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New comment by fusionadvocate in "Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators"

fusionadvocate — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:47:56 +0000

Is this somewhat related to reservoir computing?

New comment by fusionadvocate in "What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf]"

fusionadvocate — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:32:33 +0000

"Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number." Gerald Jay Sussman.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators"

fusionadvocate — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:24:30 +0000

What you are referring to is stiffness, which is different than backlash. Backlash, or play, is due to gaps.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

fusionadvocate — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:22:04 +0000

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "Fundamental of Virtual Memory"

fusionadvocate — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:42:28 +0000

We can only hope the parent comment indeed knows a better source or even what he is talking about. Let give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that the shortness of his comment derives from a lack of time and not from a lack of knowledge.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "'Independent' auditors overvalue credits of carbon projects, study finds"

fusionadvocate — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:48:40 +0000

Exactly this. And the incentive it creates is very perverted. It would be much easier to just tax CO2 at the source, instead of this corruption prone system of carbon credits where you need to audit thousands of places instead of only one: the oil pipe.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

fusionadvocate — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:20:59 +0000

The control rods with the graphite on the tip was the cherry on top...

New comment by fusionadvocate in "Tell the EU: Don't Break Encryption with "Chat Control""

fusionadvocate — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:02:05 +0000

We enjoyed a peaceful 'air pocket' in tech, but this is over. And it makes sense. Technology is rendering regular people useless. And when they eventually get destitute they will rebel. If I were the ruling elite I too would move fast to increase my control over the masses.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain"

fusionadvocate — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 03:47:37 +0000

It really is incredible to believe that a sports organization has the power to shutdown what is essentially a utility without any oversight. It paints a very bad image of Spain in my mind. It makes one wonder how many more absurdities happen over there.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "The thousands of atomic bombs exploded on Earth (2015)"

fusionadvocate — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:13:45 +0000

One interesting thing about the Teller-Ulam design is that you can scale the bomb as big as you want. Imagine a skyscrapper sized bomb.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat"

fusionadvocate — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:34:28 +0000

How does ntfy compares to Pushover?

New comment by fusionadvocate in "Two narratives about AI"

fusionadvocate — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:40:42 +0000

AI research is like the topic of sex during adolescence: of everyone say they are doing it, few are; and the few that are in fact doing it are probably doing it wrong.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "CARA – High precision robot dog using rope"

fusionadvocate — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:21:20 +0000

Why spend so much effort to achieve an "exact" gear ratio? Having more zeros does not equal to being more "precise".

Also, I wonder how resistant this mechanism is to wear and fatigue.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning"

fusionadvocate — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:46:03 +0000

>"[...] and builds user trust with each successful alert"

So the company notorious for killing projects is going to tackle infrastructure grade systems? I don't trust Google to tackle this problem.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "Hand: open-source Robot Hand"

fusionadvocate — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:31:04 +0000

The issue is not that these problems are easily underestimated, but that the researchers are very proficient at repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

fusionadvocate — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 03:01:30 +0000

Quantum shorts got to him first.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower"

fusionadvocate — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:44:20 +0000

Abstractions hide details, that does not mean they cease to exist. The problem with abstractions is that it makes it easier to create conflicts when making changes. Lots of hidden details are affected by a high level change.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning"

fusionadvocate — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:22:58 +0000

What is holding back AI is this business necessity that models must perform everything. Nobody can push for a smaller model that learns a few simple tasks and then build upon that, similar to the best known intelligent machine: the human.

If these corporations had to build a car they would make the largest possible engine, because "MORE ENGINE MORE SPEED", just like they think that bigger models means bigger intelligence, but forget to add steering, or even a chassi.

New comment by fusionadvocate in "Feasibility study of a mission to Sedna - Nuclear propulsion and solar sailing"

fusionadvocate — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:41:53 +0000

Based on my experiences with Kerbal Space Program, this object seem to be almost being pushed off from solar orbit. Given its 'small' size, how much energy would be required to push it off the solar system?

New comment by fusionadvocate in "Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity"

fusionadvocate — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:50:31 +0000

Sorry, I failed to follow your reasoning. My comment had nothing to do with "driving software", it addressed the parent post by posing the question a different way.