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New comment by mycall in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

mycall — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:35:48 +0000

Nature desalinates seawater all the time in the form of water vapor without using electricity. There must be another way for humans to command and control the release of fresh water out of the ocean for our own needs.

New comment by mycall in "Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×"

mycall — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:28:45 +0000

Would you say it is homoiconic, similar to LISP where the syntax of the language is the AST; so, data can become code (Macros) and code can be data (the S-Expression)?

New comment by mycall in "Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center"

mycall — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:55:35 +0000

Yet they still love ordering from Amazon.

New comment by mycall in "LLMs are not the black box you were promised"

mycall — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:29:29 +0000

Do the same principles apply to diffusion-based modeling?

New comment by mycall in "Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs"

mycall — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:13:06 +0000

While it seems like a good idea, resending a growing context window is very inefficient and costly. Instance pinning would make a huge efficiency gains but also collapse LLM provider revenue. This is something open models could better solve.

New comment by mycall in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

mycall — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:42:29 +0000

Wait until the agents start assigning you real world tasks to earn a paycheck. They can easily become the boss when they hold the strings. I feel this side of the discussion isn't happening.

New comment by mycall in "MCP is dead?"

mycall — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:58:47 +0000

Wouldn't it be easier if MCP supported vector embeddings as input/output? It would shift its integration from a Broker Agent to a Deterministic Semantic Router. That by itself would prevent context bloat.

New comment by mycall in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

mycall — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:30:22 +0000

In-app notifications settings should do this if they are trustworthy.

New comment by mycall in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

mycall — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:57:45 +0000

> orchestra and symphony pop

You can find a ton of this on archive.org [0]. One of my favorites is from K-Mart background vinyl. AI can't quite do this yet.

[0] https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Kmart%22&and%5...

New comment by mycall in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

mycall — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:54:12 +0000

Does 802.11p work in any of these mesh networks? It could amplify their usefulness.

New comment by mycall in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

mycall — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:46:16 +0000

Let's do it today

New comment by mycall in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

mycall — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:18:26 +0000

The church was a great archive of knowledge for the longest time. They were the powerful few too.

New comment by mycall in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

mycall — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:34:47 +0000

Don't all nonprofits need more money to improve their sustainment?

New comment by mycall in "Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act "evil""

mycall — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:45:39 +0000

The "Fiction" part should be obvious to the AI, what's wrong?

New comment by mycall in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

mycall — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:04:00 +0000

Could False = FileNotFound and this is a case of AST symbol constraints?

New comment by mycall in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

mycall — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:01:40 +0000

Do a deep dive into how OS/360 formalized to having DOS.

New comment by mycall in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

mycall — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:11:09 +0000

Google's AI search uses your previous inquiries and discussions to guide its response. It should be more precise than it is.

New comment by mycall in "Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)"

mycall — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:58:58 +0000

That's interesting as I was considering GGUF --> ONNX conversions (via Olive), but if this creates unknown distortions in the effectiveness and stability, it might be a dead-end idea.

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

mycall — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:54:52 +0000

You should double check Project 2025 before solely blaming Miller.

New comment by mycall in "z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode"

mycall — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:37:10 +0000

How does it compare to something like VexRisc [0] with respect to its capabilities? I know having x86 support is a metric all by itself.

[0] https://github.com/spinalhdl/vexriscv