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New comment by nialse in "M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida"

nialse — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:46:08 +0000

The issue associated with whataboutism is that it is a deflection strategy. It aims to steer the focus away from the issue at hand. Commonly regarded as intentional manipulation or lack of adherence to social conversation norms.

New comment by nialse in "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]"

nialse — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:25:20 +0000

> > The required high degree of connectivity might be attained with the help of microminiature radio transmitters and receivers.

> Hahaha, this is straight out of 60s-70s sci-fi, where their best futuristic interfaces were smaller CRT screens / flashy keys, etc.

Actually that is not far off from how high bandwidth interconnects work, but through other media.

New comment by nialse in "Nvidia's 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

nialse — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:26:12 +0000

Heat exchange is used instead of refrigerating the coolant. Makes sense. How do they manage the indoor climate for the humans working there though? Eventually everything will be at 45C in the building, will it not?

New comment by nialse in "S‑CURVES a field guide to technology adoption · 1825–2026"

nialse — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:06:16 +0000

Requesting human attention demands demonstrating human effort[1]. Slop at its worst: obscuring actual insight. The main one being that there are no exponential growth curves, no hockey-sticks, they're all logistic s-curves at most. Sure, there is a lot happening right now, but although technologies such as trains reshaped society, society did not come to only consist of railways.

[1] https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/

New comment by nialse in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

nialse — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:23:29 +0000

The FFT is essentially just a matrix multiplication, or two. No need for fancy conversions. Just a huge amount of training data and a very large array.

New comment by nialse in "Texas Adds Another Solar Farm as Ercot Grid Demand Soars"

nialse — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:14:05 +0000

The power needs of a house of course vary with many parameters. Our 100 square meter house in Nordic climate draws 1.2 kW on average over a year including charging the car. What are common numbers elsewhere?

New comment by nialse in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

nialse — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:15:54 +0000

Something like that.

New comment by nialse in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

nialse — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:36:33 +0000

This was of course dependent on yolo mode, but automatic approval has also been pulling stunts like this. A recent example is data that was purposely kept away from Codex in a folder far far away. When it found a single reference it just went for the data when having an issue. Lesson learned, keep essential data and Codex separated on different machines. Codex remote ssh actually helps here.

New comment by nialse in "Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

nialse — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:37:41 +0000

The closest we've ever been!

New comment by nialse in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

nialse — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:33:18 +0000

”Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.

It is the opium of the people.”

Some are on copium, some on hopium. The gods change names; the need for relief remains.

New comment by nialse in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

nialse — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:15:49 +0000

Keen observation. Maybe automation will come for the AI as well?

New comment by nialse in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

nialse — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:13:05 +0000

The people were longing for utopia, just not the same utopia.

New comment by nialse in "Mitchellh – I strongly believe there are entire companies now under AI psychosis"

nialse — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:18:10 +0000

Another argument for less human-like AI then, I guess.

New comment by nialse in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

nialse — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:05:37 +0000

I'm starting to long for the age after AI. When the generative euphoria has settled and all outputs are formally verified based on exquisite architectures and standards.

Thoughts on Doctoral Student Recruitment

nialse — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:59:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UNLwpwGnb0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932391

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Automated systematic literature review with Claude Code

nialse — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:31:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K_4QqUlSBU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913221

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nialse in "Less human AI agents, please"

nialse — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:03:49 +0000

I see your point. Many of my prompts for reasoning ends with: No code. Planning mode is sort of the workaround for this specific situation. Sometimes it is useful for the AI agent just to think. It looks like I need a screwdriver in addition to the aforementioned hammer, a pozidriv screwdriver to be precise.

New comment by nialse in "Less human AI agents, please"

nialse — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:29:39 +0000

To be fair, there is likely not much training data on the difficult conversations you need to handle in a senior position, pushback being one of them. The trouble for the agents is that it is post hoc, to explain themselves, rationalising rather than ”help me understand” beforehand.

New comment by nialse in "Less human AI agents, please"

nialse — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:54:49 +0000

I think that it is a fair perspective to allow role play, and it's useful too, when explicit. Does not really make sense for AI to cosplay human all the time though.

New comment by nialse in "Less human AI agents, please"

nialse — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:53:02 +0000

Maybe we should change that? Of course symbolic AI was the holy grail until statistical AI came in and swept the floor. Maybe something else though.