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New comment by blaufuchs in "A lot of population numbers are fake"

blaufuchs — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:46:36 +0000

Yeah I should have been clear that I'm disagreeing with Bonesaw and not the author here, whose article I enjoyed. I was just genuinely confused how one could add "500M + 300M + rest of world" and arrive at "significantly <1B", but I haven't been on Xitter in a minute now.

New comment by blaufuchs in "A lot of population numbers are fake"

blaufuchs — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:28:36 +0000

Did I miss something here? Or is Bonesaw just completely trolling?

>The true population of the world, Bonesaw said, was significantly less than 1 billion people.

Even if we assume Bonesaw is correct and China has 500M people, India has 300M people in the cities and 0 rural population... that's only 200M left to reach 1B between all of the Americas/Europe/Africa and the rest of Asia.

New comment by blaufuchs in "Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ"

blaufuchs — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:09:25 +0000

As someone who has worked in AV perception this is unfortunately way too accurate lol, so much training set whack-a-mole

New comment by blaufuchs in "Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy"

blaufuchs — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:17:01 +0000

“He gave an answer” is comically dishonest framing, so it doesn’t matter what that answer is at all? Nice deflection at the end there, almost convinced me.

New comment by blaufuchs in "Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate"

blaufuchs — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:44:49 +0000

At this point I think we can safely retire “nothing burger”, can’t remember the last time it meant something other than “an inconvenient story for my narrative that I’d rather gloss over”

New comment by blaufuchs in "AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions"

blaufuchs — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:35:06 +0000

> Will it lighten maintainer load?

Yes that is the stated purpose, did you read the linked GitHub comment? The author lays out their points pretty well, you sound unreasonably upset about this. Are you submitting a lot of AI slop PRs or something?

P.S Talking. Like. This. Is. Really. Ineffective. It. Makes. Me. Just. Want. To. Disregard. Your. Point. Out. Of. Hand.

New comment by blaufuchs in "Scammers unleash flood of online gaming sites"

blaufuchs — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:10:47 +0000

Well there's the problem, who honestly thinks they won thousands of dollars from an ad?

New comment by blaufuchs in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

blaufuchs — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:49:08 +0000

>Who out there is paying more than a total of $3-$5/month more in eggs?

Seriously? I pay $12/dozen for organic pasture-raised (cheapest industrial eggs are ~$8) and eat 3-4 dozen a month.

New comment by blaufuchs in "Francois Chollet is leaving Google"

blaufuchs — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 06:02:59 +0000

Wow that gives me flashbacks to learning Theano/Lasagne, which was a breath of fresh air coming from Caffe. Crazy how far we've come since then.

New comment by blaufuchs in "ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project"

blaufuchs — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:20:38 +0000

I wasn't aware that Chinese citizens owned the means of production ;) just looks like another authoritarian dictatorship to me.

New comment by blaufuchs in "An n-ball Between n-balls"

blaufuchs — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 05:48:57 +0000

I know, I didn't realize he was alive in the 90s! Hearing him (sarcastically) say "now having 10 parameters isn't unusual, correct?" makes me wish he could've seen the 60B-parameter curve fitting we're doing nowadays.

New comment by blaufuchs in "An n-ball Between n-balls"

blaufuchs — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 05:47:00 +0000

TFA does say this too, right after the Hamming lecture.

"So instead of considering n-balls to be spiky, it’s the space around them that outgrows them."

New comment by blaufuchs in "What I remember about Flint water crisis was how state government lied"

blaufuchs — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:19:47 +0000

I'm curious, what's wrong with a civil* wedding?

New comment by blaufuchs in "Weather forecasts have become more accurate"

blaufuchs — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:58:38 +0000

This one really kills me during Fogust in the Bay Area. I wake up and see the sun is gonna break through at ~1pm, oh no actually 2pm, oh no actually 3pm... oh no it's just another completely overcast day. I can understand missing a day or two, but it's bizarre when it happens day after day for weeks on end. You'd think the priors would get updated at some point.

New comment by blaufuchs in "Cruise Omitted Pedestrian Dragging in Self-Driving Car Incident CA DMV Summary"

blaufuchs — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 19:36:48 +0000

This is pretty damning. They clearly went out of their way to withhold the dragging until the dam burst and they admitted to the pullover maneuver in their blogpost [1]. There's no doubt that admitting it up front would have hurt, but this has got to be another case where the cover-up was worse than the crime. I can't say I'm surprised though, as an observer in the AV space it seemed pretty clear that Cruise was moving too fast for their own good. They must've been under intense investor pressure, which is why they tried to sweep it under the rug in the first place.

It does make you wonder about their internal rationalizations though, after all few people think they're the baddie. Probably something like "We're so close, and this was an extremely long-tail incident initiated by human driver. The public/DMV wouldn't judge us fairly, and we'll handle this edge case in an update."

Things were already looking dire when they canceled the stock buyback program mid-event (leaving people with tax-liabilities for what are probably now worthless RSUs [2]). Monday will be interesting, I expect that this the end of Cruise as we know it.

[1] https://getcruise.com/news/blog/2023/a-detailed-review-of-th... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/16/cruise-suspends-employee-s...

New comment by blaufuchs in "In two moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol redefined the future (2016)"

blaufuchs — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:13:49 +0000

>How would this computer fare against the top 10 best players collaborating(or even top 90-100)?

Against the AlphaGo of 2015? They might win, but probably not (I think you're overestimating how much collaboration would help). Against today's AlphaGo/KataGo/FineArt/etc there's literally zero chance, even with a two stone handicap. Same goes for 100 GMs playing collaborative chess against Stockfish.

(that said, I agree calling this the singularity is overkill)