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kristofferc commented on Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf]   berkshirehathaway.com/new... · Posted by u/kamaraju
Traubenfuchs · 3 months ago
After a lackluster year the market did NOT like this move at all.
kristofferc · 3 months ago
Down 2% in the last 5 days?
kristofferc commented on I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude   j0nah.com/i-failed-to-rec... · Posted by u/thecr0w
960design · 3 months ago
Claude argued with me about the quadratic equation the other day. It vehemently felt a -c was required whereas a c was the correct answer. I pointed this out showing step by step and it finally agreed. I tried Grok to see if it could get it right. Nope, the exact same response as Claude, but Grok never backed down; even after the step by step explanation of the maths.
kristofferc · 3 months ago
Can you link to the conversation log?
kristofferc commented on Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector   fil-c.org/fugc... · Posted by u/pizlonator
debugnik · 6 months ago
You're missing the point, they're giving an example of an entire workload that fits into your technique's worst-case overhead. It's could be the right trade-off and rarely be hit, but that worst-case does sound bad.
kristofferc · 6 months ago
Actually, it sounds quite ok.
kristofferc commented on Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage   arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/burnt-resistor
speeder · 8 months ago
So I live in the EU where such supplements are supposedly safe. Article said that supplements that mix pepper and turmeric are dangerous. And the dose that was dangerous to the woman was 2000mg.

I looked on my table toward the bottle of turmeric my parents gifted me recently, saying they heard it was good and bought on a famous "health" store.

Bottle is: turmeric + pepper "designed for max absorption" and dose is 10000mg.

kristofferc · 8 months ago
That's 10 grams?? Does that even fit in a pill?
kristofferc commented on Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale   apnews.com/article/charli... · Posted by u/ilamont
kittikitti · a year ago
Guess "fake it till you make it" doesn't scale well.
kristofferc · a year ago
Scales perfectly well with a 1.8 million donation to the correct place, though. Her mistake was not the fraud, it was the forgotten donation.
kristofferc commented on Python 3.14 Getting New Interpreter   docs.python.org/3.14/what... · Posted by u/alexfromapex
OutOfHere · a year ago
At this point it feels like there is nothing stopping Python's performance from approaching that of Julia over the next decade.
kristofferc · a year ago
Except for the language semantics.
kristofferc commented on Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative   pikimov.com/... · Posted by u/clementpiki
ttoinou · 2 years ago
Doesn’t your behavior prove the point of showing No AI ?
kristofferc · 2 years ago
I think it was a joke
kristofferc commented on Are flying cars finally here?   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/adrianhon
kristofferc · 2 years ago
Flying cars already exist. We just call them helicopters.
kristofferc commented on Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
krisoft · 2 years ago
He was always clear on his expectations. He wants to make a machine he can take on a world tour. That's his stated goal.

The consequence of that is that it has to be reliable enough to play through a full concert without maintenance or breakdown, and it has to be robust enough that it can be transported from place to place. These are his hard requirements.

Then there are some less well defined requirements. Which is that the machine has to play nice music and has to be a marble machine as Martin understands it.

This last is the real constraint. Otherwise he could just buy a midi keyboard which would fulfil all the requirements about reliability, robustness and quality of music, but would fail the spirit of the endeavour.

kristofferc · 2 years ago
Where does "tight music" come into those constraints.
kristofferc commented on When Optimising Code, Measure   solipsys.co.uk/new/WhenOp... · Posted by u/ColinWright
billyzs · 2 years ago
> a2, c = a2+c, c+2 > is faster than > a2 += c > c += 2 > My guess is that in the first case the two evaluations and assignments can happen in parallel, and so may happen on different cores

Not sure I follow, isn't Python single threaded by default? Changes to GIL is coming but does it change how the interpreter uses CPU?

kristofferc · 2 years ago
Yeah, this isn't benchmarking anything related to the CPU etc. It is benchmarking the quirks of the Python interpreter.

u/kristofferc

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