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New comment by geremiiah in "Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs"

geremiiah — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:24:36 +0000

No, these are two very different objectives.

New comment by geremiiah in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

geremiiah — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:05:29 +0000

AfD also self-censors. They frame the whole anti-immigration debate as anti-Muslim/asylumseeker, but if you read between the lines they are making arguements that apply to pretty much everyone who isn't German.

So they frame the anti-immigrant debate as if they are fighting to kick out the Syrian asylum seeker who hasn't worked a day since he arrived in 2015. But in truth, they are basically saying, "we don't want too many foreigners, especially ones that don't look German". This applies to pretty much all the legal immigrants in Germany.

New comment by geremiiah in "Google Has Achieved RSI"

geremiiah — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:38:00 +0000

Presumably they only have empirical results and if so, wouldn't you need to train multiple successive models to even test such a hypothesis? Even then, it's not like an inductive proof. An improvement in one generation does not imply an improvement in the next (unless you define improvement to mean exactly that).

New comment by geremiiah in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

geremiiah — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:53:40 +0000

The problem with physics and chemistry is that you need simulations and those are often in themselves compute hungry. So the iteration loop will be slower.

New comment by geremiiah in "[dead]"

geremiiah — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:06:27 +0000

Why does the article title imply that VW is going to build weapons but the second paragraph then clarifies that the plant will be sold?

Isn't that purposefully misleading?

New comment by geremiiah in "Aptera announces a $44M to design and build a solar electric vehicle"

geremiiah — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:49:40 +0000

In a world where sedans have been replaced by SUVs, I don't see how the market would react positively to this. But then again, Lime scooters are paradoxically also a thing. I guess maybe it's a matter of marketing?

New comment by geremiiah in "Requests for Startups: Energy"

geremiiah — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:23:35 +0000

Energy markets are also much easier to quantify, thus harder to build a hype machine around.

New comment by geremiiah in "EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding"

geremiiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:30:46 +0000

Hmm, I think you provide a compelling narrative. However I'm not very convinced.

I think AI is a good example. EU wide there are plenty of public HPC centers and in 2020 we had (relative to the world) plenty of compute. In other words, we had the tech, we had the compute, and we had the know how. And yet we don't really have a competitive AI scene in Europe. There were some very small projects launched to try to train LLMs. All of them were no more than learning exercises.

How will QC be different?

New comment by geremiiah in "EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding"

geremiiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:21:56 +0000

True, but what they do is they invest in fundamental research and then expect magic to happen and that research to lead to economic growth. Unfortunately the wizards that cast the spells live in the US, not Europe.

New comment by geremiiah in "EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding"

geremiiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:19:45 +0000

Because lots of senior researchers who call the shots are somehow invested in QC.

New comment by geremiiah in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

geremiiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:27:21 +0000

EU also recently introduced a 3 euro fee on all packages from China. Maybe well intentioned but it puts a huge markup, when a thinker wants to buy a very specific 0.05 euro spring from AliExpress or something along those lines.

New comment by geremiiah in "AI Chip Architectures"

geremiiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:55:36 +0000

It's an interesting topic, but the article is completely AI generated, which isn't surprising considering the startup, but still, if you don't even go over the output what's the point?

New comment by geremiiah in "Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage"

geremiiah — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:58:06 +0000

His ancestors murdered and stole a whole lot for him to gain that priviledge.

New comment by geremiiah in "Ask HN: No Path from Techie to Management?"

geremiiah — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:11:43 +0000

You are not popular enough at your work place or at least not with the right people. Change jobs and try again.

New comment by geremiiah in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

geremiiah — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:00:58 +0000

I don't either. Don't we have free market capitalism? Why don't I have a Linux phone? And why do I need to worry that my government and banking apps won't work if I get a Linux phone?

New comment by geremiiah in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"

geremiiah — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:50:43 +0000

I remember in 2010, corporate propagandists were telling us that the effects of climate change won't be felt for a 100 years.

New comment by geremiiah in "Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold"

geremiiah — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:08:32 +0000

Yes and correct me if I'm wrong, but they never did deeper work on dynamics. I think that's very telling.

New comment by geremiiah in "Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold"

geremiiah — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:06:33 +0000

It's probably because they hit a dead end with their approach in terms of improvements. You can only get so far with trying to model a physical system with an insane number of degrees of freedom from simulation (and augmented) data.

New comment by geremiiah in "CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches"

geremiiah — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:57:03 +0000

Capitalism uglifying the world that tiny bit more, so long as we can squeeze some more $$$ out of poor impressionable people...

New comment by geremiiah in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

geremiiah — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:22:52 +0000

This is the kind of rational you arrive to, if you spend too much time in feminist circles and never bother to actually try to understand the other side. I can assure you that nobody thinks in terms of "controlling women".