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New comment by tokai in "The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes"

tokai — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:48:40 +0000

Humans seem to be like horses. A little bit of bad luck and we're half crippled for life.

New comment by tokai in "It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs"

tokai — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:38:21 +0000

Its done on tiny and/or old models only. I find that hedging help on larger models with making the model more willing to double check things. Its a shame they didn't test models people actually use.

New comment by tokai in "Asus Bike Booster"

tokai — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:09:25 +0000

I love bicycle tech. Almost everything was invented in the 1890s, and every couple of decades someone tries another old idea.

https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/tour/cyclemotors-motorcycl...

New comment by tokai in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

tokai — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:53:03 +0000

It wasn't even funded in the way funding a study usually means. That an entity handed over money to a research group. The study was done by employers in their work time for their salary. Its a Novo Nordisk study, and as you say its right there in the open. Pointing an llm against the paper to (wrongly) realize this is a real tragedy of literacy.

New comment by tokai in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

tokai — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:40:25 +0000

Am I getting old? 09-14 is not even close to the old web for me. The old web, to me, was back when people still published physical 'phone' books for websites.

New comment by tokai in "DeepSeek Harness"

tokai — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:13:54 +0000

I thought the harness was mainly a TAI (tangible AGENT interface). Its a harness for the agent, not a user interface. That is bolted on top of the harness.

New comment by tokai in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

tokai — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:53:10 +0000

The answer is really not a clear cut as you assume any longer.

New comment by tokai in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

tokai — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:48:07 +0000

Nobody lived in Sweden at that time.

New comment by tokai in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

tokai — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:30:38 +0000

Price obviously

New comment by tokai in "You can't buy 20 pieces of aluminum tube online"

tokai — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:41:04 +0000

But its trivial to buy 20 pieces of aluminum tubes online? There are so many providers in most nations, that sell all kinds of shapes of all kinds metals. What am I missing?

New comment by tokai in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

tokai — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:04:20 +0000

Complete non sequitur. What a horrible comment.

New comment by tokai in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

tokai — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:52:41 +0000

I can't find a single comment here that does that.

New comment by tokai in "The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground"

tokai — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:37:56 +0000

I like concrete geogrid/cell much more, but I guess its cost a good deal more both in materials and installation. Is it really that uncommon in the US?

New comment by tokai in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

tokai — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:07:49 +0000

Taxi driver also live shorter lives than average, which would fit with lower levels of alzheimers. But interesting link nonetheless.

The genetic architecture of fibromyalgia across 2.5M individuals

tokai — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:05:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04492-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194290

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New comment by tokai in "Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast"

tokai — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:32:36 +0000

I bet a nuclear foundry can be bundled with atomic mining ala Project Plowshare. Guess we are lucky we didn't get the future the atomic age promised.

New comment by tokai in "Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?"

tokai — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:53:53 +0000

That was not why they started the war on drugs, and we have that on record.

New comment by tokai in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

tokai — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:17:15 +0000

What's the issue? Its just an ultrabook with a screen and controller peripheral attached.

New comment by tokai in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

tokai — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:16:04 +0000

The thing described in the blog post has nothing to do with quiet quitting.

New comment by tokai in "Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices"

tokai — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:59:37 +0000

>defense contractors They are happy about missing out on the largest rearmament or Europe since the ww2?