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New comment by popopo73 in "VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO"

popopo73 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:50:20 +0000

In Australia, you will see signs on freeway offramps pointing to any cars attempting to drive on to the freeway 'WRONG WAY GO BACK' [0]

Though it is true you don't need to be able to read to operate a vehicle, you /do/ need to be able to read to operate a vehicle safely.

And for those who can read: could you teach someone how to drive using an LLM? Sure. Safely? Probably not.

[0] https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/operations/roads-and-waterw...

New comment by popopo73 in "Air is full of DNA"

popopo73 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:19:47 +0000

    >Just as US institutes would claim that China is responsible, by the same token the argument works on any other lab too - yet the media did not present in that way. Ever. That's not accurate reporting; that's an attempt at victim blaming.

So your idea of accurate reporting is to apply whataboutisms?

New comment by popopo73 in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

popopo73 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:05:47 +0000

Yep. Can't get a drink in NSW without seeing people wasting their pay check on the pokies.

New comment by popopo73 in "Dead Internet Theory"

popopo73 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:17:48 +0000

There's likely a cultural element to it as well regarding how we admit mistakes and correct ourselves.

With how blame-avoidant western individualist culture can be, seeing something "admit" doing wrong so quickly, and so emphatically, could be uncanny valley-level jarring.

New comment by popopo73 in "Dead Internet Theory"

popopo73 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:54:48 +0000

>is "you are absolutely right" wrong somehow?

It makes sense in English, however:

a) "you are" vs "you're". "you are" sounds too formal/authoritative in informal speech, and depending on tone, patronising.

b) one could say "you're absolutely right", but the "absolutely" is too dramatic/stressed for simple corrections (an example of sycophancy in LLMs)

If the prompt was something like "You did not include $VAR in func()", then a response like "You're right! Let me fix that.." would be more natural.

New comment by popopo73 in "Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)"

popopo73 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:53:37 +0000

Same applies for martial arts, weightlifting, motorsports, even target shooting..

New comment by popopo73 in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"

popopo73 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:20:32 +0000

Yes, human rights.

New comment by popopo73 in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

popopo73 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:48:03 +0000

Are you using FDE? Check your caching settings.

New comment by popopo73 in "Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank"

popopo73 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 03:43:58 +0000

And important that Troy is used for metals (31.1) That counts when 1g of gold is nearly $120usd

New comment by popopo73 in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

popopo73 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:10:16 +0000

This feels like when I had the spins in my college years.

New comment by popopo73 in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

popopo73 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:24:15 +0000

Sounds like CCP cope to me.

New comment by popopo73 in "Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock"

popopo73 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:52:31 +0000

Thank you for the clarification!

New comment by popopo73 in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

popopo73 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 03:46:51 +0000

It's almost like an uneducated public is easier to control..

Praise anti-intellectualism, change the media landscape so that everything is either consumed through short bursts of dopamine or presented in a way to manipulate you, and you'll have a society of people who are driven by their emotions with a very short memory.

As for the UK OSA, I think people are waking up to the fact that politicians will do what they want, use the enemy of the day to justify it, and group you in with that enemy if you oppose them, but I'm afraid without significant change to the system that this will continue to occur.

New comment by popopo73 in "Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock"

popopo73 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:58:04 +0000

They got incredibly lucky with IBM choosing the 386 for the PC platform and have been riding that wave ever since.

Itanium was a flop from bad business decisions IIRC. Note too that x86-64 was developed by AMD, and Intel licensed it from them.

New comment by popopo73 in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

popopo73 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 01:22:01 +0000

I think it is a bit simpler than that.

People don't like their worldview challenged, no matter their ideology.

Politicians exploit this by offering ways to "help", but at the cost of transferring more power away from the people.