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New comment by whereismyacc in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

whereismyacc — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:41:57 +0000

That I can absolutely believe but the big competition is in enterprise gpt-5-size models.

New comment by whereismyacc in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

whereismyacc — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:26:19 +0000

best inference silicon in the world generally or specialized to smaller models/edge?

New comment by whereismyacc in "Sustainable memristors from shiitake mycelium for high-frequency bioelectronics"

whereismyacc — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:21:53 +0000

What would be the evolutionary advantage of this? I know nothing about biology so I'm struggling to see the use of such a network. Some kind of synchronization?

New comment by whereismyacc in "2048 with only 64 bits of state"

whereismyacc — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:02:01 +0000

yes but there could conceivably be better tricks to discover

New comment by whereismyacc in "Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look"

whereismyacc — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:05:31 +0000

> There are no probability distributions over possible states when there is perfect knowledge of the state.

I know very little about physics but I thought that the leading interpretations of quantum physics say that the probability distribution is all we can know about a system. The entropy is not due to due to a lack of information about the quantum state, but because the outcomes are inherently stochastic?

New comment by whereismyacc in "Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look"

whereismyacc — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:56:24 +0000

It sounds like you're talking about information entropy which to my understanding is analogue to but not the same as entropy in physics?

New comment by whereismyacc in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

whereismyacc — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:35:55 +0000

You were still going to lose export markets as international competition grew, and you were still going to shift to higher value-added service jobs as the economy developed.

New comment by whereismyacc in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

whereismyacc — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:07:47 +0000

America got richer and outgrew the phase where tons of factory jobs made sense. It seems pretty clear to me that well-paying manufacturing job in developed countries were the product of a particular moment in time where poorer countries couldn't do it yet. Now they can. It was never going to last.

New comment by whereismyacc in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"

whereismyacc — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:34:38 +0000

The question was about what happens in other cases.

New comment by whereismyacc in "The Lost Art of Logarithms"

whereismyacc — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:50:09 +0000

to understand what they said, or to understand a proof of why it would be true?

any stats class would be enough to understand what they said

New comment by whereismyacc in "Gemini Robotics"

whereismyacc — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:13:45 +0000

welp i guess i should get my sight checked

New comment by whereismyacc in "Gemini Robotics"

whereismyacc — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:33:24 +0000

i thought it was really cool when it picked up the grapes by the vine

edit: it didn't.

New comment by whereismyacc in "BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells"

whereismyacc — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:27:27 +0000

Oh yeah, I don't think I would suggest actually implementing this because it's just a lot of costs and fees to emulate what otherwise would be an index without the stock

New comment by whereismyacc in "BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells"

whereismyacc — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:15:52 +0000

Yeah of course you can't escape the general market risk, i'm only talking about a strategy to avoid net exposure to risk specific to the TSLA stock.

New comment by whereismyacc in "BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells"

whereismyacc — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:21:26 +0000

I definitely don't know much about finance, but a short is essentially being obliged to sell a position at a future date, right? You match your short position against the fraction of your ETF which is in TSLA, such that you are obliged to sell in the future exactly as many TSLA shares as you indirectly own through the ETF. This way you do not need cash on hand, because you can sell a portion of your ETF to pay off the short.

Theoretically it's not risky because in the scenario that the short becomes expensive, TSLA has gone up the and in turn TSLA has made your ETF appreciate the same amount that you owe due to the short, and vice versa if it goes down.

New comment by whereismyacc in "BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells"

whereismyacc — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:52:52 +0000

well not if the short matches the amount you hold in tesla stock through the ETF right?

New comment by whereismyacc in "Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5"

whereismyacc — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:21:31 +0000

I really don't like that these models can be branded as Deepseek R1.

New comment by whereismyacc in "Fair Pricing"

whereismyacc — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:34:55 +0000

I've never heard about Kagi but a paid search engine just sounds great? I assume the userbase will always be small enough that websites won't bother doing SEO for it. Maybe there's some low hanging fruit there in getting less spammy results?

New comment by whereismyacc in "AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU"

whereismyacc — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:25:06 +0000

sounds good

New comment by whereismyacc in "A loophole used by Shein/Temu to ship packages to US tax-free (2024)"

whereismyacc — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:53:40 +0000

They literally pay the tax but yes often the incidence ends up on the consumers.