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New comment by alkyon in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

alkyon — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:59:11 +0000

Out of curiosity, what alternatives exist for moderate pain / fever management? I imagine NSAIDs are even worse in terms of adverse effects?

New comment by alkyon in "European Alternatives"

alkyon — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:03:03 +0000

These EU alternatives are in fact increasingly valuable for US-based political activists:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-governmen...

It's generally beneficial to have more choice both from a free-market and a democratic-safeguards perspective.

New comment by alkyon in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

alkyon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:24:17 +0000

OpenAI counterexample solves the millennium problem in a Yes/No manner - we do know in general that singularity could arise, but it still isn't solved in terms of "Why", ideally we could take an arbitrary physical problem and decide if Navier-Stokes equation can be applied to it.

This is similar to general solvability of the quintic equations - Abel provided a proof first but only with the advent of Gallois theory we could basically understand it in full and decide for any quinitic if it's solvable by radicals or no.

New comment by alkyon in "The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]"

alkyon — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:44:40 +0000

Recently I enjoyed very much The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_MANIAC

New comment by alkyon in "Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?"

alkyon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:15:53 +0000

Fefferman was right to include option C as someone could have come up with less contrived counterexample accompanied by some interesting theorems that actually shed light on the general case

New comment by alkyon in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

alkyon — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:37:12 +0000

Enabling ESNI in Firefox should be a countermeasure (encrypted SNI extension of the TLS so that hostname is no longer sent in plain text)

https://superuser.com/questions/1346634/modern-browser-with-...

New comment by alkyon in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

alkyon — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:58:53 +0000

According to this site https://bandaancha.eu/articulos/gobierno-tiene-lista-web-ofi..., they use SNI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication)

New comment by alkyon in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

alkyon — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:39:29 +0000

I live in Spain and can still enjoy access to this site. This is enforced by major ISPs (Vodafone among others), so anyone sane just opts for a local ISP (if they have a choice)

New comment by alkyon in "If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it"

alkyon — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:16:28 +0000

> It was a short film called Outside In, perhaps the earliest example of a viral video about substantive math, visualizing the key idea of Thurston’s own construction for sphere eversion.

This is really interesting and available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbGNZQvobkc

New comment by alkyon in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

alkyon — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:12:10 +0000

Ant Intelligence will be next big thing in machine learning after this bubble bursts

New comment by alkyon in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

alkyon — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:02:09 +0000

In the first case, we'd still have a chance to take a glance at the frontier of discovery (even if ordinary human mathematicians had to spent years translating what metahumans achieved).

In the second case all human-level maths would be solved and what lies beyond would be always out of our scope.

New comment by alkyon in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

alkyon — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:35:54 +0000

It's still an optimistic scenario. Artificial superintelligence may develop hypermathematics of a kind that never will be accesible to human mind, enhanced or not. One can't teach geometry to ants even if you put them on a Moebius strip.

It would be more like Lem's novel where it completely disappears from the human horizon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV

New comment by alkyon in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"

alkyon — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:39:17 +0000

Only two stone handicap against the machine with much deeper tree searching capabilities. This means that KataGo is lacking in strategy compared to Shin and he could leverage this to achieve this significant win.

New comment by alkyon in "Emacs vs. Vim 2026: 24.3% vs. 8% Usage, 20x Memory Gap"

alkyon — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:20:01 +0000

About 800ms - 2s startup time for emacs. I run it as as systemd service so it's only started once.

hyperfine 'emacsclient -n -r file' gives me only 15ms on average

New comment by alkyon in "Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure""

alkyon — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:02:47 +0000

SNR aka flag-to-commotion ratio

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22f...

New comment by alkyon in "Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder"

alkyon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:17:41 +0000

Home made sauerkraut maybe. In Spain it's impossible to buy anything decent either.

Edit: Low quality may be the result of adding vinegar instead of relying on natural fermentation. Also cabagge should be cut really fine, otherwise the copious amount of juice is not really there to keep it going

New comment by alkyon in "Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder"

alkyon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:36:09 +0000

Tradional bigos was made with venison. Decent sauerkraut really matters as do dried mushrooms which should include boletus.

Fun fact, it gets gradually better with each reheating

New comment by alkyon in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

alkyon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:15:42 +0000

Saw it today in Zaragoza. Corona was amazing but what took my breath away when I looked through my binoculars were pink (fuchsia?) prominences close to the solar disk. As describes here they are in fact plasma structures:

https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/space-photo-of-the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence

New comment by alkyon in "Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse"

alkyon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:50:10 +0000

I think I will just cross the river and find a better place somewhere in the Parque del Agua Luis Buñuel or Expo. Should be also packed but a bit less then the bridges

New comment by alkyon in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

alkyon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:42:18 +0000

I stopped taking melatonin because I had problems waking up in the morning and was getting nasty headaches even with half a dose (1 mg).

Edit: Maybe I should try reducing the dose even further (to 200 μg) as mentioned in other posts here