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BeetleB commented on The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025)   ejpe.org/journal/article/... · Posted by u/cainxinth
Tomte · 10 hours ago
Kahnemann had the intellectual honesty to accept that large parts of his book are flawed, and he called on psychologists to clean up their act by doing a systematic multiple reproduction study program:

https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/7.6716.1349271308!/s...

BeetleB · 9 hours ago
Not "large parts". Just a few chapters.
BeetleB commented on My AI Adoption Journey   mitchellh.com/writing/my-... · Posted by u/anurag
IhateAI · 3 days ago
I didn't get into creating software so I could read plagiarism laundering machines output. Sorry, miss me with these takes. I love using my keyboard, and my brain.
BeetleB · 2 days ago
And not working with anyone else.

AI written code is often much easier to read/review than some of my coworkers'

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BeetleB commented on My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs   journal.rafaelcosta.me/my... · Posted by u/rafaelcosta
bri3d · 7 days ago
Yes, "floating point accumulation doesn't commute" is a mantra everyone should have in their head, and when I first read this article, I was jumping at the bit to dismiss it out of hand for that reason.

But, what got me about this is that:

* every other Apple device delivered the same results

* Apple's own LLM silently failed on this device

to me that behavior suggests an unexpected failure rather than a fundamental issue; it seems Bad (TM) that Apple would ship devices where their own LLM didn't work.

BeetleB · 7 days ago
As a sister comment said, floating point computations are commutative, but not associative.

a * b = b * a for all "normal" floating point numbers.

BeetleB commented on Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games   adventuregamestudio.co.uk... · Posted by u/doener
npsomaratna · 7 days ago
Didn't they remake Quest for Glory II and a couple of the Kings Quest games in this? Fun times.
BeetleB · 7 days ago
Yup. This is the one.
BeetleB commented on Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games   adventuregamestudio.co.uk... · Posted by u/doener
alexhans · 7 days ago
Among other things, this got me dabbling with software development. It had an awesome C++ like scripting language.

It also used to have a button with a text like "make a game" where you would click what you wanted in the form of checkboxes and when you pressed the submit button it would tell you something like, it's not that easy, is it? Wonder how easier it may be now. :P

Shoutout to classic community games like

- Cirque De Zale https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/377/

- The trilby series (5 days a stranger) https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/269-5-days-a...

BeetleB · 7 days ago
The Trilby series is fantastic!
BeetleB commented on Ode to the AA Battery   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
dragontamer · 9 days ago
That's not how it works at all.

When one is 80% and the other is 100%, the full one enters a state of over charge, reaching 105% or even 110% charge. This is safe.

The H2 reaction then rapidly speeds up, leaking energy in the form of heat. The full battery heats up from overcharge but is otherwise safe.

You end up with both batteries at 100% and maybe 110%, and a day or two later the 110% overcharge settles down to 100% by leaking out.

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So you waste a bit of power but as long as the trickle charge is safe and as long as the overcharge is only for a few dozen hours or so, it's fine. In the very long term (if you keep doing this) the NiMH could get damaged. But if we are talking about a once-per-yeqr top off charge, then it's fine.

The problem is like I said before: the safe rate of overcharge is low. This means that these chargers must charge slowly, maybe 10 hours or longer.

Any faster risks blowing through the NiMH innate ability to take an overcharge and convert it into heat. (This results in a forceful vent, a 'pop' sound that permanently damages the NiMH as the H2 gas escapes the safety hatch).

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Note that these super cheap chargers are simply a glorified 10+ hour timer. They don't even check the state of the AA cells.

So if you stick a 50% full battery in, it will charge the battery to 150%, most likely. (But safely, as the NiMH just leaks out the excess energy as heat, as I said earlier).

BeetleB · 9 days ago
I suppose there are lots of different chargers. The one I had made both charging lights turn off when one turned green. Maybe it was overcharging but still showing as red till both were charged?
BeetleB commented on Ode to the AA Battery   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
dragontamer · 9 days ago
NiMH chemistry allows for safe overcharging though. If the chemistry allows for it, why not take advantage of it and have cheaper chargers?

The downside is that "save overcharging" only works at very low charging rates. That's why the double-charger designs all have 10+ hour charge times (mine actually has a 20-hour charge time).

But in practice? Its cheaper to buy 4 extra AA NiMH batteries to keep charged rather than upgrade to the faster chargers. So just keep some spares topped off and you should be fine.

BeetleB · 9 days ago
I think what he is referring to is this:

If one battery is 50%, and the other at 70%, and you put both in, one will end up at 80% and the other at 100%. When one is full, those cheap chargers stop charging the pair.

BeetleB commented on Ode to the AA Battery   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Lutzb · 9 days ago
The best thing about Eneloops do not seem to leak. I can just leave them in rarely used electronic devices without worrying. They might discharge, but so far this has never been a problem.
BeetleB · 9 days ago
I've been using NiMH AA batteries for over 20 years. I've never had one leak. It's not unique to Eneloop.

u/BeetleB

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