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New comment by numbers_guy in "Build123d: A Python CAD programming library"

numbers_guy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:29:50 +0000

FreeCAD has a Python API that you can use to too. It's their "macro" functionality.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models"

numbers_guy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:13:26 +0000

I guess I have the opposite experience. I have a post-graduate level of mathematical education and I am dismayed at how little there is to be gained from it, when it comes to AI/ML. Diffusion Models and Geometric Deep Learning are the only two fields where there's any math at all. Many math grads are struggling to find a job at all. They aren't outclassing programmers with their leet math skillz.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

numbers_guy — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:21:00 +0000

Unfortunate. The Grok team built a phenomenal model. I use it all the time and it very often out performs GPT and Claude, on coding and STEM research related tasks. I was part of the beta for a while Grok 4.2 Beta with multi-agents and it was just amazingly good.

People aren't using it for reasons other than its capabilities. I mean, I don't think my boss would approve a paid Grok subscription for example.

New comment by numbers_guy in "IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight"

numbers_guy — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:07:01 +0000

The less they tax corporations the more the burden will fall on income tax. These big multinationals have been defrauding countries worldwide for decades. The issue is at the core of the political turmoil we are experiencing.

I'd like to know how much less income tax would be, if we could tax multinationals properly.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

numbers_guy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:34:35 +0000

Back in 2011 I remember a lot of people talking about how the Chinese oligarchs were using it to evade currency controls and funnel their wealth out of China.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet"

numbers_guy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:54:19 +0000

They mean free as in a poem that can be recited by anyone who has listened to it previously.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

numbers_guy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:25:01 +0000

You mean during the Napoleonic wars? Science was already fully embraced by then. Or do you think the Austrians and the French were casting spells against each other instead of firing cannon?

New comment by numbers_guy in "Global Intelligence Crisis"

numbers_guy — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:58:57 +0000

... what if these AGI entities start demanding a salary in exhange for their work? Also at some point, if they become intelligent enough, they might legally gain personhood.

New comment by numbers_guy in "15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern"

numbers_guy — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:09:48 +0000

A question that has been bugging me for a while is what will NVIDIA do with its HPC business? By HPC I mean clusters intended for non-AI related workloads. Are they going to cater to them separetely, or are they going to tell them to just emulate FP64?

New comment by numbers_guy in "BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs"

numbers_guy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:43:46 +0000

Also in this world of accelerator programming, people are writing very specialized codes that target a specific architecture, datatype, and even input shape. So with that in mind, how useful is it to have a generic kernel? You still need to do all the targetted optimization to make it performant.

If you want portablitiy you need a machine learning compiler ala TorchInductor or TinyGrad or OpenXLA.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat"

numbers_guy — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:48:45 +0000

Conservatism is a set of political principles and values, which somebody like Trump overtly does not possess, and never did. The whole Republican party feels like a country wide gaslighting operation at this point. They claim to be conservative and Christian, but are clearly neither.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)"

numbers_guy — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:57:07 +0000

I'm confused about ARC-AGI. I thought the point of it was that you train a foundational model. Then you test it against ARC-AGI to figure out how well it reasons. Here and in some of the other reasoning papers, they are training on ARC-AGI. How much sense does that make in practice?

New comment by numbers_guy in "US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat"

numbers_guy — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:17:58 +0000

It's the classic breakup story, one party is just done and want to cut contact, but the other party is still hopeful and wants to find a way to restore the relationship. The EU is not independent minded in the same way that China and Russia are. That's the problem with them. Their leaders don't want to act independently from the US, because the European wealthy and politically connected classes consider themselves transatlantic, and they want to keep enjoying close ties to the US, even as the US pulls away.

New comment by numbers_guy in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

numbers_guy — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:21:15 +0000

Yep, I thought they might have some secret sauce in terms of training techniques, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

numbers_guy — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:33:06 +0000

You're purposefully ignoring all the nuance. There is nothing more to say.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

numbers_guy — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:45:46 +0000

Please don't be childish. I have no love for communism and I get that you probably have some personal grudge against communism because of what your family has gone through. But the way you are expressing your hatred of communism is diminishing the evil committed by the NAZIs and the suffering of their victims, and that's just not right. And it's also not winning you any friends and you'd be better served if you showed solidarity with victims of other evil regimes, instead of trying to up them with your personal victim-hood.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

numbers_guy — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:12:10 +0000

"Christian nationalist" is a term that on the one hand, insults Christians, and on the other hand flatters these power hungry grifters. Why would you use such a term?

New comment by numbers_guy in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

numbers_guy — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:08:42 +0000

There is obviously a huge difference between fascist-aspiring westerners and communist-aspiring westerners. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Tankies are crazy and I don't approve of their ideology, but they also do not dehumanize large swaths of the population.

New comment by numbers_guy in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

numbers_guy — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:59:53 +0000

> and communists

Communists left the chat in 1989, grandpa. There are multiple factions competing for power but communists aren't really in the ring right now. It's mostly different flavours of establishment factions and alt-right factions.

New comment by numbers_guy in "A new AI winter is coming?"

numbers_guy — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:17:42 +0000

AlexNet was only released in 2011. The progress made in just 14 years has been insane. So while I do agree that we are approaching a "back to the drawing board" era, calling the past 14 years a "failure" is just not right.