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New comment by SiempreViernes in "Hand-bent after 3D printing, Oberdoerfer and Krebs' Bend chair"

SiempreViernes — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:03:20 +0000

That one is made out of several parts: https://www.kooij.com/web/image/66548-31dcf81d/Dirk%20van%20...

New comment by SiempreViernes in "Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data"

SiempreViernes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:56:26 +0000

If they would be profitable without further spending on R&D they would stop spending, but as you say they are in an R&D race so they can't stop and thus the hypothetical is irrelevant.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"

SiempreViernes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:50:30 +0000

It was a joke based on the historical fact that students frequently trigger violent uprisings...

New comment by SiempreViernes in "Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security"

SiempreViernes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:30:17 +0000

And then decided to not ask the PHP foundation about it?

New comment by SiempreViernes in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"

SiempreViernes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:37:03 +0000

> That is a fundamental problem that you will not solve by asking youger folks, who are actually affected and have all reason to agree and comply, to make a change.

Younger folks tend to be more enthusiastic about "making a change" by direct action means, so you shouldn't count them out!

New comment by SiempreViernes in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"

SiempreViernes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:35:20 +0000

No, all CO2 emission must stop so everybody is gotta put on work anyway.

Also, if what you had in mind with "focusing on" is some sort of military solution, you are listing the wrong thing; what you need is a list of top fossil fuel exporters which looks different from the "top emitters" list.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"

SiempreViernes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:21:41 +0000

This ignores the big wheezing elephant in the room: climate action is fighting extremely entrenched and monied interests that are betting on dying before the bill for their action comes due and are ready to lie on almost unimaginable scale.

Saying it is simply a "branding failure" is about as accurate as saying "planning failure" is why around 80% of Ukrainians lost power in 2024.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

SiempreViernes — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:32:34 +0000

The issue being objected to is that Amazon serving DeepSeek apparently is not fine, despite having exactly the same security mechanism (Bezos goes to jail).

New comment by SiempreViernes in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

SiempreViernes — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:25:43 +0000

Closed models are used to pick military targets, which seems pretty trusty to me. There was also that time where every US government employee had to send a self-written review of their work to be consumed by a very closed source model, and that too was fine. It also seems likely basically all employment data in the US federal government has been fed into a closed source model, and again this was fine according to the government.

So it seems like there is little self-hosted open weight models cannot be used for.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "Monte-Carlo Simulations"

SiempreViernes — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:22:22 +0000

You check your predicted outcomes against observed outcomes. It sounds like you claim there aren't any observable outcomes of your model, which is why I again suggest you turn to astrologers who knows how to handle this case.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?"

SiempreViernes — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:00:43 +0000

Sadly, these days the warmongers are having real boom times, which ironically means a tramsfer of power to people who benefit from wars becoming more frequent in the name of making us more safe.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

SiempreViernes — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:56:00 +0000

I think it's fair to skip the video and go directly to the comments when it has a ragebait title, if Grant was mainly seeking serious discussion he'd use a serious title.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "Monte-Carlo Simulations"

SiempreViernes — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:38:23 +0000

Probabilistic Monte Carlo simulations are a way to check your guesses, if you claim you can't even guess at how things work you should consult a professional astrologer.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

SiempreViernes — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:09:23 +0000

Even if this was overly long and mostly things I've seen before, I'm just very thankful that it wasn't yet another claude piece.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "The Aaronson Oracle"

SiempreViernes — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:01:09 +0000

Stanton should say something about how long he's practised to write exactly like a mainstream LLM, surely his effort in resisting the urge to edit this page for length must have been heroic: it is worth a mention.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "The Aaronson Oracle"

SiempreViernes — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:59:19 +0000

Very much so, this is waay too long. Sadly there's no wikipedia article to link to in its place.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material"

SiempreViernes — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:44:45 +0000

The denial is from the TV4, not the production company, and it's not so much a denial as just saying "we didn't hear that AI did it", TV4 confirms the entire final cut is gone:

> Det som vi har fått från produktionen är att det har varit ett tekniskt haveri som har gjort att material som är klippt har försvunnit och att vi därför måste klippas om på nytt. Och att vi därför behöver skjuta fram premiären till 2027, säger Ludvig Ternstedt, pressansvarig för ”The challenge”.

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/31oE8A/the-challeng...

New comment by SiempreViernes in "The art of defusing a second world war bomb"

SiempreViernes — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:17:22 +0000

Oh yeah, definitely mines: both sides are mining heavily, including using air dispersed mines whose final position is impossible to record accurately. Both sides also use cluster bombs which are like air dispersed mines but more prone to become duds and look somewhat like toys.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities"

SiempreViernes — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:01:43 +0000

The first city I clicked on at random had the opening phrase:

> Arriving, you rejoice at its bridges, each different

The model city had like five bridges total, three of which were didn't bridge anything at all but instead sat in the middle of the river and went along its flow, the "bridges" for some reason pretending to be small islands.

New comment by SiempreViernes in "How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't"

SiempreViernes — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:12:03 +0000

Wow, didn't know underlipton was a world renowned authority on history of sicence, thanks for telling us! /s