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New comment by soup10 in "A Homological Proof of P != NP: Computational Topology via Categorical Framework"

soup10 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:48:46 +0000

i see, thanks

New comment by soup10 in "A Homological Proof of P != NP: Computational Topology via Categorical Framework"

soup10 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:34:42 +0000

what's the natural proof barrier

New comment by soup10 in "Electronic Arts Leadership Are Out of Their Goddamned Minds"

soup10 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:06:28 +0000

>It's a lot harder to take a creative risk when a lot of money is on the line. It's also harder aligning a large team to execute on a novel vision.

well indie games are their own separate thing and large studios will never have the creative freedom and the ability to align a small team to a novel vision that they do. However studios with deeper pockets and larger teams can still innovate and push the boundaries of what gaming can be so long as the executive team isn't a bunch of spineless losers.

New comment by soup10 in "Electronic Arts Leadership Are Out of Their Goddamned Minds"

soup10 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:55:57 +0000

i'd rather see studios take creative and financial risks personally, not saying I care about yet another battle royale game, but in principle it should be about good games that are innovative and push boundaries, not milking a sequel from an established ip for the sake of stable employment.

New comment by soup10 in "Electronic Arts Leadership Are Out of Their Goddamned Minds"

soup10 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:47:44 +0000

every video game is a financial gamble, it's not his money so who cares if they try to make a battle royale and it flops

New comment by soup10 in "Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs"

soup10 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:59:41 +0000

i agree, no matter how much wishful thinking jensen sells to investors about paradigm shifts the days of everyone rushing out to get 6 figure tensor core clusters for their data center probably won't last forever.

New comment by soup10 in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

soup10 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:45:01 +0000

Harvard has a 50 billion endowment, what do they need federal funds for. If they value their intellectual independence so much, then cut the cord.

New comment by soup10 in "Nice things with SVG"

soup10 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:27:24 +0000

i'll be a contrarian, that css and svg "hacks" like this are "impressive" are a symptom of a web-platform that is dogshit for multimedia. If a game did this nobody would even blink, the fact that it's another convoluted css hack makes it "notable".

New comment by soup10 in "Are you VC-funded? No, we're profitable"

soup10 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:40:20 +0000

many businesses are boring or a grind by their nature and would not exist without financial incentive and an exit plan

New comment by soup10 in "Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?"

soup10 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 06:38:26 +0000

i started writing a response about how the human brain is designed to operate in an environment where classical physics is the norm, so we need to bridge the deviations from that if we are to really understand the world. But I don't know how much that's really true if you consider neural biology and I won't claim to know where quantum stops and classical begins as it relates to brain function.

New comment by soup10 in "Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?"

soup10 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 06:03:54 +0000

just because QFT follows an internal logic, doesn't mean the jump from macro physics to quantum physics itself is logical. In my opinion we still don't have a logical explanation for why the model changes so dramatically from classical to quantum physics.

New comment by soup10 in "Utah bill aims to make officers disclose AI-written police reports"

soup10 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:27:15 +0000

I would rather have an AI write the incident reports, I trust AI more than I trust police to be objective.

New comment by soup10 in "Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024)"

soup10 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:05:13 +0000

The church has a long history of defending and clarifying the principles and practices of faith in a relatively academic way, in a way that would surprise people who believe religion is an anti-intellectual endeavor.

New comment by soup10 in "The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs"

soup10 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:34:27 +0000

it's such false power though, the politicians don't realize we can regulate the shit out of big tech and reallocate the money to more noble causes and google and facebook and all the other "tech" companies that aren't doing much but sitting on monopolies will be just fine. They don't need 1/100th of the capital they have to provide the service they do to society.

New comment by soup10 in "Flappy Bird in 1000 lines of C"

soup10 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:42:47 +0000

flappy bird is a simple game, 1000 lines sounds like a normal amount(assuming there is a graphics scaffold, which in this case appears to be SDL), and it would indicate that it's not compressed code-golf style

New comment by soup10 in "It's hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start"

soup10 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:08:43 +0000

It's not always that simple, sure the more time you spend researching and reading books, the more certain types of knowledge accumulates but we all know someone that is book smart and life stupid. And so much about being truly intelligent and successful is having a framework in which you are able and motivated to apply what you've learned as well as the motivation to keep learning and doing more. Many kids will burn out(or worse, always shuffled into one matrix or another) if they don't have internal reasons for doing what they doing, not just parents or schools encouraging them but actual drive within themselves that goes beyond social validation, and part of that comes from exploring and learning about life and yourself through first hand experiences.

New comment by soup10 in "SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)"

soup10 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 05:10:52 +0000

I picked up SICP expecting to read something really interesting or profound with the way it's been hyped up over the years however it's more of a how-to manual for working with Scheme/LISP and frankly that didn't interest me. Unfortunately most people have come to accept that LISP isn't a particularly effective way of programming even if some people get really excited by the idea of mutable and interchangeable data and code it's just not as powerful as they make it out to be and the obfuscation of program flow and execution and the lack of separation/delineation of data and code proves to be a hinderance more often than it is helpful. This doesn't discount LISP's contribution to computer science historically and how it's influenced modern day language design over the years, just that in my opinion LISP/SCHEME is more of a historical curiosity than a modern day guide to effective programming. (And certainly one that has no place as the introductory class at MIT). Anyway I've said something negative about SICP so prepare for this to be downvoted to the bottom :)

New comment by soup10 in "I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100"

soup10 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:51:37 +0000

set a policy for what happens when the spend limit is reached? not rocket science

New comment by soup10 in "I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100"

soup10 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:10:13 +0000

Spend limits are such an obvious and necessary feature that the only reason they don't have them is shady business practices.

New comment by soup10 in "The Unraveling of Space-Time"

soup10 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:16:45 +0000

Sure, I just think it might have a more "boring" answer than people are hoping for. E.g. behind the veil is something extremely high mass and energy, but it's more akin to a new class of Star rather than something where space, time, mass and energy lose all meaning.