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New comment by WaltYoder in "What does the US Department of Education do?"

WaltYoder — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:15:07 +0000

Let's be clear: you don't want Republicans to determine education.

New comment by WaltYoder in "Lithium-sulfur battery retains 80% charge capacity after 25,000 cycles"

WaltYoder — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:42:45 +0000

For grid-level solar energy, we will need batteries that cycle at least 200 times per year. A system that requires replacing batteries every 5 years can't really be described as "renewable energy".

New comment by WaltYoder in "Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip"

WaltYoder — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:23:26 +0000

I am still confused. Are these made of quarks? Electrons? Atoms? Ions?

All the article says is "a new material made from indium arsenide and aluminum".

New comment by WaltYoder in "The greatest calculator app development story ever told"

WaltYoder — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:43:52 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953

New comment by WaltYoder in "Quantum machine simulates universe's potential false vacuum decay"

WaltYoder — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:20:00 +0000

The actual article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02765-w

It's unclear to me why a "one-dimensional" simulation would give results that generalize to spacetime.

New comment by WaltYoder in "Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI"

WaltYoder — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:33:11 +0000

Yeah, it's cringe, but if LLMs are as useless as Gary Marcus insists they are, why should we worry?

New comment by WaltYoder in "Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows"

WaltYoder — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:52:30 +0000

As the comments on that site point out, the headline conclusion is absurdly wrong.

The older models are worse than the newer models (which are generally larger and better trained). That doesn't prove the older models have undergone "cognitive decline".

New comment by WaltYoder in "Hidden 960 Chess Variant"

WaltYoder — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:46:13 +0000

This doesn't seem to include a rule that the two starting positions are equal (same pieces on the A file, B file, etc.).

Also, I don't see how "human intuition" comes into play, or why Stockfish couldn't play this as well as any other variant. Picking the most useful piece to put on a square requires no intuition at all, it's just a few additional possible actions.

At least as implemented, there is no "hidden information", the pieces aren't assigned to a location before they are revealed.

New comment by WaltYoder in "Ask HN: Investment for Mill Computing?"

WaltYoder — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:06:41 +0000

I looked at this company about 8 years ago, and found their ideas for new computer architectures interesting.

Since then, GPUs have changed the world. And yet, these people have apparently accomplished nothing.

Perhaps they would be most valuable to an anti-AI organization as patent-trolling fodder.

'Last Chance U' Players' $30M Netflix lawsuit unlikely to prevail

WaltYoder — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:04:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2025/last-chance-u-netflix-lawsuit-1234827854/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069055

Points: 2

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New comment by WaltYoder in "Autopsy: No foul play in OpenAI whistleblower's suicide"

WaltYoder — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:03 +0000

Except it was the family that refused to release the autopsy report, and their own lawyer disputes the claim.

"Ramarao later told The Standard that the secondary autopsy proved her son was shot in the back of the head from an angle at which he could not have shot himself, and that it was “cold-blooded murder.” At the time, the family declined to provide a copy of the autopsy, and Goethals [the family attorney] disputed Ramarao’s claim, saying he “would not characterize it as conclusively proving murder.”"