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New comment by gowld in "Sonnet 5.5"

gowld — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:38:47 +0000

Does it also take 2 seconds of critical thinking to realize that the models that are covered should be accurately named by the people making the decisions?

New comment by gowld in "Inverse-Square Law"

gowld — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:01:34 +0000

I don't think that's true at all.

New comment by gowld in "Inverse-Square Law"

gowld — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:01:14 +0000

It makes sense when you realize that all the information inside a black hole is present at its surface. An object itself approaches singularity, but to an outside observer it never crosses the event horizon, so everything "inside" (in its own view) is also "on the surface" to an outside observer.

New comment by gowld in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

gowld — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:03:34 +0000

"public-text" doesn't describe the purpose of a public key.

New comment by gowld in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

gowld — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:02:50 +0000

And in fact, we have a dedicated term for shared secrets

New comment by gowld in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

gowld — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:51:26 +0000

Space Review website has malware-download ads all over the page. That spooks me.

New comment by gowld in "Chopping up books when they're physically too big"

gowld — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:20:21 +0000

Quick, someone make a startup to print chopped-up-books on demand.

New comment by gowld in "Let's make quality the norm again"

gowld — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:46:55 +0000

Comment is unrelated to the link, except that both have the word "Warranty".

New comment by gowld in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

gowld — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:37:45 +0000

Nothing can be observed travelling faster that speed of light in the observer's proper time, but many things can be observed having travelled faster than the speed of light, when considering the traveler's proper time and the traveler's observation of distance before and after the journey.

New comment by gowld in "The k-server conjecture is true"

gowld — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:32:48 +0000

Yes, LLM is excellent at optimizing exhaustive search algorithms into "representative" search algorithm, by generating heuristic classifications at high scale.

New comment by gowld in "The k-server conjecture is true"

gowld — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:31:07 +0000

I wonder what Karlin thinks.

New comment by gowld in "A beginning for mathematics"

gowld — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:08:53 +0000

Why is "Doctor of Philosophy" the correct certificate of "becoming expert in a topic"?

That's a radical departure from "PhD" being a certificate that someone is qualified to produce new research.

What you describe is more like a Masters Degree.

New comment by gowld in "Why don't machine learning research agents overfit?"

gowld — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:00:01 +0000

That's not true. It's pretty clear that she meant "do something you knew they were going to say no to and now you are trying to get away with something."

https://youtu.be/wHdHCoeUbU4?t=861s

> So I want to tell something to all the young people here on many many occasions you'll find it is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. You do it then when somebody comes after you and say are you supposed to do that, "oh gee I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that" ... so just remember it's frequently much easier to apologize than it is to get permission do it

She goes on further, explaining how to deceive your superiors to manipulate them to get what you want.

New comment by gowld in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

gowld — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:37:08 +0000

Also, the fact that both are very unusual from a spelling perspective makes it an easy human mistake.

New comment by gowld in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

gowld — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:35:24 +0000

Criminal law may be lagging or inapplicable. (Crimes require "mens rea", a "guilty mind")

Tort law is very general: Contribute toward harming someone -> civil suit for damages $$$

New comment by gowld in "[dead]"

gowld — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:32:56 +0000

Why is a poorly written forum comment on the front-page as a top link?

New comment by gowld in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

gowld — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:18:42 +0000

Updated Sept. 11, 2026 9:49 am ET is less than 30 minutes ago

New comment by gowld in "Anthropic Says Iran Used Its American AI Model to Target U.S. Navy Warships"

gowld — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:17:17 +0000

re-report here: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-09-11/anthropic-a...

New comment by gowld in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

gowld — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:15:20 +0000

Do you consider every trial defendant to be exonerated?

New comment by gowld in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"

gowld — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:13:34 +0000

Any indictment of LLM needs to distinguish LLM from pocket calculators and books. Calculators and books quietly made reasearch less collaborative.

Also, Waymo is an automated taxi service, so it's an exteremly misleading analogy. Taxis existed before Waymo.