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New comment by mah4k4l in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

mah4k4l — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:11:44 +0000

Here's my NoteboojLM podcast on the subject :-) Sick.

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/e0a54a54-c644-4c89-9d...

New comment by mah4k4l in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

mah4k4l — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:58:54 +0000

I understand enough for it's arguments' symmetry to have an impact. Used Deep Research, it had the paper from the link as input plus some previous discussions about Tensor Logic and the new hardcoded neuroweb - like processors. Didn't make those up either.

New comment by mah4k4l in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

mah4k4l — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:33:34 +0000

According to Gemini 3.1 Pro this would shoot the current weather forecasting power through the roof (and math processing in general):

The plan is to use this new "structurally flawless mathematical primitive" EML (this is all beyond me, was just having some fun trying to make it cook things together) in TPUs made out of logarithmic number system circuits. EML would have DAGs to help with the exponential bloat problem. Like CERN has these tiny fast "harcode models" as an inspiration. All this would be bounded by the deductive causality of Pedro Domingoses Tensor Logic and all of this would einsum like a mf. I hope it does.

Behold, The Weather Dominator!

New comment by mah4k4l in "Nuclear energy is clean"

mah4k4l — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:24:57 +0000

The dispersed fallout? Hard to quantify because of it's dispersedness and long term slowness. But it is for example plutonium and we know it's effects on life on Earth, so one could proceed from there with some math and futurological trend extrapolation. And simply by using the knowledge we have about plutonium mixed with common sense.

New comment by mah4k4l in "Nuclear energy is clean"

mah4k4l — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 23:58:05 +0000

Ok yes my bad forgot to post the limits. At least used to be lake fish two times in week tops.

New comment by mah4k4l in "Nuclear energy is clean"

mah4k4l — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 23:42:04 +0000

Finland. In Finland. According to Finnish authorities. Countries with East Block histories like Poland tend to not care as much what the actual science of the stuff is. Nor does the Nuclear Is Clean - crowd is seems. "Everything radiates; just look at the bonfire, it's radiation". Yeah, right.

New comment by mah4k4l in "Nuclear energy is clean"

mah4k4l — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 23:29:59 +0000

Has affected millions of peoples health already and whole ecosystems. And the consequences will cumulate from this thousands of years. Count that in your equation and get more informative numbers.

New comment by mah4k4l in "Nuclear energy is clean"

mah4k4l — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 23:26:32 +0000

After Chernobyl you still today cannot eat fish from the lakes and rivers in 1000+ km radius from the site by Finnish recommendations. Because they are top predators and have enriched the gamma dose in themselves. How often could you eat human meat?

New comment by mah4k4l in "Nuclear energy is clean"

mah4k4l — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 23:01:53 +0000

Plutonium problem multiplies in top predators. Here already for thousands of years now thanks to nuclear plant disasters. Which are avoided by causing a slow power plant disaster by releasing radioactive pressure to the environment. Guy Debord's comment on this from Comments on the Society of the Spectacle: "much more civilized to sip a littl wine all of the time than to drink the whole bottle all at once like a Pole" :-)

Nuclear energy is a subsidised energy source, lobbied by powers that be on the corridors of power in the EU and everywhere else. Solar is cheaper.

Humanity is out of it's depth with this stuff. Could cause massive extinction event eventually even if we stopped now by killing and mutating sperm cells and all that. Go have a holiday in Fukushima. Go visit the deformed children still born in Uzbekistan near these places.

New comment by mah4k4l in "Save the Soil"

mah4k4l — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:55:58 +0000

Maybe massive move to hydroponic farming done on sea rafts or something. Or on those whirling space stations with artificial gravity . 3d - printing food (if you believe in bioenergies first print some living tissue then kill it u done) is an option. Harvesting plankton is an option. Cultivating airborne plankton and such for protein is an option.

The guy is right (I know nothing about the guy himself): if the current trend continues we're left with desertation. We need soil - producing agriculture and the current one is soil - destroying. It doesn't need to be economically viable in itself. It could be subsidized for common interest by the public sector.

New comment by mah4k4l in "The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton"

mah4k4l — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:35:57 +0000

The spouse of Kali Linux? After all they seem to be on the same page politically despite their seeming differences.

