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New comment by yulker in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

yulker — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:00:08 +0000

Yes, I agree entirely. It has nothing to do with the emotion of surprise.

New comment by yulker in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

yulker — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:56:58 +0000

But what is surprise really? Something not following expectation. The distribution may statistically leverage surprise as a concept via how it has seen surprise as a concept e.g. "interesting!"

So it can be both true that it has nothing to do with the emotion of surprise, but appear as the emulation of that emotion since the training data matches the concept of surprise (mismatch between expectation and event).

New comment by yulker in "The Classic American Diner"

yulker — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:42:30 +0000

GDP is not distributed equally by any means, so meaningless as a per capita figure in this context

New comment by yulker in "Why Japan has such good railways"

yulker — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:00:16 +0000

One thing that is critical is that the country hasn't turned home ownership into an ever growing financial asset that is meant to carry the majority of one's wealth into perpetuity

New comment by yulker in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

yulker — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:06:42 +0000

they functionally have been since ww2. why is it odd that they have a clear understanding of their relative position to the hegemonic power?

New comment by yulker in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

yulker — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:26:10 +0000

what's the take on it being a shame that it's based in china?

New comment by yulker in "Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora"

yulker — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:55:41 +0000

probably more cost than anything. image and video gen don't have much in common with llms

New comment by yulker in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, "drastically" reduced the number of cars"

yulker — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:16:34 +0000

the default car should have been a one person car. we split a normal one lane into two narrow lanes.

New comment by yulker in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

yulker — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:13:41 +0000

Interesting how correctly naming them motorists sharpens how "the default" is often to be presumed drivers and pedestrians and cyclists are marginal

New comment by yulker in "Are we all plagiarists now?"

yulker — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:06:26 +0000

how do you account for the compilation of your insight that was formed through the consumption of many prior examples? do you feel compelled to thoroughly cite them, or have they crossed a threshold marked through your ability to now generate new similar things without directly referencing them that it's "all original you" now?

New comment by yulker in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

yulker — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:45:22 +0000

When a strongly capitalized minority cohort can sustain positions that are untenable for normal market participants, they can act as a kingmaker by shaping outcomes at the margin.

New comment by yulker in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

yulker — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:46:29 +0000

The point isn't to just cover the tax bill, it's that by shifting the burden up the class ladder, there is more capital available to the classes that spend and circulate their money in the economy rather than merely accumulate it

New comment by yulker in "Norway's Wealth Tax Unchains a Capital Exodus"

yulker — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:38:20 +0000

In a way it almost seems good? It seems like opportunistic capital that takes flight so easily probably wasn't seriously integrated into the local economy anyway.

New comment by yulker in "Free Programing Books"

yulker — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:45:32 +0000

Spiritually different intention, but both yield lots of unread material at hand. The parent's is "bought with best intentions" but letting it pile up despite that intention, Taleb's is purposefully accumulating material that you don't intend to read unless a future you finds it helpful to explore that book

New comment by yulker in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

yulker — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:40:54 +0000

Your child's school nurse would be exactly the type of person who would leave a message

New comment by yulker in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

yulker — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:05:59 +0000

Legitimate callers for events you initiated leave messages. The correct avenue for critical notifications not initiated by you is still paper mail.

New comment by yulker in "A queasy selling of the family heirlooms"

yulker — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:04:29 +0000

How much of it can you mount on a wall? Wall mounted artifacts and art require trivial maintenance effort and don't clutter up the floor, while honoring those objects and making them visible and enjoyable.

New comment by yulker in "Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working"

yulker — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:06:00 +0000

America has enough room to build many new cities in useful locations, yet it doesn't. Why is that?

New comment by yulker in "Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working"

yulker — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:01:29 +0000

European colonization of the world is a unique enough phenomenon to not hand wave it away as business as usual. Further, the industrial intensification and financialization of this colonization through the 18th-20th centuries alone is singular on its impact on human civilization with no precedent.

New comment by yulker in "Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit"

yulker — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 01:04:44 +0000

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

Promises were made. Why should they defend themselves on their own?