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New comment by nthingtohide in "How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming"

nthingtohide — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:11:56 +0000

Imagine an AI system is programmed to poison the well incase of losing scenario. So it takes advantage of Kessler System to make sure no one else has advantage if it doesn't too poisoning the whole of earth orbits for centuries to come in which satellites could reside.

New comment by nthingtohide in "Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia"

nthingtohide — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 23:56:37 +0000

I can now understand Palmer Luckey's point of intelligent weapons. It truly brings to life the quote from Game of Thrones, "Why is it more noble to kill 10,000 in battlefield than dozen at a battle." Intelligent weapons enable the second scenario. Civilian lives are mostly unharmed.

New comment by nthingtohide in "The Who Cares Era"

nthingtohide — Sat, 31 May 2025 15:41:16 +0000

I think Fed's money printers make all the entreprenuers chase value creation. It's like accelerated Red Queen Hypothesis. They are keeping everyone on their toes to gather as much of future new money as possible (that will be printed in future) at the same time creating value. My problem is if people just sit on the gold and not allow it to circulate and suffocate the economy because the gold hoarders would be rest assured that value will be eventually created in the system and their gold would appreciate and capture that value so they don't even try.

New comment by nthingtohide in "What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling Than the Truth?"

nthingtohide — Fri, 30 May 2025 12:13:06 +0000

Foresee the day where AI become so good at making a deep fake that the people who believed fake news as true will no longer think their fake news is true because they'll think their fake news was faked by AI. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

New comment by nthingtohide in "Dr John C. Clark, a scientist who disarmed atomic bombs twice"

nthingtohide — Fri, 30 May 2025 06:13:21 +0000

Wrt disabling enemy satellites by destroying them to pieces, we can create more problems, the so called space debris chain reaction Kessler Syndrome.

Watch at 0:40 @ Space War is Real, Here's How it Works

https://youtu.be/JZqa2wQdORo

> Kessler Syndrome is a hypothetical scenario, proposed by NASA scientist Donald Kessler in 1978, where a chain reaction of collisions between space debris and satellites leads to a catastrophic increase in debris, potentially rendering Earth's orbit unusable. This increase in debris would make space travel and communication more dangerous and difficult.

Can countries actively plan strategies to use Kessler Syndrome to their advantage? Can Starlink satellites be destroyed easily by this method since they are present in the same orbit?

New comment by nthingtohide in "The Who Cares Era"

nthingtohide — Thu, 29 May 2025 23:11:51 +0000

I have question. If new value is produced in the system (say an iphone or google search), isn't it ok to produce more dollars to represent that value, which is also the reason why people didn't care for decades, because the system was working.

New comment by nthingtohide in "The Who Cares Era"

nthingtohide — Thu, 29 May 2025 23:07:20 +0000

Good points. I stand corrected.

New comment by nthingtohide in "Human coders are still better than LLMs"

nthingtohide — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:20:43 +0000

Do you want to measure antirez and AI on a spider diagram, generally used to evaluate employee? Are you ignoring why society opted for division of work and specialization?

New comment by nthingtohide in "The Who Cares Era"

nthingtohide — Thu, 29 May 2025 17:49:24 +0000

As long as US Dollar supply was increasing at the rate of 2% per year (I don't know the exact rate but some predictable small rate) which is commensurate with Gold supply increase, everything was ok with the world, nobody cared whether it was USD or Gold. It is only when US started abusing this privilege that system started breaking.

New comment by nthingtohide in "The Who Cares Era"

nthingtohide — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:51:45 +0000

here's a counterpoint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_Finance

> One of the main themes of the book is the role played by the central bankers' insistence to adhere to the gold standard "even in the face of total catastrophe."[1] As Joe Nocera, a book reviewer at the New York Times, stated, "the central bankers were prisoners of the economic orthodoxy of their time: the powerful belief that sound monetary policy had to revolve around the gold standard...Again and again, this straitjacket caused the central bankers — especially Norman, gold’s most fervent advocate — to make moves, like raising interest rates, that would allow their countries to hold on to their dwindling gold supplies, even though the larger economy desperately needed help in the form of lower interest rates."

