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New comment by greendestiny in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

greendestiny — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:01:10 +0000

Nonsense, the reluctance of governments to reduce carbon emissions has been driven by the reluctance for entrenched industries to give up their gravy train. There are many ways for power to be produced with lower carbon emissions, it's absolutely not a binary situation at all.

What nuclear is is a wedge issue that can successfully split the opposition to the fossil fuel industry. People should be incredibly wary of the argument being forced into these positions, its artificial and contrary to the desires of people who want action on climate change who support nuclear and don't.

New comment by greendestiny in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

greendestiny — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:34:21 +0000

I understand the article - the point about 'learning' is that if the model and its outputs are a derivative works then the copyright belongs to the human creators of the works it was trained on.

Edit*: Or perhaps put more pseudo legally that the created works infringe on the copyrights of the original human creators.

New comment by greendestiny in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

greendestiny — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:34:23 +0000

I think that it's absurd that we've jumped to the conclusion backpropagation in neural networks should be legally treated the same as human learning.

I mean I don't think think I could find a better description for following the derivatives of error in reproducing a set of works as creating a "derivative work".

New comment by greendestiny in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

greendestiny — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:26:47 +0000

Sure as a word it can be broad, as a concept in our legal system that should be much more nuanced.

The relevant extension of your analogy is should birds be required to obey FAA rules? Or should plane factories be protected as nesting sites?

New comment by greendestiny in "Architecture diagrams should be code"

greendestiny — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 02:28:05 +0000

You can get chatGPT to generate plantUML

New comment by greendestiny in "NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014)"

greendestiny — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 01:56:21 +0000

Disclosing vulnerabilities.

New comment by greendestiny in "Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding (2013)"

greendestiny — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 05:20:57 +0000

I think the theory is suggesting that the photon was emitted with less energy.

New comment by greendestiny in "NetHack beaten in 7 minutes 15 seconds real time"

greendestiny — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 06:54:17 +0000

You and me both. :(

New comment by greendestiny in "Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fatal Mountain View accident"

greendestiny — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:01:17 +0000

Actually despite your skepticism Tesla's PR spin has already beaten you.

"but autopilot still lowers the death rate on average"

That's not what they said, they said the death rate was lower than the average. And yet you can't help hearing that it lowered the death rate. I think it's very likely turning on autopilot massively increases the rate of death for Tesla drivers, but they've managed to deflect from that so skilfully.

New comment by greendestiny in "What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known?"

greendestiny — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 21:16:17 +0000

Hah!

New comment by greendestiny in "Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Nets"

greendestiny — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:54:41 +0000

I don't think it's going to emerge without significant effort to make it happen. I think most of the 'intelligence' we desire will be attainable without sentience. Sentience itself will require a lot of specific research directed at the goal. It's certainly a risk though.

New comment by greendestiny in "Choosing Ember over React in 2016"

greendestiny — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 01:27:34 +0000

Right there with you on this, love react's rendering model. Redux seems to get all the hype but I'm sort of beginning to suspect it might be mostly the wrong way to do things. It reminds me of TDD, most of the benefits seem to be moral in character rather than concrete.

New comment by greendestiny in "A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found"

greendestiny — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 08:50:25 +0000

Yeah but in defence of the guy you're replying to, once you render them they are 2d images.

New comment by greendestiny in "A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found"

greendestiny — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 08:49:03 +0000

You can try it yourself with commercial software: http://www.123dapp.com/catch

Scale can be hard to capture in photogrammetry, but in general the unrealness probably has more to do with the somewhat smoothed out (triangulated) surface that doesn't capture too fine a level of detail and the textureless (uncoloured) model they are rendering.

Using Convolution Networks to Find Gold

greendestiny — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:34:31 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@scottvallance/deep-gold-using-convolution-networks-to-find-minerals-aafdb37355df#.i5vy6za4a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12643224

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by greendestiny in "The hunger mood"

greendestiny — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:01:15 +0000

Serious eats food lab recipes are fun and effective. Additionally very highly rated food network or taste recipes are usually good and simple.

New comment by greendestiny in "Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star"

greendestiny — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 22:57:07 +0000

Oh sure it's a particularly human conceit that that number be exactly 1. But it certainly might be that the number is low enough that it will be very very hard for us to ever detect or interact with other life.

New comment by greendestiny in "LastPass autofill exploit"

greendestiny — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 23:07:18 +0000

Wait what?

"Why not? URIs are at least able to be tokenized perfectly well by a regular expression."

"5. Bonus critique, anything using regular expressions to URL-encode or decode is very suspicious; strongly prefer built-in functions that do this."

New comment by greendestiny in "Master Plan, Part Deux"

greendestiny — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:23:32 +0000

"boring but safe."

But seriously, the most important part of that sentence 'safe' is absolutely unproven.

New comment by greendestiny in "Master Plan, Part Deux"

greendestiny — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:32:33 +0000

"but in comparison it will never fail as often as human do"

Ok I know this is my little cause of the moment, but seriously why are computers apriori better at anything? Sure they don't make poor life choices but they are absolutely at the mercy of the quality of the algorithms, sensors, operating system, training data and physical computational hardware.