natosaichek (u/natosaichek)

natosaichek commented on Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware extropic.ai/... · Posted by u/vyrotek

delichon · 2 months ago

This one just released a prototype platform, "XTR-0", so if it's a fraud the jig will shortly be up.

https://extropic.ai/writing/inside-x0-and-xtr-0

natosaichek · 2 months ago

I think it's more a concern that the hardware isn't useful in the real world, rather than that the hardware doesn't meet the description they provide of it.

natosaichek commented on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed fortune.com/2025/08/23/ne... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff

idiomat9000 · 4 months ago

I did not see any breakthroughs in neural link patents. Have they solved neural scaring?

natosaichek · 4 months ago

There are flexible electrodes, rather than rigid arrays. The idea was that this would reduce scarring. I'm not aware of the exact results of the trials, but it works better than rigid arrays for longevity of recording.

natosaichek commented on Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps when safety rules break github.com/zeenolife/ai-b... · Posted by u/zeenolife

amelius · 7 months ago

Even if this fails only in 0.1% of cases, given enough users this will kill babies.

(Of course you should compare this to humans, but in any case, do the math! And get a good lawyer.)

natosaichek · 7 months ago

This thing will not kill babies. That's like saying seatbelts kill people because they don't save everyone in a car accident. It is precisely this attitude that prevents good things from flourishing - the idea that if something is involved however tangentially in a safety important subsystem it must have perfect results. No, we should not have this view. If something is net positive, we should promote it.

natosaichek commented on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights cnn.com/2025/03/04/politi... · Posted by u/rob74

natosaichek · 10 months ago

Can you point to some of the stuff (presumably doge) that you particularly approve of? Id like to better understand this perspective

natosaichek commented on Tether and Circle are battling to win the US stablecoin market wsj.com/finance/currencie... · Posted by u/wallflower

numba888 · 10 months ago

I hope they both die slow painful death. As they are looking now for the last fool who will pay for everything. Musk is not doubt involved. Hope Trump is smarter than that and will not funnel taxpayers money (my money!!) into crooks pockets.

natosaichek · 10 months ago

Trump isnt smarter than that. Also his goal in taking office was to smuggle taxpayer money into crooks pockets.

natosaichek commented on A Mount Lyell shrew has just been photographed alive sfgate.com/bayarea/articl... · Posted by u/nithinj

palmotea · a year ago

> The Mount Lyell shrew (Sorex lyelli) is 9 to 10 centimeters long and weighs between 2 and 3 grams, according to the researchers' measurements.

That's got to be a typo...

natosaichek · a year ago

Wikipedia says:

The shrew is between 8.9 and 10 centimetres (3.5 and 3.9 in) long[4] and weighs 4–5 grams (0.14–0.18 oz).[5] It has 32 teeth.[4]

Must be a mistake on both?!? No way its got less that 5 ccs of blood in a 9-10 cm long body.

natosaichek commented on Bi-elliptic transfer orbit maneuver johndcook.com/blog/2024/1... · Posted by u/ColinWright

koromak · a year ago

Oh boy something new to try in KSP. Funny I've never seen anyone do this, maybe the imperfect simulation means its never more efficient (in-game).

natosaichek · a year ago

It should work in ksp. Its still an impulsive maneuver.

natosaichek commented on Founder Mode paulgraham.com/foundermod... · Posted by u/bifftastic

natosaichek · a year ago

I feel like this article is reaching towards similar conclusions:

https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/08/30/when-the-mismanageri...

Trained managers have learned how to continue to extract value from some discovered market, rather than create new value chains.

natosaichek commented on A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines discuss.python.org/t/shou... · Posted by u/oblvious-earth

dllthomas · a year ago

It's not just how much information you extract, but also what you do with that information.

RCV, in the most common form of IRV, has a problem that I think is relevant.

If we accept the truism that the appropriate compromise won't be anyone's first choice, then the very first thing IRV does is throw out any appropriate compromise, leaving it to make a decision between inappropriate options.

I think we need to be more able to pick a compromise, not less.

natosaichek · a year ago

Rated voting methods are great, but more complicated than simple choices. Given how challenging it is to get people to just pick the thing they want in very simple situations, I would not be optimistic about their implementation.

natosaichek commented on Electrostatic motors reach the macro scale spectrum.ieee.org/electro... · Posted by u/namanyayg

kazinator · a year ago

Who will buy a 0.5 hp motor whose parts must be bathed in an exotic dielectric fluid, and that needs a 2000V supply, and will they buy another one?

natosaichek · a year ago

The dielectric is internal, and the motor will presumably have a built-in driver to adapt from wall voltage to 2kv. Neither of those issues are at all an issue.

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