XMPPwocky (u/XMPPwocky)

XMPPwocky commented on NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece erichartford.com/the-demo... · Posted by u/aratahikaru5

rainsford · 2 months ago

Ironically there is a lot of inflammatory language in the blog post itself that seems unjustified given the source material.

XMPPwocky · 2 months ago

I also can't help but note that this blog post itself seems (first to my own intuition and heuristics, but also to both Pangram and GPTZero) to be clearly LLM-generated text.

XMPPwocky commented on Claude Sonnet 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

zurfer · 3 months ago

Same price and a 4.5 bp jump from 72.7 to 77.2 SWEBench

Pretty solid progress for roughly 4 months.

XMPPwocky · 3 months ago

nit: assuming you mean basis points, one basis point is 0.01%. 4.5bp would be 72.7% to 72.71%. this is 450bp!

XMPPwocky commented on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/madars

ranger_danger · 5 months ago

Maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight, but I always thought it was interesting that Graphene OS places so much blind trust in a proprietary black box security chip from Google that they pinky-promised to open source but never did.

XMPPwocky · 5 months ago

How is it a black box? You can get the firmware trivially.

XMPPwocky commented on Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M coindesk.com/business/202... · Posted by u/techlover14159

EGreg · 10 months ago

I am a “crypto adherent” who champions decentralized networks and byzantine-fault-tolerant protocols, and I have been using strongly pushing for the original narrative of trustless smart contracts cutting out the middleman. I think there are many use cases for it.

Before you knock it, look at the following:

https://intercoin.app/investors.pdf

https://intercoin.app/currencies.pdf

Or if you want to see actual open source solutions, coded, see here:

https://intercoin.org/applications

I know some people will knee-jerk downvote this. But actually look into the substance, first.

TLDR: I have been speaking against “HODL” and zero-sum games just for “number go up” nonsense, and been building solutions for maximum utility.

XMPPwocky · 10 months ago

I think your pitch would be significantly stronger if the resources you linked didn't largely revolve around "What if Snoop Dogg had his own currency?"

I'm not ... completely unable to be persuaded that there are use cases for cryptocurrency. But "Ashton Kutcher should have Aston Kutchercoin, and develop some sort of referral-based pyramid-shaped scheme with it for his fans" is... what is that?

XMPPwocky commented on High-temperature Gibbs states are unentangled and efficiently preparable arxiv.org/abs/2403.16850... · Posted by u/KolenCh

anthk · a year ago

It doesn't matter how does it work inside. There's no free will, you are bound to the action of the physics from the Universe. Period.

XMPPwocky · a year ago

What makes you say that? Have you read serious arguments against this view (ideally from academic philosophers, not somebody like me on HN!)?

XMPPwocky commented on China's 'Wukong' Hit Sells 10M Copies in Three Days bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zaikunzhang

muratsu · a year ago

This game also has been notable for observing how power is shifting from traditional media companies like IGN to individual streamers. For those who haven’t been following closely, IGN has accused the game developer for being sexist (based on some poorly translated social media posts) and gave it a low score before properly playing/testing it. The kneejerk reaction from the fed up gamers propelled the game to greater heights. Things have been brewing between big media and streamers for a while and this is probably the wake up call for the big media if it’s not already too late.

XMPPwocky · a year ago

> IGN has accused the game developer for being sexist (based on some poorly translated social media posts) and gave it a low score before properly playing/testing it.

What score did they give it? Because I just checked and they seem to have awarded it an 8 out of 10. I don't follow game reviews, but surely review inflation hasn't gotten so bad that people are on some sort of anti-"woke" bent over an 8 out of 10?

I figured "well maybe they changed it after publication, those sneaky skags", so looked at the ol' Wayback Machine capture for Aug 16th, four days before launch, when the review embargo lifted: https://web.archive.org/web/20240816141422/https://www.ign.c...

8/10 there too- "Despite some frustrating technical issues, Black Myth: Wukong is a great action game with fantastic combat, exciting bosses, tantalizing secrets, and a beautiful world.". Really a horrible thing these journalists have done, ripping into the game like that.

Now, I did also find a report from IGN about 6 months ago that some people claim used "mistranslated quotes". But I don't speak Chinese, and the people online who I've found yelling at IGN about this appear to have used ChatGPT or Google Translate to translate things themselves! So- do you speak Chinese? If not, how do you know the claims of "mistranslation" are correct (again, for a thing that is not a review)?

XMPPwocky commented on Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims developer-tech.com/news/j... · Posted by u/thunderbong

yieldcrv · a year ago

anyone that matters already has drawn that line

this is just a powerless underclass realizing that their complete and lifelong segregation from our legal mechanisms is now biting them in the butt

XMPPwocky · a year ago

Could you be more specific? What underclass (and why don't they matter?), and what segregation?

XMPPwocky commented on Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024... · Posted by u/awendland

krackers · a year ago

>Most real experts know that vaccines carry all sorts of risks

And that's why all the real experts made sure to properly communicate the risks vs benefits of the Covid vaccine in an age, sex, and dose-stratified fashion, right? Oh wait...

XMPPwocky · a year ago

Experts in any field are generally not the ones communicating with, and making recommendations to, the public.

XMPPwocky commented on Microwaves: A Haven for Bacterial Diversity tecscience.tec.mx/en/biot... · Posted by u/rbanffy

XMPPwocky · a year ago

" by the same people that believe whatever they're told by anyone in authority, and then feel the urge to pass it on to others without critical thought."

respectfully, what the hell is this bit doing in your post?

XMPPwocky commented on Artificial intelligence is losing hype economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/bx376

blitzar · a year ago

The 1-minute mile must be right around the corner, and when that inevitably gets broken, the 1-second mile will follow swiftly.

XMPPwocky · a year ago

In fact, humans will be running at relativistic speeds within this century, risking the total destruction of the Earth if they should ever trip over something and fall down.

Scary stuff. And it's not science fiction- it's based on real, observed trends and scaling laws. Seems impossible? Well, they said the four-minute mile was impossible, too.