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New comment by growfeather in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

growfeather — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:10:35 +0000

“ I suspect inventing new branches of math will remain beyond LLMs for the remainder of my life”

Well every branch of mathematics thus far has been invented by a human or a human using a computer, and humans will use this type of computer to solve math problems (or at least try), so I’d say this is a really poor probabilistic bet.

New comment by growfeather in "Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles"

growfeather — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:02:21 +0000

There are people alive today who can’t fathom why anyone ‘needs’ a computer/smartphone.

New comment by growfeather in "Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles"

growfeather — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:57:15 +0000

This is awesome, and this type of accessibility (noting that it can be temporary, permanent or situational) and consideration is known as inclusive design in modern parlance.

New comment by growfeather in "New algorithm discovers language just by watching videos"

growfeather — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:00:38 +0000

Ok, it’s a lot more like a boltzmann brain in Plato’s cave learning what language is with zero other external context of what reality is.

New comment by growfeather in "The OpenAI board was right"

growfeather — Tue, 21 May 2024 10:08:26 +0000

Sounds almost transformative when you put it that way. You’re saying they took the content, and turned it into something completely different than its source? Hm.

New comment by growfeather in "Figma OSS Alternative"

growfeather — Wed, 01 May 2024 11:51:18 +0000

Yeah I’m a UX designer (and dev) and the hostility toward UX and UX principles in the open source community is disheartening, for sure. People use things that are easy and pleasant to use. That shouldn’t be controversial.

(As far as this program is concerned, my general thoughts are — give it a few years. It took Figma years to supplant Sketch, it took Sketch years to supplant the Adobe suite. I think that the desire from the community is there, as there are really scummy business practices that the Figma team has put in place, and it’s squeezing departments/seats/licenses, which is stupid obvious artificial scarcity that they’re using to extract as much as they can before something useful and FOSS comes around and eats their lunch.)

New comment by growfeather in "Run llama3 locally with 1M token context"

growfeather — Wed, 01 May 2024 04:47:07 +0000

Thanks for testing it. I wonder if there’s a reasonable line? 64k? How much RAM did the 128k context require? (Maybe future models might be better at that level)

New comment by growfeather in "RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo"

growfeather — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:19:35 +0000

It’s like when these AIs were released someone threw a giant rock in the pond. It’s still rippling, but it’ll eventually settle down, because there’s obviously a middle ground, which is what you’ve described. I think we will get there.

New comment by growfeather in "How the Great Green Wall is holding back the Sahara desert"

growfeather — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:45:13 +0000

It is cultural human hubris to bother, in any way whatsoever, to be worried about the sun burning out. It’s an interesting curiosity but we your life, if you lived to be 2000 years old (you won’t), you will have moved yourself 0.0000571428% closer to the time when that will happen. We DO need to actually be worried about our planet overheating, our agricultural spaces becoming despoiled, and other things that can actually happen in our lives. One of these things is not like the other.

New comment by growfeather in "Most people with addiction simply grow out of it (2014)"

growfeather — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:33:03 +0000

I used to be just like you, then I found recovery. I started with 12 steps, then moved on to 13 steps, then…