Hacker News: logicallee

New comment by logicallee in "How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments"

logicallee — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:54:08 +0000

Along the same lines, I asked ChatGPT-5.6 Sol to evaluate the feasibility of a neural network running natively on quantum computing, you can see the study here:

http://taonexus.com/publicfiles/sep2026/quantum_neural_netwo...

In short it's not really feasible and it suggested classical coherent photonics and in-memory compute as more viable approaches.

(Off-topic aside: these days I am more interested in funding Social Security Trust Funds (OASI & DI Solvency) - if anyone at OpenAI can help reactivate my account: rviragh@gmail.com it would let me do further studies that directly support this important goal, currently my chatgpt account was deactivated. I apologize for any mistakes I made earlier, it won't happen again. Please reactivate my account - thank you.)

New comment by logicallee in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

logicallee — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:48:43 +0000

My OpenAI account was deactivated on Sunday due to a claimed infraction of production of child materials, maybe based on a few words in a technical chat that clearly isn't about that. Can you take a look? rviragh@gmail.com - I was doing a lot of important work and projects and sharing much of my work with OpenAI. I also am a big proponent of funding Social Security Trust Funds (OASI & DI Solvency) so reactivating my account would let me do that as well. Thank you for taking a look.

Ask HN: How to Reactivate ChatGPT Account?

logicallee — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:16:27 +0000

I received a notice that my account was deactivated, but I wasn't doing anything weird or inappropriate. I don't have access to my chats anymore but was able to see some of my recent chats and could annotate them here, there's nothing weird about it:

https://imgur.com/a/Q9hEo0e

Is there any way I could escalate it to someone at OpenAI to reinstate my account?

I filed an appeal but I don't know if that's enough.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586274

Points: 1

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New comment by logicallee in "(available in 1 hour) AI Slopacalypse – understanding all this crap"

logicallee — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:54:13 +0000

The presentation will be livestreamed on my channel in about an hour (11 a.m. EST, 8 a.m. Pacific). Anyone is welcome to attend.

(available in 1 hour) AI Slopacalypse – understanding all this crap

logicallee — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:54:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/@robertviragh6527

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576528

Points: 1

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New comment by logicallee in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

logicallee — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:42:49 +0000

amazing, it's a huge achievement. can someone clarify, where the writeup says "The finished proof was checked by Lean; it uses just Lean’s three standard axioms" what does this mean? Aren't there a large set of standard axioms that are also necessary? (i.e. ZFC+)? if not, since it's only three axioms, can someone say what they were?

New comment by logicallee in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"

logicallee — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:34:46 +0000

can the grandmasters still win with rook odds?

New comment by logicallee in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

logicallee — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:25:44 +0000

>exadurates

this word is usually spelled exaggerate (yes, with two g's.)

New comment by logicallee in "Reasons robotics is hard"

logicallee — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:33:29 +0000

people very soon as going to look back at all of us and just think "they didn't even have robots yet! how did they even eat?" Well, future readers, it isn't easy! We either go to the store and bring back groceries ourselves or pay a helper to do it. No robot in the loop there. Then when it comes time to cook something we either have to cut it up and otherwise prepare it and then cook it ourselves, or another human can do it, or we can buy fully prepared foods that don't require cooking. And then when we're done we have to put our own dishes away into a dishwasher. We can't just say a few words and have a robot do it for us!

New comment by logicallee in "Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company"

logicallee — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:18:16 +0000

Congratulations on the launch! The demo in the video you linked looks awesome (though your video resolution is a bit low, some of the text is hard to read on screen, I suggest you record in higher resolution). I think you made a really good choice to have your connector provider handle OAuth credentials, since it is really hard to get security right on a multitenant app like yours, where some of your agents are doing work on customers' behalf and others are improving your product itself :). The design of your app interface also looks really great!

Real Fly Brain – chase and squash bugs with your cursor

logicallee — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.realflybrain.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499284

Points: 1

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New comment by logicallee in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

logicallee — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:46:27 +0000

could you elaborate on what happened?

New comment by logicallee in "Quantum battery upends the rules of charging"

logicallee — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:56:39 +0000

This is really interesting. I've been fascinated with new and unusual battery tech for a while. A few months ago I had one of the reasoning models crunch the numbers on using a superconductor as a battery.[1] (It's not viable.)

Electric airplanes: the power density (per weight) of current batteries is very low compared with fuel, if you look at electric airplanes they are only able to make short flights due to the battery weight. If a quantum battery of large size could end up with a high all-in power density for the entire system, then it could power electric airplanes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731696

New comment by logicallee in "AI Chip Architectures"

logicallee — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 01:21:37 +0000

human brain uses 20 watts.

New comment by logicallee in "The End of an Athlon"

logicallee — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:37:02 +0000

Why are chips still built in only a few layers?

Even modern silicon only has some 60 of them right?

Plus don't transformers work in layers, making it natural to put a bunch of layers on top of each other? Regarding cooling, couldn't there be liquid cooling through a plumbing network in the same die?

Our brain takes quite a large volume, and we want chips that have a similar level of parts count (achieved - 80 billion neurons) and interconnectedness (not yet, around 10k synapses per neuron). Why do it in 80 2D layers? Is there no way to etch silicon in 3D?

New comment by logicallee in "NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier"

logicallee — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:27:58 +0000

I'm highly interested in their Grok 4.6 run which is currently running. I think it is a very good fit for doing really well on this benchmark. Will have to check this page again in a couple of days.

I wrote a quick review of Grok 4.6 here: https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/aug2026/grok-4-6-review/

New comment by logicallee in "Conway's Game of Life in real life"

logicallee — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:58:24 +0000

I can't put my finger on it, but there's something very satisfying about seeing his final build, that I think wouldn't be there if it were a touch screen.

New comment by logicallee in "A week of using Codex more than Claude"

logicallee — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:29:56 +0000

I agree that it's fast and accurate, but Grok 4.6 was released only 10 days ago so you can't blame someone for not trying it yet. (Versus many months at the frontier level for Claude and ChatGPT.)

Here's a quick review I just posted if anyone's interested:

https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/aug2026/grok-4-6-review/

New comment by logicallee in "English ↔ Claudish Translator"

logicallee — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:44:40 +0000

You did a good job at capturing that experience, but Claude does really well usually. Don't you almost get what you want at the end?

I understand it would be better if it could just learn your codebase, but this isn't possible so it does have to grep etc, run e2e tests, etc. each time.

New comment by logicallee in "Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code"

logicallee — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:48:57 +0000

I avoid Opus 5, and reverted to Opus 4.8 over similar issues. Opus 4.8 is still working great for me!