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New comment by gadtfly in "Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality"

gadtfly — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:30:32 +0000

If this is appealing to you, check out this guy who ran a much more systematic set of experiments on even more sacred and sensitive targets:

Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE

Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Guitar Amplifier? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBEOcPtlYk

Billy Bass Realtime AI – Home Assistant Test [video]

gadtfly — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 04:16:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH3hRbqqA_E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470039

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gadtfly in "Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer"

gadtfly — Sat, 10 May 2025 05:50:07 +0000

Does it not? Zoom out on the map.

New comment by gadtfly in "Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer"

gadtfly — Sat, 10 May 2025 05:18:24 +0000

Great old Twitch energy.

Badly needs inline chat to be complete.

New comment by gadtfly in "Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy"

gadtfly — Fri, 02 May 2025 17:49:42 +0000

https://nitter.net/alth0u/status/1917021100900516239

New comment by gadtfly in "Transfer between Modalities with MetaQueries"

gadtfly — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 22:32:47 +0000

> The trend, hinted by stuff like GPT-4o and proven by MetaQuery, looks modular.

Could you make this more explicit? What modularity is hinted at by 4o? The OpenAI blog post you cite (and anything else I've casually heard about it) seems to only imply the opposite.

New comment by gadtfly in "Nix Derivations, Without Guessing"

gadtfly — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:10:33 +0000

Completely unrelated to anything I'm just taking this as an opportunity to yell this into the void while nix is on topic:

I have a theory that a problem for Nix understanding and adoption out of all apparent proportion is its use of ; in a way that is just subtly, right in the uncanny valley, different from what ; means in any other language.

In the default autogenerated file everyone is given to start with, it immediately hits you with:

    environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ foo ];

How is that supposed to read as a single expression in a pure functional language?

New comment by gadtfly in "An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1"

gadtfly — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:42:53 +0000

Reasoning transfers across domains.

New comment by gadtfly in "On DeepSeek and export controls"

gadtfly — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:19:52 +0000

Also, though it's not "new information": "Making AI that is smarter than almost all humans at almost all things [...] is most likely to happen in 2026-2027." continues to sail over everybody's head, not a single comment about it, even to shit on it. People will continue to act as though they are literally blind to this, as though they literally don't see it.

New comment by gadtfly in "On DeepSeek and export controls"

gadtfly — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:03:01 +0000

^ This is publicly new information, and the 2nd part especially contradicts consequential rumours that had been all-but-cemented in closely-following outsiders' understanding of Sonnet and Anthropic. Completely aside from anything else in this article.

New comment by gadtfly in "Why Canada Should Join the EU"

gadtfly — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:05:20 +0000

Breaking innovative new ground on how to make things even worse.

New comment by gadtfly in "Torpedo juice: Legendary, illegal WWII liquor drunk in Alaska and the world"

gadtfly — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:43:12 +0000

See also the Mark 14 torpedo, the primary American torpedo in WWII, which didn't actually work for the first 2 years of the war because they had never bothered to actually test it because it would be too expensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo

New comment by gadtfly in "The Birmingham Blade: geographically tailored urban wind turbine designed by AI"

gadtfly — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 08:18:58 +0000

I think the thing behind the group photo at the top is it.

New comment by gadtfly in "All of Google Offline?"

gadtfly — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:56:18 +0000

Gmail, Youtube, etc.

Checked from Western US and Canada.

All of Google Offline?

gadtfly — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:54:23 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42326593

Points: 28

# Comments: 22

New comment by gadtfly in "Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever"

gadtfly — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:38:16 +0000

I don't really understand where the dividing line is between Jungle and Drum and Bass, but I'm pretty sure Foregone Destruction is on the DnB side of it.

New comment by gadtfly in "Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever"

gadtfly — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:13:07 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G6WPuss4

New comment by gadtfly in "The Backrooms Wiki"

gadtfly — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:20:14 +0000

Kane Pixels[0] is the most popular Backrooms creator by a wide margin[1], and the recipient of that A24 movie deal.

His Backrooms canon is completely separate from The Backrooms Wiki canon. It has none of the prescribed "levels", or any other of the Wiki's infinite proliferation of boring bullshit. It's purely descended from the original 4chan post[2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@kanepixels

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=backrooms

[2] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/495/035/a5a...

New comment by gadtfly in "Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer"

gadtfly — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:11:16 +0000

Playable demo: https://oasis.decart.ai/starting-point

Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer

gadtfly — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:10:45 +0000

Article URL: https://oasis-model.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42012092

Points: 108

# Comments: 21