, could use the thrusters to first, increase acceleration and speed, and second, have them also able to do a bit of thrust vectoring to help push the car's tires on to the pavement for better traction. And then on turns, have thrusters firing to help push the car into the turn.

Also, maybe the car is able to hover for short to medium distances, which for a military and offroad vehicles, could be very useful to cover all types of terrain

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:02PM (#50124659)
Well, the first thought is that they borrowed the thrust technology and software from spacex. This makes sense, because in starship, they used to have a lot of pneumatic powered actuators for things like thrust vectoring control, then they switched to electric motors, because they are instaneously responsive for one thing (and I think more reliable as they aren't fluid based). From what remember, they originally used electric motors from Tesla, so makes sense that Telsa would in turn borrow from Spacex.
Wow, that is a great story! Really like how you used tech to treat a health issue. Keep up the good work!
Yeah, didn't find it painful either
Re:Things to know if you get cancer in 2026 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:01AM (#50099367)
Seems like it was due to a couple of factors:

1) Very old injuries, almost all when I was a child or teen playing sports or doing reckless things, which caused neuralgia (nerve pain). Two were on the head (one from skiing, one from playing baseball and getting hit with a bat on the head by accident). Another on the tailbone that am focusing on now

2) Very bad posture related to these injuries - had horrible posture as a teen, and thinking back, this is very probably due to my tailbone pain. It caused a ton of pain when sitting and also caused me to twist up my pelvis and hips to avoid it. This terrible twisting on top of the other pain destroyed my posture and clenched up my neck, and for the past 30 years, have been trying to undo those postural problems and muscle clenching. Have done a lot of physical therapy and exercises, but it's much better now (although, it's still a work in progress and will probably never be finished).

Re:Things to know if you get cancer in 2026 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:26PM (#50095563)
Have had terrible pain and muscle clenching in my body since I was a teen (am 52 now) and for the past 15+ years, have been intensely working with the medical system to figure out the cause (have gotten a lot of great relief!). Agree with everything said in this blog in working with the medical system. To put my spin on it:

- You are the least-constrained team member in your healthcare: At an appointment, your doctors only get to spend ~30 min on your problem and it's unrealistic to expect them to be as deeply involved as you are on your healthcare. Yeah, you yourself can spend days or even weeks researching you health problems and planning your healthcare.

- Research your health problems: you don't need to be an expert to read about your health problem, learn the basic anatomy involved and the high and mid-level details of the surgery or treatment. You'll have to look up a lot of terms, but it's not that bad and the articles aren't that difficult to understand at a high-level.

- You are also the manager of your healthcare: Planning and seeing the big picture is critical. You can optimize a lot of the planning of appointments, exams and surgeries buy thoughtful planning. And, you can definitely catch a lot of opportunties and mistakes in decisions that are made. Just like in a tech project, a couple of good random ideas can lead you to some fantastic outcomes.

There are many more, but yeah, working with the healthcare system is an skill that can be studied and learned. Really useful.

Re:Things to know if you get cancer in 2026 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:00PM (#50095182)
It's an over generalization but think this person has a point. The US health system has it problems (cost!!), but have read that since it's money driven instead of a government service, compared to other healthcare systems, it's often got a shorter wait time to see a doctor. This makes sense, a lot of students want to become doctors in the US, because they can make a lot of money
Re:You might want to try being less creative on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:28PM (#50038931)
Completely agree. Imitation is a great way to learn. But yeah, then typically you need to extend with your own ideas
Re:You might want to try being less creative on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:39PM (#50027477)
Interesting. There is of course be a line between condoned use and unwanted stealing. And now that you’re mentioning it, think there is a higher tolerance for humans using a person‘s ideas versus AI. Think this is not only because a human is a real person and typically is also associated with music who has studied it to some degree, but also because when AI uses your ideas, you’re basically giving free access to them for any of the millions of users of the model. Hmm, Useful to think about
Re:You might want to try being less creative on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:29PM (#50027370)
Agreed:)
Re:You might want to try being less creative on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:09PM (#50025990)
Agreed... and am realizing, especially with themes/melodies, sometimes it's not always easy to modify them enough to the point that it's unrecognizable, but even then, you could be said to quoting their theme - although, am of course not talking about quoting popular music melodies, no one wants a lawsuit:)
Re:You might want to try being less creative on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:04PM (#50025943)
Actually, didn't hear about this, but makes sense, Brahms clearly builds off of Beethoven.

But, have had heard the same thing that was said in the page you linked, that one of the reasons Brahms took so long in his life before he wrote a symphony is that he had to compete with Beethoven, and didn't feel it was ready until much older. Yeah, what an immense weight he must have felt to have to follow up what Beethoven had done!

Re:You might want to try being less creative on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:26PM (#50025500)
Am an aspiring composer. We often say we have no qualms about "stealing" from other composers. Yeah, if we see an idea or technique used in piece of music we like, we won't hesitate to try it out in our own pieces. Of course, we don't actually steal to the point of plagarism, but it's pretty common to do, and the ideas we take are often modified for your own needs or just taken in parts.
Re:The Mathocalypse on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:09PM (#50008587)
Seems similar to what is happening with software developers.
Re:Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:12PM (#49995747)
Very useful info. Didn't realize model releases often reused the same pretrained base-model and just enhanced the post-training RL. And also that contractors are creating tasks and solutions for this post-training. Super interesting and makes a lot of sense.

... And yeah, agree with your statement that this is not emergence. But to me, it's still impressive, because the more post-training tasks they create, the more the model can do, and this set of abilities is only going to keep growing and growing.

... Also, if you wouldn't mind one last question, have read that the AI companies have started to do self-training, where the models are starting to train themselves. Might this lead to even faster and faster increase in model capabilities? ... although, based on what you're saying, maybe it just leads to a model reaching a its max plateau for existing capabilities rather than an explosion in new ones. Because, as you mentioned, for a model to learn an ability, it still needs a human to create a training dataset for it. Is this your understanding?

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