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New comment by zitterbewegung in "Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"

zitterbewegung — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:44:28 +0000

Alright AI above was more like DARPA funded research programs that resulted in algorithms that allowed for the logistics program to be implemented where the department of war (aka Department of Defense at the time) to have the first gulf war be more efficient to the point that they did more than break even on the grants they gave out.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

zitterbewegung — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:46:12 +0000

Shortwave propagates better and also its just a one time pad being distributed so embedding doesn't matter as much as long as the one time pad is longer than the intended message to send. There is no way to decrypt it because once you encrypt a message using a one time pad it is impossible to decrypt without the exact one time pad that it was encrypted with.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI"

zitterbewegung — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:46:37 +0000

I open the site and nothing is loading and all I see is a grid

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"

zitterbewegung — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:09:47 +0000

AI are algorithms generally and a computer is something executing a program .

New comment by zitterbewegung in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

zitterbewegung — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:28:02 +0000

Stipulations on what you can use the funds for.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

zitterbewegung — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:23:21 +0000

Are we truly arguing semantics on HN which is a news aggregator for startups and everyone truly knows what a "raise" is and it is obviously not funds in your bank account? I don't disagree with the rest of your comment and the core thesis is valid that OpenAI is very much doing circular financing.

Edit: A raise comes with stipulations on what you can use the money for. I don't know if I was being too mean about responding to a parent but before you comment just google what a raise has..

New comment by zitterbewegung in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

zitterbewegung — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:15:06 +0000

Stocks that were driving the market in gains for two years are now going down? Who would have thought that these stocks might have been overbought by people...

S&P in general has been giving returns in the past ten years ~12%. Seems like more of the same to me.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"

zitterbewegung — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:25:48 +0000

Not even sure if AI was ever "human-centered" . DARPA funded a large amount of AI reseearch from even the 1960s. The DART tool used in the Gulf War made back all of their previous investments. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin...

New comment by zitterbewegung in "In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?"

zitterbewegung — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:38:38 +0000

I think the future of having lean as a tool is mathematicians using this or similar software and have it create a corresponding lean code. [1] This is an LLM that outputs Lean code given a mathematical paper. It can also reason within lean projects and enhance or fix lean code.

[1] https://aristotle.harmonic.fun

New comment by zitterbewegung in "The sudden fall of Sora"

zitterbewegung — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:14:38 +0000

Replace financial sector with big tech and overexposure to CDOs to overexposure to large promised data centers build outs and you have the right answer.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

zitterbewegung — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:05:51 +0000

A large amount of Voyager 1 & 2 's success isn't just technological it is the ability to take advantage of a specific planetary alignment for a gravity assist [1] that can only occur every 175 years [2] .

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#/media/File:Voyager_...

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

zitterbewegung — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:52:09 +0000

Right now even Valve realizes that Steam will literally run out of steam. This is why they have been trying to become more like Nintendo and selling their own hardware (with varying success) .

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Ask HN: Apple terminated our dev account over a rogue employee"

zitterbewegung — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:07:56 +0000

Honestly, HN is a great customer support forum considering so many posts actually get treated better than just using the standard customer support (many startups and other companies paying attention to it helps a bunch). It has to have more merit some of the time (this is not to say it is an assessment of what you are saying at all.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Nintendo's not-AI, not-a-game toy"

zitterbewegung — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:46:40 +0000

Yea, it isn't a statement or anything it's just Nintendo just making a good product and you can see the industrial design that it is the selling point. Apple used to have people complaining their AI solutions are sub par but, now since they control the App Store where many AI apps live they are the only ones making money.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Honda is killing its EVs"

zitterbewegung — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:27:31 +0000

Why do you need a EV to be a software defined variable? Maybe just a large enough lithium battery?

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

zitterbewegung — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:21:23 +0000

I thought of it branded not Office generically but “Office.eu” but maybe I am wrong ?

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

zitterbewegung — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:53:51 +0000

Sorry, I misread your post I can't edit it anymore and I should have read into your post and it was a knee jerk reaction on my part.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

zitterbewegung — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:53:20 +0000

I admit now after rereading that I did misrepresent what they said and I should have read their comment more closely and it was a knee jerk reaction and that its my fault.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink"

zitterbewegung — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:32:50 +0000

If you are good at making businesses then why not make more?

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

zitterbewegung — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:33:14 +0000

This isn't a novelty it will crush the low end of the PC market. No one cares if the next iteration will be better with 12GB of ram. The workloads that people say that 8GB can't handle will be ones that the actual users will either wait or tolerate. I've been noticing that people who review the Macbook Neo basically don't get the point [1] and just the headline of this article matters that VMs work and thats a big win. The most ridicuous thing about the laptop is that it appears to be reparable which sort of tells me this is a template similar to the M1 Air of the future laptop designs that Apple will come out with. [2]

[1] https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbPCGqoBB4Y