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998244353 commented on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter   waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h... · Posted by u/MrAlex94
Terr_ · 4 days ago
I'd wager there's 95% of the benefit for 0.1% of the CPU cycles just by having a "search transcript for term" feature, since in most of those cases I've already got a clear agenda for what kind of information I'm seeking.

Many years ago I make a little proof-of-concept for displaying the transcript (closed captions) of a YouTube video as text, and highlighting a word would navigate to that timestamp and vice-versa. Such a thing might be valuable as a browser extension, now that I think of it.

998244353 · 3 days ago
YouTube already supports that natively these days, although it's kind of hidden (and knowing Google, it might very well randomly disappear one day). Open the description of the video, scroll down and click "show transcript".
998244353 commented on Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'   nasdaq.com/articles/metas... · Posted by u/MindBreaker2605
pirates · a month ago
Those people are intelligent, they’re just selfish and have no qualms over making money off the repugnant crap they’re doing.
998244353 · a month ago
In that case, how come they "left in the first days of the job" because "they saw what they were going to work on and peaced out"?
998244353 commented on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado   nobelprize.org/prizes/pea... · Posted by u/pykello
toofy · 2 months ago
people are getting in very real world trouble for saying negative things about certain people or their friends.

i’m not sure if you’ve seen how many people have lost their jobs for saying truths about kurk or how many people are losing jobs, scholarships, visas, education etc for saying things about a certain regime, but it’s happening, for real. they’re actively pushing to force people to turn over their social media accounts for review.

we can’t blame this poster for vagueposting here. i often pushback against vagueposting but in today’s climate we cant blame people for taking their personal safety seriously when it comes to vocalizing their criticisms.

998244353 · 2 months ago
I seriously doubt saying "big blond haired baby who likes burger and fascism" instead of "Trump" would have made a difference for these people.
998244353 commented on At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery   quantamagazine.org/at-17-... · Posted by u/baruchel
thrawa8387336 · 5 months ago
No, that was the purpose of high school. As not practiced in public schools, as not practiced in the US
998244353 · 5 months ago
No, it's both.

The purpose of high school is to give you a wide foundation on everything.

The purpose of an undergraduate degree (in math) is to give you a wide foundation (in math).

In a (math) PhD, you are generally hyper-specialized in a very, very narrow area (of math).

998244353 commented on Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right   trytender.app/... · Posted by u/risquer
mmaunder · 5 months ago
That this needs to exist is deeply disturbing.
998244353 · 5 months ago
What?

This doesn't "need to" exist, it's just a funny parody that someone made.

998244353 commented on Functions Are Vectors (2023)   thenumb.at/Functions-are-... · Posted by u/azeemba
seanhunter · 5 months ago
If you restrict yourself to Lebesque-integrable functions, can’t you take the complex Fourier transform of the function and call the terms of the Fourier series a basis, with the coefficients being the components of the vector of the function? This is a bit above my current mathematical paygrade, so forgive me if I’m not expressing the idea accurately but I’m learning a lot both from the article and the ensuing discussion - hopefully you understand what I’m getting at.

I think what I may be asking is “Does the complex Fourier transform make a Hilbert space?” but I might be wrong both about that and about that being the right question.

998244353 · 5 months ago
No, and this is where this formal notion of basis I mentioned unfortunately diverges from what is perhaps more useful in practice.

You can represent any function f: [-pi, pi] -> R as an infinite sum

    f(x) = sum_(k = 0 to infinity) (a_k sin(kx) + b_k cos(kx))
for some coefficients a_k and b_k as long as f is sufficiently nice (I don't remember the exact condition, sorry).

This is very useful, but the functions sin(x), sin(2x), ... , cos(x), cos(2x), ... don't constitute a basis in the formal sense I mentioned above as you need an infinite sum to represent most functions. It is still often called a basis though.

998244353 commented on Functions Are Vectors (2023)   thenumb.at/Functions-are-... · Posted by u/azeemba
ttoinou · 5 months ago
I agree but we're using functions for different things here. Yes some specific families of functions can be treated as vector spaces. In this article it seems like the author is pretending to take all real->real functions and treating them as if they are a vector space, whatever the content of the functions, quote :

  we’ve built a vector space of functions
and later he admits it is impossible

  Ideally, we could express an arbitrary function f as a linear combination of these basis functions. However, there are uncountably many of them—and we can’t simply write down a sum over the reals. Still, considering their linear combination is illustrative:

They are uncountable because they are aleph1

998244353 · 5 months ago
The set of all real->real functions is still a vector space.

This vector space also has a basis (even if it is not as useful): there is a (uncountably infinite) subset of real->real functions such that every function can be expressed as a linear combination of a finite number of these basis functions, in exactly one way.

There isn't a clean way to write down this basis, though, as you need to use Zorn's lemma or equivalent to construct it.

998244353 commented on US Securities and Exchange Commission beginning to bring on DOGE staff   reuters.com/world/us/us-s... · Posted by u/voxadam
lotsofpulp · 9 months ago
Eligible voters that did not vote due to apathy/laziness/politics are complicit.
998244353 · 9 months ago
GP's comment was about accepting this actively vs passively, not about being complicit.
998244353 commented on The Origin of the Pork Taboo   archaeology.org/issues/ma... · Posted by u/diodorus
esaym · 9 months ago
>Pigs aren't special.

Apparently pigs can be possessed with sprints. I always assumed that was why they were considered unclean.

From Mark 5: So the demons begged him, "Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!" So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs

https://biblehub.com/isv/mark/5.htm

998244353 · 9 months ago
Is there any reference to pigs being possessed with spirits that predate the New Testament?
998244353 commented on Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer   tibinotes.com/p/practical... · Posted by u/tb8424
hliyan · 9 months ago
To me, peak usability was 25 years ago, when most applications had a toolbar and a menu that followed a standard pattern. If you're a frequent, non-power-user, you use the toolbar (e.g. "insert row" button). If you're an infrequent non-power-user, you go through the menu (Insert > Row Above). If you're a power user, you remember the shortcuts indicated through underlined letters in menu labels (e.g. Alt, I, A).

If you want to change settings, you open the settings dialog (Tools > Settings), and it as tabs like "General", "Fonts and colors" etc.

Most people were a lot less computer literate back then, but they were able to use most applications with little help. If they really needed help, the help system was built into the application.

The goal back then was to have the user get the work done as efficiently as possible, in effect, minimizing the time the user pends on the application. Modern UX doctrine aims for the opposite goal -- to keep people "engaged" as much as possible. This might be okay for consumer apps, but maddeningly, the same doctrine gets applied to enterprise applications as well. I've literally heard non-techie employees of a Fortune 100 company ask for their legacy green screen terminals back because the new, flashy SPA was slowing them down.

998244353 · 9 months ago
> This might be okay for consumer apps, but maddeningly, the same doctrine gets applied to enterprise applications as well. I've literally heard non-techie employees of a Fortune 100 company ask for their legacy green screen terminals back because the new, flashy SPA was slowing them down.

Applying general design principles without taking actual use cases into account is the worst.

A common one is putting heaps of whitespace around each cells in a table. Visually appealing, sure. But unusable if I need to look at more than 8 rows at the same time.

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