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New comment by empiricus in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

empiricus — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:47:28 +0000

Can you recommend some good study about non-smokers who start using nicotine in other forms?

New comment by empiricus in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

empiricus — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:08:42 +0000

my first thought was if is this will impact the memory market prices :)

New comment by empiricus in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

empiricus — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:42:30 +0000

did not follow all the details, but my understanding is that some form of copyright law nudges in the direction of destroy after scan?

New comment by empiricus in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

empiricus — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:28:06 +0000

If you dont have a real single market, what is EU? just easier to cross the borders?

New comment by empiricus in "Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle"

empiricus — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:40:10 +0000

I mean funny in the sense of "we did not find any anomalies, because we are careful to filter them out"

New comment by empiricus in "Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle"

empiricus — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:37:43 +0000

funny how this also eliminates "close" fast moving objects. which I guess is a feature for a telescope

New comment by empiricus in "What happens when a GPU reads memory"

empiricus — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:27:07 +0000

For a long time, the chip manufacturers had an inclination to simplify the hardware and rely on the software adapting and optimizing. But for decades this bid failed. Now we have the unrelenting AI capable of finetuning kernels relatively quickly. Maybe simpler hw will work this time? Note: not sure if TPU/NPU is not only simple but also too limited.

New comment by empiricus in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

empiricus — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:36:54 +0000

My comment is about B offering 2M when normally the price of that RAM was around 1M. Most probably B has a way to get > 2M value from that RAM.

New comment by empiricus in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

empiricus — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:21:50 +0000

I think Leopold of "situational awareness" fame predicted this, tried to make it widely known on podcasts and x, and still started billions worth of hedge funding based on this.

New comment by empiricus in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

empiricus — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:17:00 +0000

it is probable that you don't get the deepest pockets by wasting money. anyone that pays so much for memory means they expect to get even bigger value from that.

New comment by empiricus in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

empiricus — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:52:31 +0000

the fact ppl reading this are not lol-ing makes me sad.

New comment by empiricus in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

empiricus — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:25:39 +0000

I am taking some bromelain and papain capsules which according to some (small) studies should help. In my experience, the floaters became more transparent, but don't disappear. This is still useful i guess.

New comment by empiricus in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

empiricus — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:08:32 +0000

Worth wondering why they used a crap model.

New comment by empiricus in "Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)"

empiricus — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:22:19 +0000

So code review is a sure recipe for unhappiness?

New comment by empiricus in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

empiricus — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:42:28 +0000

Well, then when it detects an air-gapped environment it will just behave differently. I feel like we underestimate in general the way agents behavior changes when the environment changes. Related: "power corrupts"

New comment by empiricus in "Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning"

empiricus — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:44:19 +0000

Training a model is more like taking an alien (from a different universe) and teaching it a huge chunk of the entire human civilization. A better comparison would be how much energy it takes for a human to produce a page a text (roughly the equivalent of 1hour of thinking?), and how much energy it takes for an LLM. GPT Sol estimates a frontier LLM is 10-50x times more efficient than a human at generating a page of text.

New comment by empiricus in "Switzerland turned its train tracks into solar power plants"

empiricus — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:58:57 +0000

This looks like an IQ test. Do you know the difference between area and length?

New comment by empiricus in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

empiricus — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:51:28 +0000

Now which one is safer? A new Postgres written in Rust, or the original real world tested Postgres?

New comment by empiricus in "CarPlay Is Additive"

empiricus — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:13:10 +0000

Oh yes the mute button, very useful when trying to pause a podcast :(

New comment by empiricus in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

empiricus — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:33:31 +0000

Even for PC, I recommend some cheap studio monitors.