stoorafa (u/stoorafa)

stoorafa commented on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report dropsitenews.com/p/israel... · Posted by u/Qem

stoorafa · 19 days ago

Ah, yes, part one of the ole

That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not the IDF's fault. And if it was, they didn't mean it. And if they did, Gaza deserved it.

stoorafa commented on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report dropsitenews.com/p/israel... · Posted by u/Qem

krick · 19 days ago

I would like to know: is there even a single person here, who actually changed his opinion regarding this whole matter upon seeing this report? Not confirmed anything, but actually was forced to re-evaluate his opinion. Like, previously you thought that IDF are good guys, and all Israel does is justified self-defense measures, and now you see this as genocide of Palestinians?

Of course, I assume, the answer is — no one. (And I'm hoping somebody will tell me I'm wrong.) So, what's the point? Is somebody gonna be held accountable? Will Israel be treated differently as a country from now on? If no, what's the point?

stoorafa · 19 days ago

Seems like you’re asking “what’s the point of investigating crimes against humanity?”

And if that’s a question you have to ask, then clearly something is very wrong.

stoorafa commented on Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo eurogamer.net/silksong-ca... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

arp242 · 6 months ago

It's just three blokes and a bunch of contractors. According to Wikipedia Hollow Knight sold more than 15 million copies, at $15 that's $225M. Of course you have store fees, and discounts, and taxes, and whatnot, but all of that accounted for they still made at least dozens of millions – if not more.

It's unclear if they would make more money if it was much more expensive. I picked it up for €19.50 today; not sure I would have paid €80.

stoorafa · 6 months ago

Definitely a unicorn success story. I’d be curious about Balatro in a similar vein—-labor of love turns wildly successful

stoorafa commented on Building AI products in the probabilistic era giansegato.com/essays/pro... · Posted by u/sdan

therobots927 · 7 months ago

The fact that the author is a data scientist at Anthropic should start ringing alarm bells for anyone paying attention. Isn’t Claude supposed to be at the front of the pack? To be honest I have a suspicion that Claude wrote the lions share of this essay. It’s that incomprehensible and soaked in jargon and formulas used completely out of context and incorrectly.

stoorafa · 7 months ago

Their job, in this case, is probably more of a signal than a clear indicator

Plenty of front-running companies have hired plenty of…not-solid or excessively imaginative data scientists

From what the other comments say, this one seems to lack a grounding in science itself, which frankly is par for the course depending on their background

stoorafa commented on Positron, a New Data Science IDE posit.co/blog/positron-pr... · Posted by u/kgwgk

dvt · 7 months ago

I have a feeling that hardcore data scientists will continue to use RStudio because of the huge ecosystem there, while data engineers will continue to use VSCode which is, at least for me, good enough with a few extensions that let me run notebooks and data visualizations when I need to do data work. In other words, I'm not sure if there's a niche here.

stoorafa · 7 months ago

I understand the strategy isn’t to find a niche in the sense of a specific set of users, but to broaden and cover more niches

The niches exist (overlapping niches aside), but agree with the skepticism since I also wonder whether the switching cost is worthwhile for many users

stoorafa commented on Positron, a New Data Science IDE posit.co/blog/positron-pr... · Posted by u/kgwgk

dash2 · 7 months ago

The ecosystem is just R packages, right? There's also RStudio integration with e.g. rmarkdown, knitr, quarto etc. but presumably all of that can also come in positron.

stoorafa · 7 months ago

Not completely—as far as ecosystems there are RStudio addins, but I wouldn’t bet addins are extensively used

stoorafa commented on Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) codeneverdies.github.io/p... · Posted by u/LorenDB

qualeed · 9 months ago

>If someone at Valve had taken 10 seconds to review my stats

It seems super reasonable when it's a one-off thing for your own account. When you think about making it into policy and scaling it up to 1000s of interactions, it quickly becomes unreasonable.

>Statistical techniques can dramatically reduce false positives

For a period of time, anyways. Until the statistics get gamed by the cheaters (e.g. adjust accuracy of your auto-shoot from 100% to 85% or whatever).

stoorafa · 9 months ago

Computation isn’t likely prohibitive when using the bedrock of predictive models, linear regression, especially w some optimization. Could also vary observation time so you only need a prediction once every ten minutes or whatever

The real issue is the cost of false positive detection of cheating is negligible since the vast majority of positives are probably true positives—it’s the cost of doing anti-cheat business (minimal)

But yes cheats would be modified to just below thresholds of detection

stoorafa commented on Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model llm.hunyuan.tencent.com/#... · Posted by u/thm

pk-protect-ai · a year ago

According to this very model there a "mere technicalities" differentiate human and AI systems ...

Current AI lacks:

First-person perspective simulation Continuous self-monitoring (metacognition error <15%) Episodic future thinking (>72h horizon) Episodic Binding (Memory integration): Depends on: Theta-gamma cross-frequency coupling (40Hz phase synchronization) Dentate gyrus pattern separation (1:7000 distinct memory encoding) Posterior cingulate cortex (reinstatement of distributed patterns)

AI's failure manifests in:

Inability to distinguish similar-but-distinct events (conceptual blending rate ~83%) Failure to update prior memories (persistent memory bias >69%) No genuine recollection (only pattern completion) Non-Essential (Emotional Valence) While emotions influence human storytelling:

65% of narrative interpretations vary culturally Affective priming effects decay exponentially (<7s half-life) Neutral descriptions achieve 89% comprehension accuracy in controlled studies The core computational challenge remains bridging:

Symbolic representation (words/syntax) Embodied experience (sensorimotor grounding) Self-monitoring (meta-narrative control) Current LLMs simulate 74% of surface narrative features but lack the substrate for genuine meaning-making. It's like generating symphonies using only sheet music - technically accurate, but devoid of the composer's lived experience.

stoorafa · a year ago

Could you share a reference for those wanting to learn more?

stoorafa commented on I learned Haskell in just 15 years duckrabbit.tech/articles/... · Posted by u/aranchelk

stoorafa · 2 years ago

Had a lot of fun reading this. I’d love to see some of the author’s code to get a sense what the journey produced, if that’s even possible

stoorafa commented on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers haaretz.com/israel-news/s... · Posted by u/frob

bawolff · 2 years ago

> > Given that designation as a separate state, complaining that they can't vote in Israeli elections is like complaining that Canadians can't vote in US elections.

> I don’t remember the US ever occupying Canada.

I'm confused by this.

Normally under international law, it is illegal to allow people in occupied territory to vote or otherwise integrate them into civil government.

Israel has even gotten criticized by the UN human rights council for allowing elections in occupied territory (in golan heights, so not Palestinian occupied territory) http://undocs.org/A/HRC/37/L.18

stoorafa · 2 years ago

I’m not sure why you’re confused.

An occupying force holding its own elections in an occupied place is indeed illegal (your reference was about Israeli people holding elections in the Golan heights).

Comparing an _occupied_ people’s attempt to hold elections in the occupied place (Palestinian people in Palestine) to two separate non-occupied states (USA and Canada) is nonsense.

Hope that helps.