New comment by nthingtohide in "The Who Cares Era"

nthingtohide — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:51:55 +0000

The problem isn't being wrong one time. But being wrong time and again and that too intentionally. When your job depends on not understanding...you won't understand.

New comment by nthingtohide in "The Who Cares Era"

nthingtohide — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:42:01 +0000

This is why Institutions are important. They should be truthful and unbiased and undogmatic. But given intentional pollution of information environment. The same lessons being learnt again and again. New generations growing up and trying to navigate this new polluted environment, all of this is taking a toll. Hence delulu is the solulu.

New comment by nthingtohide in "The Who Cares Era"

nthingtohide — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:20:33 +0000

The Who Cares Inception.

> As Elon Musk's DOGE rats gnaw their way through federal agencies, not caring is their guiding light.

He wouldn't have used this wording if he had actually spent sometime on understanding how wasteful the previous governments have been. So in a sense, Elon was correcting the previous Who Cares mistakes and not actually committing new Who Cares mistakes. This shows that even Dan doesn't care enough to ground his opinions in facts.

New comment by nthingtohide in "German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal"

nthingtohide — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:27:09 +0000

Rhodesia solution is magnificient in this case.

Sending A Letter To The PM | Yes Minister | BBC Comedy Greats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE6lpKkcFQY

New comment by nthingtohide in "Root for your friends"

nthingtohide — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:55:22 +0000

We already have mathematical metaphors of such infinity compressed in finite regions. E.g. statistical self-similarity of mandelbrot fractal.

New comment by nthingtohide in "Root for your friends"

nthingtohide — Sat, 24 May 2025 15:59:42 +0000

I have borrowed some "wisdom" in how particles interact. They exchange particles back and forth which strengthen their interaction. That's what I do generally in real life. I sort of share happenings in my life as a sort of nano-influencer within my group of friends. I would say the advice in the blogpost works, sort of. Even if my "contributions" go into a blackhole, I think atleast the ephemeral Universe is watching what I do.

New comment by nthingtohide in "What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)"

nthingtohide — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:24:15 +0000

8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0

> In this GDC 2016 talk, Terrible Toybox's Mark Ferrari discusses and demonstrate some of his techniques for drawing 8 bit game graphics, including his celebrated methods for use of color cycling and pallet shifting to create complex and realistic background animation effects without frame-animation

The lost art of color cycling - Animating with color

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUbrzg21X9c

> Color cycling was born out of hardware restrictions but out of it came some beautiful artworks that characterized the 80s and 90s. In this video we will learn more about how this effect was produced and experience first hand the beautiful artwork created with it.

New comment by nthingtohide in "Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great?"

nthingtohide — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:12:49 +0000

Try to replicate niche groups like this https://www.ypo.org/

New comment by nthingtohide in "Deep Learning Is Applied Topology"

nthingtohide — Wed, 21 May 2025 07:38:29 +0000

> The model learns Japanese-English and Swahili-English and then can translate Japanese-Swahili directly. That shows something more than simple pattern matching happens inside.

The "water story" is a pivotal moment in Helen Keller's life, marking the start of her communication journey. It was during this time that she learned the word "water" by having her hand placed under a running pump while her teacher, Anne Sullivan, finger-spelled the word "w-a-t-e-r" into her other hand. This experience helped Keller realize that words had meaning and could represent objects and concepts.

As the above human experience shows, aligning tokens from different modalities is the first step in doing anything useful.

New comment by nthingtohide in "Thoughts on thinking"

nthingtohide — Sat, 17 May 2025 15:16:07 +0000

I think this is nothing but how applied science realtime feedback loops should work. Earlier we used to study only planets, atoms and bacteria, now systems are studying us and guiding us to best outcomes.