leftcenterright (u/leftcenterright)

leftcenterright commented on Grok 4 Launch [video] twitter.com/xai/status/19... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

Can it finally make 10 sentences that end with a "w" or "p" or "o"? /s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782477

leftcenterright commented on Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video] youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN... · Posted by u/sandslash

leftcenterright · 2 months ago

She says "there is no language in nature" which does not seem accurate. Even though she might mean something else or a particular form of language but even then, bees and birds still use sound and something similar to language.

Is it just me?

for e.g. the form of communication used by bees is very well known now, it involves not just spatial movements but also "buzzing" which is totally similar tot he sounds we make, they just lack vocal cords.

https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-speak-honeybee/

leftcenterright commented on Is mathematics mostly chaos or mostly order? quantamagazine.org/is-mat... · Posted by u/baruchel

dgfitz · 2 months ago

I’ve always considered math is something that is discovered, neither chaotic or orderly, it just… is. Really brilliant people make new discoveries, but they were there the whole time waiting to be found.

This article seems to kind of dance around yet agree with the discovery thing, but in an indirect way.

Math is just math. Music is just music. Even seemingly-random musical notes played in a “song” has a rational explanation relative to the instrument. It isn’t the fault of music that a song might sound chaotic, it’s just music. Bad music maybe. This analogy can break down quickly, but in my head it makes sense.

Disclaimer - the most advanced math classes I’ve taken: calc3/linear/diffeq.

leftcenterright · 2 months ago

What makes you consider it a "discovery" instead of a creation of us humans?

I am more on the side of seeing maths as a precision language we utilize and extend as needed, especially because it can describe physically non-existent things e.g. perfect circles.

leftcenterright commented on Ask HN: How do you store private keys? · Posted by u/max_

leftcenterright · 3 months ago

In the stars: https://writingshapeless.substack.com/p/stellar-passphrase-s...

leftcenterright commented on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015) old.reddit.com/r/AskReddi... · Posted by u/Tomte

leftcenterright · 3 months ago

So, no wealthy person is buying a physics lecture or investing in experiments to better understand the nature of this universe we live in? /s

btw does anyone know if places like Fermi lab, CERN receive donations from the super-wealthy?

leftcenterright commented on Actory AI – Autonomous QA for Fast-Moving Dev Teams actory.ai/... · Posted by u/GTCHO

GTCHO · 3 months ago

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leftcenterright · 3 months ago

What sort of access level / integration would you need to the businesses (repositories, CI systems, mobile app source repositories, Github admin) seeking to use Actory?

leftcenterright commented on X Blocks Jailed Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu's Account reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/abiogenesis

leftcenterright · 4 months ago

Despite modern VPNs, global CDNs, impractical technical level ban on any web service: how come X and others simply do what the government tells them?

Is it the fear of fines? That never deters them from collecting more data though.

leftcenterright commented on NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014) nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/__natty__

adeon · 4 months ago

Ah yeah, I saw the propublica as well, it was one of the first articles I found when looking on the topic. I don't doubt at all that Angry Birds data was used by NSA, doesn't seem controversial.

The specific question I am interested in is: Did Rovio knowingly and willingly accept $$$ from NSA (directly or indirectly) to weaken their security? I.e. were they acting as a willing accomplice.

Because that part would be unusual for Finland (well, at least as far as I know). For US companies I wouldn't bat an eye at news like this.

leftcenterright · 4 months ago

Here is a nice talk by Byron Tau who has also written a book titled "Means of Control" detailing some of these flows covering ad tech companies, data brokers and how government contractors use them and serve as a key player to provide services to intelligence agencies.

- https://www.interface-eu.org/events/background-talk-with-byr...