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New comment by trescenzi in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

trescenzi — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:49:49 +0000

Totally agree these won’t go to consumers but even after a crash I’d home they are able to be sold for parts and not just to landfills. If this all goes into the trash that would be even more tragic than it already is.

New comment by trescenzi in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

trescenzi — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:35:02 +0000

If Dario was up there preaching about replacing today with Star Trek I think people wouldn’t hate it. Everything those at the head of this project say amounts to the current state except abject poverty for everyone but them. When Dario donates his share in Anthropic to fight hunger I’ll consider being optimistic that capital is going anywhere.

New comment by trescenzi in "How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)"

trescenzi — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:32:57 +0000

“Godel’s Proof”[1] is also a great and shorter read if the scale of GEB is intimidating(I know it was for me at first).

https://nyupress.org/9780814758014/godels-proof/

New comment by trescenzi in "Chicken Scheme 6.0"

trescenzi — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:16:10 +0000

I’ve thought a tiny bit about this. I think I’d lean towards Guile for a game because of Hoot, wasm compiler, and Chickadee, little game library. But I’m remarkably unqualified to have a real opinion since I’ve used Chicken for 72 hours now.

New comment by trescenzi in "Chicken Scheme 6.0"

trescenzi — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:57:27 +0000

I started playing with Chicken over the weekend because I was looking for a scheme that you could build binaries of and that had a lively ecosystem. I've really enjoyed it. So far I've mostly played with web stuff. Built a wrapper around makemkvcon for ripping some dvds I've been meaning to rip that'll do a little bit of automatic naming of output using the tv db.

I was slightly worried that I'd start using v5 and then v6 would come out but it looked like they'd been working on it for a while so I figured I'd have some time on v5. Turns out I was wrong!

New comment by trescenzi in "A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion"

trescenzi — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:58:58 +0000

It's less work if you use a destructive method. They rip the spine off to get individual flatter sheets instead of scanning a bound book.

New comment by trescenzi in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

trescenzi — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:12:20 +0000

Ironically typhoon forecasting, at this moment, is more valuable. These predictions are matters of life, death, and billions of dollars in damage.

New comment by trescenzi in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

trescenzi — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:09:13 +0000

If you’re just getting into this tropical tidbits[0] is my go to for more raw data. Less pretty than zoom earth but also an interesting place to see what the models are predicting on each of their runs which is then interesting to compare to actual forecast guidance.

1: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/

New comment by trescenzi in "Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity"

trescenzi — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:21:19 +0000

Don’t know. Just pointing out that the comment I’m replying to didn’t actually understand the argument being made.

New comment by trescenzi in "Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity"

trescenzi — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:01:46 +0000

The point being made isn't that it cannot inspire someone to then go on to learn but that mastery of the game alone does not convey creative skill. Of course someone can be inspired to go out and learn the skill being modeled but use of the model doesn't teach the skill even if it might make someone really excited to go learn.

New comment by trescenzi in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

trescenzi — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:05:29 +0000

If you enjoy this sort of thing I’d highly recommend pico-8 and tic-80. Both have pretty full featured dev environments and have a set of restrictions that make developing for them fun.

New comment by trescenzi in "The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers"

trescenzi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:15:03 +0000

A lot of the AI crazy boils down to the fact that those who only see people as tools find it easy to see tools as people.

New comment by trescenzi in "A Rant About “Technology” (2005)"

trescenzi — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:16:09 +0000

By the standards of someone as articulate as Le Guin it's definitively a rant.

New comment by trescenzi in "Europe's fires are just the start"

trescenzi — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:11:59 +0000

The fundamental reason that climate change is an issue is because it happens over timescales which the ecosystem and human society struggle to keep up. No one reasonable believes we can cool from where we're headed, minus some extreme technical approaches, slowing it down is the goal.

You don't seem to be denying human caused, or maybe you'd say accelerated, climate change. If we could flip a switch and spread the future warming over a millennium instead of half a century I think everyone would take that deal.

New comment by trescenzi in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

trescenzi — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:14:56 +0000

The thing that sucks is it doesn’t matter if you don’t get sucked in. Society is and as a result even if you the individual feel valued society largely will not value you. Of course it’s better for your mental health to escape the trap of believing your value as a person _is_ you value to capitalism but that won’t put food on the table or get you the care you need.

This is something that needs to change at the cultural level but is incredibly hard to change because in order to do so you need to convince most people that the foundational understanding of their worth as a person needs to come from somewhere else.

New comment by trescenzi in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

trescenzi — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:55:09 +0000

No one reasonable is concerned for publishers they are concerned for the books. Assuming the allegations are correct historical artifacts are being destroyed with no trace. It doesn’t even matter if they republish it. The artifact itself and the time it has transited is the valuable thing. It is simply immoral to destroy stuff like this.

New comment by trescenzi in "It's not empowering to hand off the details"

trescenzi — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:06:29 +0000

I really enjoy working with Gleam which is a rather boilerplate heavy language. However most of the work is managed by a really well built LSP. If you're writing a strongly type language it's easy to programmatically manage all of the boilerplate. You could you an LLM but why bother when it's a so formulaic.

New comment by trescenzi in "Git rebase -I is not that scary"

trescenzi — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:48:48 +0000

Another git command I love using is `git add -p`. I always want to commit in chunks as I go but sometimes I wait to long or realize later I could have broken it up. Being able to select only pieces of a file to add to a specific commit is so great. Editing the chunks manually can be a bit intimidating but since it only stages the change you can always restore the file and try again if the diff doesn't look right after the add.

New comment by trescenzi in "LLMs Are Still Toxic, Stuck in the Past, and Bad at Math"

trescenzi — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:10:44 +0000

The truth is that they are tools for language manipulation. Advanced mathematics is language manipulation. Multiplication is not. Using it to describe them as having a critical flaw is a red herring. Using it to help people understand what these tools are capable of and how they function is valuable.

New comment by trescenzi in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

trescenzi — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:15:24 +0000

Yea to be more explicit than the other reply they are being fined for the theft of the books not training on them. They trained on tons of legally procured books by destructively scanning and OCRing them. It was discovered in legal filings and is called Project Panama if you want to read more about it.