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New comment by ajwin in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

ajwin — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:54:42 +0000

I enjoyed the authors writing far too much. Reading a whole article about going to the dentist wasn't in the plan today, but here we are!

New comment by ajwin in "Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench"

ajwin — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:07:12 +0000

To what degree is this a harness/system prompt problem? Models maybe should implement new stuff with as little impact on the existing stuff as possible by default? A simple system prompt for it to always check the code after task completion for proper simplifications, abstractions and cleanups before returning to the user? Instructions to retain "story like" readability of the code.

New comment by ajwin in "How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues"

ajwin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:23:37 +0000

A lot of the reason why concrete structures have failed so quickly is that the material was still fairly new when most of the structures failing now were created. There’s nothing that says that well designed and constructed modern high performance polymer modified concretes will have the same problems. They also have additives like zypex paste that make it more waterproof and self healing. They also have permeable formwork liners for increasing the surface density of the concrete and chemical concrete hardeners etc.

New comment by ajwin in "Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds"

ajwin — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 01:02:42 +0000

My understanding is that it is not mesh, it’s Gaussian Splatting. There are tools to convert Splats into mesh though.

New comment by ajwin in "DeepMind debuts watermarks for AI-generated text"

ajwin — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 23:37:49 +0000

Do LLM's always pick the most probable next word? I would have thought this would lead to having the same output for every input? How does this deal with the randomness that you get from prompting the same thing over and over?

New comment by ajwin in "Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe"

ajwin — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:10:41 +0000

I live in South Australia and I feel like public toilets are ubiquitous and still increasing in number. Mostly they are either accessible or have a separate accessible toilet. The only exception to this is in areas where they have public social issues. My mum is a little bit financial about toilets so she always struggles when overseas. We even have small self cleaning toilets at the small playgrounds in the suburbs. It would be interesting to understand why we ended up like this.

New comment by ajwin in "I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers"

ajwin — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:49:56 +0000

I wonder if anvils will be the breakout product for this technology. It seems like it should be.

New comment by ajwin in "Amazon launches Project Kuiper satellite internet prototypes"

ajwin — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:35:53 +0000

Interesting comment. Can you expand on it?

New comment by ajwin in "Amazon launches Project Kuiper satellite internet prototypes"

ajwin — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:55:34 +0000

I still do not understand how something so significantly more expensive and less ambitious will compete with Starlink or even be viable? Will they make their $$ back ever?

New comment by ajwin in "Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter"

ajwin — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 23:09:32 +0000

He is one of the founders of OpenAI.. Soo I don't think he has missed out?

New comment by ajwin in "Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport"

ajwin — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 11:07:23 +0000

And now, only a few years on, the FTTN is already slowly getting replaced at great expense making the FTTN a colossal waste of money. Turnbull knew better as other places on earth already tried FTTN and removed it. The cost of putting power to all the nodes was excessive and ongoing power bills eventually expensive too. FTTP was passive at the nodes. The only argument was that it was planned to be a quicker rollout which didn’t eventuate either. Total shit show.

New comment by ajwin in "Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport"

ajwin — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 10:48:12 +0000

Yeah it’s PS1 Gran Turismo feels for sure.

New comment by ajwin in "Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company"

ajwin — Mon, 03 May 2021 08:26:19 +0000

Start one! Everyone who mentions them should start one. Work super hard to get it started, deal with all the politics and then get voted out.

New comment by ajwin in "Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]"

ajwin — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:04:45 +0000

> I wholeheartedly agree, but how do you get the other side to listen?

The only way is to stop preaching and listen to them. Really listen. This is how Daryl Davis converted the KKK according to his own accounts?

New comment by ajwin in "Factorio 1.0"

ajwin — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 05:09:35 +0000

Competition will push prices to almost zero too ideally. This is how capitalism should work. Technologically driven deflation is key but cronyism likes to mess with it and try prevent it thus the complex financial system.

New comment by ajwin in "Naming the ‘iPhone SE 2’"

ajwin — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 06:58:15 +0000

Does SE stand for Stingy Edition? "Special" Edition? any ideas?

New comment by ajwin in "Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour"

ajwin — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:29:54 +0000

Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't under employed often also refer to when you have part time / casual work but want full time employment? You might not be able to survive of what your earning but your not part of the Unemployment statistics?

New comment by ajwin in "Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour"

ajwin — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:27:08 +0000

Why would this comment get down voted?

New comment by ajwin in "When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone"

ajwin — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:14:57 +0000

On the internet to promote herself with a photo of them at the end. I felt a strong sense of irony at the end of the story.

New comment by ajwin in "Lithium-ion test results to be used as benchmarks for new battery technologies"

ajwin — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 07:20:42 +0000

Is this still true since the Maxwell acquisition? My understanding was that this lead to some new IP for the batteries and processes?