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Posted earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103899

Great interview as expected from Numberphile and, of course, Tao

Re:Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:09AM (#50082645)
"as simple as possible, but not simpler"
Re:Show HN: XY Music Notation on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:26PM (#50082018)
Good video. The colored sheet music examples were quite interesting to see.
Re:Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:13PM (#50081175)
plausible, but unclear
I don't get it. TBL is an observation, not a law or guarantee. It says (Compute / $) is increasing. In efficiency terms:

useful_work / $ = (useful_work / compute) × (compute / $)

But the left side only improves if the method can turn that extra computation into useful output.

Re:Tattoos You Can Turn on and Off on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:37PM (#50051098)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMBX6nFg0RE Imagine a calorie tracker that updates real-time on your belly. Now, that's progress.
The video is about things already scaling the wrong way.
Re:Long-term nuclear waste warning messages on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:14AM (#49932198)
They have a Geiger counter sound feature already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqHV4bus_w
Ants and bees are doing repetitive labor. Let's automate it and call it progress. Robot ants and robobees, thinking thoughts beyond your wildest AI dreams!
Oh yeah? How do you quantify it? How many kilo-einsteins do we need to screw in the navier stokes lightbulb? Halting problem?
Re:Spymarks, Not Watermarks on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:11PM (#49795998)
Might one suggest "pneumatic" ?
Re:Spymarks, Not Watermarks on Monday September 21, 2026 @09:35PM (#49795787)
Can my friend print adversarial yellow doots and such?

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