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New comment by beautifulfreak in "Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs"

beautifulfreak — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:11:38 +0000

Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511

New comment by beautifulfreak in "FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is"

beautifulfreak — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:39:41 +0000

News aggregator The Drudge Report recently started using archive.is links to articles. That might have angered some publishers.

New comment by beautifulfreak in "Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling"

beautifulfreak — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:31:05 +0000

The article says 400C

New comment by beautifulfreak in "Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore's Law is dead and buried"

beautifulfreak — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:45:52 +0000

Maybe bismuth oxyselenide https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-univ...

New comment by beautifulfreak in "Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco"

beautifulfreak — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:29:13 +0000

Reminds me of the photos of Vivian Maier, discovered in a storage locker after her death. The documentary "Finding Vivian Maier" tells the story. Amazing photos! https://www.vivianmaier.com

New comment by beautifulfreak in "Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes"

beautifulfreak — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:19:14 +0000

No one has mentioned China's uptake of coffee drinking, or their long term contracts with coffee growers, buying up whole crops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aR4RCqw-gg

New comment by beautifulfreak in "Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007)"

beautifulfreak — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 19:49:13 +0000

You must have missed this: "In the end Laplace transforms, easier to use with a more rigorous structure and incorporating the powerful tool of convolution, overtook the operational calculus of Heaviside, and his methods largely fell victim to history."

New comment by beautifulfreak in "John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton Win Physics Nobel Prize [pdf]"

beautifulfreak — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:26:27 +0000

reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber#Credit...

New comment by beautifulfreak in "FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia, a potential 'game changer'"

beautifulfreak — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:59:43 +0000

"Double down" has a similar chart, another annoying phrase.

New comment by beautifulfreak in "US Fed: US export controls to China wiped out $130B"

beautifulfreak — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 04:02:13 +0000

China is actually dumping US treasuries, as of the start of 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbzefh0VEM They've found new ways to trade in dollars without using US or European banks, so their assets can't be frozen (such as by the use of Tether) so US banks aren't getting paid. As for cross-border trade, 53% of it is now conducted in RMB, with USD falling to 41% (and continuing to decline). US economic policy towards China is backfiring on many fronts, the worst being that Chinese companies have adapted and now produce what they used to import, even advanced technologies. If the export controls were lifted, Chinese companies would not resume business with US companies, because they don't need them anymore.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/start-de-dollarizatio...

New comment by beautifulfreak in "Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?"

beautifulfreak — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:31:30 +0000

Who makes the real profit on Ozempic/Wegovy? In the US, that would be Pharmacy Benefit Managers, who are middlemen between drugmakers and US health insurance companies. They have no shame in the exorbitant amounts they mark up prices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYP5urTEWIA

New comment by beautifulfreak in "MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)"

beautifulfreak — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:33:21 +0000

https://archive.ph/QfrcT

New comment by beautifulfreak in "Show HN: AI assisted image editing with audio instructions"

beautifulfreak — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:15:32 +0000

It didn't just replace the sky and background, it replaced the trees. That wasn't part of the instructions.

New comment by beautifulfreak in "U.S. home prices have far outpaced paychecks. See what it looks like"

beautifulfreak — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 06:31:01 +0000

I'd like to see an overlay showing which red areas are also college towns. Did easy student loans help fuel the increase in rents? That's what happened where I live, where dormitories are mainly for new undergrads. After a year or two, students are expected to find apartments. (And I wonder if something similar would happen if Universal Basic Income became a thing.)

New comment by beautifulfreak in "When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1998)"

beautifulfreak — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:08:23 +0000

~2.6 teraflops FP32 (CPU) for the M3 Max.

New comment by beautifulfreak in "The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper"

beautifulfreak — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 12:24:56 +0000

That's from Body Heat, said by Mickey Rourke to William Hurt. "...you got fifty ways you're gonna fuck up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius - and you ain't no genius." (But a million sounds closer to the truth.)

New comment by beautifulfreak in "4T transistors, one giant chip (Cerebras WSE-3) [video]"

beautifulfreak — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:30:08 +0000

So it's increased from 2.6 to 4 trillion transistors over the previous version.

New comment by beautifulfreak in "Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine?"

beautifulfreak — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 13:40:58 +0000

Perhaps you meant...

DM = Dark Matter, BAO = Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, CMB = Cosmic Background Radiation, MOND = Modified Newtonian Dynamics

New comment by beautifulfreak in "House cleaners find two of the first desktop PCs in random boxes"

beautifulfreak — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:49:03 +0000

It's mentioned briefly in the article, "History of Personal Computers," which gives some links to external content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers

New comment by beautifulfreak in "Making steel without emitting CO2"

beautifulfreak — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:18:32 +0000

A phys.org article goes into more detail about its cost effectiveness: https://phys.org/news/2024-02-team-green-steel-toxic-red.htm...