noelsusman (u/noelsusman)

noelsusman commented on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

andy12_ · 11 days ago

I'm confused about the "Accuracy vs Cost" section. Why is Gemini 3 Pro so cheap? It's basically the cheapest model in the graph (sans Llama 4 and Mistral Large 3) by a wide margin, even compared to Gemini 3 Flash. Is that an error?

noelsusman · 10 days ago

It's not an error, Gemini 3 Pro is just somehow able to complete the benchmark while using way fewer tokens than any other model. Gemini 3 Flash is way cheaper per token, but it also tends to generate a ton of reasoning tokens to get to its answer.

They have a similar chart that compares results across all their benchmarks vs. cost and 3 Flash is about half as expensive as 3 Pro there despite being four times cheaper per token.

noelsusman commented on A developer's view of Vision Pro david-smith.org/blog/2023... · Posted by u/ingve

sebzim4500 · 3 years ago

I think some artists use an ipad with a stylus rather than tablet input to a laptop/desktop, but other than this I can't see how anything else could compete with a keyboard in terms of productivity. Maybe if someone makes a really, really good voice to text interface.

noelsusman · 3 years ago

Here's a short demo of a pretty good voice to text interface that's available for free: https://twitter.com/lunixbochs/status/1378159234861264896

I had to use it for a while when I was unable to touch a keyboard or mouse while recovering from RSI and I was surprised by how quickly I was able to get to about 80% of my previous productivity using just my voice. I still use it sometimes even though my RSI is fully healed.

noelsusman commented on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit · Posted by u/cryoz

0zemp3c · 3 years ago

> This is a politically-"leftist" site (top current thread is "How did you get into anarchism", along with something about ACAB)

tbh how is this different than most subs?

this is a feature, not a bug...it keeps these people out of the real world and glued to their keyboards where their blast radius is limited to their own echo chamber

noelsusman · 3 years ago

That's not how extremist online echo chambers tend to play out. See January 6th for an easy example.

noelsusman commented on Notes on Vision Pro notes.andymatuschak.org/V... · Posted by u/firloop

TheRealPomax · 3 years ago

While I do enjoy me some MKBHD, I'd like the opinion of someone who's not fully bought into the Apple ecosystem already. This is a good perspective to have, but it's an incomplete perspective.

And I'd like to know how realistic this thing is for "not apple users". It's a VR headset, can I use it with Windows to play MS Flight Simulator or Star Citizen? Can I use it on Linux to get wall-to-wall emavs? More real world testing is required.

noelsusman · 3 years ago

You should already know the answers to those questions.

noelsusman commented on Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns nytimes.com/2023/05/23/we... · Posted by u/2OEH8eoCRo0

zackmorris · 3 years ago

D.A.R.E. to Keep Kids Off Social Media

Wages stagnated since 1980. Rents doubling every decade. Dead-end service jobs. Unpayable student loans. Social Security payments going to IOUs instead of retirements. Lying politicians and chief corporate officers making bank on the backs of the working poor. 30% credit card interest. Delaying childbirth to make rent until it's too late. GMO and processed foods poisoning giving an obese population autoimmune disease. Republicans gerrymandering elections. Democrats supporting neoliberal colonialism. A burning natural world set to end between 2050 and 2100.

The list of threats to anyone younger than 50 is so infinite and growing so rapidly that social media is the new drugs in the endless war on youth culture. You know, the one that inconveniently lists the problems and solutions only to be told over and over again to sacrifice their dreams and get serious and study and get a job, that it's all in their heads.

noelsusman · 3 years ago

The fact that you and many, many others believe all of these things to be 100% true is exactly the problem. Social media has poisoned your brain.

noelsusman commented on Simulated Hospital github.com/google/simhosp... · Posted by u/axutio

