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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:58PM (#50344443)
This is more like "meta-studying". The human equivalent would maybe be to do brain surgery on someone to make them learn something new about math
Re:Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:57PM (#50307714)
The ones we're not thinking about is the computer program abstraction layer in our brains. I think consciously thinking about an equation in our brains is the LLM layer equivalent, we're reasoning about it with language logic or models of our spatial senses (the unconscious calculations)
Re:If IPv4 Were Land
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:23PM (#50292714)
and one of the countries has an over-reported while the other is underreporting
Re:Hittite royal archive found in Turkey
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:50AM (#50070190)
inb4 Turkish ultra-nationalists claiming their language is just a dialect of Turkish
Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:11AM (#49362686)
Yes, it's the verb though, "to fake". It's a quite recent loan from English,
Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:18PM (#49352059)
Although "Malm" is a common surname, it's a word first and a name second if that makes sense
The same way "Brown" is common surname in English but mostly makes you think of the color first
Re:Everything You Do Is Being Recorded
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @11:19AM (#49232227)
I wonder how precise this will be? A flying object sounds reasonable but could it actually track say individual people walking on a street further down the line?
Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon
on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:32PM (#48896804)
Re:Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors...
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @08:46AM (#48745820)
The pride and sense of achievement they ought to feel that members of their kind did something should be enough to feel superior though
Re:Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:46PM (#48737430)
may I ask the reason your clients don't just generate these things themselves?
Re:The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:23AM (#48732433)
Language in the scope of a cultural phenomenon is something way beyond just cost or efficiency in communication
thats way wi dont rayt English veri efishent ither
Re:The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:12AM (#48732298)
mostly latin with a sprinkle of proposals to revive the avestan alphabet or middle persian script. I wouldn't say it's a huge debate at all in general though
Re:The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:11AM (#48732276)
You are entirely free to put vowel diacritics when writing with the perso-arabic script and it's done in children's books. By that logic Vietnamese shouldn't be written with the latin script since it's sino-tibetian
Also, middle persian had a native abjad [1]. (As well as a derived alphabet [2])
Re:EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @03:27PM (#48710655)
how are modern riots being organized on a massive scale? I'm curious
Re:The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @03:22PM (#48710601)
I sometimes hear the same in my circles about Persian ditching the perso-arabic script. I don't get it, why can't you align a country however you like without creating a huge rift between a big population and years of literature, material etc etc? One can learn multiple scripts and almost all literate people know the latin script globally nowadays. Besides, sad to see the whole world just use the latin script in the end but that's not the point
Re:French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies...
on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:58PM (#48403087)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy
"It usually appears after a significant stressor, either physical or emotional; when caused by the latter, the condition is sometimes called broken heart syndrome"
Re:French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies...
on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:26PM (#48402655)
Yes, it's kind of the standard word for it in Iranian Persian
Re:French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies...
on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:21PM (#48402543)
Adding to what you said, it's worth to mention that her novel contains grave historical inaccuracies such that suggesting that the Cinema Rex fire was done by the Shah blocking the exits with police letting everyone burn, and later blamed on Islamists (what the revolutionary zeitgeist at the time wanted to believe), while in fact it was exactly the other way around
Re:City birds more afraid of women than men, scientists have no idea why
on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @09:05AM (#47947829)
"men could get about a meter closer to birds than women could before the animals flew away, according to the results. This pattern remained regardless of what the men and women were wearing, what their height was or how they tried to approach the creatures"
The journal article: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3...
Re:Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s
on Friday April 24, 2026 @11:41AM (#47891780)
It's often not allowed to sell nicotine or alcohol to those who aren't penalized either
Re:Starlink satellites being lowered from 550 km to 480 km
on Thursday January 01, 2026 @03:57PM (#46457932)
So instead of having to launch new satellites to replace the deorbited ones ever couple of years, do they have to send new ones every couple of months? Or can the functioning ones maintain their orbits somehow and this is only for the malfunctioning ones?
Re:Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:20AM (#46159347)
terrible take, it's ruined otherwise amazing potential countless times. Just see how over-represented ADHD is in the prison population
Re:How Does Lossless Compression in Fuji RAF Files Work?
on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:43AM (#45426113)
I have the same one and I can definitely recommend it. It depends what your camera experience is, but if you have had one that collected dust on a shelf in the past, I can guarantee you that this one is more fun to use and has a much lower risk of dust collection
Re:Autism may be the price of human intelligence, linked to human brai...
on Monday September 29, 2025 @03:57AM (#45411334)
the "level 1, 2 or 3 autism" has started to gain colloquial traction recently
Re:Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube
on Thursday September 25, 2025 @03:48AM (#45370279)
I disagree (but also with the prestige theory) it's not really a thing in other countries with significant amounts of Persians such as Sweden or Germany, there the exonym is still more dominant and no-one tries to push "farsi" out of pride or anything.
I think it just was a random occurrence / perfect storm in the US where some Persian speakers moving there didn't know there was an English word for it, and where the local population were more used to hearing names of unknown languages, and it happened to stick around and start spreading. And _then_ it maybe became a cultural pride or whatever thing with media following suit like you said
Re:Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube
on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @10:37AM (#45361061)
There are some people suggesting that, however at a small scale and not taken that seriously by many. What difference does it make? What about all the other words that underwent the sound change? Also, some nuanced people can keep languages and politics separate. The sound shift isn't even entirely clear to be due to arabic influence, how come it turned into 'f' and not 'b' such as the arabic approximation? How come sounds like 'g' remained?
And in the end, in English it should be "Persian" and not "Farsi", that is where the actual move should be. How sad and historically wasteful if we started to do that to all languages, "deutsch", "zhongwen" or "elliniki" instead of German, Chinese and Greek
Re:TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds
on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @05:26PM (#45204016)
Perfect, longer time to scroll tiktok while the TV is on in the background
Re:iPhone dumbphone
on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:06AM (#45182930)
Well if you disable App Store you cannot re-install apps you find distracting that you have removed. I actually remove Play store from my android through the debug shell for this exact reason. And yes, it happens that when all other apps are gone, things like Ebay, Foodora, App store etc are scrolled mindlessly, it's a hierarchy of stimulation, you remove one and move on to the next best one. Congratulations that you don't have adhd, it's hell
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
on Monday July 28, 2025 @02:25PM (#44713736)
Oh my bad, yeah that's a cool idea, think I've seen something along those lines once actually, think it was someone on youtube that built one