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New comment by slicktux in "Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid"

slicktux — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:51:33 +0000

Thank you! I will definitely check it out!

New comment by slicktux in "Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid"

slicktux — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:50:23 +0000

My favorite space probe is the European Space Agency Philae. It probes the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and actually landed on it. It was able to send back images of its surface. Amazing!

New comment by slicktux in "AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price"

slicktux — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:06:59 +0000

Maybe a system running a local model is not so bad. The tokens per second will allow for that break?

Also, at what point does AI take over for all the thinking and white board planning?

AI should be a rubber duckie one can use to posit and assist when hit a brick wall. But if using it for all code generation, planning and troubleshooting then one is not in control; they’re just prompt drones…

New comment by slicktux in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"

slicktux — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:34:17 +0000

Cool anecdote!

Couldn’t help but notice you misspelled car twice but only when talking about the blue car..

New comment by slicktux in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

slicktux — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:20:52 +0000

That’s great news ! Have they also solved the nuclear waste problem?

Honest question; here in the USA we have not.

New comment by slicktux in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

slicktux — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:05:44 +0000

Interesting enough; Lyme disease come from ticks that fed on infected mice. Like deer-mice or white footed mice. Rodents are the problem.

New comment by slicktux in "Keygen.music"

slicktux — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:23:25 +0000

Unable to browse because I’m on mobile but Satellite One by Purple Motion is a track to listen to! <3

New comment by slicktux in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"

slicktux — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:35:18 +0000

When I read the headline I imagined a huge tent with steel beam structure and professional grade covers with HVAC and concrete footprint.

Seems everyone else imagined a camping tent. Different backgrounds I guess.

New comment by slicktux in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

slicktux — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:29:13 +0000

Mine is just running a model on my laptop. It’s just amazing! I can ask it pretty much any question and it replies relatively FAST! Before, we lacked advancements in technology because we were limited by hardware. This advancement is the opposite: our software and the math/algorithms have brought us this.

New comment by slicktux in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

slicktux — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:15:27 +0000

It’s possible to make it offline but one would still need a phone for the object recognition software…that software would have to be what stays offline. Definitely doable.

New comment by slicktux in "Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers"

slicktux — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:58:01 +0000

I’ve always wondered what or how queen bees were made. It’s almost as they were a different insect.

New comment by slicktux in "Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals"

slicktux — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:09:52 +0000

Seems to be. What better way to secure your companies future by limiting open frontier models. Government sponsored monopoly?

New comment by slicktux in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

slicktux — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:26:45 +0000

I’m a little more hopeful that the future will allow for local (network free) frontier AI technology. Being that I’m a tech enthusiast and computer science nerd I tend to live less on the bleeding edge of technology because of privacy infringing hardware. Take for example meta glasses. So many people have adopted them because they don’t care about privacy as much as I do. So they get to live with the latest and greatest. Though, running a local LLM on my laptop (that is state of the art) has made me a little more hopeful that the future is around the corner. Who would have thought that one day we could run advanced AI on a laptop that’s able to do RAG and CAG.

New comment by slicktux in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

slicktux — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:18:58 +0000

I’m not sure if this comment is AI generated but I’d like to make a point either way.

Human biology is orders of magnitude more efficient than AI; that’s in regards to intelligence and processing the world around us.

It is not only more efficient but more complex but yet simple. Therefore, the complexity of our biology is a result of efficiency. An efficiency that allows us to process the world and achieve homeostasis in the most simple way. I’d like to see a machine achieve the same without having any type of vulnerability or weakness to corruption.

New comment by slicktux in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

slicktux — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:16:32 +0000

I bought 96GB of RAM a couple of years ago for ~$250. That same RAM now costs $1200!

New comment by slicktux in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

slicktux — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:49:15 +0000

Yes, as of recent the third possibility mentioned by officials is that it will Turn into plastic and not explode.

New comment by slicktux in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

slicktux — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:48:33 +0000

I just started messing with local LLMs and honestly I’m pretty impressed. I have a workstation laptop with an NVIDIA A1000 (6GB VRAM) and 96GB of RAM. I rarely used my gpu. Occasional CAD design or Machine Learning with OpenCV.

I ran llama3:latest and it ran pretty fast! I’m curious to see how Qwen would run on my system.

New comment by slicktux in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

slicktux — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:07:31 +0000

We’ve been blessed!

New comment by slicktux in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

slicktux — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:52:21 +0000

I’m just waiting for the US Government to implement their own local AI. Which will eventually lead to them open sourcing it because it’s tax payer funded and being that the NSA has decades worth of internet data they can train on; open weights would be just as good as any companies…

New comment by slicktux in "Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus"

slicktux — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:21:49 +0000

No offense taken; I do say it out loud during conversations ; at times. I find myself ‘saying’ it more in my head whilst having a stream of consciousness moment.

I find that I have two personalities and my writing/text personality is much more sagacious and better spoken (if that makes sense??)