spacephysics (u/spacephysics)

spacephysics commented on LLMs as the new high level language federicopereiro.com/llm-h... · Posted by u/swah

OutOfHere · 2 days ago

The side effect of using LLMs for programming is that no new programming language can now emerge to be popular, that we will be stuck with the existing programming languages forever for broad use. Newer languages will never accumulate enough training data for the LLM to master them. Granted, non-LLM AIs with true neural memory can work around this, as can LLMs with an infinite token frozen+forkable context, but these are not your everyday LLMs.

spacephysics · 2 days ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next 5-10 years the new and popular programming language is one built with the idea of optimizing how well LLM’s (or at that point world models) understand and can use it.

Right now LLMs are taking languages meant for humans to understand better via abstraction, what if the next language is designed for optimal LLM/world model understanding?

Or instead of an entirely new language, theres some form of compiling/transpiling from the model language to a human centric one like WASM for LLMs

spacephysics commented on Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled cnbc.com/2026/02/02/nvidi... · Posted by u/greatgib

zmmmmm · 7 days ago

the hit to microsoft the other day was pretty interesting

I saw reports attributing it to a miss on earnings from Azure but they were off by 0.4% on 39% growth. That's 39% instead of 39.4%. And the company stock dropped 10%. This is all of Microsoft - 10% down (!).

It has to tell you there are a LOT of people primed to sell in a hurry on bad news. The "bubble" talk subsided a lot after nVidia smashed earnings last quarter, but largely overlooked how much their whole situation is based on pent up demand. It completely masks the fundamentals.

I still feel like we're sitting on a volcano and seeing puffs of smoke and feeling earth tremors.

spacephysics · 7 days ago

As I understand it, it was in part about their Azure miss more about capital expenditure and market anxiety around their OpenAI investment ROI.

Also a portion of their Azure spend was some clever accounting they did if memory serves me

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsofts-historic-plunge-why...

spacephysics commented on Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features macrumors.com/2026/02/02/... · Posted by u/stalfosknight

spacephysics · 7 days ago

Too little, too late. Switched to Brave and haven’t been happier. Firefox lost the plot years ago.

spacephysics commented on U.S. unemployment rose in November despite job gains wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

vondur · 2 months ago

I get the feeling most of the newer jobs that are going to be created are going to be in the blue collar fields and the US isn't geared for providing those. I'm also not sure that people who have been conditioned to work white collar jobs will be happy to work in blue collar jobs.

spacephysics · 2 months ago

I think it has a potential to raise a lot of the salaries of blue-collar positions in middle America, and then create demand for the trades over the next decade or so.

I find it unlikely that white collar positions will be switching drastically to blue collar unless they’re already on the fence about it or they’re not middle to high up in the white collar ladder (six figures+)

spacephysics commented on New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair nottingham.ac.uk/news/new... · Posted by u/CGMthrowaway

PaulKeeble · 3 months ago

Just 7% of studies that do a preliminary study on humans actually get through phase 3 and get approved for use. This is before even the preliminary point, its a tooth (or even a tooth analogue) in a petri dish. No idea if the material will be safe in a human mouth yet.

There is a lot of hyping of results in medicine papers in general but its not really their fault. The entire academic world is being forced to publish or die as governments look to measure results from the science they instead get what is measured and everyone has to embellish the importance of what they found and always find positive results.

spacephysics · 3 months ago

Despite how obtuse the current administration views are, this has been true for decades. The churn of new papers and hype around medicine/biotech is nothing new.

Says nothing about endemic reproducibility crisis of the social sciences.

Since student loans have been basically guaranteed (bankruptcies can’t erase student loan obligations, in an attempt to push rates lower) and tuition steeply rose, academic institutions’ ratio of administrators to students has skyrocketed to a bureaucratic mess, leading to a flywheel of higher education costs and incentivizing research for money’s sake over impact to the field.

