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logtempo commented on OpenAI's hunger for computing power   wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-sa... · Posted by u/doener
johnnienaked · 4 months ago
And our water runs out, and we pollute and destroy the planet past the point of no return.

AI will fix it though?

logtempo · 4 months ago
Hey, at least you'll be able to add that exterminated tigre specie in your postcard from your last adventure trip. And more water to that river, with some greener trees etc.

All of that without leaving your home ofc.

logtempo commented on F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree   f-droid.org/2025/09/29/go... · Posted by u/gumby271
matoro · 5 months ago
For me at least I just use the prebuilt MicroG-flavor ROMs at https://lineage.microg.org/

This comes preloaded with the MicroG settings app, so no need to install the extra FDroid repo. But otherwise yes, Aurora Store gets you access to all necessary proprietary apps.

logtempo · 5 months ago
thanks you a lot, I did not know about Aurora store.
logtempo commented on Is life a form of computation?   thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/redeemed
bgwalter · 5 months ago
From a neural networks professor:

https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-ki/rojas_home/documents...

"However, we should be careful with the metaphors and paradigms commonly introduced when dealing with the nervous system. It seems to be a constant in the history of science that the brain has always been compared to the most complicated contemporary artifact produced by human industry [297]. In ancient times the brain was compared to a pneumatic machine, in the Renaissance to a clockwork, and at the end of the last century to the telephone network. There are some today who consider computers the paradigm par excellence of a nervous system. It is rather paradoxical that when John von Neumann wrote his classical description of future universal computers, he tried to choose terms that would describe computers in terms of brains, not brains in terms of computers."

I have no idea what the submitted MIT article is trying to say. Does the MIT article try to make the point that neural networks can be used for computation given ridiculous amounts of memory? They can, but that still does not explain real intelligence. Otherwise, the article makes the same mistakes as pointed out in the above quote.

logtempo · 5 months ago
To me, the article just ask "Is it possible to simulate living organism features?" and say a small yes by saying "Simulations like these show how computation can produce lifelike behavior across scales".

I'm not expert to judge the result of "drawing a missing hand by using neural network on each pixels"(if it's what it's done? Again not an expert).

logtempo commented on Is life a form of computation?   thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/redeemed
karmakurtisaani · 5 months ago
I don't see the point of asking this question. Like, sure, all physical systems follow certain rules, so any such process will develop in a way that it look like a computation of an algorithm. Also, evolution itself is constantly optimizing organisms to best adapt to their environment, just like a computation.

So asking if life is a computation seems mostly like a semantic musing. Define "life" and define "computation", then see if they're the same.

logtempo · 5 months ago
The title should definitely be "Is it possible to simulate living organism?" given the last sentence is "Simulations like these show how computation can produce lifelike behavior across scales".

Nothing about life is discussed here, it's not even defined once.

logtempo commented on US revokes visas of Brazilian judges after crack down on ex-president Bolsonaro   nypost.com/2025/07/18/wor... · Posted by u/matheusmoreira
elcritch · 7 months ago
Yep, it always was.
logtempo · 7 months ago
cooperation show greater benefits in general.
logtempo commented on Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any   nytimes.com/2025/07/13/bu... · Posted by u/perihelions
rich_sasha · 7 months ago
Drones are massively key in a very unusual conflict between Russia and Ukraine. I wonder if other wars would find them useful.

For example, a recent article shared on HN highlighted that the cheap drones become useless once there is any signal jamming going on. Russia can't jam too aggressively as their own comms are not good enough to be useful in such an environment. But what about NATO? Would they just jam the EM spectrum to oblivion and render all these drones useless?

Not a great point of comparison, but Israel v Gaza seems to use next to no drones (certainly not the small cheap variety), and the little that is known of Israel v Iran also focused on big expensive manned and unmanned aircraft. Plus massive, enormous, eye-wateringly-expensive bombs. Not converted Mavic drones. To the extent that Iran used drones, reportedly they gave no tactical benefit, as they were all shot down long before they reached Israel.

logtempo · 7 months ago
Because low cost drones have been used since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, they are trained to use them. Also the quantity used is way higher than in other conflicts, lowering the price is more important.

There is also a need in adaptability. Delivering parts that meets a specific demand at a specific time is where 3D printing and diy drones shine and it's important in Ukraine frontline.

There is also a system in the way Ukraine is doing war that favorise diy drone. Basically, each units have a budget and you get more if your unit kill Russian soldiers/equipment. This in return give you access to more advanced drones.

I think today the drones are quite well equipped and the diy versions are less present.

logtempo commented on Solving physics-based initial value problems with unsupervised machine learning   link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/... · Posted by u/opnac
staunton · 9 months ago
This paper is solving (basically) high-school-level problems by training neural networks on the "obvious" cost function. All of those problems can be solved much cheaper by standard numerical solvers for ordinary differential equations. They don't even compare to standard methods.

So what's the point? Riding the neural network hype?

logtempo · 9 months ago
It's a paper done by a phd, so it's part of a larger study that is probably more interesting than this paper.https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15828/ (I'm not the author).

But the results and use cases seems to be legit to me. Agin, I'm not an expert on computer science and quantum physics.

logtempo commented on One Million Chessboards   onemillionchessboards.com... · Posted by u/chunkles
amelius · 10 months ago
These days I keep wondering what a 4d or 3d chess board looks like.
logtempo · 10 months ago
https://multiversechess.com/

and someone did it!

logtempo commented on Can I ethically use LLMs?   ntietz.com/blog/can-i-eth... · Posted by u/ulrischa
godot · a year ago
The energy usage concern is also funny in that it doesn't try to compare the energy usage of a human doing the same task (if one were to not use LLM to do the task). If we assume it's true that asking ChatGPT a question costs 3 bottles of water, you should take into account how long that question takes to answer by a human doing the research. If it takes you a couple of hours, you need to include the food and drink intake it takes to power yourself for a couple of hours. If it's anything like beef or almonds it takes way more than 3 bottles of water.
logtempo · a year ago
but you can't delete people? That's actually the big problem that need to be addressed imo. It happen now (or later) with llm, but in the past it have been a problem with industrialization (big unemployment of workers) and then globalization (unemployment of more local workers).

If it's not addreased correctly, llm won't be a progress for humanity.

But if you want to compare it "technically", maybe it's better to look at computer usage now vs with llm maybe (how many google request, sim failed, screen on etc.)

logtempo commented on Can I ethically use LLMs?   ntietz.com/blog/can-i-eth... · Posted by u/ulrischa
0xcafefood · a year ago
It seems like your claiming that the perceived benefits of eating meat (by those who do) exactly equals the benefits of using ChatGPT. Is that right? If so, I disagree.
logtempo · a year ago
I think the claim is more about people's consistency in their choice. "If you care so much, start to [insert any environmental friendly acivity] and then we can discuss about LLM environmental impact".

Which is stupid.

u/logtempo

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