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New comment by Geee in "Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour"

Geee — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:31:13 +0000

Corals are warm water animals, so it's pretty obvious that they'll grow out more when the water gets warmer.

New comment by Geee in "Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour"

Geee — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:20:11 +0000

Most parts of the planet have never been survivable to humans. That's why we have invented fire, clothes, houses, air conditioning, water pipes, etc. And that continues to be the case whatever happens to the planet.

New comment by Geee in "Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware"

Geee — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:02:24 +0000

How about context length? Isn't it still just a few thousand tokens on local models?

New comment by Geee in "Tesla Roadster"

Geee — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:49:29 +0000

Rocket version also has an additional 400 liter COPV which takes up the passenger seat. Thrust version has a 200 liter COPV behind the seats.

New comment by Geee in "Tesla Roadster"

Geee — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:32:20 +0000

No, they're cold gas thrusters. The car has an air compressor, a composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV) and 10 nozzles.

New comment by Geee in "What's Earth's dominant species by mass?"

Geee — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:50:17 +0000

The answer is Black Spruce with 11 billion tons of biomass.

The infographics is worth looking at. All animals are just 0.4% of total biomass, and most of that is arthropods, fish, annelids, molluscs and cnidarians. Humans, live stock, birds and wild mammals combined are just about 0.02% of the total biomass.

New comment by Geee in "OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network"

Geee — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:06:03 +0000

What kind of dataset is used to train DLSS 5? Do they need to generate synthetic image pairs first?

New comment by Geee in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

Geee — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:52:39 +0000

We've now learned that this isn't true for all migrant groups, and it has been an extremely costly mistake to make. Demographic replacement can't work positively if the productivity of migrants is below of the original demographic, and actually makes the situation worse. Europe might have learned this too late, but at least now EU and most European countries are changing course.

New comment by Geee in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

Geee — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:42:19 +0000

Read the original question again.

New comment by Geee in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

Geee — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:01:20 +0000

You're wrong. The best-selling vehicle is the Flying Pigeon bicycle, the standard bicycle from Mao-era China with more than 500 million produced since 1950.

New comment by Geee in "Apple's Dimensional Drawings"

Geee — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:54:18 +0000

It's a stroke font / SHX font produced by the CAD software, but difficult to know which one. They aren't actual fonts, but just single-stroke vector shapes. Claude thinks it's from PTC Creo Parametric, but I couldn't find any clear examples to confirm or deny.

New comment by Geee in ""Next-token predictor" is the wrong mental model for LLMs"

Geee — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:05:53 +0000

It's a next-token computer. It computes the probabilities for the next token.

New comment by Geee in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

Geee — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:18:52 +0000

I have had occasional tinnitus, and once it lasted for a few months and then went away. Sometimes it appears suddenly, and I've taken vitamin B12 and magnesium and it goes away in a few hours. Vitamin D might also help according to some studies, but in my case I think it might make it worse. Not sure if placebo or not.

New comment by Geee in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

Geee — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:26:57 +0000

Yeah, these types of actuators are pretty interesting, but I've not seen anything super promising yet.

New comment by Geee in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

Geee — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:39:26 +0000

What innovations specifically?

New comment by Geee in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

Geee — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:01:41 +0000

I don't think electric motors + reduction gears can be improved much, unless I'm missing something. I hope someone invents something completely new.

New comment by Geee in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

Geee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:58:17 +0000

G1 is a small robot designed for agility, and can't do much real work. That's why it uses lower reduction actuators with low sustained torques, and it'll overheat easily in continuous work. Many of the larger robots (Optimus, Figure, BD Atlas) use higher reduction actuators with strain waves or planetary roller screws. They're designed for higher sustained torques, but are also less agile and less safe for humans to be around. They're also quite heavy (BD Atlas is 90kg), and still can't match human performance.

New comment by Geee in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

Geee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:53:47 +0000

I think the only real barriers are ethical. I'm pretty sure we'll figure out to do a completely synthetic biological robots without any kind of biological brain in the next 10-20 years, and they don't even have to resemble animals or humans. This should alleviate some of the ethical issues.

New comment by Geee in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

Geee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:40:18 +0000

I think they're doing it the other way around, i.e. growing a biological brain for the AI, which would then be used in a robot.

New comment by Geee in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

Geee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:37:40 +0000

Well, a giraffe could do jobs where you need to reach high, such as replacing a lightbulb. Sure, I'm half-joking.

Asimo used BLDC motors with strain-wave gearing, which is pretty much standard today on high-end humanoid robots. The only thing that has happened is that these are much cheaper today, and might be slightly more optimized.