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New comment by lucisferre in "OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape"

lucisferre — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:08:38 +0000

Man I thought this was about the new Stargate show which they are filming in the UK. I was trying to square why OpenAI would be in charge of that.

New comment by lucisferre in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

lucisferre — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:37:09 +0000

It's open source software. If you discover the bug, have written a failing test that demonstrates it, and a proposed solution to it, then maybe you can be annoyed when the authors close it as wontfix.

Otherwise OSS is pretty much as-is, where-is, with the exception of very widely used and corporately supported projects.

New comment by lucisferre in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

lucisferre — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:38:17 +0000

I would expect that lighter motor components would potentially allow weight reduction in load bearing components. Not an advantage for SUV-type cars, but for light and ultralight vehicles it could add up to more weight saving and longer ranges.

New comment by lucisferre in "The AI emperor has no clothes"

lucisferre — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:30:55 +0000

Does NFT/blockchain actually have a cycle? I have not seen any real killer use cases.

AI may be overhyped but the actual use cases and potential ones seem very clear.

New comment by lucisferre in "From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]"

lucisferre — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:59:01 +0000

Fair comment.

New comment by lucisferre in "From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]"

lucisferre — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:13:59 +0000

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New comment by lucisferre in "Does OLAP Need an ORM"

lucisferre — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:15:39 +0000

I agree with this as well. I started my career at the height of ORMs. Most software developers were only learning the ORM APIs (which of course all differed significantly) and very few were learning SQL outside of the bare basics.

ORMs, like all abstractions, are a leaky abstraction. But I would argue because of the ubiquity and utility of SQL itself they are a very leaky one where eventually you are going to need to work around them.

After switching to just using SQL in all situations I found my life got a lot simpler. Performance also improved as most ORMs (Rails in particular) are not very well implemented from a performance standpoint, even for very simple use cases.

I can not recommend enough that people skip the ORM entirely.

New comment by lucisferre in "AI is different"

lucisferre — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:15:42 +0000

Realistically most people became aware of the internet in the late 90s. Its impact was significantly realized not much more than a decade later.

New comment by lucisferre in "Fast"

lucisferre — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:05:04 +0000

So not PowerBI then. Or really any BI tool.

My favourite example of not "fast" right now is any kind of Salesforce report. Not only are they slow but you can't make any changes to the criteria more often than once a minute. Massively changes your behaviour.

New comment by lucisferre in "GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild"

lucisferre — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:38:55 +0000

Seems a bit early to use that analogy though. Early iPhones upgrades generally had significant improvements in almost all specs.

New comment by lucisferre in "CPU stuck at 0.80Ghz, Fixed by removing keyboard screw (2018)"

lucisferre — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:30:02 +0000

What is this a Pentium III?

New comment by lucisferre in "AGI is not multimodal"

lucisferre — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:35:02 +0000

Much of the discussion of AI flirts with science fiction more than fact.

Let's start with the fact that AGI is not a well defined or agreed upon term of reference.

New comment by lucisferre in "Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)"

lucisferre — Sun, 25 May 2025 18:26:35 +0000

"The desert ants in my backyard have minuscule brains, but far exceed human navigational capacities, in principle, not just performance. There is no Great Chain of Being with humans at the top."

This quote brought to mind the very different technological development path of the spider species in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time. They used pheromones to 'program' a race of ants to do computation.

New comment by lucisferre in "The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?"

lucisferre — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:06:03 +0000

This is hand waving science fiction.

New comment by lucisferre in "AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu"

lucisferre — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:42:28 +0000

Huh, so it should be ready around the same time as practical fusion reactors then. I'll warm up the car.

New comment by lucisferre in "Solid (formerly Wise) files for bankruptcy"

lucisferre — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:12:34 +0000

Wow, that's not confusing at all.

New comment by lucisferre in "Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)"

lucisferre — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:02:41 +0000

I read it about the same time. My friends and I (all of whom declared Physics and most of us switched to other majors before graduating) had tears in our eyes reading it. Funniest thing I had ever read.

I'm glad he's doing well.

New comment by lucisferre in "Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today""

lucisferre — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:02:37 +0000

Can you elaborate? What would you ask it about what people are saying on Twitter and what kind of response would be interesting and potentially valuable?

New comment by lucisferre in "Scrum's "Product Owner" Problem"

lucisferre — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:43:25 +0000

As much as this comes across as an obvious strawman, it is also consistent with Scrum in practice. Scrum proponents constantly suffer from the "no true Scotsman" fallacy exactly because in practice Scrum inevitably resembles it's own strawman.

New comment by lucisferre in "Scrum's "Product Owner" Problem"

lucisferre — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:42:14 +0000

In my experience many software teams work exactly in this way, even if many do not. There is often one lead that drives a lot of the architectural decisions and champions things like code quality and best practices.