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New comment by amarka in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

amarka — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:06:49 +0000

What's wild to me is that today there are more companies with more than 100 unsupervised self driving cars out on the road that DID NOT exist (as a company) back when Tesla CEO told investors they're a year away from FSD.

New comment by amarka in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

amarka — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:49:33 +0000

True story, for example take Tesla's promise of self driving which was delivered back in 2015.

New comment by amarka in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

amarka — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:10:33 +0000

Maybe if you think really hard you’ll come up with other (more useful) examples.

New comment by amarka in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

amarka — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:12:57 +0000

“ one way that humans have historically accessed the ineffable” that’s my question, what about the other ways that have been automated away. Is there something special about mathematics or is it the authors first encounter with obsolescence?

New comment by amarka in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

amarka — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:36:30 +0000

Apologies is this is a simpleton question, but how does this differ than most of the mechanical work previously done by hand, but is now automated?

New comment by amarka in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

amarka — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:22:23 +0000

"the slowness is a feature" - I grew up in eastern block of Europe in the 80-90s, this type of sentiment has a real "the party loves you, this is for your own good" vibe.

New comment by amarka in "Grok 4.3"

amarka — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:05:48 +0000

Every copy is better than the original, true story.

New comment by amarka in "Grok 4.3"

amarka — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:57:53 +0000

Ohh sure, its users use it for all sorts of things

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/elon-musks-xai-s...

New comment by amarka in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

amarka — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:59:38 +0000

Or in my context:

> Give a person code, and you help them for a day. Teach them to code, and you frustrate them for a lifetime.

New comment by amarka in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

amarka — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:51:53 +0000

While the author’s (banker and a data scientist) experience is clearly valuable, it is unclear whether it alone is sufficient to support the broader claims made. Engineering conclusions typically benefit from data beyond individual observation.

New comment by amarka in "Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down"

amarka — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:36:56 +0000

Let me fill you in on a secret: one of the reasons behind US’s dominance is that even though “there are other countries” that could do the hard science, the US is one of the only ones that did. Now the US is at risk of becoming just another one of those “other countries“.

New comment by amarka in "Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down"

amarka — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:30:29 +0000

From the article: “ The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law, but gave no further details.”

It doesn’t seem like the admin believes the reports are biased and need to be removed. Cool conspiracy though.

New comment by amarka in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

amarka — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:32:02 +0000

Not sure if this is accurate. It seems they’re refusing to take the risk.

New comment by amarka in "Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM"

amarka — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 02:10:14 +0000

They are indeed some of the best floors to roll on.

New comment by amarka in "Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM"

amarka — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:39:51 +0000

I can’t believe Justin Trudeau would lowball your friend like that.

New comment by amarka in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

amarka — Tue, 07 May 2024 17:57:31 +0000

I get about 21 hours from mine, it's running Windows but powered off.

New comment by amarka in "One of the biggest landlords in Los Angeles just defaulted on $755M"

amarka — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:41:04 +0000

Ahh yes the "we'll rewrite this code from scratch" argument; known well to work every time!

New comment by amarka in "Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them"

amarka — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:50:28 +0000

Not sure if the last sentence is in jest or not, but here's a list of crashes for just one of their plane models:

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

New comment by amarka in "Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims"

amarka — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:41:03 +0000

The road to hell is littered with "free ice cream this way =>" signs.

New comment by amarka in "I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)"

amarka — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:00:13 +0000

Indeed it's totally worthless data, like what are you going to do, dissect people into groups that you could heavily target and try to sell them gizmos or swing an election? Pfft, not worth the effort. There are no companies or state actors are into that kind of thing.