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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.

New comment by empiricus in "The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain"

empiricus — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:34:47 +0000

Well, we are dumb and we make stupid mistakes, and code review can find and fix them sometimes. I am very surprised that the practice of "review" is not more widespread. For example when I see medical doctors going YOLO with their patients, ppl driving excavators, etc.

New comment by empiricus in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

empiricus — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:04:03 +0000

How much of this work is "with 5 parameters I can fit an elephant"?

New comment by empiricus in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

empiricus — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:10:15 +0000

to my knowledge, the cost of uranium is almost negligible compared to the capital cost of building the plant. so as long as a market exists, you can choose whatever strategy: buy a big buffer, or just don't care if price oscillates x times.

New comment by empiricus in "Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%"

empiricus — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:31:19 +0000

search the micronised version, it is so fine it looks like it disolves completely.

New comment by empiricus in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

empiricus — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:35:02 +0000

ty, will look at deskflow

New comment by empiricus in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

empiricus — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:40:44 +0000

does synergy works better now? 3 years ago, every week I would get into a situations where one machine was not connecting to the other, and I had to randomly restart synergy so maybe it connects. fun to do that 5 min before the meetings.

New comment by empiricus in "Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland"

empiricus — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:50:50 +0000

This is strange to me, with quartenions you model rotations in 3d space, not 4 dim rotations.