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New comment by fittingopposite in "EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services"

fittingopposite — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:13:35 +0000

Curious, where do the 1B go? What is this money used for and who benefits from this fine?

New comment by fittingopposite in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

fittingopposite — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:17:36 +0000

Divine prophecy?

New comment by fittingopposite in "The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene"

fittingopposite — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:24:18 +0000

Caveat: if you read the full text/supplementary materials, it becomes clear it's actually about ethnolinguistic groups, not languages. I doubt that all the languages were unintelligible to each other given that intelligibility is a continuum and the large estimate they postulate (maximum of 40k languages 1000-3000 years ago)

New comment by fittingopposite in "The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene"

fittingopposite — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:17:02 +0000

Supplementary materials https://www.science.org/doi/suppl/10.1126/science.adx4343/su...

New comment by fittingopposite in "The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene"

fittingopposite — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:56:22 +0000

Full text: https://www.science.org/eprint/QDZNYBWGCVEJ2RCTX5JI/full?act...

New comment by fittingopposite in "The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene"

fittingopposite — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:45:05 +0000

BS. We don't even have training data for the more than 6000 languages in the tail of the distribution.

New comment by fittingopposite in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

fittingopposite — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:39:29 +0000

Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

New comment by fittingopposite in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

fittingopposite — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:55:26 +0000

I don't understand how these decisions are made in the Chinese companies. Is that from a (secret) party directive or just convergent decision making? It's not clear to me whether this is normal competition at play or central planning by the CCP.

New comment by fittingopposite in "Qwen 3.8"

fittingopposite — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:40:50 +0000

Wondering how much the operations in China are orchestrated by the central government vs. free competition. Anyone with more insights on this?

New comment by fittingopposite in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

fittingopposite — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:28:22 +0000

That was a good and funny read

New comment by fittingopposite in "Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price"

fittingopposite — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:10:55 +0000

From first principles, does anyone know what the minimum costs are to put a rocket into space? There must be a minimum cost given that the rocket engines have to thrust until reaching escape velocity to get you to space.

New comment by fittingopposite in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

fittingopposite — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:45:59 +0000

> Sleep is a predictor of poverty

Curious. Any sources for this. How does this work? Feel like many high paying, stressful jobs are actually bad for your sleep.

New comment by fittingopposite in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

fittingopposite — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:31:29 +0000

This. Try with smaller doses starting from 0.1 mg (liquids are best for this) and work your way upwards to reach the optimal dosage. Tablets are often overdosed which leaves you drowsy in the morning.

New comment by fittingopposite in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

fittingopposite — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:28:10 +0000

Way too high in my experience. Can leave you croggy and dependent. Micro dosing using drops is more effective for me without feeling groggy in the morning. Anything above 1mg is way above the natural melatonin level of our body.

New comment by fittingopposite in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

fittingopposite — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:25:13 +0000

Yes. I agree. Liquid melatonin is the way to go for micro dosing. I also have good experiences with micro doses of 0.1-0.2 mg when waking up too early and having difficulties of falling asleep again. Taking a full 1 mg leaves after 3 or 4 am you very croggy in the morning.