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New comment by randomfrogs in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

randomfrogs — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:06:14 +0000

"They stole our stolen data!"

New comment by randomfrogs in "Midjourney Medical"

randomfrogs — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:43:05 +0000

The problem is that it's not clear how useful those terabytes of information are. Ultrasound is very good for certain types of imaging, but the contrast mechanisms available are very limited - super high resolution images of uniform intensity aren't useful. An imaging method isn't useful if it doesn't help you discriminate what you want to see from what you don't. The reason MR is so useful is that it has so many contrasts available (T1, T2, proton density, flow speed, diffusion coefficient, diffusion direction, chemical composition, tissue elasticity, BOLD activation, and many other more esoteric ones). In an hour long scan, even with rapid acquisitions, you usually only get a few gigabytes of data, but that data has a LOT of information about your tissue - that's the reason the scanner keeps starting and stopping and making different noises, it's taking MANY different types of images with complementary information.

New comment by randomfrogs in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

randomfrogs — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:39:16 +0000

If swapping was causing SSDs to fail on M1 Macs, we would never see the end of the hysterical articles about "NANDgate". Since we haven't seen any in all these years, it's seems pretty certain it's not happening.

New comment by randomfrogs in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"

randomfrogs — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:25:37 +0000

They decided that the 14th amendment prohibition on insurrectionists being able to hold Federal office did not apply to Trump because he is not an officer of the United States (despite the fact he holds the "Office of the Presidency"). If that isn't deliberately misreading the actual words of the statute to get the result you want, what is?

New comment by randomfrogs in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"

randomfrogs — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:23:11 +0000

The Republican majority on the SCOTUS announced that Trump is immune from all laws, which is insane and not supported by the Constitution in any way, but directly lead to what's happening. If you tell somebody they won't ever be held accountable for breaking laws, why follow them (except for your internal moral compass, and we've established that Trump doesn't have one).

New comment by randomfrogs in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

randomfrogs — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:39:43 +0000

Should I get an M4 Max MacBook Pro, or an M4 Pro Macbook Pro? Or a Mac Pro? Or skip the computer altogether and get an iPhone Pro Max?

I mean, c'mon. They are deliberately trying to be confusing.

New comment by randomfrogs in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

randomfrogs — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:49:29 +0000

Apple's not great, but Microsoft is worse.

New comment by randomfrogs in "Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan"

randomfrogs — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:23:36 +0000

It's a vacuum cleaner. All you want it to do is suck.

New comment by randomfrogs in "Paper2Agent: Stanford Reimagining Research Papers as Interactive AI Agents"

randomfrogs — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:33:31 +0000

Scientific vocabulary is designed to be precise. The reason papers are written the way they are is to try to convey ideas with as little chance of misinterpretation as possible. It is maddeningly difficult to do that - I can't tell you how many times I've gotten paper and grant reviews where I cannot fathom how Reviewer 2 (and it's ALWAYS Reviewer 2) managed to twist what I wrote into what they thought I wrote. Almost every time you see something that seems needlessly precise and finicky, it's probably in response to a reviewer's comment, and the secret subtext is "There - now it's so over specified even a rabid wildebeest, or YOU, dear reviewer, couldn't misundertand it!" Unfortunately, a side effect of that is that a lot of the writing ends up seeming needlessly dense.

New comment by randomfrogs in "Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC"

randomfrogs — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:23:56 +0000

Yeah, they are putting two facts together to heavily imply that they are part of a single story, but there is no evidence presented that they are. "UN leaders are gathering!" "There is a huge SIM farm that could disrupt communications!" Both true, but seemingly unrelated. All those car warranty texts have to come from somewhere - this is probably where.

New comment by randomfrogs in "Tianjin robot incident raises alarm over public safety and robotics"

randomfrogs — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:18:10 +0000

Don't anthropomorphize robots. They hate that.

New comment by randomfrogs in "Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process [video]"

randomfrogs — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:24:39 +0000

One problem you might run into is that a lot of common plastics are opaque to NIR light, so you might find certain materials gave you strange results (water bottles that appear transparent to the eye would not actually pass the NIR light needed to make the mask layer).

New comment by randomfrogs in "Unreal Engine 5 multi-threaded rendering in the browser with WASM"

randomfrogs — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:39:03 +0000

Chrome worked on the Mac, Safari didn't.

New comment by randomfrogs in "Haier Europe Eases Off on Legal Threat and Seeks Dialogue"

randomfrogs — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:17:52 +0000

But if it's a LAN API, how exactly will the manufacturer harvest your usage information to sell to third parties? How will they get that sweet, sweet, post-sale monetization?

New comment by randomfrogs in "Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather"

randomfrogs — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:45:42 +0000

Depends on the car. My Bolt battery takes a LONG time to get warm just from driving, even with the battery heater running. You can speed it up a bit with yoyo driving (speed up to use power, then regen brake to dump power back into the battery, repeat as necessary) for about a half hour.