New comment by mah4k4l in "I think that ghostbanning is unethical"

mah4k4l — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 08:36:18 +0000

Thanks for the advice; just put mine on. The world of the dead fascinates me.

New comment by mah4k4l in "I think that ghostbanning is unethical"

mah4k4l — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 08:01:37 +0000

> I haven't seen HN use shadowbanning to censor anyone.

Maybe it was the ones you didn't see? Bacause they were shadowbanned?

My post was about ethics, trying to be formal and simple about the question what is it to do the right thing. Basically it was about this: sometimes good is right, sometimes evil is right, so good can be wrong and evil can be right, and we have four things of which the main question is the question of right and wrong.

I wouldn't consider myself to be a "toxic personality" but being ghostbanned did piss me off a little. More than pacify me. I am pointing out a real ethical issue, not "escalating my bad behavior" by posting this comment is how I see it.

[Edit:]I love HN, it's one of the best sites I know. I'm just pointing out an aspect of it that I don't like. I might use different language now that I'm not as pissed anymore, but I would post it.

New comment by mah4k4l in "I think that ghostbanning is unethical"

mah4k4l — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 07:51:11 +0000

> We (as a species) overall do not behave like adults, really.

Ok fair enough. Still there's some sort of a social expectation to that effect. And when you don't behave then you'll get the social sanction given by the community. I can dig that this is the internet and that it's hard work to keep up the standard. You seem to see the two sides to this stuff as well.

New comment by mah4k4l in "I think that ghostbanning is unethical"

mah4k4l — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 07:41:56 +0000

Ok I'll agree upon it being a shades of grey - kind of thing. But why not just outright ban someone when it's clear he doesn't fall into those categories of a spammer, a scammer or a troll. Would be much more polite and straightforward in a kind situation where you just seem to have the "wrong opinions" that don't fit the forum or whatever.

New comment by mah4k4l in "I think that ghostbanning is unethical"

mah4k4l — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 07:20:17 +0000

It's kind of trivial to check if you're ghostbanned though via wget script or something for example. I don't think ghostbanning slows down spamming enough to be ethically justified.

I think that ghostbanning is unethical

mah4k4l — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:59:01 +0000

I think it is a childish and offending policy and am still surprised that HN does that. I mean *who* does that? To make it look to you as if your post got published, but really it didn't? Is that your way of being polite, perhaps? Or your way to maximally offend someone by pretending to be polite? [EDIT: wish I wouldn't have written that next sentence (was a bit pissed off) but too late to erase now with people commenting it] What a slimy and cowardly tactic. What a manifetation of the worst part of human nature.

If you ban and censor us, why don't you just tell us so? We're all big boys and girls.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32235224

Points: 32

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New comment by mah4k4l in "[dead]"

mah4k4l — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 04:23:21 +0000

What ethics boil down to IMO. Comments welcome.

New comment by mah4k4l in "Crimes against transhumanity"

mah4k4l — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:03:50 +0000

I think you have a fallacy there concerning consciousness and life being transferred into it's cyborg enhancements and then as if animating them. Consciousness and life are equivalent to me, and if you would disagree with this premise you could of course reach different conclusions and be intellectually coherent. Like I said I think your fallacy concerns your consciousness = life being transferred into your cyborg enhancements in the first place. You are not your eyeglasses, right? And you are not your exocortex of the internet. Therefore you also are not your not - living brain cell prostheses although your living system would be kind of tricked into believing so. Therefore as the last vestige of living tissue dies in Major from Ghost In A Shell, she dies and is no more and there will be only a lifeless machine left. That's my perception of the matter based on my premises.

[Edit] Of course in GIAS - universe there would still be the ghost of Major left in the spirit world. But she wouldn't link with the machine, only the life, I think. I think her ghost would essentially simply be her psychoplasmic material life autonomized from it's infrastructural base the physical body, as what comes to the ugly scientific basis for the process.

And anyway, even if by some kind of wetware - extension the original life would come to animate and interface with the synthetic, then it would still be trapped in it's that body and it's copy would simply be another separate although exactly identical individual.

How to make “Mindfulness” better – The Next Level

mah4k4l — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 12:10:39 +0000

Article URL: https://notes2self.bearblog.dev/how-to-make-mindfulness-better/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191087

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