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dosinga commented on Tom Lehrer has died   nytimes.com/2025/07/27/ar... · Posted by u/detaro
dosinga · a month ago
"In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese!" - as relevant as ever. Maybe less so German and more matrix multiplication
dosinga commented on Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting   maalvika.substack.com/p/c... · Posted by u/kjhughes
dosinga · a month ago
I think it is perfectly reasonable to ask for a summary before committing to reading a book. There are just too many books. In fact this article mentions a bunch of books and summarizes them inline. Good. Gives me more information on whether I should read those books
dosinga commented on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA   ostechnix.com/linux-reach... · Posted by u/marcodiego
dosinga · a month ago
If you zoom out to say the last 10 years you can see that those graphs go up and down like crazy. The error bars on these numbers must be huge.
dosinga commented on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon   blog.thenewoil.org/the-pr... · Posted by u/DanAtC
dosinga · 2 months ago
Am I missing something, the article randomly says: "For context, the US federal government spent $53 million on public education in 2022." and links to: https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti... which says K-12 schools spend $857.2 billion.
dosinga commented on Clinical knowledge in LLMs does not translate to human interactions   arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18919... · Posted by u/insistent
dosinga · 2 months ago
Really what it seems to say is that LLMs are pretty good at identifying underlying causes and recommending medical actions but if you let humans use LLMs to self diagnose the whole thing falls apart, if I read this correctly
dosinga commented on Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's   underscoresf.com/in-san-f... · Posted by u/namanyayg
standardUser · 2 months ago
Waymo and Uber have partnerships in some cities, like Phoenix, where you can only order a Waymo through the Uber app. So they don't view each other only as competitors, though I have no clue what Uber's thinking long-term.
dosinga · 2 months ago
This is true. Then again Google used to power Yahoo!'s search and then ended up replacing Yahoo! as the default web destination
dosinga commented on The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine   cnn.com/2025/05/30/busine... · Posted by u/lwo32k
GardenLetter27 · 3 months ago
Bureaucracy and regulation is the main issue there though.

Like in Europe where you're forced to pay a notary to start a business - it's not really even necessary, nevermind something that couldn't be automated, but it's just but of the establishment propping up bureaucrats.

Whereas LLMs and generative models in art and coding for example, help to avoid loads of bureaucracy in having to sort out contracts, or even hire someone full-time with payroll, etc.

dosinga · 3 months ago
> Like in Europe

Like in the US you have a choice of which jurisdiction you want to start your company. Not all require a notary

dosinga commented on Mustard Watches (1990)   girard.perso.math.cnrs.fr... · Posted by u/fscaramuzza
CobrastanJorji · 3 months ago
Theorems 1 and 2 are a little weak. For theorem 1, once a mustard watch reaches a sufficiently enormous size, material weaknesses become relevant problems to overcome, and it is not clearly shown that adding a few more grains will in fact allow the watch to still operate. And theorem 2 doesn't discuss how much time is needed to measure the current time. I'm not entirely sure this has been peer reviewed. No notes on theorem 4, though.
dosinga · 3 months ago
material weaknesses would be more of a problem for ketchup watches. dijon mustard is strong enough so you don't require that much for it to become an issue
dosinga commented on The 44 Year Old Computer Magazine That Changed Everything [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=QSnw5... · Posted by u/xkriva11
dosinga · 3 months ago
I remember biking to the library to read it every time it came out

u/dosinga

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