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Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:28AM (#50339275)
But Ubuntu is not some small distro maintained by unpaid volunteers; they are a corporation that offers paid support. I think it reasonable to be disconcerted when a company that you are paying for security updates is this negligent, especially when other distros have fixed this issue far more expediently.
Re:Railpass on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:34PM (#50203478)
What is illegal is not necessarily immoral, and what is legal is not necessarily moral.
Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:55PM (#50015035)
I asked super intelligence to determine if a series converges or diverges yesterday. It said cos(1 + n * pi) is always positive for all n… I must be wrong, not the super intelligence.
Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:51PM (#50015012)
When I clicked on this link, I had to triple check that it was the real Politico website. What interesting times we have the joy of living in…
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:02AM (#50006675)
“Good writing and the ordering of things, [the thread]—this distinguishes the master from the bungler, even in trifles” — Leopold Mozart‘s advice to his son, Amadeus
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:44AM (#49988288)
Not OP, but Nietzsche wrote thus in Beyond Good and Evil: “Ultimately one loves one’s desires and not that which is desired.” I, personally, find this to be very much the case; and I suspect that it is a feeling common, albeit not universal, among the intellectually inclined towards their problems.
Re:Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:22PM (#49859678)
This is a view I strongly agree with. While the “worked example effect,” which is apparently a key part of the platform, does seem to accelerate learning compared with discovery based learning [0], I do not think the learning achieved by the regurgitation of another person’s ratiocination is nearly as useful or rich as learning acquired by discovery. In my view, the best way to fully and completely understand something is to come to it in your own mind.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worked-example_effect

Re:Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:12PM (#49616329)
One of the most egregious cases of this, in my opinion, is only publishing metrics that cover part of the confusion matrix. “The false-negative rate? That could not possibly matter for a variant effect prediction model; why would we include that in the paper?” Example: AlphaMissense.
I really want to like Julia. It has a nice type system, a good ecosystem, reasonable syntax, and it’s far faster than Python. But there are several issues with its DX that prevent me from using it: the most severe of which being the complete lack of a cache for the JIT (or JIT like system), inducing multi second compile times for scripts that run in <100ms. There are some external packages that try to solve this issue, but they are far from first-party quality, and, in my experience, are quite buggy.

(I last tried Julia a few years ago; perhaps this has been improved since?)

The benefit is probably from the removal of fat, not a direct antibacterial/antiviral effect. Fat plays a complex immunoregulatory role in human physiology: it down-regulates some pathways, while up-regulating others (notoriously, the production of IL6 is carried out, in part, by adipocytes). The overall effect of fat on the immune system, however, is negative: it tends to increase the chances of rheumatological disorders, cancers, and many other diseases. Alternatively, the effect may be due to some sociological factor that their analysis failed to account for.

(I am not a medical doctor)

Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @06:29PM (#49558015)
The official ARC-AGI 3 score—-without OpenAI’s custom harness—-can be found here: https://arcprize.org/leaderboard. Astra scores 62.7% at max reasoning for the low-low price of 26,000 dollars.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @06:18PM (#49557904)
“I declare bankruptcy!” - Michael Scott
Re:Dallas startup enriches Uranium on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:09PM (#49455135)
I’m no expert, but I don’t believe that “high-assay low-enriched uranium” is the sort you can use in nuclear weapons, per it being “low-enriched”. According to the DOE, HALEU only goes up to 20% enrichment [0]. Nuclear weapons, it seems, need it to be enriched beyond 20% [1]

[0] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-high-assay-low-enric... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium

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