Readit Newsagnosticmantis commented on Gemini 3 blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/preek
2D SVG is old news. Next frontier is animated 3D. One shot shows there's still progress to be made: https://aistudio.google.com/apps/drive/1XA4HdqQK5ixqi1jD9uMg...
This says Gemini 2.5 though.
agnosticmantis commented on Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All peter.eisentraut.org/blog... · Posted by u/ingve
SQL needs to have `select` as the _last_ part, not the first. LINQ has had this for 2 decades by now: "from table_a as a, table_b as b where ... select a.blah, b.duh".
The Pipe Query Syntax in GoogleSQL implements this elegantly as well:
https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standa...
agnosticmantis commented on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership openai.com/index/next-cha... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
> Once AGI is declared by OpenAI, that declaration will now be verified by an independent expert panel.
So OpenAI will declare AGI as soon as ChatGPT is a better AI lawyer than any Microsoft could hire.
agnosticmantis commented on Show HN: Erdos – open-source, AI data science IDE lotas.ai/erdos... · Posted by u/jorgeoguerra
This looks very cool, I’m gonna try it later today.
Out of curiosity, why the name Erdos? AFAIK Erdos was neither a statistician, data scientist nor AI researcher.
He sure solved many probability/combinatorics problems and famously had many many collaborators.
agnosticmantis commented on Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland bluewin.ch/en/entertainme... · Posted by u/kvam
"His decision seems to have been based less on his famous scientific thinking and more on a very personal feeling. He wanted to retain his autonomy until the end and to shape his own end."
So you could say it was more system 1 thinking rather than system 2.
I would've expected the opposite given our survival instincts.
agnosticmantis commented on Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption stratechery.com/2025/sora... · Posted by u/feross
This might be controversial, but I genuinely love AI-generated “video slop”. Hear me out for a second: I’m utterly exhausted by influencers peddling their endless “buy this crap” content. Honestly, the AI slop often feels more creative, less salesy and refreshingly free of performative perfection.
But Meta knows AI slop poses a problem for their business model. When anyone can churn out engaging content without needing perfect lighting, a six-figure ad deal, or even a face or voice, there’s little incentive for users to stay locked into the influencer-driven attention economy that fuels Meta’s ad revenue. They don’t just want your attention, they want it monetized. And right now, AI slop is too democratic to profit from.
Only difference is soon you'll have Mickey Mouse tell you (and your children) to buy same old crap that the influencers were shilling.
agnosticmantis commented on Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption stratechery.com/2025/sora... · Posted by u/feross
Business idea: disrupt all these apps by creating an agent that watches all the brainrot for us so we all get our stolen attentions back.
agnosticmantis commented on Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/signa11
How about the donor piggy though?
If this becomes commonplace and animals are bred/raised just for their organs, we get into murky ethical territory. (Yes, people already eat the organs for food, that's murky too. But industrial scale organ farming sounds even worse somehow.)