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New comment by HappyPanacea in "If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it"

HappyPanacea — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:43:14 +0000

“You are right. There is nothing in yesterday’s mathematics that you can prove with exterior algebra that could not also be proved without it. Exterior algebra is not meant to prove old facts, it is meant to disclose a new world. Disclosing new worlds is as worthwile a mathematical enterprise as proving old conjectures.” Gian-Carlo Rota in “Indiscrete Thoughts”

New comment by HappyPanacea in "CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3"

HappyPanacea — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:42:17 +0000

These days we automatically blur people faces so there is no reason we can't have both

New comment by HappyPanacea in "I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9"

HappyPanacea — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:48:19 +0000

Well was it hallucinated bs?

New comment by HappyPanacea in "I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9"

HappyPanacea — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:47:49 +0000

The more intelligent AI become, the less moat it has

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds"

HappyPanacea — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:35:05 +0000

> If a soldier on the ground had called in the airstrike, there is a good chance they would be in military prison.

No, they wouldn't and neither would they in any other military; most militaries don't punish most war crimes let alone what looks like negligence.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

HappyPanacea — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:58:16 +0000

This tells us more about your bias then Wikipedia bias, observe that WWII and Bosnian War have their own Wikipedia articles regardless of any genocide occurring in them.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

HappyPanacea — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:49:43 +0000

This is not really true in my experience aside from protected articles; however it is true that sometimes another human will make an edit which degrade the article quality or insist on keeping something that shouldn't be kept. Also, Articles on contentious subjects tend to be problematic.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"

HappyPanacea — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:40:10 +0000

very few people like or use it -> browser loses market share

I very much doubt trying weird things meaningfully changed their market share (aside from UI redesigns)

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

HappyPanacea — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:06:06 +0000

This poll don't show "the curse upon the Jews victory to Islam" and shooting random vessels and taking crew hostages are making Houthi or Houthi further expansion liked in the west.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

HappyPanacea — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:09:21 +0000

The western audience doesn't need the hint to dislike it - the curse upon the Jews victory to Islam and shooting random vessels and taking crew hostages (very relevant here) are doing the job just fine.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "The revolt of the reader"

HappyPanacea — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:59:41 +0000

This argument doesn't work, the average majority of humans are bad at math but recent LLM aren't.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

HappyPanacea — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:19:25 +0000

It seems unlikely to find 1920 level or so proof although it might be the case that a significantly easier/shorter proof exits via Vandiver conjecture + extra work or Effective Mordell conjecture but it also wouldn't surprise me if that would be even more complicated than the current proof of FLT.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

HappyPanacea — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:51:20 +0000

Buzzard is writing for his blog audience - mostly mathematicians and not the casual visiting HN user.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

HappyPanacea — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:42:23 +0000

Does somebody knows what top locales list is sampled from? their own usage data? Also when they will use their AI to give better directions in Waze?

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs"

HappyPanacea — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:45:33 +0000

So according to you, American Revolutionary War was a separatist movement but not an independence struggle? > Head over to reddit where your trolling will be welcomed.

Race is a term with a rather vague meaning, if I remember genetics correctly both groups here belongs to the East Asian branch of Humanity although to distant branch, which made me question what the different races are here, understanding you definition of race would have been helpful to understand why you used it instead of ethnic groups.

No trolling here, your weird definition of an independence struggle was definitely a good reason to ask you to define your terms.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs"

HappyPanacea — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:47:14 +0000

> It's not a separatist movement, but an independence struggle.

What's the difference?

> And the Javanese of Indonesia aren't just a different tribe, they've a completely different race from completely different lands.

Why would that matter? Would it be okay if they were the same race? How do you define race?

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs"

HappyPanacea — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:31:24 +0000

No I don't know who "You-Know-Who" is, speak plainly.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "An elliptic curve of rank 31"

HappyPanacea — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:10:50 +0000

Fuck this deliberate teasing and marketing. Call me when they are done.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days"

HappyPanacea — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:07:28 +0000

It seems unwise to attack UK when US attacks you.

New comment by HappyPanacea in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

HappyPanacea — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:07:01 +0000

I have some vague memories of people praising the prose of The Name of the Wind but being less impressed with its plot.