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New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:19:16 +0000

Mathematics only really matters insofar as humans can understand it.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:17:48 +0000

Ah yes, memes are clearly the sign of massive progress.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers"

zeroonetwothree — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:16:04 +0000

True but addition becomes a lot less efficient in this representation :)

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Book prizes don't work how you think"

zeroonetwothree — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:30:41 +0000

The fact is that the supply of people wanting to write books greatly exceeds the demand of readers. It’s inevitable that most books barely get read by anyone. You either accept it or you find something else to do.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Book prizes don't work how you think"

zeroonetwothree — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:18:56 +0000

The Hugo awards have had a lot of weak winners in the past as well.

For example: They’d Rather Be Right, The Wanderer, Stand on Zanzibar (some people might disagree), Harry Potter, Hominids, etc

And have had many winning books that are enjoyable without “big ideas” as well.

In the end it’s just a fan voted award and subject to marketing and politics. Judged awards are perhaps a bit more consistent in reflecting quality? (Though maybe not)

And not every year gives us a Dune or A Fire Upon the Deep :)

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Book prizes don't work how you think"

zeroonetwothree — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:34:47 +0000

I guess if you want the most average book to win

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

zeroonetwothree — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:46:29 +0000

Bears sleep about 7-8 hours/day, similar to humans.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

zeroonetwothree — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:45:51 +0000

What about female lions?

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

zeroonetwothree — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:43:40 +0000

Placebos are actually very effective for improving sleep

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

zeroonetwothree — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:42:12 +0000

Not sure why I would trust the opinions of this random person?

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

zeroonetwothree — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:24:18 +0000

Yes

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

zeroonetwothree — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:44:33 +0000

It would be fun if you had to guess what book it’s from

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

zeroonetwothree — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:39:32 +0000

The law being discussed is for minors. As a society we don't think minors have sufficient executive function to make those decisions, so we find it acceptable to ban them in those context.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "We Put an L7 Firewall in the Kernel"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:10:23 +0000

The article is a L7 weenie.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

zeroonetwothree — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:40:56 +0000

Claims in a lawsuit always seem very favorable towards their side or else they wouldn’t have filed. The truth usually ends up more in the middle.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

zeroonetwothree — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:27:01 +0000

Ticket prices seem to have increased slower than general inflation

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zeroonetwothree — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:34:18 +0000

The text here seems AI generated which doesn’t inspire confidence.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

zeroonetwothree — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:49:31 +0000

How much more efficient did compilers make developers?

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

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:09:03 +0000

Well, not totally meaningless but certainly can be misleading.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Trump intervention causes World Cup storm as FIFA clears US striker Balogun"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:47:22 +0000

The red card was obviously an error.