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New comment by rubidium in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

rubidium — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:16:07 +0000

It’s the same cultural response as the analog movement. The collective sense that everything Covid on stole our future, and AI is only making it worse.

New comment by rubidium in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

rubidium — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:21:39 +0000

That’s quite unfair to Asimov. It’s not just selection bias.

New comment by rubidium in "Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain"

rubidium — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:26:04 +0000

I would think so yes. But not an authority on this.

The map is super cool though. Makes you think of the earth as something still aging since it looks clearly “earth” but with major differences.

New comment by rubidium in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

rubidium — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:31:32 +0000

Read “the feel of power” by Asimov. Written 1958. Very prescient.

New comment by rubidium in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

rubidium — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:46:16 +0000

I hope you never have to work with serial D9 cables. The variation of pinouts for legacy equipment is massive! Pretty sure every theoretical variation became some standard.

New comment by rubidium in "Transcribe.cpp"

rubidium — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:46:29 +0000

Yea I’m looking local hosted transcription and translation with diarization of 2 (or more ) speakers. This is to speed up collaborative technical work between two teams who speak different languages where want all local processing (assume no cloud access).

New comment by rubidium in "Transcribe.cpp"

rubidium — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:46:59 +0000

Any that also support translation? How much harder/ easier of a problem is local translation compared to transcription?

New comment by rubidium in "OpenPrinter"

rubidium — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:40:49 +0000

99% of this is the printhead and the ink formulation. Assuming you use generic off the shelf solutions for those two components you’re set. All the printer companies do their lock in at the firmware and software layer.

New comment by rubidium in "ArXiv's Next Chapter"

rubidium — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:05:09 +0000

I did when I was in academia. Would open each day and check what new papers were in my field. It was fun, and I learned a ton.

I kept it up out of habit for a year after grad school. Then moved on.

New comment by rubidium in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

rubidium — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:28:51 +0000

And the biggest thing is that: software the way we want is much easier. No ads. No monthly cost.

New comment by rubidium in "Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?"

rubidium — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:51:34 +0000

You’ve not accounted for the danger of necrotizing bureaucratic systems. Put these LLM drones in enough places and everything wills stagnate.

It’s effectively the start to Asimovs Foundation.

New comment by rubidium in "Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks"

rubidium — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:47:35 +0000

I do agree my skepticism level rises extremely high in any experimental psychology experiment. There’s just so many ways to bias results, in addition to “do enough experiments and one of them will get a statistically unlikely result” problem.

This group does a lot like this https://www.dpg.unipd.it/en/compcog/publications … so that’s tempting to think they keep trying things until something odd happens (kind of like physicists who look for 5th forces… eventually they find something odd but often it’s just an experimental issue they need to understand further).

New comment by rubidium in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

rubidium — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:40:04 +0000

I did daily (old station wagon in the rear facing seat), as well as school buses. Kindof liked the smell in moderation as a kid.

Still in favor of EVs, just a curiosity that this is so negative for you.

New comment by rubidium in "Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy"

rubidium — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:41:13 +0000

It’s great place for grad school. Very little to do other than study and lab work. Play soccer with the grad students, float on the river in the summer, shoot potato gun cannons in corn fields, but otherwise there’s nothing better to do than work on a PhD.

I’d recommend it for grad school. But then yea time to move on.

New comment by rubidium in "The suck is why we're here"

rubidium — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:21:45 +0000

This is the attitude of someone who uses hand tools when power tools are available. Yes you loose the personal touch but also loose the potential efficiency. Still need to measure twice and cut once though.

New comment by rubidium in "Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?"

rubidium — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:23:38 +0000

Make a list of the most interesting companies / areas you want to work in from a scientific perspective

Cold call or get introductions to their R&D leaders (principal researcher /director / VP). While connecting to something they or their company did, ask for a coffee meeting or phone call to learn more about their company and how it works.

Use this to Network network network. At some point a job will appear with interviews. Chances are good it’s with a good manager as they’re the ones taking time to build good teams and talent.

New comment by rubidium in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

rubidium — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:15:53 +0000

Amazon prime video showed us that.

First no ads. Then ad free if you pay extra. Then “ad free” except half the shows have a “this show requires ads” bs and still have ads. Scummy flea ridden advertisers at their core.

New comment by rubidium in "Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement"

rubidium — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:19:28 +0000

You went to the wrong university :)

New comment by rubidium in "When the job search becomes impossible"

rubidium — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:15:43 +0000

It’s pretty much always who you know… at least to get a showing. It’s rare in history to find counter examples. And in a LLM fueled world it’s going to be more important.

Companies can improve by ensuring they don’t hire _because_ of whom someone knows. It should only ever let you get in the room to interview.

So practical advice of what to do: be human. Get to know people. Care. Your time to do this is not when you’re looking for a job, but when you’re in a job.

New comment by rubidium in "High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)"

rubidium — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 11:55:25 +0000

You have experience in 2 very different places demographically. High altitude may be on the list of factors but I would guess it’s pretty far down.

Boulder is a small college town of mostly affluent younger people. Memphis is an urban city in a hot climate that is older, poorer, and in the middle of the section of the US that has some of the worst health overall.