alessandru (u/alessandru)

alessandru commented on Knowledge and memory robinsloan.com/lab/knowle... · Posted by u/zdw

alessandru · 13 hours ago

this is such drivel and you don't realize it because the guy writes good ... and you don't realize it until you see the "are llms in hell" article ...

let's stop taking opinions on ai from randoms. please. they haven't a fkin clue.

alessandru commented on NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/Gaishan

jiggawatts · 21 hours ago

Anything that can return a sample. Notice that Curiosity collects samples, but omits the sample return rocket.

A good enough microscope can easily tell the difference between life and non-life, especially in the presence of water. If it moves on its own, it is almost certainly alive!

Certain kinds of chromatographs can conclusively determine that no complex chemicals are present, the kind essential to life. I.e.: if only simple metal oxides and the like are present, then you have only a rock.

alessandru · 13 hours ago

this guy is just nasa conspiracy bs repeater

you should go work for spacex and show them how to do the sample return. they've thought about it for at least a decade now and haven't yet. so you can go there and show them how since it's so easy. you'll be millionaire real quick i promise.

alessandru commented on iPhone Air apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte

alessandru · 13 hours ago

hn endorsements? waow. better go line up for this one!

alessandru commented on What Is the Fourier Transform? quantamagazine.org/what-i... · Posted by u/jnord

alessandru · 5 days ago

you people are so confused by the integral transforms you must post daily?

alessandru commented on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code sanity.io/blog/first-atte... · Posted by u/kmelve

alessandru · 8 days ago

did this guy read that other paper about ai usage making people stupid?

how long until he falls from staff engineer back down to senior or something less?

alessandru commented on China is eating the world apropos.substack.com/p/ch... · Posted by u/sg5421

nearbuy · 13 days ago

It was $15k in 2017. Now their GDP per capita (PPP) is about $29k. It's growing fast.

alessandru · 13 days ago

you people realize that shanghai has world-class cost of living? like people there probably make 30k+ just to live there, but the rural, who aren't even allowed to consider living in shanghai bring that average down again. this avg without noting the median is about as misleading as saying people in america all make 80k. (this is household income so divide by avg household size 1.7 or whatever)

the ai had older data but it proves the point: "While the average disposable income for urban residents in 2019 was approximately 39,244 CNY (roughly $5,800 USD), rural residents earned significantly less at 14,389 CNY (roughly $2,100 USD)"

alessandru commented on China is eating the world apropos.substack.com/p/ch... · Posted by u/sg5421

alessandru · 13 days ago

drivel.

yunnan is rural historic farm area, next to tibet, it's not supposed to have mcdo. did author cry he couldn't get shake shack in tibet?

Are they leading in solar panels? wow ... almost like cheap labor and non-existent pollution control makes manufacturing real cheap. Did you hear they're also mining and burning more coal than ever, despite the west's alleged 150 year advantage. But let's forget that. we can totally trust china to remove coal by 2030 like promised.

we call china "emerging" because most (numbers, not the average) of its people make less than 10k per year. most of its rich people aren't investing in stocks or bonds. the government still needs to direct investment in large swaths of society, that is why china earns its "developing" label.

do you think china's courts are developed? we call them emerging or developing, because they haven't shown to be independent yet and they issue political rulings like in some ... developing ... banana republic. that's why it's called developing. their institutions aren't particularly ... instituted.

misleading calling china leader in heat pumps ... yes cheap heat pumps. good for them. but volume doesn't mean good, everyone likes cheap stuff.

china makes 5 year government plans public, what is this 20 year plan he talks about? what is the success rate of these public plans? remember, they promised to control coal and reduce usage by 2030.

small countries like singapore becoming more authoritarian by copying chinese politics isn't the bragging win you think it is.

alessandru commented on Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024) bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2... · Posted by u/renameme

dlcarrier · 15 days ago

When the APA elected Philip Zimbardo, creator of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment#Cri...), as their president (https://www.apa.org/about/governance/president/bio-philip-zi...) they lost my trust. He came up with a hypothesis on human behavior, then did everything he could to force the data to reflect that, including coercing volunteers into torturing each other.

His whole career revelved around promoting strategies for policing and incarceration that clearly don't work, and the APA celebrated him for it. They have a huge bias toword the notion that everyone needs their help. Problems with the DSM wouldn't matter so much, if the APA hadn't shoehorned themselves, and their bible of the DSM, into countless aspects of government and healthcare.

alessandru · 15 days ago

so ... apa ...the apa that writes the dsm-5, psychiatric disorders, the medical group, is the american PSYCHIATRIC assn.

the psychologists, they never went to medical school, so despite forming an organization and many publications, have little to do with diagnostic standards for medical doctors.

for clarity: THERE ARE TWO APA, the one written about in the article is not the same as the one in this comment.