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New comment by s46dxc5r7tv8 in "I’m Not a Robot"

s46dxc5r7tv8 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:50:43 +0000

Got to level 39 then it asked me for a webcam photo expressing happiness. No. i hate the internet i am quitting

New comment by s46dxc5r7tv8 in "The dawn of the post-literate society – and the end of civilisation"

s46dxc5r7tv8 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:40:46 +0000

The analysis feels quite wrong just based on pure physics. Where has that curiosity, interest, and engaged thought gone? It has not simply vanished into the screen without heat loss, it is transformed energy. The mind's eye may no longer be fixed on glyphs on paper but it certainly has not closed. Kids these days are fluent in languages of memes and rich with visual experience. Just because tiktoks are a few seconds long doesn't mean there is nothing in them. Perhaps the vogue visual learning of today is more in common with "trashy pulp fiction" but there isn't nothing at all there as the article suggests.

There will be some challenge in adapting to this new format but attention remains. We are just not converting this new medium into the best educational content as seen in the declining graphs. People are still hungry for knowledge and information about the world, they are just getting it in a more convenient form and who can blame them? I personally do not engage in any of the endless scroll feeds available today and despise social media. I read books both in digital and physical form and I graduated right near the peak of that literacy chart around 2009.

We just need to find better incentives for content creation and the rest will follow on it's own. Often this can only be done with regulation but what regulation can improve the quality of short form media? It will likely take those who grew up steeped in it to imagine the best way to change it for their own children.

New comment by s46dxc5r7tv8 in "Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change"

s46dxc5r7tv8 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:52:00 +0000

This is just not true. I have witnessed people who would have been called dabblers or tinkerers just a few years ago become actual developers by using cursor. They ask a few key questions when they get stuck about engineering best practices and really internalize them. They read the code they are producing and ask the assistant questions about their codebase. They are theorycrafting using AI then implementing and testing. I have witnesses this with my own eyes and as AI has gotten better they have also been getting more knowledgeable. They read the chains of thought and study the outputs. They have become real developers with working programs on their github. AI is a tool that teaches you as it is used if you put in the effort. I understand many folks are 'vibe coding' and not learning a single thing and I don't know if thats the majority or the minorty, but the assertion that all people learn nothing from use of these tools is false.

New comment by s46dxc5r7tv8 in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

s46dxc5r7tv8 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:15:34 +0000

Disturbing that they would be proud enough of spying on their users to post this. Threat intelligence is nearly as bad as the threats themselves. From crowdstrike destroying computer systems to this type of spying on their own users, who wants to trust these people? What happened to holding microsoft accountable for the security of their products?

New comment by s46dxc5r7tv8 in "New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care"

s46dxc5r7tv8 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:10:02 +0000

Please post the math then, instead of wild conjecture and speculation about cause and effect.

New comment by s46dxc5r7tv8 in "Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs"

s46dxc5r7tv8 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:31:10 +0000

Separation of the prefill and decoding layers with sglang is quite nifty! Normally 8xH100 would barely be able to hold the 4bit quantization of the model without even considering the KV cache. One prefill node for 3 decode nodes is also fascinating, nice writeup.