Hacker News: vi_sextus_vi

John Earnest, array language audio+graphics hacker

vi_sextus_vi — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:26:20 +0000

Article URL: https://alexalejandre.com/programming/interview-with-john-earnest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788973

Points: 3

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New comment by vi_sextus_vi in "Palantir CEO says AI 'will destroy' humanities jobs"

vi_sextus_vi — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:42:42 +0000

I like your elephant rider metaphor..

But I wonder if people like Alex Karp are not also smart enough to invest a fixed pct of his income in (recently, more AI-based) pastoral care for his elephants..

New comment by vi_sextus_vi in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

vi_sextus_vi — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:07:56 +0000

USG understands better.

There was a heated thread here about why nursing was defunded as a pro degree while divinity was not..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46000015

Turns out the USG recognize that chaplains are great at managing the fear and anxiety that you worry about

Addendum: Taylor whom you often cite, is wrong that "we have never been, and we will never be, at one with ourselves" (according to Larmore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Secular_Age#:~:text=should%2... )

So... to the Protestant Weber and the Catholic Taylor should we also consider non-Christian chaplains?

>You cannot just separate people and say some are violent and some are not.

https://archive.ph/2024.06.28-101143/https://tricycle.org/ma...

https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/can-a-buddhist-monk-become-...

Final note: few of us ride elephants but many of us make omelettes-- it'd be great to be absolved of mass egg breakings

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717587

Grokking wavefunction collapse in actual quantum systems

vi_sextus_vi — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:09:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.asiae.co.kr/article/2026032509340425584

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657210

Points: 1

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New comment by vi_sextus_vi in "Wavelets on Graphs via Spectral Graph Theory (2009)"

vi_sextus_vi — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:32:42 +0000

Not my field either but using (Chebyshev) polynomials to approximate _exponential functionals_ on [believably] infinite or scale-free graphs sounds rather interesting..

On further reflection, as you said, wavelets are local on space and phase-space so one has a natural cutoff..

Related (stub and theory warning, but closer to my domain of interest :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_on_fractals

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

(Quasi)auto-canonization is the greatest short-term challenge for AI

vi_sextus_vi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:54:42 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/AlexKontorovich/status/2038810855110742310#m

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595039

Points: 3

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New comment by vi_sextus_vi in "Fibonacci's Composed Fractions"

vi_sextus_vi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:06:13 +0000

Surrey, interactive visualiser

https://web.archive.org/web/20260115155955/https://r-knott.s...

New comment by vi_sextus_vi in "Scientists Just Broke the Solar Power Limit Everyone Thought Was Absolute"

vi_sextus_vi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:54:21 +0000

Useful idea buried under abject science-writing is that

quantum yields quantify how likely a chain reaction is. It's like r for COVID-19. One usually says "1.3", not "130%"

Quantum yields greater than 1 are possible for photo-induced or radiation-induced chain reactions, in which a single photon may trigger a long chain of transformations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_yield#:~:text=Quantum%...

Diagram from the paper showing the initiation of a light-generated "avalanche"

https://xcancel.com/YoichiSasaki1/status/2036808566011789536

New comment by vi_sextus_vi in "Emotional Eating Elucidated in Fruitfly"

vi_sextus_vi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:32:34 +0000

From the abstract

https://web.archive.org/web/20260326005808/https://www.natur...

Emotional Eating Elucidated in Fruitfly

vi_sextus_vi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:42:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10306-z

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525750

Points: 3

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