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Re:Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:39AM (#50351848)
will check it out! also thanks to the others for the clarifications.
Re:Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:40AM (#50349918)
Was interested... but then realized it needs an NVIDIA api key?
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:19PM (#50343091)
I guess I'll say "I was here too".

When you say interpretability you mean understanding without doubt why an output happened, thus opening the gates for audit-dependant work like accounting?

Is it because it's "unlimited" ? An analog would be lifestyle inflation.
> Same reason poor schools mandate uniforms

Nah.

In Argentina, public primary school kids have a white uniform to imprint a sense of being among equals, no matter their families social standing.

Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:01PM (#50339845)
I think the most impressive thing is the doctor still being around after 40 years of profession!
chicken eggs are a result of chicken ovulation!
I have a law of nature for this:

The Spanish proverb “en casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo” (literally: "in the blacksmith's house, a wooden knife") means that the things you would most expect someone to have or fix are often missing or neglected in their own home or life

I mean... operation paperclip already tells you A LOT of what you need to understand about the USA for most of the 20th century. And I'm being kind because it would otherwise be unfair to most of the users of this site who were not even born then.
they should just let us use pi. but noooo, they think they know better because they work 6 days a week 12 hours a day for piles of money.

Sorry, bad day...

Here in Ireland we already changed the clock on 25/10
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:32PM (#50277464)
this is like a rumor of a rumor at this point
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:29PM (#50277384)
Yup, no way to tell if this carbon is a diamond or just coal.
Since you have been building for years you must be aware of how tariffs affect the viability. how would a reduction to zero affect the project?
I'm tired of these guys trying to one up McCarthy.
Re:Start Doing Graph Theory on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:34AM (#50271406)
not super fond of my memories of having to come up with a graph demonstration on a fixed time on a paper exam, but at least I can say I was once a person that could do that!
Surely the border patrol will not use it to torture a trespasser?
Re:The Alien Space of Science on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:40AM (#50207418)
It's ironic looking at a recent post on the same blog and immediately noticing the claudisms https://blog.karliner.net/posts/thingstudio-common-ground/

edit: clarification: the content itself is fine, in fact I'm curious!

> And it gives a place for Ellison to have video calls with the UN.

Dr Evil in shambles!

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:26AM (#50179098)
line must go up forever, otherwise you are a communist or a luddite it seems.
Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:48AM (#50178765)
he works FROM space, of course.
Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:35AM (#50178638)
I have GAD and ten years ago when I was on my lowest, I was on 2 mg klonopin daily plus SSRI.When I asked to wean off the klonopin, we did over the course of two months and zero problems (fortunate).
title really seems to be written by whoever kidnapped Mulder's sister in the x files
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:13AM (#50165892)
they must know something is coming from the american labs for some time, you don't release this just like that!
Re:Starcraft: Ashfall on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:58AM (#50163202)
> just sad for everyone who wants to sit there and remove hours of their life and attention for sound pings and moving pixels

you mean the gamer public?

never ever tried a different font in my terminal but for some reason I feel compelled to start with this one.
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:16AM (#50129022)
been there done that twice! But probably SV is different now than it was on my visits on 2013 and 2017
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:49PM (#50109295)
no we don't? Also varies massively between countries. UBI talk is just distracting the masses from the impending change of paradigm. UBI is basically Blisstonia.
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:03AM (#50104724)
not sure what is the source for this. I'm just a latino posting from Ireland tho.
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:58AM (#50104661)
There is no reality in which everyone gets their basic needs (food, roof, health) without a job.

heck, we have the resources to that now but we don't do it.

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