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New comment by waynecochran in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

waynecochran — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:15:05 +0000

What is the legal precedent for this statement? I am not disagreeing, I just would like to know what the law is.

New comment by waynecochran in "Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals"

waynecochran — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:56:12 +0000

Mao would have been great w AGI.

New comment by waynecochran in "Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals"

waynecochran — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:55:20 +0000

I don't see it either, but there are folks smarter than both of us that disagree.

New comment by waynecochran in "Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals"

waynecochran — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:15:55 +0000

Somewhere in all this it is crazy that the choice could be between a US company creating an AI that could doom civilization or letting China create the AI that dooms civilization. Do we want to be the first to "summon the demon" in our own fashion or let China manifest it first. Not saying this is the choice, but it would be a crazy dillema, albeit easy choice imo, if it was.

New comment by waynecochran in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

waynecochran — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:25:26 +0000

I believe you are correct. Way too close to use pulsars…

New comment by waynecochran in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

waynecochran — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:24:37 +0000

Very cool. On Voyager 2 we placed a map on the side of the probe that places the position of our sun based on an array of Pulsar stars (the map was designed by Carl Sagan). I noted in the PHM movie Rocky and Dr Grace made similar 3D maps (I think they were pulsars(?)). I guess pulsars form natural beacons that can be detected at large distances.

New comment by waynecochran in "When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024)"

waynecochran — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:09:17 +0000

Was there a conclusion?

New comment by waynecochran in "Native all the way, until you need text"

waynecochran — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:21:21 +0000

This explains why so many AI chat tools suck at text selection on MacOS / iOS. They got the streaming and markdown part right … flicker free, but at the cost of text selection.

New comment by waynecochran in "Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos"

waynecochran — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:14:02 +0000

As the article states, right now Anthropic does not have the compute capacity. I suppose they could charge an enormous amount of money, but if it is indeed that powerful there are folks that would pay and they would degrade everything. To make matters worse, bad actors could use it to find zero-day exploits in the power grid and banking system.

New comment by waynecochran in "“Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?"

waynecochran — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:31:10 +0000

Conclusion: both are true which makes sense. The KV cache scaling yields both the emergent power and requires the enormous capacity.

New comment by waynecochran in "Carrier – AI-first back end compiler (Rust/Java/Node)"

waynecochran — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:57:20 +0000

This is kind of what I already do with Claude which can employ a multitude of languages, libraries, and platforms. I write text files with detailed specs in English of what I want and Claude makes the plans which include testing regimes w datasets I have. Why do I need a less flexible tool for this?

New comment by waynecochran in "Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests"

waynecochran — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:13:58 +0000

"14x times" to me sounds like statistically "zero" since I assume the sample size would be in the millions "at least."

New comment by waynecochran in "Email could have been X.400 times better"

waynecochran — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:52:57 +0000

Yes. I don't know if this is exactly the recipe, but something akin to this could have .. no should have .. existed. Probably 1¢ is too much. Also, full public key encryption and digital signatures should be easily integrated by now as well. I know the whole trust problem ... yadda yadda ... I don't even read my email hardly at all anymore -- I want everyone that needs to get a hold of me don't rely on email.

New comment by waynecochran in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

waynecochran — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:11:13 +0000

Happiest country.. there is an objective measure

New comment by waynecochran in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

waynecochran — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:18:09 +0000

Yet it has produced the most fruitful country the world has ever seen. The genius of the document is that it assumes the corruption of a centralized power and provides the proper counter measures to return the power to the people.

New comment by waynecochran in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

waynecochran — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:09:56 +0000

Now we have come full circle. Another politically blind piece of hackery journalism with a giant log in its own eye.

New comment by waynecochran in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

waynecochran — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:24:03 +0000

Saying something over and over does not make it true.

New comment by waynecochran in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

waynecochran — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:23:41 +0000

That does not allow you to buy stock based on what Trump picks.

New comment by waynecochran in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

waynecochran — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:12:45 +0000

Or just simply pointing out the usual blind political hypocrisy ...

New comment by waynecochran in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

waynecochran — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:09:03 +0000

You can actually buy an iOS app that mimicks Nancy Pelosi stock picks! Top that!