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New comment by wumeow in "[dead]"

wumeow — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:11:29 +0000

All of latam is going to be BRICS members by the end of this term.

New comment by wumeow in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

wumeow — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:52:18 +0000

When Google did this with the recent Gemini paper, no one had any problem with calling it out as credential stuffing, but when Deepseek does it, it’s glorious unity and camaraderie.

New comment by wumeow in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

wumeow — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:54:41 +0000

Yea, I’m sure they’re devastated by my comment

New comment by wumeow in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

wumeow — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:18:09 +0000

Because that’s the way China presents itself and that’s the way China boosters talk about China.

New comment by wumeow in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

wumeow — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:16:16 +0000

It’s credential stuffing.

New comment by wumeow in "[dead]"

wumeow — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 01:13:16 +0000

Trump just ceded the biotech sector to China.

New comment by wumeow in "Reddit won't interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans"

wumeow — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:16:48 +0000

Pro tip:

x.com → xcancel.com

New comment by wumeow in "Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation"

wumeow — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:48:25 +0000

The meshes generated by the huggingface demo definitely look like the product of marching cubes.

New comment by wumeow in "Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless"

wumeow — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:10:14 +0000

> Meanwhile the US life expectancy has been decreasing.

That was a blip due to covid and has been slowly recovering to pre-pandemic levels.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/health/us-life-expectancy-202...

New comment by wumeow in "The Cognitive Footprint of Medication Use"

wumeow — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:39:32 +0000

The big question is if ceasing a medication can restore cognitive performance.

New comment by wumeow in "the US is in a steep decline of food enjoyment – which has impacts on health"

wumeow — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:55:56 +0000

I'm not sure what conclusions can be drawn when there's only 2 data points.

New comment by wumeow in "DeepSeek-R1"

wumeow — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:10:07 +0000

Many such cases

https://x.com/dkaushik96/status/1881383961030807599

New comment by wumeow in "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship"

wumeow — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 03:38:27 +0000

> Subsection (a) of this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order.

Well, at least they aren't trying to enforce this retroactively.

New comment by wumeow in "Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization"

wumeow — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 03:08:50 +0000

> Withdrawing diminishes the WHO China controls.

Unless they decide to step up their funding as a soft power play.

This is a better page for viewing the WHO's sources of funding, at least for 2022-23[0][1]. There are three separate categories of voluntary funding and only 6.6% of funds come from Core Voluntary Contributions as displayed in your graph.

[0] https://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/contributor

[1] https://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/top25

New comment by wumeow in "United States Digital Service renamed to DOGE"

wumeow — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:29:57 +0000

Not quite, it’s renamed to United States DOGE Service. This will surely help attract top talent.

New comment by wumeow in "Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization"

wumeow — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:26:41 +0000

“China has too much political influence over the WHO, so we’ll withdraw, giving them even more influence over the WHO”

New comment by wumeow in "'Everyone wants him out': How Musk helped boot Ramaswamy from DOGE"

wumeow — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:42:14 +0000

I was skeptical that race played a role, but after Musk’s Hitlergruß today, I can see it.

New comment by wumeow in "Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally"

wumeow — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:56:21 +0000

You too may be a big hero

Once you've learned to count backwards to zero

"In German, und Englisch, I know how to count down

Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun

New comment by wumeow in "American TikTokers Get a Taste of Chinese Censorship as They Rush to RedNote"

wumeow — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:05:27 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

New comment by wumeow in "Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?"

wumeow — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:22:58 +0000

Anyone who has payed attention to his Twitter feed will not be surprised by this.