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New comment by fishnchips in "40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"

fishnchips — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:01:55 +0000

Oh man you stole my thunder. I hoped to be the first to bring up the dead salmon.

New comment by fishnchips in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

fishnchips — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:58:51 +0000

Even then.

New comment by fishnchips in "Revisiting Minsky's Society of Mind in 2025"

fishnchips — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:02:37 +0000

Skinner's behaviorism for sure ("The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man").

But also Dennet's origins of consciousness.

What I mean here is that the discussion among the AI proponents and detractors about machines "thinking" or being "conscious" seems to ignore what neuropsychology and cognitive psychology found obvious for decades - that there is no uniform concept of "thinking" or "consciousness" in humans, either.

New comment by fishnchips in "Revisiting Minsky's Society of Mind in 2025"

fishnchips — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:24:54 +0000

Having studied sociology and psychology in my previous life I am now surprised how relevant some of the almost forgotten ideas became to my current life as a dev!

New comment by fishnchips in "Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners"

fishnchips — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:59:41 +0000

It’s against property, and political change is a vague aim, if any. In my book it’s just vandalism.

New comment by fishnchips in "Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners"

fishnchips — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:23:17 +0000

Yes, after the recent promotional event at the White House I can easily imagine protecting Teslas becomes a top priority, and that damaging one is punishable by death.

New comment by fishnchips in "Elon Musk publicly supports call for US to exit NATO, UN"

fishnchips — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:25:10 +0000

This would merely reflect the new reality which we clearly saw last week.

New comment by fishnchips in "A Letter to the American People"

fishnchips — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:57:44 +0000

He's doing alright but might not have all the data.

New comment by fishnchips in "A Letter to the American People"

fishnchips — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:46:50 +0000

My point exactly.

New comment by fishnchips in "A Letter to the American People"

fishnchips — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:43:48 +0000

Both Mussolini and Hitler were seen as bumbling fools by most of their contemporaries. Before they seized power, that is.

New comment by fishnchips in "A Letter to the American People"

fishnchips — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:35:31 +0000

Why adversaries? Just think of all the big beautiful deals you can make with them.

New comment by fishnchips in "A Letter to the American People"

fishnchips — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:33:33 +0000

At which point you're no longer able to bury your head in the sand?

New comment by fishnchips in "A Letter to the American People"

fishnchips — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:28:47 +0000

I'm sure there are states - perhaps not nearby - that will offer exciting opportunities to former civil servants.

New comment by fishnchips in "A Letter to the American People"

fishnchips — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:26:21 +0000

How long until this is removed from the front page?

New comment by fishnchips in "The only tourist in Moldova"

fishnchips — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:15:32 +0000

Not a Ukrainian but I know a good few. The language is taught at schools so you if you’re not educated in the Soviet Union you will know it. Whether you choose to use it is a different matter. And data would suggest that the usage is on the rise.

New comment by fishnchips in "The only tourist in Moldova"

fishnchips — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:12:34 +0000

As a Pole I have a similar reaction to Czech and Slovak. Except it feels less like a strange accent (because we don’t have these as much) and more like baby talk. We get the words, just how they’re used feels unusual, and often funny.

From the other side, my Czech friends told me that Polish sounded to them like something from deep antiquity. Like reading an ancient manuscript where again you get the words but no sane person these days would use them like this.

New comment by fishnchips in "Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu"

fishnchips — Wed, 15 May 2024 21:58:50 +0000

In this case you have the opposite issue, with no-one actually guaranteed to get a lock even though nothing is holding one. Fuzzed retries may work in practice but theoretically speaking this is a flawed algorithm.

New comment by fishnchips in "Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu"

fishnchips — Wed, 15 May 2024 21:21:53 +0000

I think not, actually. There would still be cases where a race is not detected. I can think of the following sequence: A checks - no lock, B checks - no lock, A writes - success, A reads - match, success, B writes - success, B reads - match, success. A and B both think they now hold the lock.

For locking to work properly you'd need to have a conditional write that would fail if some prerequisite was not met. GCP offers that operation, S3 AFAIK does not.

New comment by fishnchips in "Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu"

fishnchips — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:15:44 +0000

> since it uses lock files on S3 versus a separate DyanamoDB + S3 combo

This is disturbing because S3 does not give you guarantees required to implement real locking.

New comment by fishnchips in "Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu"

fishnchips — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:07:15 +0000

Co-founder of OpenTofu here.

Second that. One of my colleagues is working on adding proper tracing to the OpenTofu codebase, to help understand the exact cause of failures.