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New comment by Transformanshen in "The weekend is 100 years old"

Transformanshen — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:21:06 +0000

Interesting article. I never thought about how important it is not just how many days off you have, but also when exactly you have them. It's really bad when you have days off, but you can't see your family. I actually like the concept of a four-day workweek. I wonder if it will ultimately prove successful, and if the whole world will adopt it?

New comment by Transformanshen in "A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem"

Transformanshen — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:56:27 +0000

The subtraction point is interesting but I don't think it makes the result disappointing. The whole point of Tarski's problem is what follows from that very restricted set of elementary identities so finding the exact minimum countermodel under those rules still seems like a pretty satisfying result.

New comment by Transformanshen in "Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it"

Transformanshen — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:10:34 +0000

An interesting project. Ancient languages have always fascinated me, but the effort required to read even a single page of Greek or Latin can be a serious obstacle It's nice to see tools that simplify this process. I might even want to give it another try

New comment by Transformanshen in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

Transformanshen — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:37:55 +0000

I can actually see this being useful for fairly narrow workloads in dedicated devices where the model doesn't need to change very often and low-latency inference matters more than flexibility I don't see it replacing general-purpose GPUs but it seems like a reasonable option for that kind of workload