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New comment by mikelitoris in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

mikelitoris — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:13:44 +0000

It’s a smokescreen people use to claim it’s not racist. It reminds me of that south park episode with the cable company representatives with velcro pockets. “Oh you want to migrate here legally? Oh it will take 3 years and it requires an active employment offer at application time and on arrival? Oh no… tell me more”

New comment by mikelitoris in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

mikelitoris — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:34:17 +0000

This is what a declining empire looks like

New comment by mikelitoris in "Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC"

mikelitoris — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:41:14 +0000

I guess Taiwanese lawmakers deemed this law necessary for national security purposes, but this would not fly elsewhere. We already have something to protect trade secrets: it’s called a patent. If you don’t patent it, and a competitor lures an employee with enough knowledge, everything is fair game, as it should be. Aka if you like it you should put a patent on it.

Edit: why would you downvote this? Jeez…

New comment by mikelitoris in "A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm"

mikelitoris — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:28:02 +0000

Could be one of the intents, but the main intent is reputation building.

New comment by mikelitoris in "Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations"

mikelitoris — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:09:03 +0000

Is this an actual question? I’ll answer it anyway: because they had nothing to do with financial market risk shenanigans and just wanted to get somewhere.

New comment by mikelitoris in "There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning"

mikelitoris — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:05:47 +0000

I’m in the skeptical camp. Whatever theory that will eventually emerge will not be as solid as: 1. Theory of pattern recognition (as developed in 80s and 90s) 2. Theory of thermodynamics 3. Theory of gravity 4. Theory of electromagnetism 5. Theory of relativity Etc. because of two reasons: 1. While half of deep learning is how humans construct the architecture of networks, the more important half relies on data. This data is a hodgepodge of scraped internet data (text and videos), books, user interactions etc., which really has no coherent structure 2. To extract meaningful insights from this much data, it takes models of enormous size like 10B+. The thing about random systems (in the mathematical sense) is that it takes “something” of order of magnitude bigger size to “understand” it, unless there is some concentration of measure type mathematical niceties (as in thermodynamics), which I don’t think is there in these models and data. This is the same reason I don’t think humans will ever be able to “understand” human consciousness. It will take something of an order of magnitude bigger than our own brains to do that. Here is Terence Tao explaining this concentration stuff in another context: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113873092369347147 I would love to be proven wrong though.

New comment by mikelitoris in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

mikelitoris — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:56:08 +0000

What does that mean?

New comment by mikelitoris in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

mikelitoris — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:29:44 +0000

The vagueness is by design, it’s another dark pattern. “Delete all photos from icloud? [are we gonna delete the ones that we only keep compressed versions on your phone? Iono ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, you wanna find out? Yea, didn’t think so...]”

New comment by mikelitoris in "What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)"

mikelitoris — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:59:48 +0000

I’m sure you’re fun to work with

New comment by mikelitoris in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

mikelitoris — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:35:50 +0000

I don’t know why this is down voted but I think this is the answer for the majority of people.

New comment by mikelitoris in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

mikelitoris — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:18:11 +0000

Gods peed

New comment by mikelitoris in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

mikelitoris — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:58:40 +0000

It’s the American roulette

New comment by mikelitoris in "Something unexpected: Sunbathers live longer (2016)"

mikelitoris — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:57:30 +0000

People who can take time to de-stress living longer, surprise surprise

New comment by mikelitoris in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

mikelitoris — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:18:30 +0000

Buckle down and sort it = wars around the world and mass (and I mean mass) migration

New comment by mikelitoris in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

mikelitoris — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:47:11 +0000

Too little too late, classic Intel

New comment by mikelitoris in "Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Send Conflicting Signals on Peace Prospects"

mikelitoris — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:29:09 +0000

Money. Where will the funding come from? Companies controlled by the Epstein class?

New comment by mikelitoris in "Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla"

mikelitoris — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:47:40 +0000

When you give a snake oil salesman the reign over technical decisions…

New comment by mikelitoris in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

mikelitoris — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:55:48 +0000

Clean room was a poor choice of words… I thought it was an actual clean room for semiconductor devices :(

New comment by mikelitoris in "Urea prices"

mikelitoris — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:48:31 +0000

What if we collectively pee in buckets (to not dilute it with water and other human by-products) and give them to refineries for purification? /s

New comment by mikelitoris in "The MacBook Neo"

mikelitoris — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:55:05 +0000

They forgot to add Dell Pro Max Premium Plus to complete the word salad, what a missed opportunity.

If the Dell product naming team is reading here I have a couple marketing buzzword suggestions: add “elite”, “ultra”, “platinum” or “diamond” to the mix please. Doesn’t “Dell Pro Max Elite Platinum Premium Plus” sound so much more marketable?