ArtWomb · 3 years ago

Bizarro-world that doctors actually defend EPIC! They all complain about the ASP.NET 1.0 UI. It's just the convenience of viewing all patients from all hospitals in one virtual "chart" ;)

noelsusman · 3 years ago

Epic is the worst EMR system, except for all the others.

noelsusman commented on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/lopkeny12ko

karaterobot · 3 years ago

People have been screaming for him to step down as CEO of Twitter for a long time, and he's doing it. It looks like the general reaction in this thread is that this is somehow even more evil than not stepping down. What makes this either a catastrophic mistake, or a malicious act?

noelsusman · 3 years ago

He doesn't seem to be stepping down from much of anything. It's an online social media company and he's still going to be in charge of product and technology, so what exactly is this new CEO going to be doing? This just looks like he hired a VP of Advertising and decided to call her a CEO for no reason. What kind of tech CEO doesn't control product and technology?

noelsusman commented on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/lopkeny12ko

ta8645 · 3 years ago

IMHO, Twitter fundamentally needed a huge shakeup, which Elon has done. I've enjoyed and used my account more since he took over than in any of the years prior. Still, it's obvious a lot of people are unhappy with the changes; but it's hard to judge how many people are quietly happy with them. Personally, I hope for Twitter's success under Yaccarino's leadership.

noelsusman · 3 years ago

The decision to kill third party clients has cut my usage dramatically.

Beyond that, the decision to show every single reply from a Twitter Blue subscriber above any reply from a non-subscriber is one of the worst changes I've seen in a social media product. Elon chose to brand subscribing to Twitter Blue as a political act, so now below every tweet there's nothing but people who have agreeing with Elon's politics as a significant part of their identity.

It's not like Twitter replies were all that good before, and yet somehow he's made them significantly worse.

noelsusman commented on Health advisory on social media use in adolescence apa.org/topics/social-med... · Posted by u/pseudolus

anonymouse008 · 3 years ago

Have a high level summary? The whole place the gym bag in front of the door as success I feel is misplaced (yes) without a reward loop (unique to each person).

noelsusman · 3 years ago

I'll give it a go.

A large chunk of your daily behaviors are governed by habits. Habits are made up of cues followed by some sort of routine that you do which results in some sort of reward. If you want to change a habit then you need to focus on the cues that set off the routine. When a cue occurs, alter the routine and give yourself an alternate reward.

I used to have a drinking problem, say 1-2 bottles of wine a night every night. I cook almost every night in my house, so starting to cook dinner was a major cue for me to start drinking. Specifically, whenever I would put on my apron around 6pm I would get a strong urge to pour a glass of wine. I had a lot of difficulty resisting that urge even when I genuinely wanted to quit. It felt eerily automatic and involuntary. I didn't start having success until I focused on that cue and replaced the routine that followed it. For me, I decided I would put on my apron and immediately make myself a plate of fancy cheese and some crackers. I still had a routine and a reward after my cue, but the new routine was significantly less destructive.

So you're right with your exercise example that simply placing your gym bag by the door isn't going to be successful. You need some cue to go exercise, then exercise, then immediately reward yourself with some chocolate or your favorite candy or whatever.

I won't go so far as to say we can cure everyone's addiction with this one neat trick, but I have found it to be a useful framework on my life.

noelsusman commented on Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption globalencryption.org/2023... · Posted by u/pera

2h · 3 years ago

great idea. while we are at it, we should also require that the police have a key to your house and vehicle, as well as your debit card pin number and, email password, and bank password.

its necessary security, so you agree with this correct?

noelsusman · 3 years ago

They effectively have all of those things already. You don't need a key to enter a house or a car, and they can get anything they want from your bank and email provider with a subpoena.

I agree that giving law enforcement a universal key that can defeat all encryption would be a monumentally stupid idea, but it's not actually necessary to enable them to bypass encryption on specific devices. As far as I can tell, privacy activists have just made up the fact that law enforcement wants a universal key because it's easier to argue against that than to argue in favor of their actual position.