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New comment by kame3d in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

kame3d — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:04:55 +0000

Here's a better source, with video:

https://x.com/coenvermeeren/status/1537751313932599296

There's also a "Fact Check" article from Routers that says it is a "false allegation that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are a form of gene therapy":

https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/bayer-executives-...

But the same article has the following quote from the above video, from Bayer's executive Stefan Oelrich:

> “Ultimately the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy. I always like to say, if we had surveyed two years ago in the public, ‘would you be willing to take gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body?,’ we would have probably had a 95% refusal rate. I think this pandemic has also opened many people’s eyes to innovation in the way that was maybe not possible before.”

So it seems Bayer (or at least, Stefan Oelrich from Bayer), indeed classifies the mRNA vaccines as gene therapy.

New comment by kame3d in "VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO"

kame3d — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:31:36 +0000

Interesting!

I just tried the quantized Q4_K_M from [1] in my RTX 2070 Super, it ran at 110 tok/s with 1800 tok/s prefill, and found the same solution to your prompt. It generated valid LaTeX for the answer but its reasoning trace uses mostly compact ASCII math notation. Took 3min 22s to answer, spending 22k tokens almost all on thinking.

[1] https://huggingface.co/prithivMLmods/VibeThinker-3B-GGUF

New comment by kame3d in "Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust"

kame3d — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:14:04 +0000

Relevant tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R2sv9GCwz0

New comment by kame3d in "The model for coins in Super Mario Odyssey is simpler than in Super Mario Galaxy"

kame3d — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:07:36 +0000

I was also curious so I just implemented and tried. For circles with 49152 vertices I get (RTX 2070 Super):

- max area: ~2600 fps

- fan: ~860 fps

So it still holds true.

New comment by kame3d in "I decided that I must live my life on my terms"

kame3d — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:13:38 +0000

“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

– Mary Ann Evans, aka, George Eliot

New comment by kame3d in "Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines"

kame3d — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:02:41 +0000

If I'm reading the charts correctly, the incidence of infection after recovering from Covid is around 13-15 per 100k after 6-8 months, and after recovering from Covid + Vaccination is around 10-14 per 100k after 6-8 months.

So it seems like vaccination does not present a clear benefit for someone that recovered from Covid? (The confidence intervals overlap)

New comment by kame3d in "Pass: The standard Unix password manager"

kame3d — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 23:43:49 +0000

There's the pass-code extension for that:

https://github.com/alpernebbi/pass-code

> A pass extension that obscures the filenames and folder hierarchy within your password store.

> pass-code generates random filenames for each file in the password store and keeps the mapping in an encrypted file. This way, no valuable information is accessible even if your password store is leaked to the public (unless your GPG private keys were also leaked). Nevertheless, you should always ensure proper protection of your password store.

New comment by kame3d in "Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter"

kame3d — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:53:57 +0000

Why do you say that?

New comment by kame3d in "Between two Lisps"

kame3d — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:22:41 +0000

Isn't that the same thing as using function pointers in C?

You need the * to access the function the variable points to.

New comment by kame3d in "GitHub Classroom"

kame3d — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:47:27 +0000

> For group work there are a number of tools to do analytics on who did what etc so it make seeing how well the group has worked.

I teach a computer graphics course and that seems useful. What tools do you use?

New comment by kame3d in "I don’t like computers"

kame3d — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 14:37:45 +0000

If I may I would recommend the work of Sherry Turkle[1] from the MIT. There are several talks from here on youtube, and I particularly like her conversation on the good life project podcast[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Turkle [2] https://soundcloud.com/goodlifeproject/sherry-turkle

New comment by kame3d in "Apple Stole My Music"

kame3d — Thu, 05 May 2016 13:17:05 +0000

Talk about scary! I managed to unintentionally delete all photos in my aunt's iPad. All I wanted to do was disable iCloud backups. And I am a postdoc in a CS department.

New comment by kame3d in "Dropbox Project Infinite"

kame3d — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:38:16 +0000

This is similar to the idea behind git-annex.

New comment by kame3d in "The other side of "academic freedom""

kame3d — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:27:02 +0000

Do you know about the 'thrust' library?

http://thrust.github.io

New comment by kame3d in "Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout"

kame3d — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:46:12 +0000

Google should make the "Compact Controls" shortcut (Ctrl + Shift + F) universal over all Google services.