<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ak_111</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ak_111</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:54:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ak_111" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there really a moral panic? Apart from a few viral Twitter posts, I don't see a major sobriety push by my colleagues.<p>Profits of main alcohol suppliers has certainly taken a hit over the last 5 years but this is arguably far more because of rise of remote working, inflation (drinking at pubs have become much more costly than before) and people in general just addicted to their phone rather than going out (similar to the impact on almost all social activities no just going to pubs)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:05:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894585</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "The Millennium Problems for Biology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not an expert, but as I understand from my colleagues you can make a case for lots of really important problems related to protein folding to be included in the list. As protein folding hasn't been nearly "solved" by alphafold as has been reported in many places.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:15:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776124</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "Nvidia is the central bank of AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Devil's advocate: OpenAI not being able to use compute is highly correlated to many other AI companies not being able to find a meaningful use of this compute.<p>Failure to take into consideration those kind of correlations ("If my biggest client isn't able to buy it, I would be able to find someone else who will") is one of the principle causes why many risk models turned out to be garbage during the Great Financial Crisis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:29:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676258</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you realise that the only reason the average US taxpayer keeps getting wrecked into one pointless forever war after the other no matter who is in power is because the elites are never held accountable for their mad self-enriching adventures?<p>Holding people like Hegseth (who literally insider traded defense equities right before the start of the war) and Trump accountable (who practically made a gazillion insider trading each mad meme he posted while the world burnt) is not "dividing people into teams"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660449</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This war started as a regime change operation in Iran, one of the shakiest regimes in the world pre-war, but ironically the war might end up with most of the nations who supported the war (either vocally or quietly) "regime changed" (loosely defined), including Israel, US, some European countries and now possibly some Gulf nations, awhile the Iranian regime seem to have tightened its grip more than ever.<p>Yet MAGA supporters were saying early in the war that they are "plan trusters" as prior US admins sucked at regime change because it is a "skills issue" and none of the prior admins had the triple digits IQ of Hegseth, Trump and Bessent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:17:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659914</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it possible that they claim they used a "new internal model" to provide an excuse for "training" on new user data, knowing full well this new user data will include Buckmaster's chat?<p>So the entire "new internal model" is 'parallel construction' in criminology speak to justify spying on Buckmaster's work in a legal way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:56:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624419</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "Linear algebra done right"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is indeed a good concise description of how to connect the two, but even making peace with this, there is something still magical in how the permutations in the sum cancel neatly (in an inclusion-exclusion kind of a way) to get the volume.</p>
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<p>But if you see the geometric view then the permutation sum, for certain obsessive learners they want to see why they are equivalent and thats the hard part.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:00:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335946</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "Linear algebra done right"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Determinants are easy to use but very hardly to grasp intuitively, this is not a minority point of view. See countless of StackOverflow questions begging for a conceptual exposition of determinants.<p>The easiest conceptual handle is geometric: volume expansion, but seeing how this is related to the combinatorial sum over all permutations, or how those two point of views are related to the algebraic one (that a set of equations having a solution or not), is not easy to see even in the 2D case.<p>I won't be surprised if math professors don't have this issue like you said (especially if someone is comfortable with wedge products), but the vast majority of newcomers who are interested in understanding <i>why</i> something works rather than just how to use it struggle all the time with determinants.</p>
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<p>ah i thought so, interesting. I think the challenge is to do 2 while still keeping it realistic, which actually gets very close to synthetic data generation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:43:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173957</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if the data is not synthetic, how do you ensure that the LLM hasn't learnt about this data for example from training on the Financial Times.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173396</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is not new, most famous conjectures are believed to be true mainly because an already enormous brute force search was conducted finding no counter-example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:59:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992463</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>lol honest this wasn’t AI, I guess I need to work on my style</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:21:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985021</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hmm this sounds like an incumbent missing a paradigm shift because they didn't want it to disrupt their core (usually enterprise) business, although riding the shift would have ultimately delivered an order magnitude larger business.<p>Classical example is Microsoft actively undermining mobile because it threatened selling Windows or enterprise licenses.<p>Or Yahoo fighting Google's model because the latter model's didn't depend on taking enterprise deals to rank results.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:25:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982836</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well you can see from the original poster's timeline, that 10 years from now will be effectively 16 years into Apple's ARM journey, so you can add two more cycles.<p>And also from the timeline you can see that the average Apple hardware transition period is 2.75 cycles, so I wouldn't bet too much that their ARM journey will last more than 6 cycles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:03:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938801</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ten years is a very long time in technology, RISC-V ecosystem could be so vibrant and advanced that it might prove more cost effective for Apple just to feed off it (assuming Apple is still relevant by then).<p>It's almost like trying to predict if the smartphone leaders in 2006 (Nokia / RIM) would want to adopt this new mobile operating system that hardly anyone uses (android) in 2016.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:55:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919462</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919462</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>clever tricks has value for sure. But the main way progress is done in mathematics is by building new theory, the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is much more important because of the math it created to solve the problem, rather than actually solving the problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:32:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865589</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlike the unit distance problem, the impressive thing here is that it is a proof rather than a counter-example.<p>However, it seems the proof is extremely concise so it seems that it is exploiting a clever trick that somehow all the experts missed.<p>So not to dunk on this amazing result (or move the goal post), but it seems now the only achievement that AI hasn't managed in mathematics is presenting an autonomous "theory-building" proof of an open conjecture. That is a proof that requires creating a substantial new theory (developed say in at least 30+ pages) to crack an open problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:24:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864086</link><dc:creator>ak_111</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ak_111 in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Open any technical textbook in an area slightly outside your domain and you will quickly disabuse yourself of the notion that majority of words are obscure. Most complex words are just technical/jargon not archaic or forgotten.</p>
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<p>Just top of my head (and I don't even follow his takes that closely), just check his takes on Magic Leap which he consistently promoted using quite dramatic langauge (along with the entire AR space) and check how it panned out.</p>
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