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New comment by uoaei in "OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals"

uoaei — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:12:37 +0000

Yes, it is their responsibility as stewards of their citizens' data. What point are you making with the word "should"?

New comment by uoaei in "Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New"

uoaei — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:17:15 +0000

The IRC channel we hung out on was moved to Discord and he didn't follow.

New comment by uoaei in "Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New"

uoaei — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:32:53 +0000

This guy was an internet friend of mine, claimed to be mentored by one of the Negativland guys, and definitely carries the flame with his weekly(-ish) releases. They used to play hella late night Thursdays on KPFA, not sure if that's still going. Give it a listen!

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/

New comment by uoaei in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

uoaei — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:38:19 +0000

I'm confused by a lot of this discourse...

What have they done to show they can be trusted?

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uoaei — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:48:11 +0000

Article URL: https://trackercontrol.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531152

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New comment by uoaei in "ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days"

uoaei — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:25:44 +0000

The Intercept is not far-left, they are Blob-aligned via Pierre Omidyar.

Reading this meter you linked from AllSides, it appears that the main purpose of that meter is to enforce the boundaries of the Overton window using faux-objectivity as a cover.

New comment by uoaei in "ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days"

uoaei — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:25:02 +0000

If Trump dies, Vance becomes president. If Vance dies, Mike Johnson becomes president. What do you know about those people that I don't that convinces you the hammer will come down once Trump is dead?

New comment by uoaei in "Transcribe.cpp"

uoaei — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:04:55 +0000

Dialects degenerate phonemes that would otherwise occupy identity relations between different utterances of the same "word" (word/concept mutable hyperobject as is the standard in any socially-relevant spoken language) which would be a bit of irony in this thought experiment since common knowledge dictates that more data samples must be present in the dataset (not less, as in rarely-spoken languages) to associate separate pronunciations of utterances representing the same underlying concept. However very-rarely-spoken languages probably don't have distinct dialects since so much focus is put on mutual intelligibility with the few members of the group that remain fluent in that language. It's not outside the realm of possibility that small speaking communities nonetheless fractionate into dialectical specialities but that seems increasingly unlikely as the fervor for preserving/recognizing dying languages increases, and global instant communication continues to become more commonplace.

Example: Schwabisch is wild and would be phonetically transcribed very differently from Hochdeutsch which is its ostensible language progenitor (technically more a cousin than an ancestor in the lineage of language evolution), but if the goal is merely to focus the model purely on phonetic transcription then you can add additional post-processing layers which map sounds to core concepts shared across dialects for actual translation. But I like your idea of interacting with the intermediate elements to familiarize yourself at least with the phonetic patterns, we humans are still thinkers enough to infer patterns of grammar and semantics from these building blocks just as we have done for the entire history of the species/lineage before written representations of language came along (relatively late -- evidence of script cropped up only once civilization had centralized to a sufficient degree to make economics non-local and non-trivial).

tl;dr the big words: it's not til you collect enough spoken samples of the dead(ish/dying) language being spoken that the local idiosyncracies are discovered, luckily linguists are smart enough to probably anticipate and certainly post-process language snippets to grasp the common structures for this or that given language.

New comment by uoaei in "Optimization Solver as a Service"

uoaei — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:59:22 +0000

Approximate solutions are good enough, but approximate solutions are not part of the solution space for the kinds of problems covered by OP.

New comment by uoaei in "Optimization Solver as a Service"

uoaei — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:36:07 +0000

No free lunch theorem has nothing to say about approximate solutions, so I'm really not sure what you're going on about.

OR-tools is almost exclusively linear programming which according to its strict assumptions converges more or less trivially, assuming a correctly composed program.

Which means if you're paying for it "as a service" you all but deserve to lose that money.

> Different algorithms are better for different problems

So... why does your rhetorical style have such oppositional tone if you're just going to reaffirm the no free lunch theorem?

New comment by uoaei in "Optimization Solver as a Service"

uoaei — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:55:02 +0000

*sigh* We really need to teach this new crop the term "no free lunch". Again.

New comment by uoaei in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

uoaei — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:52:45 +0000

The thing is, there are never only two options.

New comment by uoaei in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

uoaei — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:00:04 +0000

Multiple things can be bad for different qualitative reasons.

New comment by uoaei in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

uoaei — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:22:27 +0000

How about the broad anecdotal consensus that Duolingo, a gamified language app, famously does not do much if anything to prepare people for conversational fluency.

New comment by uoaei in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

uoaei — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:20:26 +0000

That's also grammar that's fit to get you harangued and chided by other 4-9 year olds on the schoolyard. Social outcomes are the primary means by which language is meaningful.

New comment by uoaei in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

uoaei — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:18:13 +0000

English is uniquely riddled with exceptions to rules linguistically. Teaching inflexibly only makes students flex around you.

New comment by uoaei in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

uoaei — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:28:03 +0000

Perfect grammar is less important than comprehensible semantics for all but the most niche linguistic applications.

New comment by uoaei in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

uoaei — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:07:21 +0000

Earnings represented by GDP are not distributed evenly across a given population. That 17% of extra earnings goes to relatively few people in the States (I'm putting this very mildly, the concentration in reality is insanely lopsided).

New comment by uoaei in "Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed"

uoaei — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:56:19 +0000

All of the optimism surrounding this industry hinges on "ifs" that never materialize.

New comment by uoaei in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

uoaei — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:19:30 +0000

That's what makes it a model, not a law.