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New comment by tmule in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

tmule — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:42:58 +0000

Yann LeCun and Gary Marcus are still at it - the latter having shifted goalposts.

New comment by tmule in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

tmule — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:24:26 +0000

I worked at Meta for roughly a decade, and have very little faith left in its leadership. I’m waiting for someone to play the child in The Emperor’s New Clothes and finally say the obvious out loud … to Emperor Zuck himself.

New comment by tmule in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

tmule — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:16:36 +0000

Suffered for a decade till I discovered this. I’d reached a point where I was actively skeptical about anything working, till this worked out. Good luck!

New comment by tmule in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

tmule — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:26:41 +0000

Observational studies can have synthetic controls. The term, as such, doesn’t mean precisely what you think it means.

New comment by tmule in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

tmule — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:23:45 +0000

Those invoking Dunning-Kruger are, with high probability, an instance of just that :) (also, see the comment below that touches upon the many gaps in the original paper, which is at this point just garbage invoked by midwits). Finally, there’s a thing called heterogeneous treatment effects, which really is hard to detect at medical research scale … and placebo effects, if they help with the underlying issue without breaking the bank, and still helpful.

New comment by tmule in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

tmule — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:10:34 +0000

Magnesium Glycinate has been a game changer. My legs used to be tense to the point of cramping at night, and they’re now relaxed, enabling better sleep. I also use L-theanine as an additional supplement for a long duration deep sleep, and think it helps.

New comment by tmule in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

tmule — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:40:35 +0000

The same folks who informed him about how awesome Behemoth was?

New comment by tmule in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tmule — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:15 +0000

Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit; personally have a preference for pigs since they’re benign and good-natured creatures.

New comment by tmule in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

tmule — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:05:45 +0000

Huh? I was addressing a specific claim - not even sure what you’re trying to refute.

New comment by tmule in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

tmule — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:03:19 +0000

I don’t know what definition of intelligence you’re using, but scoring extremely well on math tests qualifying him for that study is fully aligned with the psychometric POV.

New comment by tmule in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

tmule — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:39:52 +0000

Hope so (ex-Meta, and hold a couple of million dollars of their stock, but quite dislike the company).

New comment by tmule in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

tmule — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:38:41 +0000

Your impression about his intelligence is way off. Mark was part of the study for mathematically precocious youth, which has a math cutoff at the 1/10K rarity. He also has ambition at the same level. What’s probably missing, of late, is good taste and judgment.

New comment by tmule in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"

tmule — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:26:49 +0000

“ getting a 2100/1500+ on the SAT” Typo? 2100/2400 << 1500/1600 in terms of rarity.

New comment by tmule in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tmule — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:41:46 +0000

Common term for about 75% of democrats under 50, who must be Jew-haters, of course. Sorry, ethnonationalism just isn’t a popular ideology, and the word is, in practice, just a shorthand for an instance of that. You’ve lapped up hasbarist propaganda to such an extent that it’s started to be reality.

New comment by tmule in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tmule — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:15:41 +0000

Hypocrisy is an individual quality, not a collective quality, Zio!

New comment by tmule in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"

tmule — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:15:31 +0000

What brute force? Any citations?

New comment by tmule in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tmule — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:39:00 +0000

Illogical collectivist blather suggesting that therefore, Muslims should be treated as a collective, and deprived of rights in Israel? Also, what’s with the “happily”?

New comment by tmule in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tmule — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:35:57 +0000

Don’t wrestle with pigs or argue with Zionists about Israel (though the former will at least avoid accusing you of things you’re not).

New comment by tmule in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tmule — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:37:09 +0000

Nope, but it’s not particularly unknown either. It shouldn’t be a surprise; he had remarkable research contributions before and after (separately, he was also an IMO gold medalist).

New comment by tmule in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tmule — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:31:52 +0000

Thanks - wanted to point to this, and indeed should have worded my claim more precisely. And yes, am aware of prior work on attention. (I need to look it up, but I recall Noam saying publicly that he wouldn’t have agreed to random ordering of contributions if he knew this was going to be this big).