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New comment by avd201 in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

avd201 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:57:24 +0000

Wow, FFT faster than O(nlog(n))? I wonder if that will open the floodgates for further improvement or not. I don't understand anything about most of the fields these results touch, but I can say that this in particular is very surprising.

New comment by avd201 in "Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure""

avd201 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:46:52 +0000

"Tortured phrases" is the name of the phenomena, papers have been written about it since 2021.

New comment by avd201 in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

avd201 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:13:22 +0000

This is the kind of headline I would expect from one of those news that appear as you progress in cookie clicker.

New comment by avd201 in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

avd201 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:20:46 +0000

Anthropic has been doing this sort of stuff for a while already. I mean, who remembers when Claude would just consume all your remaining usage if it read anything indicating that Openclaw had been used on your codebase? Because I remember. Two months ago btw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963204 Then there was the whole debacle of Fable silently downgrading to other models if it detected wrong think, or worse, outright sabotaging your codebase if you were working on language models lol

New comment by avd201 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

avd201 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:19:25 +0000

Aside from politics/law, it's probably much easier for everyone else to distill from the Chinese model which already distilled Claude/GPT/Gemini. Maybe not as good a result, but you don't need to jump through dozens of hoops.

New comment by avd201 in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

avd201 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:52:09 +0000

Windows became ransomware? lmao

New comment by avd201 in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

avd201 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:22:28 +0000

If you don't pay for a product, you are a less valuable product than if you'd pay for the product.

New comment by avd201 in "NetHack 5.0.0"

avd201 — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:42:21 +0000

Nethack4 is the name of a popular fork, they probably wanted to avoid confusing people

New comment by avd201 in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

avd201 — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:29:10 +0000

The thing the annoys me the most (to use polite language) is that product design went off the window with the AI craze. You could probably ship actual products that actual people would want to use, but instead everyone wants to turn everything into a chatbot, as if chatbots are the pinnacle of user interface, the crabs of software, the purpose, goal, and telos of technology. It drives me nuts.

New comment by avd201 in "NetHack 5.0.0"

avd201 — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:02:48 +0000

Back when I was on undergrad I sometimes managed to get to the castle, but never very consistently. Opening NAO was one of my go to ways of dealing with spare time but I haven't played the game much since. This is wild tho, never imagined we would get to version 5

New comment by avd201 in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

avd201 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:20:38 +0000

I remember struggling with it in the beginning (it has some quirks in the UI and how you configure folders and what have you) but once I got a hang on it it was pretty good

New comment by avd201 in "When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype"

avd201 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:18:20 +0000

Fake until you make it

New comment by avd201 in "When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype"

avd201 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:08:50 +0000

How many millions of dollars did this even cost anyway?