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New comment by denverllc in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

denverllc — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:38:27 +0000

For so long American companies have operated under the assumption that servers are cheaper than developers, and that was used to justify all sorts of inefficient practices.

The last year has shown that’s not true anymore (even for web servers).

New comment by denverllc in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

denverllc — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:19:11 +0000

Louis Rossman believes these bills are partly funded/lobbied for by Bloomberg.

https://youtu.be/E1B2cWEaWDw?is=xwpLZoyVSi6psztQ

New comment by denverllc in "Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5"

denverllc — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:52:49 +0000

Agreed. The analysis is never even that great

New comment by denverllc in "The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse"

denverllc — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:22:52 +0000

The first article ironically has many tells of AI writing

New comment by denverllc in "Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown"

denverllc — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:55:44 +0000

The stakes are pretty large now. You are judged on the number of publications, positions, citations, etc.

It’s not even about philosophical disagreement as much as future career

New comment by denverllc in "Issue links now open in a popup"

denverllc — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:27:05 +0000

> A/B testing showed github that this might be preferable

A/B testing can’t measure preference, only interaction.

New comment by denverllc in "The Claude Code Leak"

denverllc — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:33:14 +0000

Meta and I assume OpenAI and Anthropic did everything they could to acquire data, even doing so illegally, such as downloading all of Anna’s archive. Now it’s an open question of whether it’s a societal good or societal bad, but it does show they have little regard for copyright law when it benefits them.

And this whole “they’re 50 steps ahead of you” nonsense is the same kind of stuff we heard from NFT or crypto bros, that we just couldn’t comprehend the infinite wisdom of a post currency world. Sometimes bad arguments are just bad arguments.

New comment by denverllc in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

denverllc — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:20:53 +0000

Some people thought that surgical masks wouldn’t stop you from getting Covid

New comment by denverllc in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

denverllc — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:43:52 +0000

Do they? Are they different than OpenAi which I know has lots of debt and is losing money quarter over quarter with declining user share.

New comment by denverllc in "Just 5 weeks of brain training may protect against dementia for 20 years"

denverllc — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:05:09 +0000

Open article and Ctrl+F “APOE”: No result

A lot of interventions o work differently based on APOE 4 status, so difficult to know whether this study will apply generally.

New comment by denverllc in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

denverllc — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:00:36 +0000

A lack of capitals gives me sama vibes and I don’t trust sama

New comment by denverllc in "People who come off slimming jabs regain weight four times faster than dieters"

denverllc — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:44:12 +0000

Sure they mention diet and exercise in the same way gambling or alcohol ads recommend being “responsible”, or how TikTok talks about their automatic screen limiting time functionality, which they love to promote but internally know does nothing.

New comment by denverllc in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

denverllc — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:23:44 +0000

Given soda ph around 2.5, temperature 25C, phosphoric acid 0.05% and sucrose 10% gives a half life around 4 years. Or only 7% over 6 months.

New comment by denverllc in "Build Android apps using Rust and Iced"

denverllc — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:34:07 +0000

Will apps built with this framework be compatible with accessibility features?

New comment by denverllc in "The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat"

denverllc — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:08:37 +0000

> it would've been considered cheating when they were in school.

Doubt. What field of study?

The predominant calculation helper was slide rules, which were allowed in engineering exams in the 60s and 70s.

Besides, in engineering you had to show all of your work and that had a large impact on the grade you got.

New comment by denverllc in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

denverllc — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:59:22 +0000

> they believe in some big pharma conspiracy

See: the Sackler family

New comment by denverllc in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

denverllc — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:20:40 +0000

They main purpose of active desktop was to claim IE was an inextricable part of windows

New comment by denverllc in "OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History"

denverllc — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:11:50 +0000

According to empire of ai, they started OpenAI as a nonprofit so they could get people devoted to the mission and wouldn’t have to pay the high SV wages

New comment by denverllc in "Problem solving using Markov chains (2007) [pdf]"

denverllc — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:29:58 +0000

Yeah, most authors are not concerned about their papers being shared because what they care about is citations, not money. It’s the publishing companies that want to put up the paywall (and the ones who would make any money from it anyway).

New comment by denverllc in ""Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay"

denverllc — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:26:05 +0000

Healthcare providers have starting saying it's "insurance fraud" to say that you don't have insurance when you do.

My guess: they know they can get more money from the insurer than the individual (or a combination of both!) so they want to scare you from not allowing them to negotiate with the insurers.