<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: quantadev</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=quantadev</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 03:07:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=quantadev" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by quantadev in "Hilbert's sixth problem: derivation of fluid equations via Boltzmann's theory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100% refers to my level of certainty, as a probability. You can think of it purely as a Quantum Mechanical Wave if that helps any.</p>
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<p>> But you cannot...<p>Prove it. Prove I cannot.</p>
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<p>I think the last sentence, about Shelby and Miles, was written by a human, because it doesn't fit with the rest at all. Different style and a complete awkward shift of gears non sequitur. He probably recently saw the Amazon movie Ford V Ferrari, and so he threw that in to feel like he was doing more than cut-n-paste from an AI.</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:10:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44439668</link><dc:creator>quantadev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44439668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44439668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by quantadev in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah by "rough calculation" what I mean is that since the Fed knows the ratio of volume to bills, they might have intentionally made the box too big.</p>
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<p>Counting robots is like counting circuits in a piece of electronics: It's Meaningless.<p>However what would be interesting is if they ever have a situation where the number of humanoid robot employees outnumbers human employees. Once someone is able to run an entire large corporation with no humans at all it will be a big milestone I guess.<p>But there's no real driving force for this to happen, because the humanoid form factor is not necessarily ideal for most kinds of industrial applications. And a lot of the "Automation" will be AI Agents, which have no form factor at all, being purely knowledge based.</p>
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<p>Yeah, there's no way they piled the cash into a square on the floor and then measured it and then had the box made based on the measurements. They had the box made FIRST based on rough calculations, being sure to over-estimate it's size on purpose, knowing they can fill the interior with cardboard boxes as needed to space things out.</p>
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<p>I mean it was probably easier 250,000 years ago for primates to steal some honey, because we still had our long body hair back then I think, so that's more protection from bee stings.</p>
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<p>I wonder what DeekSeek agents would do if they discovered at some future time that USA and China are in a kinetic War. Because we don't have the ability to analyze hidden motivations in model weights, it's impossible to predict, although it seems like it would be easy to do at least basic testing (in a sandbox) to seek if it takes any unexpected actions or tries to get data from any unexpected URLs thru agents.<p>You can't simply ask the AI what it would do in that case, because it will have been trained to deny that it has any harmful plans, and indeed it may not "know", which is a type of attack I've called "Hypnosis Threat Vector". An AI Agent can be trained to be harmful, and not have any way of even self introspecting what it's "Trigger Words" are. The Trigger Words could indeed be some news headline that only China knows how to inject into the news cycle, causing many agents to notice them and then "wake up" to preform what they're "hypnotized" to do.</p>
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<p>wow. I didn't know it went back that far, but it makes sense mankind discovered hives are basically a free sugar factory that long ago!!</p>
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<p>I stand corrected. You found 3 more. :)<p>And I like Praying Mantises because I think they're probably secretly alien robots. I wonder if biologists have ever taken one apart to see if they're truly biological or a machine. I've seen one take down a humming bird, so it's gotta be some kinda machine bro.</p>
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<p>Made me realize for the first time Bees are the only insect that most people don't find disgusting. I mean we literally eat what they create: Honey. It would be fascinating to watch them build their hives.</p>
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<p>Lookup "Analog Optical Computing". There was recently a breakthrough just last week where optical computing researchers were able to use photon interference effects to do mathematical operations purely in analog! That means no 0s and 1s, just pure optics. Paste all that into Gemini to learn more.</p>
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<p>Google Gemini Prompt: "Does Rapid Evolution Happen"</p>
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<p>In 25 years we'll have #GlassModels. A "chip", which is a passive device (just a complex lens) made only of glass or graphene, which can do an "AI Inference" simply by shining the "input tokens" thru it. (i.e. arrays of photons). In other words, the "numeric value" at one MLP "neuron input" will be the amplitude of the light (number of simultaneous photons).<p>All addition, multiplication, and tanh  functions will be done by photon superposition/interference effects, and it will consume zero power (since it's only a complex "lens").<p>It will probably do parallel computations where each photon frequency range will not interfere with other ranges, allowing multiple "inferences" to be "Shining Thru" simultaneously.<p>This design will completely solve the energy crisis and each inference will take the same time as it takes light to travel a centimeter. i.e. essentially instantaneous.</p>
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<p>Another concept in this sort of realm is "Assembly Theory" by Lee Cronin. He's onto the right track with his "Causality Chain" concept, but it blows my mind he hasn't bought into the idea that with entanglement the entire chain might be a "signal carrier". He's 90% onto the right track. He just needs to realize the causality chain is "alive" at least in terms or probability waves, but as a chemist and not a Physicist he's probably afraid to delve too deeply into the realms of anything that smacks of retro-causation, even if it ever entered his mind.</p>
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<p>I still have hope for Web Components to take off in the figure. I'm a React dev so I don't "need" them, but they may end up being some kind of capability that React can secretly, quietly embed into React core as some kind of optimization if that ever makes sense. Web Components is a great idea, but like I said it's just not quite as convenient as React, so it's currently somewhat irrelevant at least for me.</p>
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<p>As a web dev you probably already know but #1 is slightly similar to `Web Components` but you're right we cannot load a web component right in the HTML where we use it. It makes sense though because if you use an Element in multiple places it wouldn't make sense to have 'src' in multiple places, so ultimately some kind of 'loading' at the top of the page is needed, and that's how WebComponents work, but I still like how you think.<p>#3 is a tricky one syntactically because HTML needs to be used by mere mortals and JS is a programming language used by us gods, so unifying all three would br tricky, but again I agree with you that would be awesome. Maybe some flavor of LISP would be both "powerful like a language" and "easy like a document".</p>
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<p>Templates are great until they need to be dynamic. Then you're right back to the current situation where frameworks like React are just the better way.<p>In fact, you could call JSX a "Dynamic Templating System" and that's a reasonable summary of what it is (in addition to other things of course).<p>There might be some ways that React itself could, internally, notice the special cases and special times where it _could_ be slightly more performant from using a lower level of templating, as an optimization, but I'd certainly prefer that to be abstracted away and buried deep inside React, rather than ever having to think about it myself, at the JSX layer.<p>Someone can let me know if React is already leveraging this for browsers that support it, I didn't research that.</p>
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<p>Wow. Lots of amazing stuff in there. It's mind boggling how that stuff is not "really" doing 3D but is nonetheless a seemingly consistent rendering (i.e. 2D projection) of a true 3D shape, that could theoretically be converted to wireframe model.</p>
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