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New comment by sherburt3 in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

sherburt3 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:13:20 +0000

Trust me bro that's how things went down

New comment by sherburt3 in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

sherburt3 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:05:03 +0000

That would be an incorrect interpretation

New comment by sherburt3 in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

sherburt3 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:56:46 +0000

If anything I'm diminishing the importance of calculus and pi by comparing it to this bullshit

New comment by sherburt3 in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

sherburt3 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:39:32 +0000

Its called an analogy

New comment by sherburt3 in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

sherburt3 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:37:16 +0000

"Breakthrough" to me would be like Isaac Newton inventing calculus to calculate pi. This feels more like $12MM in tokens was spent to add another digit to pi using the old way.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

sherburt3 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:02:13 +0000

Given the history of OpenAI and current litigations, I would say they've developed a bit of a reputation for not respecting intellectual property. I'm dubious they have some unbreakable moral code that would prevent them from viewing and using user data.

New comment by sherburt3 in "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"

sherburt3 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:25:12 +0000

Kind of a bummer that 95% of software engineering is dedicated to creating a padded cell to make sure no one makes a whoopsie instead of doing creative and interesting things.

New comment by sherburt3 in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

sherburt3 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:24:57 +0000

Yeah thanks for the advice

New comment by sherburt3 in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

sherburt3 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:39:32 +0000

His book Higher-Order Perl was really good and introduced me to some interesting programming concepts, but it also helped me realize why no one uses Perl anymore

New comment by sherburt3 in "My Rules for Using Spreadsheets"

sherburt3 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:58:46 +0000

Reviewing the individual formulas in an excel report is psychotic. Normally what I would do when checking someone elses work for errors is spot check a couple of the values in a column and calculate them by hand to see if they matched up. Either that or just implement the step myself in excel and see if I got the same output.

That's a lot like reviewing someone's regular expression. Like I'm not going to read through a 100 character regex to see if it matches semantic versions, I'm just gonna pull it up on a regular expression tester and see if it does what it should.

New comment by sherburt3 in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

sherburt3 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:36:51 +0000

Fascism is good when I do it because my opponents deserve it :3

New comment by sherburt3 in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

sherburt3 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:46:17 +0000

New comment by sherburt3 in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

sherburt3 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:28:49 +0000

Perhaps they shouldn't

New comment by sherburt3 in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

sherburt3 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:26:48 +0000

Oh ok you want the government to create an extrajudicial process to punish political opponents. Sounds kinda like Facism.

New comment by sherburt3 in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

sherburt3 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:50:04 +0000

That already happened: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mar-a-lago-search-wa...

New comment by sherburt3 in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

sherburt3 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:30:23 +0000

Why don't they have work visas?

New comment by sherburt3 in "Space mirrors could ruin astronomy — and your eyes"

sherburt3 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:27:22 +0000

4 times brighter than the moon doesn’t sound very dangerous.

New comment by sherburt3 in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

sherburt3 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:39:19 +0000

Sounds a lot like a rich kid pretending they're not a rich kid.

New comment by sherburt3 in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

sherburt3 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:10:11 +0000

Drugs are bad, mmkay

New comment by sherburt3 in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

sherburt3 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:21:44 +0000

Yeah…