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New comment by kendalf89 in "Solar panels that plug into your wall"

kendalf89 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:25:16 +0000

I've seen some promising results from solar fences. Because the panels are getting so cheap you can offset the efficiency loss by buying more. Plus, because they are vertical and double sided they get more sunlight earlier and later in the day.

New comment by kendalf89 in "Making big downloads resumable in Firefox"

kendalf89 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:43:19 +0000

I've been using FreeDownloadManager in Windows for over a decade. So it's been solved just no one cares I guess?

New comment by kendalf89 in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

kendalf89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:58:38 +0000

Corporations are legally required to maximize shareholder's value. If reaching that goal requires them to pretend to be transparent, or fudge the numbers that they show to the public, then that's what you can expect them to do.

New comment by kendalf89 in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

kendalf89 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:08:09 +0000

Sure and health-science hasn't improved since then right?

New comment by kendalf89 in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

kendalf89 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:01:59 +0000

Yeah, one of them kills school kids for money. The other does it for the love of the game.

New comment by kendalf89 in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

kendalf89 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:56:59 +0000

It's a shame, anyone who's dumb enough to believe Marc Andreessen, isn't going to be smart enough to read this article.

New comment by kendalf89 in "Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?"

kendalf89 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:21:00 +0000

This grid based architecture reminds me of a programming game from zactronics, TIS-100.

New comment by kendalf89 in "Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways"

kendalf89 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:04:34 +0000

I've never been able to type faster than 35 wpm and I have no idea why. I was taking the same typing lessons as the other kids in the 90s and have been writing code since high school. I can even solve a rubix cube in under 30 seconds. Feels bad man.

New comment by kendalf89 in "There should be no Computer Art (1971)"

kendalf89 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:22:29 +0000

Art is the product of someone expressing themselves. It requires personhood and it requires intent to express one's self.

Therefore, unless you grant an autonomous AI personhood it can't create art.

However, one could use AI as a tool to express themselves and that would be art. But that's where I admit the line gets blurred.

New comment by kendalf89 in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

kendalf89 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:07:04 +0000

I don't think it's right to downplay the disproportionate response the FBI had to Aaron's actions. He was initially being threatened with 50 years in prison and a $1 million fine, the stress from which sent his mental health spiraling and in no small way contributed to his suicide. I think the original point of the person you are responding to still stands.

New comment by kendalf89 in "Diffusion for World Modeling"

kendalf89 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:11:35 +0000

Are you predicting node.llm right now?

New comment by kendalf89 in "Machine learning and information theory concepts towards an AI Mathematician"

kendalf89 — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:08:32 +0000

System 1 and 2 are just another way of describing dual process theory, which existed long before Daniel Kahneman wrote, Thinking Fast and Slow, and is still the prevailing theory of mind in its category today. There were maybe 1 or 2 studies mentioned in that book that were not very replicable but other than that, the overall consensus by leading experts in that field is positive, from everything I've seen, which is impressive considering how old the book is now.

I have no idea if dual process theory is actually useful for teaching computers how to math, but it seems unfair to just dismiss it as pop science bunk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_process_theory

New comment by kendalf89 in "Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models"

kendalf89 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 06:18:53 +0000

Maybe this technique can be used for training then since that is a lot more compute intensive?

New comment by kendalf89 in "Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]"

kendalf89 — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 04:34:21 +0000

Why not both?

New comment by kendalf89 in "Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]"

kendalf89 — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 04:29:39 +0000

This is pretty cool. Would it be possible to just stream the audio directly into Whisper, maybe using something like vlc, at x2 play speed to get the summary faster?

New comment by kendalf89 in "Bacteria generate electricity from wastewater"

kendalf89 — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:32:33 +0000

From the video it looks like they are just using a few mils of liquid volume. My question would be how well does this method scale up? Maybe waste water treatment plants could offset their carbon footprint a significant amount or even become a power plant if this technology gets better.

New comment by kendalf89 in "The surprising behavior of male fruit flies under intense light conditions"

kendalf89 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 21:26:17 +0000

Lol I saw this phenomenon happen at the Abby the other night.

New comment by kendalf89 in "Recursively summarizing enables long-term dialogue memory in LLMs"

kendalf89 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 20:50:18 +0000

Even something as simple as censoring swear words would be in line with what openAI are trying to accomplish but they keep lobotomizing the model instead.

New comment by kendalf89 in "The state of software development in Latin America"

kendalf89 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:38:26 +0000

Is there an explanation as to why this industry is growing so rapidly in Latin America right now?

New comment by kendalf89 in "Death Metal English (2013)"

kendalf89 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:33:53 +0000

It definitely depends on the band. Some of them are while others try to portray themselves as prophets or elevated beings.