endymi0n (u/endymi0n)

endymi0n commented on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/... · Posted by u/tedsanders

TOMDM · a month ago

I'll be honest, I like the way Claude defaults to relentless positivity and affirmation. It is pleasant to talk to.

That said I also don't think the sycophancy in LLM's is a positive trend. I don't push back against it because it's not pleasant, I push back against it because I think the 24/7 "You're absolutely right!" machine is deeply unhealthy.

Some people are especially susceptible and get one shot by it, some people seem to get by just fine, but I doubt it's actually good for anyone.

endymi0n · a month ago

I hate NOTHING quite the way how Claude jovially and endlessly raves about the 9/10 tasks it "succeeded" at after making them up, while conveniently forgetting to mention it completely and utterly failed at the main task I asked it to do.

endymi0n commented on iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency macrumors.com/2025/10/20/... · Posted by u/dabinat

endymi0n · 2 months ago

Meanwhile, core functionality like “Find My” is completely and utterly broken. Leaving behind my stuff at a new place gets me at least two different messages on my Apple Watch at different timing. One for my devices, one for my Apple tags. One only has a “dismiss” button, the other has a “trust location” button that when I click, it says “content unavailable”, and if it works (which is only! over Wi-Fi), then it only works for that one device. I always need to go through the find my app at every new place since it’s an absolute UX disaster.

That’s what I get for carrying only Apple gear in the thousands of euros with me.

endymi0n commented on Undiagnosed Cognitive Decline Eats into Seniors' Retirement Savings wsj.com/personal-finance/... · Posted by u/petethomas

kome · a year ago

i strongly oppose the American approach to pensions, which is regrettably spreading worldwide.

relying on private savings to finance retirement is highly risky, and this is the crux of the article in question.

pension systems should be administered through public programs, not turned into moralistic contests in which individuals are penalized if their investments fail for any reason (and it's only their fault... while it's clear it's a social failure).

basic solidarity is essential in ensuring both the health of retirees and the fulfillment of reasonable expectations for a secure retirement.

endymi0n · a year ago

I agree, but the German one is also pretty dodgy: Basically pay the rents of the old generation from a share of the working one. It's already coming apart due to demographic change and the next few years will be disastrous.

If there's an approach to model imho it's the Norwegian one: Actually backed by stocks, but managed and distributed by a central investment fund. It's far easier if the country is smart enough to centralize oil profits as well though...

endymi0n commented on Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus

barbazoo · a year ago

> The brain is about as large as it can be while making birth possible.

I wonder if it had been beneficial to have larger brains, we'd have evolved to support that. Diminishing returns maybe or just a local maximum we didn't get out of?

endymi0n · a year ago

So how evolution works is that a feature needs to have an evolutionary advantage, but the specimen must also not die. So there are two adversarial pressures here, carefully balancing each other in a mammal species that already has one of the highest birth mortality rates of both mother and child. If heads were any larger, it would create a proportional amount of negative evolutionary pressure by both direct and indirect death (of the mother) at birth.

Interestingly, there seem to be some indications showing that human interventions by modern technology already show clear evolutionary trends: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5338417/

Humans might eventually evolve to not even being able to be born naturally anymore at some point.

endymi0n commented on Servo Revival: 2023-2024 blogs.igalia.com/mrego/se... · Posted by u/panic

kragen · a year ago

Polars, a Rust replacement for Pandas.

Rewriting things in Rust is a reasonable thing to do. I think the hate is for people who criticize existing software for being written in C on the grounds that hypothetically someone could rewrite them in Rust.

"I rewrote SQLite in Rust" would be praiseworthy (assuming it's true). "Why don't you rewrite SQLite in Rust?" is trolling.

endymi0n · a year ago

You folks might like the work being done at turso :D https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite...

endymi0n commented on Can't trust any VPN these days blog.orhun.dev/cant-trust... · Posted by u/orhunp_

jrvieira · a year ago

These days?

endymi0n · a year ago

Had the same thought from the headline, but the punchline is that he's using the VPN he completely built himself and can't even trust that one.

endymi0n commented on A new type of neural network is more interpretable spectrum.ieee.org/kan-neu... · Posted by u/pseudolus

smusamashah · a year ago

> One downside of KANs is that they take longer per parameter to train—in part because they can’t take advantage of GPUs. But they need fewer parameters. Liu notes that even if KANs don’t replace giant CNNs and transformers for processing images and language, training time won’t be an issue at the smaller scale of many physics problems.

They don't even say that it might be possible to take advantage of GPUs in future. Reads like a fundamental problem with these.

endymi0n · a year ago

This looks interesting for sure:

"ReLU-KAN: New Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks that Only Need Matrix Addition, Dot Multiplication, and ReLU" https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02075#

endymi0n commented on Google's greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/g15jv2dp

tetris11 · a year ago

This is why we need nuclear. Humanity will always find a new expensive toy to play with, AI being the latest, and expecting large corporate entities to scale down their operations for the sake of future sales is like trying to bargain with a bear.

endymi0n · a year ago

These are the only two graphs you need to understand that your assumption is based on >10y old data:

https://www.powerengineeringint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/...https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/3-Learni...

By the decade is gone that any new nuclear project has been commissioned and built, the rest of the world is running on solar + battery storage at a tenth of the price.

endymi0n commented on Medieval game pieces emerge from the ruins of a German castle news.artnet.com/art-world... · Posted by u/RobertJaTomsons

zwieback · 2 years ago

I grew up not far from this site but have been living in Oregon for 30 years. One of the things that still strikes me when I go back to visit is just how much old stuff was around me in my childhood. Over there it's like "oh, let's put a nail salon in this 400 year old building". Here it's like: "oh, there's a 100 year old barn, we must turn it into a heritage site."

endymi0n · 2 years ago

"In the US, 100 years is a long time. In Europe, 100 miles is a long way."

(Or 160,9 kilometers.)