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New comment by arketyp in "Boycott IETF 127"

arketyp — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:08:43 +0000

I understand the sentiment that the Trump administration is draconian, especially for people traveling from abroad considering the new border policy. But, pardon me, how is that executive order about sex a "threat"? Listed as the top issue undermines the credibility of this petition I think.

New comment by arketyp in "Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina?"

arketyp — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:32:02 +0000

Different Cleopatra

New comment by arketyp in "Show HN: MynaUI Icons – 1180 Beautifully Crafted Open Source Icons"

arketyp — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:13:27 +0000

I may be old school but to me calling your own work beautiful comes across as pompous. Or "beautiful" is somehow a style now which irritates me as well. Sorry. They do look nice though.

New comment by arketyp in "Toothpaste Null-Terminator"

arketyp — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 18:40:27 +0000

I just put my running-out items on the entryway table.

New comment by arketyp in "Does Reasoning Emerge? Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models"

arketyp — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:49:05 +0000

I agree. Although I wonder sometimes how much "about" is involved in my own abstract reasoning.

New comment by arketyp in "My Python code is a neural network"

arketyp — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:49:12 +0000

Makes you wonder what is meant by learning...

New comment by arketyp in "There's more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007)"

arketyp — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:19:02 +0000

This is true but I think it's iterative, cyclic. It applies to any art and craft, really. You alternate between perceiving and projecting, receiving and creating.

New comment by arketyp in "Microplastics detected in human testicles, troubling researchers"

arketyp — Thu, 23 May 2024 16:22:47 +0000

Honest question, why is the study of microplastics and its causes a recent thing? Are better instruments involved somehow? Plastics with their special properties have always been known to be "unnatural", even used as a synonym for that word, so one would think we would have kept an eye on them from the start.

New comment by arketyp in "Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey"

arketyp — Wed, 15 May 2024 12:49:38 +0000

Yes, I had that one in mind, though I'm always a bit skeptic about the cinematics of BBC productions. Sprint or not, the point I should have made clearer is precisely that walking is compatible with the endurance method. Personally I don't believe we evolved to run much. Pretty much anyone even in our sedentary society can walk very long distances; the body seems much more strongly adapted to that type of locomotion.

New comment by arketyp in "Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey"

arketyp — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:47:55 +0000

There are some accounts of still existing tribes in southern Africa doing this. As the article also suggests, the sprints, as far as I can tell, are intermittent. The hunters occasionally slow down when they need to pay attention to the tracks, and they run when they are certain of the path, not necessarily to catch up with the animal but to keep pushing it when it has taken shelter resting. This process is repeated until the game is just too exhausted to move and becomes an easy prey. They're not running marathons.

New comment by arketyp in "VideoGigaGAN: Towards detail-rich video super-resolution"

arketyp — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:56:42 +0000

I don't know, it's a mirror, right? It's up to us to change really. Besides, failures like the one you point out make subtle stereotypes and biases more conspicuous, which could be a good thing.

New comment by arketyp in "AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"

arketyp — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:05:37 +0000

Thanks. Together with GP's point about the possibility of weird wines, it seems reasonable that one could go along quite far on a false premise.

New comment by arketyp in "AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"

arketyp — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:24:26 +0000

I've heard this, and I would have been inclined to believe it. But then I watched the documentary Somm about the journey of a couple of friends reaching for the highest rankings of sommeliers. They could identify grapes, regions and year with striking accuracy. I just don't see how you could do that and then not be able to tell white and red wine apart.

New comment by arketyp in "Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance (2023)"

arketyp — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 05:43:02 +0000

Yes, I agree. But I talked about an idea development and said variation, not necessarily addressing the same thing. The headline would be algorithmically random sequence.

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

New comment by arketyp in "Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance (2023)"

arketyp — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 05:37:16 +0000

Thanks, I had to dig. I read about it in [1]. Mises was concerned about the formalization of probability theory. It seems the idea appears at least as early as in his 1919 paper [2].

[1] An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications, M. Li & P. Vitnányi

[2] Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, R. von Mises

New comment by arketyp in "Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance (2023)"

arketyp — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:20:28 +0000

Not sure what kinds of selection pressures there has been for shorter DNA strings, but presumably you could compress it a great deal putting it in a .zip file. Now imagine the havoc caused by random mutations on that format though.

New comment by arketyp in "Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance (2023)"

arketyp — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:08:05 +0000

Richard von Mises (brother of the economist) formulated a definition of randomness as a sequence of data that, were you a gambler, you cannot by any strategy make money on betting on the outcomes. This was before computational calculus and was later developed by Kolmogorov and others in algorithmic complexity. The modern variation would be (Wiki) "considering a finite sequence random (with respect to a class of computing systems) if any program that can generate the sequence is at least as long as the sequence itself".

New comment by arketyp in "Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)"

arketyp — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:27:03 +0000

I very predictably have nightmares whenever I fall asleep flat on my back, sleep paralysis kind of things. In Germanic mythology the mare is a demon who sits on your chest, so my conclusion is that I'm not alone in this.

New comment by arketyp in "Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase (2015)"

arketyp — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 20:31:39 +0000

> Sci-fi, Russian lit, biographies, classics. I was never caught, but it’s bizarre to think back that I was reading Crime and Punishment while the rest of the class was learning fake American history propaganda.

Sounds possible your teachers figured as much and let it slide.

New comment by arketyp in "School lunch breaks in France can be two hours (2012)"

arketyp — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:45:29 +0000

Why the downvotes? This is a real point of view. I eventually got so fed up hearing about Game of Thrones and trite opinions about Trump's stupidity that I developed a habit of completely skipping lunch, telling my colleagues I was into keto. They respected it, God bless them.