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New comment by esafak in "Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers"

esafak — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:37:23 +0000

I tell it to work until a reviewer agent auditing against the spec signs off.

New comment by esafak in "Investing in the public benefit"

esafak — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:42:59 +0000

This is for PR. They need to be able to generate more revenue than they take from economically-redundant humans in order to make them whole. This is certainly possible, but it's going to take government action; AI companies are never going to return that much money left to their own devices.

New comment by esafak in "Someone behind the software"

esafak — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:44:26 +0000

Linear is an unusual enterprise company in that it carries the consumer ethos of caring for design, and the user. This is what's absent in the product-by-checklist enterprise companies, whose economic buyer often has the same mindset.

New comment by esafak in "Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?"

esafak — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:38:46 +0000

You talk like it fell out of the sky. Every result you've ever used was proposed by a mathematician.

> I'm glad we don't call them Turning machines for instance.

Are you referring to a Turing machine; the abstract model of a computer, actually named after someone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine

Your bizarre position seems to be that not knowing history somehow makes you more effective? This is honestly the dumbest take I have read all week.

New comment by esafak in "Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?"

esafak — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:29:35 +0000

Why wouldn't you honor the people that came up with a particular proof or approach? Do you also not care about who created a given artwork?

New comment by esafak in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

esafak — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:58:46 +0000

They updated their methodology when the new openai model didn't rate higher than the old one, or something like that.

New comment by esafak in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

esafak — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:32:24 +0000

Flagship gpt models are crazy efficient. 6.1 Sol is like a savant that looks at a problem and spits out the answer seemingly without thinking.

New comment by esafak in "DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017"

esafak — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:26:31 +0000

Usually great but it infuriates me sometimes with what it does. DeepSeek is more consistent and certainly faster.

New comment by esafak in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

esafak — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:25:25 +0000

Muse is fantastic for open source work. At least 1.3 was, for its price. Wonder makes less economic sense.

New comment by esafak in "DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017"

esafak — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:23:36 +0000

I think they just pass through requests to DeepSeek, so whatever upstream offers.

New comment by esafak in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

esafak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:47:07 +0000

AI is the perfect technology to solve the problem of having too many cooks in the kitchen. Let a thousand startups bloom?

New comment by esafak in "My old job feels distant now"

esafak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:07:18 +0000

Did you retire or do something else?

New comment by esafak in "How gyroscopes got so small [video]"

esafak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:17:47 +0000

I don't have time to watch the video but I was curious why MEMS gyros were shaped thus. Apparently it is to maximize sensitivity through the Coriolis force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrating_structure_gyroscope

Their peculiar geometry reminds me of computer-designed antenna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna

New comment by esafak in "The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire"

esafak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:39:47 +0000

For current info see https://oec.world/

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/

New comment by esafak in "Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents"

esafak — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:13:43 +0000

Would the submitter like to explain what he likes about it?

New comment by esafak in "Muse Spark Open"

esafak — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:28:16 +0000

That's the beauty of the line charts; the labels are arbitrary points on the line. You can easily compare the series visually.

New comment by esafak in "OpenCode 2.0"

esafak — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:37:02 +0000

Thanks for the great recommendation. In the meantime, if anyone wants to contribute to GUI plugin support for OpenCode, here is a PR under review: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/55246

New comment by esafak in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

esafak — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:28:17 +0000

These guys are still in the early stages of grief. They should look at coders; we've already been there. Coders don't assume coding is going to remain a profession. Why should any other profession be exempt from disruption?

Honestly, there are much bigger fish to fry, like how will everyone pay their bills, and how will we prevent catastrophic AI.

New comment by esafak in "Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era"

esafak — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:23:27 +0000

Big Math!!

New comment by esafak in "Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era"

esafak — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:21:08 +0000

That why our ancestors repurposed their pitchforks. History is marked by a drive towards inequality, punctuated by bouts of war and revolution that trigger a reset.