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New comment by hyperbovine in "I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy"

hyperbovine — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:03:52 +0000

True 40 years ago, not so much any more.

https://totallossgap.co.uk/blog/post/why-do-modern-cars-not-...

New comment by hyperbovine in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

hyperbovine — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:37:45 +0000

One man's laziness is another man's leisure time. I'd much rather have an extra hour to spend with my kids, read a book, exercise, or really do just about anything else, versus get in my car and fight traffic and parking to go retrieve a bag of food.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest"

hyperbovine — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:03:34 +0000

“Ole Bielfeldt’s winning image embodies what makes Nikon Small World so powerful…”

PR speak is so awful. You made it a whole seven words without talking about yourself, congratulations.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest"

hyperbovine — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:00:13 +0000

Yeesh that is creepy.

New comment by hyperbovine in "New iMac with M6"

hyperbovine — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:07:59 +0000

Because then they can't sell you their overpriced 27" screen.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?"

hyperbovine — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:32:42 +0000

Whereas OpenAI and Anthropic…

New comment by hyperbovine in "Muse Spark Open"

hyperbovine — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:44:20 +0000

Tbf that wasn’t such an outrageous proposition until about ~6 months ago.

New comment by hyperbovine in "New Apple TV 4K"

hyperbovine — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:30:46 +0000

Man "Even more Siri" is not the headline feature I was hoping for.

New comment by hyperbovine in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

hyperbovine — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:43:13 +0000

Less than the countless hours thousands of mathematicians spent over the course of decades unsuccessfully attacking these problems...?

New comment by hyperbovine in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

hyperbovine — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:40:07 +0000

Isn't it possible that all of the integers that have been or will ever be encountered, anywhere, any time, in human history, number less than 2^182? In which case you could argue that integer multiplication is O(1) via LUT :)

New comment by hyperbovine in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

hyperbovine — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:31:39 +0000

Open models are 12 months behind frontier models. What companies spent $11 billion on last quarter they will be able to get at cost in a year. Meanwhile Anthropic is losing $40+ billion a year. I just don’t see how this ends well for them.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

hyperbovine — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:48:09 +0000

Turns out it’s very difficult to make a philosophical case for morality without presupposing the existence of a God.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

hyperbovine — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:44:45 +0000

Technology != company. The tech is here to stay but we still don’t have an example of a company that has figured out how to make a profit off of it. That will come, and it might be OpenAI or Anthropic that does it … but it might not.

New comment by hyperbovine in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

hyperbovine — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:21:32 +0000

What's the point of NA Radler when regular Radler is already in the 1-2% range?

New comment by hyperbovine in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

hyperbovine — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:20:20 +0000

You're just describing normal aging though. People have been experiencing this (particularly #2) since time immemorial. The question is why young people are not arriving to fill the void left by you (and me), as they always have. I agree with other posters, it's some combination of economics, weed, and culture.

New comment by hyperbovine in "The Millennium Problems for Biology"

hyperbovine — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:38:25 +0000

This. Part of the allure of the Clay Millenium prizes is that some of the best minds in the field came up with them. Let’s hear what Eric Lander, Jennifer Doudna, Aviv Regev, Feng Zhang, David Baker, Robert Weinberg, George Church, Bert Vogelstein, etc have to say.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Navier-Stokes Announcement"

hyperbovine — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:15:42 +0000

For one thing it was, I’m guessing, 100% written by actual humans. An increasingly rare phenomenon.

New comment by hyperbovine in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

hyperbovine — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:30:03 +0000

But think of all the IPO Monopoly money they just generated.

New comment by hyperbovine in "Stockfish 19"

hyperbovine — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:22:54 +0000

Magnus cannot even beat his phone. We're long past the point of humans being able to compete with the `fish, any version, any platform.

New comment by hyperbovine in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

hyperbovine — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:10:40 +0000

The same could be said of your post.

OpenAI (claim to) show the existence of *a* finite time singularity. It could stimulate more research in PDE solving, and maybe physics, but it has zero impact on practical applications, that I can see. The Millenium problems were chosen based on hardness not practical relevance.