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New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA"

gdhkgdhkvff — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:16:16 +0000

Why should we discount this model just because other models that are already thought to be worse weren’t very accurate? I’m not in this field at all, so curious if I’m missing something here.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance"

gdhkgdhkvff — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:57:43 +0000

I mean, sure. Things can be wrong if you intentionally misunderstand words to mean something that they weren’t intended to mean. Is there anyone that legitimately thought that “most” here meant “majority of all actual attempts”?

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

gdhkgdhkvff — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:26:39 +0000

Interestingly, there are many laws against launching precision guided missiles, despite the fact that people were throwing snowballs at each other long before missiles were invented.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Olo (Color)"

gdhkgdhkvff — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:20:39 +0000

Ok I watched the red green picture first and was getting pretty impressed that some type of optical illusion was making the circle appear smaller and smaller to me until it vanished!

Then I realized that wasn’t an optical illusion and instead just part of the setup…

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

gdhkgdhkvff — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:58:36 +0000

Isn’t this essentially what anthropic is doing, albeit in a manual fashion? They work with code owners to run mythos and find issues.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

gdhkgdhkvff — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:16:24 +0000

Why do you say API based llms looking iffy at best? Do you just mean current profitability due to market pressures from some companies’ subsidized investor money?

Surely, even if you’re just using open weights models, it should theoretically be cheaper to use them in a highly optimized cloud architecture(even with vendor markups) rather than each person serving their own models from much less efficient (and more importantly, much less consistent volume) self-owned “server under your desk”?

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"

gdhkgdhkvff — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:30:33 +0000

Boom. ROST’d.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

gdhkgdhkvff — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:37:19 +0000

Lawn mower blades are meant to be somewhat blunt. Like a butter knife. Too sharp and the blade will chip away on the harder materials.

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

gdhkgdhkvff — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:15:39 +0000

All of those supplements are made with “magtein (r)” branded magnesium l-threonate. It all goes back to the same company and that company is the one that has supplied the “studies” that prove its effectiveness. And by “supplied” I mean that the literal vice president of the company’s research arm was an author on at least one of their studies but didn’t disclose his connections until a follow-up update to the study.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Claude Sonnet 5"

gdhkgdhkvff — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:43:00 +0000

I agree that the rapid improvement from like 2023-24 era is over (from a perspective of going from a 3/10 to a 7/10, you can’t then go to a 11/10). There was just so much more space to grow back then.

But isn’t Fable supposed to be another step change? I never used it, myself.

Tbh, at this point I think top tier models are smart “enough” (I’m sure this will look antiquated in a year), and the way to give me MORE noticeable improvement is to make them much faster rather than much smarter. Or even a way to automatically and accurately pick faster models when it makes sense. I know that IDE’s have Auto modes, but it’s not something that I trust right now to pick smart+fast instead of picking “maybe smart enough”+”cheaper for harness owner”

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Steam Machine launches today"

gdhkgdhkvff — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:26:25 +0000

So what you’re saying is we should see an increase in account hijacks and spamming account creation as scalpers now try to optimize for max s.

Show me the incentive structure and…

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

gdhkgdhkvff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:59:38 +0000

Considering he named it “the Tim Ferris mafia” makes me think he’s fully aware of that.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

gdhkgdhkvff — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:27:19 +0000

I’m very on the pro-ai side (check my comment history for proof), but this “ai will give us more free time” logic is seeming more and more patronizing (to be clear, I understand that you are being sarcastic haha).

I was listening to a podcast a couple days ago and Brad Gerstner was on and mentioned that with how AI is boosting productivity that perhaps one member of a household would be able to start staying home from work if they wanted. I shut off the podcast after that (to be fair, the podcast just seemed to be one massive SpaceX IPO pump).

It’s just so divorced from reality and every new advancement is just making *higher expectations for doing more work*.

The unfortunate reality is: Companies that are selling ai will sell that ai will make life easier. Companies that are buying ai will demand more from employees using ai (why else would they buy it?).

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations"

gdhkgdhkvff — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:35:06 +0000

And every report about AI problems has this comment. Just one more failed use of AI and then AI will stop being useful and go away forever, bro.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

gdhkgdhkvff — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:27:36 +0000

Investors aren’t dumb. These numbers are being reported and the fact that the data centers are being rented out is publicly disclosed everywhere. Investors know full well that the revenue is from the data center rental. No (non-retail) investor is going to see the jump in revenue and think “I better buy up because grok must be kicking ass!”

And yes, if hetzner built a massive AI hyper scale datacenter and rented it out for billions, with the expectation that they would keep building more, they would also see massive PE ratios because it’s expected that their revenue would be going up.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

gdhkgdhkvff — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:43:11 +0000

You know what? I agree. I should have avoided falling into the same trap.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

gdhkgdhkvff — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:41:59 +0000

Gemini 3.0 wasn’t just a marginal improvement over 2.5.

And if you take that out: 1. All of those releases happened literally in the last 3-ish months. 2. They’re all intentionally marginal releases, hence the minor version bumps instead of major versions.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

gdhkgdhkvff — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:07:26 +0000

Great. You see a shape in graphs. And that shape tells you that _at some unknown point in the future_ progress will slow (but likely not stop).

Now back to the point, what reason do you have to believe progress will stop soon? If you have no reason, then it sounds like you agree with OP.

Which makes the patronizing sarcasm all that much more nauseating.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

gdhkgdhkvff — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:13:21 +0000

It’s wild to me that people in this comment section are suggesting that schools should improve their security by rolling their own platform, which is bound to be filled with security holes, instead of using a popular, maintained, open source option.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

gdhkgdhkvff — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:21:50 +0000

If rotten fruit was exceptionally valuable, then people would be paying exceptional amounts of money for it instead of wondering where they can get truckloads of it for free.