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New comment by epgui in "AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers"

epgui — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:16:44 +0000

What does that have to do with the article?

New comment by epgui in "The CAPTCHA arms race: from distorted text to browser identity"

epgui — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:54:23 +0000

I thought half the point of captchas was to train vision models?

New comment by epgui in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

epgui — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:09:03 +0000

They don’t create energy, but they do create heat. It’s entropy, can’t avoid it.

New comment by epgui in "Plotnine"

epgui — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:36:23 +0000

> What would you say are the benefits of the grammar-of-graphics approach?

When a mathematical formalism exists, just use that. Other approaches just reinvent the wheel on an ad-hoc/piecemeal basis and end up making all sorts of unnecessary compromises.

New comment by epgui in "Plotnine"

epgui — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:34:57 +0000

The selling point is the grammar of graphics. See Wilkinson on the subject.

New comment by epgui in "Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia"

epgui — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:05:05 +0000

Presumably they should have said “sources” but that’s not a helpful answer

New comment by epgui in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

epgui — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:42:23 +0000

I find them just as complicated as k8s.

New comment by epgui in "Meta’s chaotic AI strategy"

epgui — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:30:01 +0000

I think everyone deserves to participate in meaningful and dignified work.

New comment by epgui in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

epgui — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:50:30 +0000

Yes, iphones do process images using AI.

New comment by epgui in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

epgui — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:19:47 +0000

I wouldn’t.

New comment by epgui in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

epgui — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:24:41 +0000

I’ve never thought of Linear as particularly fast.

New comment by epgui in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

epgui — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:22:29 +0000

Cognitive ability can be highly specific. If you don't use it you lose it. You may be able to keep your chess ELO high, but realize you can't implement basic algorithms in C++ quite as readily as you used to. Or you can't write as well as you used to. Or you can't quite make that old recipe taste as good as you remember.

We can argue about what skills are important or not, but these things tend to sneak up on us.

New comment by epgui in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

epgui — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:51:59 +0000

> I don't think my actual cognitive skills have declined by using AI

I'm not speaking about you but... I know most people would not have much awareness of their cognitive decline. I know this because that awareness gap is there with or without LLMs, across all age groups and cultures.

New comment by epgui in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

epgui — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:05:04 +0000

It’s easy to imagine this being a problem both in quality and in volume. Verifiable work is less valuable than verified work. And noise is always costly.

New comment by epgui in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

epgui — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:58:48 +0000

That seems about as shortsighted as claiming the value of human understanding has cratered after the invention of the electronic calculator.

New comment by epgui in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

epgui — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:53:51 +0000

The “higher level of abstraction” phrase used to describe what LLMs are in relation to programming… That phrase needs to die.

New comment by epgui in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

epgui — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:42:18 +0000

Yes.

New comment by epgui in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

epgui — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:54:25 +0000

The python type hints are useful for static analysis (and yes, should be the default) but it’s a joke compared to the utility of types in a language like Haskell.

New comment by epgui in "Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly""

epgui — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:10:59 +0000

Support for anything Trump in this context is completely detached from reality. Unhinged.

New comment by epgui in "Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly""

epgui — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:09:14 +0000

> The WHO admits they screwed this outbreak handling up badly

Uhhh no? How did they screw up? They were notified late, and then they did what they were supposed to do.