Real impact would be reproducing notoriously iffy studies, but that doesn’t bring in the dollars.

spacephysics commented on AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/202... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

spacephysics · 4 months ago

Its just another layer of potential misdirection that BBC themselves, and many other news orgs, perpetuate. Im not surprised.

From first hand experience -> secondary sources -> journalist regurgitation -> editorial changes

This is just another layer. Doesn't make it right, but we could do the same analysis with articles that mainstream news publishes (and it has been done, GroundNews looks to be a productized version of this)

Its very interesting when I see people I know personally, or YouTubers with small audiences get even local news/newspaper coverage. If its something potentially damning, nearly all cases have pieces of misrepresentation that either go unaccounted for, or a revision months later after the reputational damage is done.

Many veterans see the same for war reporting, spins/details omitted or changed. Its just now BBC sees an existential threat with AI doing their job for them. Hopefully in a few years more accurately.

spacephysics commented on Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20 news.futunn.com/en/post/6... · Posted by u/dworks

rich_sasha · 5 months ago

Can someone ELI5 this to me? Nvidia has the market cap of a medium-sized country precisely because apparently (?) no one else can make chips like them. Great tech, hard to manufacture, etc - Intel and AMD are nowhere to be seen. And I can imagine it's very tricky business!

China, admittedly full of smart and hard working people, then just wakes up one day an in a few years covers the entire gap, to within some small error?

How is this consistent? Either:

- The Chinese GPUs are not that good after all

- Nvidia doesn't have any magical secret sauce, and China could easily catch up

- Nvidia IP is real but Chinese people are so smart they can overcome decades of R&D advantage in just s few years

- It's all stolen IP

To be clear, my default guess isn't that it is stolen IP, rather I can't make sense of it. NVDA is valued near infinity, then China just turns around and produces their flagship product without too much sweat..?

spacephysics · 5 months ago

Defaulting to China stealing IP is a perfectly reasonable first step.

China is known for their countless theft of Europe and especially American IP, selling it for a quarter of the price, and destroying the original company nearly overnight.

Its so bad even NASA has begun to restrict hiring Chinese nationals (which is more national defense, however illegally killing American companies can be seen as a national defense threat as well)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wd5qpekkvo.amp

https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-chinese-communist-party-us...

spacephysics commented on Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape... · Posted by u/zeuch

elevatortrim · 5 months ago

I do not see anything in this study that accounts for the decline in economic activity. Is it AI replacing the jobs, or is it that companies are not optimistically hiring, which disproportionally impacts entry level jobs?

spacephysics · 5 months ago

Agree, I think the high cost of full time hires for entry level software jobs (total comp + onboarding + mentoring) vs investing in AI and seeing if that gap can be filled is a far less risky choice at the current economic state.

6-12 months in, the AI bet doesnt pay off, then just stop spending money in it. cancel/dont renew contracts and move some teams around.

For full time entry hires, we typically dont see meaningful positive productivity (their cost is less than what they produce) for 6-8 months. Additionally, entry level takes time away from senior folks reducing their productivity. And if you need to cut payroll cost, its far more complicated, and worse for morale than just cutting AI spend.

So given the above, plus economy seemingly pre-recession (or have been according to some leading indicators) seems best to wait or hire very cautiously for next 6-8 months at least.

spacephysics commented on Hosting a website on a disposable vape bogdanthegeek.github.io/b... · Posted by u/BogdanTheGeek

palata · 5 months ago

The fact that selling such a thing is profitable means that we lack regulations somewhere.

spacephysics · 5 months ago

The fact something is profitable (even vices) does not mean it requires regulations, unless the regulation in mind is direct or indirect cap on profit margins?

spacephysics commented on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public practicalshootinginsights... · Posted by u/eoskx

spacephysics · 5 months ago

Ah yes, the secret design of pistols which go off at the slightest bump (its a lottery, only 1 in 1,000 chance!)

Revoke contracts, investigate the leadership who accepted the contract, and hold Sig criminally liable given they have internal documents from years ago acknowledging the fact.