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New comment by apercu in "Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason"

apercu — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:21:21 +0000

The worry I would have is that an LLMs stated "confidence" is probably not calibrated well - maybe asking it what evidence supports its conclusion and what evidence would change it would be a better approach?

New comment by apercu in "Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029"

apercu — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:38:27 +0000

Isn’t that part of the llano estacado? The Comanche lived there just fine.

New comment by apercu in "Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029"

apercu — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:37:01 +0000

Being incarcerated and having very little control over every aspect of your life IS punishment. The violence, sexual violence and extreme conditions are not necessary.

New comment by apercu in "Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center"

apercu — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:03:57 +0000

Still too high of a rating.

New comment by apercu in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

apercu — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:02:03 +0000

Have any data that the savings are passed on to the consumer? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't see any modern, late-stage capitalism companies doing anything that actually benefits the consumer.

New comment by apercu in "Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business"

apercu — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:34:47 +0000

I know exactly one person who has a 3D printer. I would argue strongly that “most households” do not in fact have a 3D printer.

New comment by apercu in "US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments"

apercu — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:23:25 +0000

RoW = Rest of World?

If so, those constituencies are immune to facts and common sense.

New comment by apercu in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

apercu — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:16:46 +0000

Also the GOP. They stopped being "conservative" a long time ago and became performative terrorists.

New comment by apercu in "Kiffin used ChatGPT to challenge his lawyer's legal advice"

apercu — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:07:10 +0000

Re: ChatGTP - Mars says the answers were “almost always wrong.”

I know it's sports ball, but it's still humorous.

Kiffin used ChatGPT to challenge his lawyer's legal advice

apercu — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:07:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49957822/inside-sec-legal-battle-lsu-lane-kiffin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740179

Points: 1

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New comment by apercu in "ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds"

apercu — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:09:49 +0000

I've never encountered that term before (cohesive erosion) but I like it, if I'm interpreting it correctly.

Do you mean like the hyper focus an LLM puts on the task in front of it so you end up with drift (duplicated concepts/multiple ways of doing things, terminology drift (e.g., now we have "customer" and "client"). That sort of thing?

New comment by apercu in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

apercu — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:28:47 +0000

More expensive and worse in most ways. Just like most things in the current stage of oligopolies.

New comment by apercu in "Audacity 4.0"

apercu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:20:54 +0000

I’ve gotten a few of those “lite” version license cards over the years but had already invested in logic.

New comment by apercu in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

apercu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:19:40 +0000

I was on a public highway.

New comment by apercu in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

apercu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:18:42 +0000

The constitution was written centuries ago and its authors expected the founding documents to be routinely updated.

New comment by apercu in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

apercu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:17:29 +0000

Surreal in that I’ve only dealt with that sort of thing (army checkpoints) in places that have active armed military conflicts.

New comment by apercu in "I haven't lost a customer service fight in seven months"

apercu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:16:21 +0000

I despise this sort of tax on our time as consumers. It’s getting to the point that someone should run on the “if you wanna do business in the US and you’re not going to employee citizens as customer service reps you pay a 1% dividend on your revenue to all US residing citizens annually” platform - and then we use this to help fund single payer healthcare :)

New comment by apercu in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

apercu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:54:48 +0000

Isn't there a difference between getting picked up on someones Tik Tok "broadcast" and a private/public surveillance operation?

New comment by apercu in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

apercu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:52:36 +0000

Probably selling data to CBP/DEA. I went through a combined military and police checkpoint a bit north of Rio Hondo last August and it was surreal.

New comment by apercu in "Music Theory for Programmers"

apercu — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:03:20 +0000

I'm sort of the opposite - when I can name something, then play it, then I can hear it. E.g., going from minor third to major third to root. I can't "unhear" that in blues-based music now. But before it had a "name" it was just an interesting sounding "thing" that didn't pop out to me in any specific way.