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New comment by fedeb95 in "Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom"

fedeb95 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:47:50 +0000

I think most people forget the graph-like nature of scientific research. You don't have n useful papers and m useless ones by themselves, you have an interconnection of those. There may be isolated cliques of uselessness, but there isn't a clear correlation between academia and private research.

Many ideas come from philosophy, which many find useless.

Heraclitus discovered change back in ancient Greek, I don't know where we would be in scientific research without that (deliberately ignoring the debate about the originality of what we know about Heraclitus work). I bet his contemporaries found his "research" useless.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

fedeb95 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:42:26 +0000

Not entirely true. Many science is gatekeeped, as well as other types of information. May books require illegal services to be obtained, or money (when available). Information about facts is buried in a lot of misinformation. Free flow is very hard to obtain!

New comment by fedeb95 in "Apple Core AI Framework"

fedeb95 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:26:17 +0000

the real money is in the coding surrounding models to make them efficient at specialized tasks. Casual users want general purpose models, and AI chat apps will stay for them. Most programs can benefit from a specialized AI that can be local, and #programs >> #users.

New comment by fedeb95 in "The 15-minute city is a dead end"

fedeb95 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:25:04 +0000

moving around could be accomplished by traveling, in decreasing order by efficiency (by those who can, obviously):

1) cycling 2) walking 3) train 4) cars 5) airplanes

and the frequency could follow an exponential distribution.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

fedeb95 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:08:05 +0000

Students need to be taught how to use AI apps efficently to learn. Their goal is not to solve problems, but to learn how to solve them. Let alone, they instead use AI apps to solve problems for them.

AI apps are very powerful for teaching. You just need to tell them to do that, and not to directly solve your problem.

New comment by fedeb95 in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

fedeb95 — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:07:41 +0000

they are two very different movies, especially considering all three of the matrix movies.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

fedeb95 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:23:35 +0000

"tea" is a word that many use to indicate anything infused. But tea is anything that comes from camelia sinensis, while other beverages are more correctly called infusions. Camelia sinensis has caffeine.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

fedeb95 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:20:41 +0000

you're partially right. It doesn't matter if they had specified the grams of coffee beans they used to produce those cups. It would have been better to specify both number of cups and how they were produced.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

fedeb95 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:18:47 +0000

interesting! To me that's almost two cups for my moka.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

fedeb95 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:52:05 +0000

thirty-one participants were moderate coffee-drinkers (CD, i.e., people that usually consume between 3 to 5 cups of coffee per day).

3-5 is moderate? To me, 3 is already high.

Also, sample size is pretty low and they're all Irish.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

fedeb95 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:46:15 +0000

it's the barley cartel.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

fedeb95 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:45:22 +0000

tea also has caffeine, although in smaller quantities. Maybe you mean that you don't care so you go by taste, just specifying because there's a common misconception about tea not having caffeine.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

fedeb95 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:42:27 +0000

no, there are also many others.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

fedeb95 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:12:50 +0000

Carcassonne is not very complicated, but when you start adding expansions it can become a bit complicated.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

fedeb95 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:11:22 +0000

that's the ultimate board game I guess.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive"

fedeb95 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:11:52 +0000

books are too expensive when you factor in quality. Most edition today are crap, designed to look good, but be bad. Glued pages are even in "fancy" editions. And not speaking about content.

I get that many people will probably loose their jobs, but they need to adapt rather then defend a dying industry. Paper books must remain for high end editions of classics or very high demand books (category which in time coincide with classics).

Other books should be digital first, which is the most efficient medium for discovering new books by new authors, and cut costs by those authors who can easily self publish. Publishers should innovate in this direction, not by publishing thousand of crap books yearly (both in quality of paper etc. and content itself).

New comment by fedeb95 in "Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?"

fedeb95 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:30:06 +0000

that's not true in my opinion. Being a libertarian means first recognizing what "liberty" is. So there are many different libertarians, one for each definition, and then one for each consequence that can be inferred from that definition. If you value liberty as the maximum liberty that doesn't constrain others more than you are constrained, that is, realizing that humanity is both freedom and society, it's a very different thing than using any mean necessary to obtain your own freedom.

I understand this isn't the perspective of many that call themselves "libertarian".

New comment by fedeb95 in "Average Is All You Need"

fedeb95 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:40:12 +0000

yes. Most people are upset and fear losing their job because they feel their job is sub-par. In reality, that's for most of them impostor syndrome, for some could be a wake up call.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?"

fedeb95 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:37:45 +0000

Ironic how a libertarian would impose his personal views on "the system". Doesn't work? Let it die. Too many PhDs? Perhaps, let them search for a job. If they're indeed too many, a generation of plumbers etc. will emerge naturally. No one is impeding their businesses, if anything governments worldwide are aiding big technology companies in any way possible.

New comment by fedeb95 in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

fedeb95 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:38:44 +0000

Social media are to be used for a very short amount of time daily.

Discipline is required.