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New comment by jawarner in "Exapunks (2018)"

jawarner — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:03:11 +0000

For those who don't know -- while Zachtronics is no longer making games, Zach Barth is still active now under the company Coincidence Games. They just game out with a spacecraft engineering puzzle game:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2536720/UVS_Nirmana/?cura....

New comment by jawarner in "LLM Architecture Gallery"

jawarner — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:00:11 +0000

Looks like this may have received the HN Hug of Death. I'm getting "Too Many Requests" error trying to load the images.

New comment by jawarner in "LLMs can be exhausting"

jawarner — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:58:42 +0000

Is this AI? You've copied the best comment and put into AI-speak.

New comment by jawarner in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

jawarner — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:42:15 +0000

Mawson et al. 2017 (two papers) – internet survey of homeschoolers recruited from anti-vaccine groups; non-random, self-reported, unverified health outcomes. Retracted by the publisher after criticism.

Hooker & Miller 2020/2021 – analysis of “control group” data also from self-selected surveys; same methodological problems.

Lyons-Weiler & Thomas 2020, 2022 – data from a single pediatric practice run by one of the authors; serious selection bias.

Joy Garner / NVKP surveys – activist-run online surveys with no verification.

Enriquez et al. 2005 – a small cross-sectional study about allergy self-reports, not about overall neurodevelopment.

Large, well-controlled population studies (Denmark, Finland, the U.S. Vaccine Safety Datalink, etc.) comparing vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children show no increase in autism, neurodevelopmental disorders, or overall morbidity attributable to recommended vaccines.

New comment by jawarner in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

jawarner — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:40:20 +0000

Take a look at the next sentence from your linked article.

“I am pro-life personaly [sic] but it wasn’t those,” he said, using the jail’s internal messaging system. “I will just say there is a lot of information that will come out in future that people will look at and judge for themselves that goes back 24 months before the 14th. If the gov ever let’s [sic] it get out.”

New comment by jawarner in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

jawarner — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:19:32 +0000

I think for this to be interesting to an outside observer, it should at least address the bulk of the debate around the topic. If the GP is right and it's missing the key points of the anti-abudance critique, then I'm afraid it's missing the forest for the trees and misleading to a general audience.

New comment by jawarner in "Teach, Don't Tell (2013)"

jawarner — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:08:51 +0000

Insofar as "the problem" is sifting through pages and pages of documentation to find the relevant information for an answer, I think that current-day LLMs are actually quite capable at this.

New comment by jawarner in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

jawarner — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:52:15 +0000

You can measure the sharpness of the position, as in this paper section 2.3 "Complexity of a position". They find their metric correlates with human performance.

https://en.chessbase.com/news/2006/world_champions2006.pdf

New comment by jawarner in "Beautiful Probability"

jawarner — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:50:55 +0000

Real world systems are complicated. In theory, you could do belief propagation to update your beliefs through the whole network, if your brain worked something like a Bayesian network.

New comment by jawarner in "Beautiful Probability"

jawarner — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:40:34 +0000

Isn't that Edwin T. Jaynes example just p-hacking? If only 1 out of 100 experiments produces a statistically significant result, and you only report the one, I would intuitively consider that evidence to be worth less. Can someone more versed in Bayesian statistics better explain the example?

New comment by jawarner in "Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand"

jawarner — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:19:34 +0000

Yes, the possible programs are enumerable, and you can start searching with the least complex programs and work your way up in complexity. Once you find a program that explains the available data, you cannot guarantee it will continue to explain possible future data, unless, like you mention, you constrain the program space to a finite set. What you're describing is generally how people make models of the external world.

New comment by jawarner in "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (2020)"

jawarner — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 03:01:15 +0000

I don’t know if it’s fair to say that revolutionary wealth redistribution movements, like Occupy, are failing because everybody is distracted with social justice movements. The Left is a coalition for social justice and also for wealth redistribution, to varying degrees. That’s why I’m saying that I’m not seeing a direct connection where a success in one area subtracts from progress in another.

New comment by jawarner in "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (2020)"

jawarner — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:23:36 +0000

If you're just saying that rainbow capitalism is in alignment with capitalists' interests, and anti-capitalism movements are not, then that makes sense.

New comment by jawarner in "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (2020)"

jawarner — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:53:59 +0000

Isn’t that because of the BLM movement? I’m not seeing how any of these events are connected.

New comment by jawarner in "Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs"

jawarner — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:25:11 +0000

No, the text is AI too. It is crazy.

New comment by jawarner in "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (2020)"

jawarner — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:26:00 +0000

Just for the sake of argument, I can name some an entire field of science that was invalidated in light of genetic & neuroscience evidence: phrenology. At the time, it was the newest advancement in the gleaming era of scientific Enlightenment. It just happened to justify colonial policies of that time. Now, a couple hundred years later, we're walking back on a widely supported but misguided "scientific" field.

New comment by jawarner in "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (2020)"

jawarner — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:06:48 +0000

Are those two events connected? They both happened in the same decade and received some press. That's all I can come up with. And both things you mention -- LGBT rights and class consciousness -- have been around for a while.

New comment by jawarner in "Cobra Maneuver"

jawarner — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 20:06:18 +0000

Yeah but your enemy is also moving forward because they’re trailing you.

New comment by jawarner in "I cut GTA Online loading times (2021)"

jawarner — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:28:37 +0000

If you think about it, those lives actually were saved. People either didn't play the video game, or they spent a moment in the loading screen in quiet contemplation.

New comment by jawarner in "No, DALL-E doesn’t have a secret language"

jawarner — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 20:26:23 +0000

The tweet is in response to a preliminary paper [1] [2] studying text found in images generated by, e.g., "Two whales talking about food, with subtitles." DALL-E doesn't generate meaningful text strings in the images, but if you feed the gibberish text it produces -- "Wa ch zod ahaakes rea." back into the system as a prompt, you would get semantically meaningful images, e.g., pictures of fish and shrimp.

[1] https://giannisdaras.github.io/publications/Discovering_the_...

[2] https://twitter.com/giannis_daras/status/1531693093040230402