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New comment by sonofaragorn in "12ft.io Taken Down"

sonofaragorn — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:48:52 +0000

That's what the Basic Attention Token (BAT) from the Brave team tried (is still trying?) to do: https://brave.com/brave-rewards/

New comment by sonofaragorn in "CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider"

sonofaragorn — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 02:18:51 +0000

I'm not sure that is fair. I've been reading her blog for over a decade, and she has always taken a contrarian view.

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

sonofaragorn — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:05:59 +0000

Loved this. Would it be possible to add subtitles?

New comment by sonofaragorn in "How Meta trains large language models at scale"

sonofaragorn — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:00:19 +0000

What about a post or comment that includes proper names?

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI"

sonofaragorn — Wed, 15 May 2024 12:42:00 +0000

Aidan Gomez, Nick Frost, and Ivan Zhang, all of whom were Hinton's students at UofT started Cohere (https://cohere.com/about)

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI"

sonofaragorn — Wed, 15 May 2024 12:40:06 +0000

Not true. I've done SRED every year for the past ~7 years. It is work, but there are specialized consultants that do most of it. If the work is truly R&D (which would be the case for a cutting-edge AI company) and you track your work in JIRA or something like that, then it's mostly just writing a few pages describing the efforts.

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died"

sonofaragorn — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:04:35 +0000

I get your sentiment, but I think it's important for science communication to adapt to the times. Decades ago (and even as little as one decade ago), most scientists (maybe Hawking being the exception) who would dare appear in these 1hr documentaries would be belittled by the "hardcore" scientists with the same words you used "Science should not be over-simplified like that", "they are not real scientists, they just want to be on TV", etc.

The truth is that young people are mostly on TikTok et al, so this type of content needs to get there.

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]"

sonofaragorn — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 15:40:26 +0000

What if they were liable? Say the company that offers the LLM lawyer is liable. Would that make this feasible? In terms of being convincingly wrong, it's not like lawyers never make mistakes...

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Rarbg Is No More"

sonofaragorn — Wed, 31 May 2023 11:36:54 +0000

are these safe? being clones doesn't really inspire much confidence

rarbg was my go to for years :S

New comment by sonofaragorn in "IPyflow: Reactive Python Notebooks in Jupyter(Lab)"

sonofaragorn — Wed, 10 May 2023 12:19:53 +0000

Agreed on the confusing page. I use notebooks every single day but a quick glance at the README gave me zero indication of this being something I need

New comment by sonofaragorn in "CERN researchers have observed and generated high-energy neutrino radiation"

sonofaragorn — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:53:12 +0000

The energy of the IceCube neutrinos is 2 to 4 orders of magnitude higher than the ones detected by this experiment. But this is still cool because it's the highest energy neutrinos detected from man-made sources.

See slide 13 here: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29681/contributions/122474/att...

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Jaccard Index"

sonofaragorn — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 21:41:56 +0000

what is a children model? I'm curious but can't really follow what you wrote, can you add a bit more context?

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Gail.com FAQ"

sonofaragorn — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:40:21 +0000

Why keep the domain if you don't plan on monetizing it? What's the point?

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Apple Rankings"

sonofaragorn — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:18:14 +0000

Surprised this domain was available

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce"

sonofaragorn — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 12:45:59 +0000

They are also saying that departments are affected disproportionately. It's likely much harder for recruiters to find a new job, especially when hiring is being frozen at most companies

New comment by sonofaragorn in "I surveyed 500 startup founders about their salaries"

sonofaragorn — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:22:26 +0000

I was going to say this, beautiful data viz! OP can you talk a bit about what tools were used?

New comment by sonofaragorn in "A Universal Cancer Treatment?"

sonofaragorn — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:05:50 +0000

If you got cancer and the onclogist recommended chemo, would you refuse it?

New comment by sonofaragorn in "Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger"

sonofaragorn — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:04:12 +0000

it's even easier to do somethign atrocious like being a serial killer

New comment by sonofaragorn in "The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)"

sonofaragorn — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 01:12:54 +0000

And frigid winters. Why am I here again?

New comment by sonofaragorn in "I stopped working on black hole information loss"

sonofaragorn — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 20:21:59 +0000

All these topics are so advanced that even for someone trained in one it would take years to become proficient in the other.

Source: I'm a Physics PhD