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New comment by gmadsen in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

gmadsen — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:45:16 +0000

few times a decade.

New comment by gmadsen in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

gmadsen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:50:16 +0000

Seems pretty straightforward. If you are surrounded by adversaries that vastly outnumber you, you invest in other forms of strength

New comment by gmadsen in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

gmadsen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:16:42 +0000

Interesting experience I supposed. Mine is the exact opposite. Neighbors in the suburbs are a community , whereas in the city, it’s common for neighbors to remain strangers.

New comment by gmadsen in "Why the Bronze Age Collapsed"

gmadsen — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:39:25 +0000

The Iron Age includes 4th century BCE

New comment by gmadsen in "A beginning for mathematics"

gmadsen — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:25:33 +0000

It is also true developers can have a myopic view of what should be valued and that can be incongruent with the business.

You can make a perfectly rational business choice to take on tech debt to get a feature sooner.

New comment by gmadsen in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

gmadsen — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:54:50 +0000

What are you alluding to exactly and who is “we” when you say “we need to experience immediate pain from reckless innovation “

New comment by gmadsen in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

gmadsen — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:27:25 +0000

The key difference is that the models upgrade multiple times a year. It is an inherently different than a commodity market

New comment by gmadsen in "Scrap (2006)"

gmadsen — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:31:55 +0000

The parent was obviously referring to 1st world countries

New comment by gmadsen in "Scrap"

gmadsen — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:22:35 +0000

In my lived experience, the majority of poverty is the inability to delay gratification. Whether you want to attribute that to personal failings or to other things is a separate question

New comment by gmadsen in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

gmadsen — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:42:31 +0000

You can buy a 5 bed 4 bath house in Tulsa, OK for under $400K

New comment by gmadsen in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

gmadsen — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:27:13 +0000

Anthropic has gotten much better results by just having a different agent audit the actions of the original agent. It works surprisingly well

New comment by gmadsen in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

gmadsen — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:46:22 +0000

i thought it was clear we were talking about internet in the 90s, the original commentor said three decades ago...

New comment by gmadsen in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

gmadsen — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:12:17 +0000

The 90s were very different from the 2000s

New comment by gmadsen in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

gmadsen — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:11:41 +0000

Sure in the same way you could automate Shakespeare plays by having a room full of monkeys with typewriters.

The space of mathematical statements is infinite. Having the taste, insight, and creativity to reach points in that space that are meaningful to humans is the entire game

New comment by gmadsen in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

gmadsen — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:29:59 +0000

That is completely discounting future capabilities and new use cases. Sure in 10 years you will have current SOTA locally, but in no way is it obvious we are anywhere near the limit of marginal value from improved capability

New comment by gmadsen in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"

gmadsen — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:56:27 +0000

Is your opinion that groups of 1000+ naturally align and deliver business value lock step with company needs? Is coordination not needed? Is leadership not needed?

New comment by gmadsen in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

gmadsen — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:25:12 +0000

And my point is it’s a strawman. Advanced math is obviously creative to those who practice it, and it’s disingenuous to boil it down to grade school triangle proofs

That would be like saying Shakespeare isn’t creative , since grade school grammar doesn’t feel creative

New comment by gmadsen in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

gmadsen — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:54:32 +0000

Why is your example SAS triangles and not something like the modularity theorem?

New comment by gmadsen in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

gmadsen — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:35:59 +0000

It is widely accepted that you can get better performance with c++ far easier than C. Outside of custom rolling assembly , a large aspect of performance tuning is compile time optimization, which is extremely non trivial in C, while being supported in language with C++. All the things people associate with C performance can be done in C++, the converse is not true

New comment by gmadsen in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

gmadsen — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:20:25 +0000

What is “both sides” about that article?