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roflmaostc commented on Prism openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

parentheses · 11 days ago

It feels generally a bit dangerous to use an AI product to work on research when (1) it's free and (2) the company hosting it makes money by shipping productized research

roflmaostc · 11 days ago

I am not so skeptical about AI usage for paper writing as the paper will be often public days after anyways (pre-print servers such as arXiv).

So yes, you use it to write the paper but soon it is public knowledge anyway.

I am not sure if there is much to learn from the draft of the authors.

roflmaostc commented on There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape blog.jgc.org/2026/01/ther... · Posted by u/abnercoimbre

st_goliath · 25 days ago

A lovely video from a Shenzhen factory, mass producing disposable vapes, in case someone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WohEiRvn2Dg+

Most likely a promotional from the looks of it. I myself stumbled over it a about a year ago, when someone posted it on an IRC channel.

roflmaostc · 25 days ago

lol, at 0:15 someone is literally testing the vapes with their mouth. I hope they don't do that all day long

Later at 6:45 they show more people testing them

roflmaostc commented on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app xdaforums.com/t/discussio... · Posted by u/Magnusmaster

roflmaostc · a month ago

Isn't that what happens in Europe with most rooted phones and banks too? At least I can remember my banking apps stopped working.

roflmaostc commented on Eat Real Food realfood.gov... · Posted by u/atestu

a3w · a month ago

Beef and chicken cause cancer.

Milk can help in regions with dietary low calories, but is mediocre or bad for fat US citizens.

I also found the food shown very misleading.

roflmaostc · a month ago

Beef (red meat) is classified as a probable carcinogen, while chicken (white meat) is safe according to current research.

roflmaostc commented on Eat Real Food realfood.gov... · Posted by u/atestu

djusk · a month ago

If you compare protein per kJ instead, broccoli has 0.021g protein per kJ whereas lean beef mince has 0.028g per kJ. Much more similar. Although of course you would need food that is higher density protein as well so you don't have too much volume to eat.

roflmaostc · a month ago

Have fun eating 2kg of broccoli to get 50g of protein.

roflmaostc commented on Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere helsinki.fi/en/news/innov... · Posted by u/lrasinen

cjbenedikt · a month ago

You can actually capture CO2 from sea water thereby reducing ocean acidification and improving its capability to continue as our planets biggest CO2 sink.

roflmaostc · a month ago

there's also lots of water to wash then.

The problem is the same, the relative concentration of oxygen in air is less than 0.05% (~450pars per million). In water much less.

roflmaostc commented on Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere helsinki.fi/en/news/innov... · Posted by u/lrasinen

cyphertruck · a month ago

Economics rules everything. How much does this cost vs simply planting trees, when the value of harvesting the trees is included? Since tree farms are generally profitable, and wood is expensive, it seems this method is likely to be economically less efficient.

roflmaostc · a month ago

The problem is you cannot plant enough trees around the globe to offset our CO2 emissions. Also, a forest only absorbs CO2 while alive. Once it dies, it emits CO2 too. You would need to permanently store the wood somewhere (submerging in water, etc).

Recent article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/28/africa-f...

roflmaostc commented on How AI labs are solving the power problem newsletter.semianalysis.c... · Posted by u/Symmetry

pdpi · a month ago

Part of what bothers me with AI energy consumption isn't just how wasteful it might be from an ecological perspective, it's how brutally inefficient it is compared to the biological "state of the art" — 2000kcal = 8,368 kJ. 8,368 kJ / 86,400 s = 96.9 W.

So the benchmark is achieving human-like intelligence on a 100W budget. I'd be very curious to see what can be achieved by AI targeting that power budget.

roflmaostc · a month ago

try to calculate 12312312.123213 * 123123.3123123

A computer uses orders of magnitude less energy than a human.

It's all about the task, humans are specialized too.

EDIT: maybe add a logarithm or other non-linear functions to make the gap even bigger.

roflmaostc commented on The History of Xerox abortretry.fail/p/the-his... · Posted by u/rbanffy

1718627440 · 2 months ago

I actually don't expect other scanners to preform differently.

roflmaostc · 2 months ago

Why? Can you share any examples?

roflmaostc commented on The History of Xerox abortretry.fail/p/the-his... · Posted by u/rbanffy

roflmaostc · 2 months ago

Whenever I read about Xerox, it reminds me of the story that their scanners would randomly change numbers on prints

https://dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are...

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