Hacker News: 11101010001100

New comment by 11101010001100 in "Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication"

11101010001100 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:03:45 +0000

Pay the fine and Pay for pardon is the business du jour.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "South Korea police say 120k home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage"

11101010001100 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:25:19 +0000

I know how to do that, but I don't.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

11101010001100 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:38:25 +0000

If OpenAI is smart here, they would figure out that you can make more money on a flop than with a hit. I bet an AI would figure that out.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

11101010001100 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:08:59 +0000

Yes, I hold, sell and by stock the same way. Either it is a market, or it isn't.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

11101010001100 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:35:20 +0000

It may come across as bragging to some. You can decide if that is fair.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "Implications of AI to schools"

11101010001100 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:37:04 +0000

As a teacher, I try to keep an open mind, but consistently I can find out in 5 minutes of talking to a student if they understand the material. I might just go all in for the oral exams.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

11101010001100 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:31:19 +0000

Yes, we are doing a bad job of updating our priors.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

11101010001100 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:22:16 +0000

Even to chemical engineers, life cycle analysis is not something that is general knowledge.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale"

11101010001100 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:15:43 +0000

In other words, proofs of existence are measure zero in the space of evolution?

New comment by 11101010001100 in "Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties"

11101010001100 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:55:41 +0000

This is the sort of stuff that happens when someone who had one good idea long ago has run out of good ideas.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

11101010001100 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:22:42 +0000

The good news is that you can't 'theoretically' stop a gravy train.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "Why a maker of spark plugs and wiper blades has Wall Street worried"

11101010001100 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:47:08 +0000

Gotta love when the journalist finds an expert, asks the question, and the expert goes: "My guess..."

New comment by 11101010001100 in "What’s so great about excellence? (1981)"

11101010001100 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:09:49 +0000

No, they will still have scholarships. Just not all the scholarships.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "Class Dismissed: Profile of Joe Liemandt and Alpha School"

11101010001100 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:58:15 +0000

As noted in the article, for people who won't RTA, the original 2sigma observation of 1 on 1 is due to Bloom more than 40 years ago.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "John Jumper: AI is revolutionizing scientific discovery [video]"

11101010001100 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 01:11:33 +0000

I think the PR is making it seem that Deepmind is not standing on the shoulder of giants, when in fact it very much is. The paper itself makes this clear. I wish them luck!

New comment by 11101010001100 in "Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again"

11101010001100 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:04:14 +0000

Well, the article is not off to a good start. COVID-19 is modeled by an SIR dynamical system, which is at times, is approximately exponential.

At times.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

11101010001100 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:52:24 +0000

also known as power.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "How Isaac Newton discovered the binomial power series (2022)"

11101010001100 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:00:53 +0000

This stuff always makes me chuckle. Magnus Carlsen learned chess without guidance, modulo his father being a rated player.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

11101010001100 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:23:35 +0000

You still pay for power for the cloud.

New comment by 11101010001100 in "America is in a serious jobs slump"

11101010001100 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:11:57 +0000

How about just a few Americans then.