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New comment by varjag in "A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum"

varjag — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:56:55 +0000

The quickest way to redraw a screen or otherwise copy a memory region on Spectrum of is to use POP/PUSH instructions while flipping the stack pointer. Good luck getting that with C.

New comment by varjag in "A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum"

varjag — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:37:56 +0000

If you don't know how the artefact you ordered works you haven't built it in any meaningful sense of the word.

New comment by varjag in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

varjag — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:20:41 +0000

Fields medalists aren't made on some Fields factory. These are 25 people from different backgrounds, generations, educational institutions and countries. It's kind of incredible you guys think they decided to collude against OpenAI rather than simply addressing a concern about their field they believe is important.

New comment by varjag in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

varjag — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:09:54 +0000

From your other replies it's clear you still haven't read the letter. There is little to discuss so far.

New comment by varjag in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

varjag — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:53:38 +0000

I can only envy the insight you have into thought processes of 25 fields medalists. Wish I could have that.

New comment by varjag in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

varjag — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:46:11 +0000

Sure we are free to tinker, like the guys doing model railways. With about the same impact.

New comment by varjag in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

varjag — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:43:23 +0000

I can only suggest reading the letter with open mind and literally, without uncharitable bias towards the authors or conspiracy mindset.

New comment by varjag in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

varjag — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:35:26 +0000

Nobody is going to recognize anything if the institutions of mathematics are torn down.

New comment by varjag in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

varjag — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:29:21 +0000

I mean sure? It's clear PLT and other applied CS fields are now as good as dead. You're never seeing new React or Python emerging ever again.

And unfortunately mathematics is much more fundamental to human endeavor than this.

New comment by varjag in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

varjag — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:24:20 +0000

The whole point of the letter was that if we adopt this gradient search strategy the humanity might get stuck in a local maximum forever.

New comment by varjag in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

varjag — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:50:00 +0000

I think they don't fly survival guns on Soyuz anymore. But cosmonauts on ISS do keep a shank or two onboard for sure.

New comment by varjag in "Apple's Dimensional Drawings"

varjag — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:20:38 +0000

Shapr3d is a rather light duty stuff, it's really doubtful a company with unlimited R&D budget and megascale manufacturing would use it very much.

New comment by varjag in "Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time"

varjag — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:37:07 +0000

Rather because the population density is much higher. So there's less need and more inconvenience to longer commutes.

New comment by varjag in "Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time"

varjag — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:26:23 +0000

Europeans don't drive half as much as Americans.

New comment by varjag in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"

varjag — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:20:03 +0000

Yup, the arrogance when barging into unfamiliar domain that was previously reserved mainly to physics grads seems to have spread everywhere. I also had people opining on my expert area via their LLMs and the problem is they can't even ask the model the right question, let alone evaluate the nuance of their answer.

New comment by varjag in "Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft"

varjag — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:42:43 +0000

Calculate ackermann(4,4), make no mistakes.

New comment by varjag in "iPhone Duo"

varjag — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:03:36 +0000

Especially the soft Al or Ti alloys the phones are made of.

New comment by varjag in "iPhone Duo"

varjag — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:44:06 +0000

I mean you kinda can do that now.

New comment by varjag in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

varjag — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:59:49 +0000

If the method is indeed found in the training set it's not particularly important to de-anonymize it. You have the proof you need.

New comment by varjag in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

varjag — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:30:05 +0000

The imperialism Europe suffers from in reality is not American and he's entirely on board with that.