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New comment by lokimedes in "We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson"

lokimedes — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:55:09 +0000

We get the future that sells the most novels?

New comment by lokimedes in "Linear algebra done right"

lokimedes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:54:42 +0000

My bag of tricks is better than your bag of tricks. Alright.

As with most textbooks, it fails to motivate why reading it is worth the investment. Perhaps it is a millennial old tradition of the Greek mystery schools, that the rite of passage came by proving your commitment to material knowledge without anything but fate in the school itself as motivation.

Rigor before Worth.

(Yes this is a pet peeve of mine :)

The Applicants (A Short Story)

lokimedes — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:53:45 +0000

Article URL: https://skaersoe.com/the-applicants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234425

Points: 2

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New comment by lokimedes in "Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up"

lokimedes — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:33:17 +0000

Glad I didn’t spend the last ten years on that problem! As my CERN advisor suggested :)

New comment by lokimedes in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

lokimedes — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:03:53 +0000

Many mindfulness practices seem to direct attention at two place at once, to quiet the inner voice. Perhaps this relates to more than just speech, but to attention itself. George Gurdjieff's "The Fourth Way" deals with self remembering, and his pupil, P. D. Ouspensky, has a very vivid description in [1] of how focusing on two things at once leads to a changed state of consciousness, that seems like meditation, and comes from the saturation of the two streams of attention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_the_Miraculous

New comment by lokimedes in "Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly"

lokimedes — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:15:34 +0000

I actually have experience with that stuff, “old school” deep learning and ML as well. Is that something worth joining the fray with I wonder? Or is it as you point out really only the richly connected “locals” that are recruited?

New comment by lokimedes in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

lokimedes — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:06:09 +0000

The meeting between my magnetic Apple Watch strap and the edge of the MacBook did the same for me, involuntarily. Apparently the magnets in these straps are quite abrasive.

EThOS

lokimedes — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:03:00 +0000

Article URL: https://ethos.bl.uk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848143

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lokimedes in "TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer"

lokimedes — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:18:44 +0000

Would the AI “GW-scale” clusters be able to run the Top500 benchmarks meaningfully? And what might be the outcome?

New comment by lokimedes in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

lokimedes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:50:35 +0000

I have not reason to defend these people or their actions, but can we know their future success was not formed by their formative experiences at Id? I think we undervalue hardship and struggle as accelerants.

New comment by lokimedes in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

lokimedes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:27:11 +0000

At least it was just a game company :)

I find that initiative and grit combined is an exceedingly rare commodity, and it do power progress. We can always be picky about the worth or risks of the projects these souls end up realizing, but the function this provides to our society is critical.

New comment by lokimedes in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

lokimedes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:14:21 +0000

Yeah. My point is that this is the double edged sword of youth vs. experience. We’ll never know if the world would have been better of Id software were managed by more tempered, middleaged people, but (since I was merely the gamer) I’d rather not risk it. That said, it is completely natural to reflect, as Carmack does, on what could have been different. I simply assume there’s a strong correlation between the result and the naivety of the people behind it.

New comment by lokimedes in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

lokimedes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:08:29 +0000

I’m sitting here in Denmark having been affected by these geeks. They may not have built the Pantheon, but surely they have channeled a group of people’s creativity towards something we have integrated into our society?

New comment by lokimedes in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

lokimedes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:28:07 +0000

Young energy shouldn’t be apologized. Apparently Bill Gates had that psycho energy too, Jobs and many others too. On a civilizational scale it seems like a net benefit that young, eager and driven people give a bit more than they wanted to in retrospect. It do indeed change things for the rest of us. The patriotic call of armed forces has been driven by this for millennia. At least Carmack and Co. chose their own missions, most soldiers are not so lucky.

New comment by lokimedes in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

lokimedes — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:44:26 +0000

Not just an IDE, look at the prospect, they’ll soon lead in farming, genetics, AGI and teleportation. Remember to price in the TAM of that!

New comment by lokimedes in "The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)"

lokimedes — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:52:11 +0000

I attend “The Party” in Aars, Denmark for a few years around 2000. It was at the crossroads of broadband, but got to taste the demoscene vs gamer experience. It was magnificent. There were a real festival atmosphere, and afterwards you’d declare never to attend again - that was, until the tickets were released and you somehow couldn’t help yourself.

Good times.

New comment by lokimedes in "Native all the way, until you need text"

lokimedes — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:49:26 +0000

Thank you, great spotted. I did make a CLI tool for it, but it was a bit too cumbersome to distributed it via the App Store for the first release, so I dropped it from the release but forgot to update the help.

New comment by lokimedes in "Native all the way, until you need text"

lokimedes — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:18:43 +0000

We did https://markant.md with TextKit 1, flies through multi-megabytes markdown files with latex rendering etc. took some scaffolding (like only rendering attachments when they are close to the viewport) to make it smooth, but it wasn’t really a big problem.

New comment by lokimedes in "England Runestones"

lokimedes — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:28:02 +0000

Maybe it was good weather [1] on the isles for once?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period

New comment by lokimedes in "The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025)"

lokimedes — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:53:55 +0000

Uncool or not, working at a place with a confluence of technical problems to solve, sounds wonderful.