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New comment by yalogin in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

yalogin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:18:36 +0000

This one doesn’t mention tourist visas, so I am guessing they will be issued? I don’t get what benefit they see by inconveniencing and potentially harming folks that are already in the country legally to just live their lives. I get that this administration’s goal is to completely shut down all immigration and potentially even remove folks here legally too but there will be a cost to bear for the country because of that. It will be slow to come and so they will be able to blame it on the next administration

New comment by yalogin in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

yalogin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:12:14 +0000

Meta’s stock gained 32billion in value just today on the news. So it’s not even noticeable for them

New comment by yalogin in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

yalogin — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:58:58 +0000

Interesting. One needs to be exposed to a certain level of AI flows to become numb to them. Wonder how they read to someone who isn’t exposed yet.

New comment by yalogin in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

yalogin — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:14:16 +0000

I have already moved away from anthropic for debugging and design in general and this will force me to look elsewhere for coding too

New comment by yalogin in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

yalogin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:11:51 +0000

Even if they are caught and it’s illegal, as long as the fine for it is less than the roi of running them the companies will not stop.

New comment by yalogin in "Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show"

yalogin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:41:30 +0000

What does this mean in the larger landscape though? Every company is using AI or trying it out, are they not using the cloud services for it? If so is it still not a big enough pie to show?

New comment by yalogin in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

yalogin — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:32:46 +0000

Yes I wasn’t questioning that the market and government is controlled by the AI companies. What I am saying is that cannot be a moat. If anything it will be an anchor that will pull these companies down. If anything that is a signal that they don’t have a moat

New comment by yalogin in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

yalogin — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:02:14 +0000

Sorry this is not true at all. O Those are just corrupt, incompetent practices by an idiot who is drunk on power. It has nothing to do with AI. This is not an answer at all. You tried to shove a square peg into a round hole for what reason. I don’t know

New comment by yalogin in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

yalogin — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:03:09 +0000

With these models, what is the moat? Is it the architecture itself or the training data? Why can’t China create these models themselves? It just feels like theater to restrict models. Can someone tell me why I am wrong if I am?

New comment by yalogin in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

yalogin — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:35:08 +0000

How much research is a startup expected to do? Isn’t the point of a startup to accelerate productizing research? Unless they are multi billion dollar “startups” do we even expect any research out of them?

New comment by yalogin in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

yalogin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:24:50 +0000

The bigger question for me is , at what point does investing in higher capability general models will stop showing the ROI?

For example - What percentage of workflows require this new highly capable model? How much of it can be replaced with the software tooling around it? What I mean is if the software tooling can optimize the query over a few iterations does it get the same output as from a single shot high capability model query?

New comment by yalogin in "OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k"

yalogin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:48:40 +0000

I have over the last two months switched to OpenAI from Claude since it’s been vastly better for my cases. Wonder if I see any difference in the quality of the output with this change

New comment by yalogin in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

yalogin — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:09:05 +0000

The move the current companies are missing is to have a legislation declaring ai as a person. Just like how corporations are people, if ai is a person then they don’t have to show number of people fired, can argues content creation and engagement is through the roof and so many other possibilities. /s

New comment by yalogin in "Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem"

yalogin — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:29:13 +0000

I am sure this is great but it requires some depth in that field to appreciate this. I don’t understand if what they developed is a tech to do a live scan of any person or just a detailed map of one brain.

New comment by yalogin in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

yalogin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:14:23 +0000

I respect cynicism and questioning stuff but this is misplaced. You have to trust the government since they are potentially the least partisan source here. Yes the data can be misconstrued by legislators but the truth of the data cannot be in question. It’s healthy to question it but the solution is to require proof of non-sabotage. It takes a lot of money and resources to pull this data together. It’s compiled by organizations across the world and being the trustworthy anchor is the most efficient way to achieve this. With that the government agency has every incentive to be non partisan and operate with integrity.

New comment by yalogin in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

yalogin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:58:53 +0000

Some folks I know in academia have their funding cut and so a good stream of research is stopped. Wonder how prevalent it is across academia.

New comment by yalogin in "Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom"

yalogin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:38:37 +0000

I don’t know if the circular financing is a problem. NVIDIA is the best my name in town, any company has to spend on NVIDIA assets for their compute. Now that makes NVIDIA rich and so they don’t know what to do with their money. They are just propping up companies they find interesting

New comment by yalogin in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

yalogin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:56:43 +0000

This is alarming. Very soon there will be no point driving because insurance is going to jump in and mandate strict rules around how to sit, hold the steering wheel and how I should be looking and the fun of driving will be gone. This is all converging towards autonomous driving without a steering wheel.

New comment by yalogin in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

yalogin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:17:42 +0000

I don’t understand the argument here. The article doesn’t describe a collapse or the breadcrumbs for it. The only argument I can put together is companies hosting the open source models in house or use some service like Amazon that could potentially host them and so replace the frontier models. Data center and specifically infra to host llms is still the main sticking point given the security concerns about data going to china. The article doesn’t make these arguments coherently

New comment by yalogin in "Price per 1M tokens is meaningless"

yalogin — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:55:05 +0000

Another thing I noticed is the llms perform efficiently/effectively only under the optimum circumstances. May be this just a Claude issue, but when the session goes on for very long the effectiveness drops drastically and I start getting bad answers. This is especially true for design and debugging. Wonder how that ladders up to the token usage