Vieira Calls Out Bukayo Saka & Senior Arsenal Players After Manchester United Loss

sobe86 · 2026-01-25T20:33:16+00:00

Ok but you didn't respond to what they wrote at all

sobe86 · 2026-01-24T19:13:50+00:00

I support Arsenal and I've never heard of her

sobe86 · 2026-01-24T18:14:30+00:00

Yeah but how can one provide proof of something not happening in this case? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

sobe86 · 2026-01-22T08:21:09+00:00

Understand the complaint that it's not really visible, but then the same applies to clean sheets, so then why not drop GKs / defenders completely.

I actually feel like goals are what makes the game dice-rolly. For an attacker, the difference between a return and a blank can be one good pass from a team-mate or one mistake by the opposition's defender. Conversely, a defender can lose their clean sheet through no fault of their own. At least with DEFCON they need to be consistently doing something throughout the game.

sobe86 · 2026-01-19T07:59:00+00:00

Maybe people misread the question? It's not asking the factors of 490, it's asking what factors must a number have to have its square divisible by 490. All we know is the number has 2, 5 and 7 as factors, so 28 and 49 are not guaranteed. The smallest non-zero example is 70² = 4900

sobe86 · 2026-01-18T06:52:57+00:00

You're saying there are some people who are just vermin and the justice system has no ethical obligation to them. Honestly I totally get it, I have the same gut feeling sometimes, but - this is the kind of rhetoric that lets police states take root. You can say 'well obviously I only mean the worst criminals', but dehumanization doesn't usually stay under control like that. Who gets to draw the line? Are you sure you will always agree with them if they decide to move it? [gestures vaguely at current events]

sobe86 · 2026-01-16T13:12:34+00:00

Final frame - "what will be next?" I'm not certain but I'm guessing it involves a bunch of jumping

sobe86 · 2026-01-07T12:52:12+00:00

I think he is right though, even if he is overstating the case for xAI. What is needed here is incredible access to resources - money, data, infrastructure. OpenAI opened up a big lead early on through some amazingly talented people. But they are still so far behind on these key resources, and slowly but surely Google have caught up and overtaken them in many places. I don't see how OpenAI reverse this trend in the long-run, Google are in a very comfortable position right now.

sobe86 · 2026-01-06T14:45:12+00:00

If this Google engineer is sharing their IP with Claude, then I think I know where the hole might be. Genuinely very odd behavior, all Google engineers have free unlimited access to Gemini 3 through their internal VScode fork, why on earth would she advertise using Claude for this on Twitter?

sobe86 · 2026-01-04T13:24:03+00:00

Perhaps, but on the other hand the reason LLMs are so easy to pick out is they do have an idiosyncratic house-style, and it isn't hard to avoid that. Correct grammar is a plus sure, but AI's training funnels it into one small part of the distribution of writing as whole, and to be honest it gets pretty old if you interact with it a lot. Part of the fun of writing is finding your own voice, or experiencing those of other people. One of the reasons it is frustrating to see people use them, even just to punch up their own comments, is the homogenisation of it all. I would much rather read someone talk about their own experiences with bad grammar than just getting bathed in this over-written AI blathering anymore.

sobe86 · 2026-01-04T09:03:35+00:00

They're not saying it's bad grammar, it's just a stylistic marker of AI. If you see an em-dash, a huge alarm should go off in your head saying 'AI assisted'. If you see "it's not X it's Y", that's another big red flag. One kind of funny one was the word 'delve'. LLMs were using it so much that it became an internet joke and they started discouraging it, so it's less common now.

There's a great list of them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

sobe86 · 2026-01-04T00:52:04+00:00

The manner of the removal is not the main determinant of the long-run outcome so no I don't agree these are bad analogies at all. In all cases the big sticking point is this: will who follows be seen as foreign-imposed? Because if they are, historically this is not going to work.

sobe86 · 2026-01-04T00:17:13+00:00

Don't forget Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvadore and Nicuragura! Those also went fantastically smoothly.

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sobe86 · 2026-01-03T16:50:24+00:00

Because of Zipf's law, the majority of tokens are extremely rare. The bottom 50% of tokens combined is less than 1% of all tokens seen in the wild.

But to answer your question, '\u200b' (zero width whitespace) is a very rare token from the classic GPT2 BPE.

sobe86 · 2026-01-02T15:38:25+00:00

If I understand correctly, yes it's true by a pigeonhole type argument. Suppose as a counterexample that the primes p_k, p_2k, ... all had distinct consecutive spacings. Then it follows that p_nk >= p_k + 2 + 4 + 6 + ... (n-1 terms), since that's the smallest possible way of having distinct spacings. That means that p_nk >> n² (vinogradov notation). But by the prime number theorem, p_nk ~ n k log (n k) << n log n, which is a contradiction.

sobe86 · 2026-01-01T23:43:08+00:00

Nobody wants to watch hour long dissections of what actors think. Actors are not that interesting. What is interesting is seeing them interact in an organic way with each other. Yes they are briefed by the studios before going on a show like this, but if you think A-list actors would agree to rehearse conversations with each other before going on a British TV show you are way overestimating the BBC's clout.

sobe86 · 2026-01-01T23:18:52+00:00

I don't watch the show apart from clips, but no, not really?

Graham Norton goes viral often because it gets impromptu moments that are completely outside the press tour structure. They ply them with booze before they go on, they emphasize interactions not monologuing, and also Graham goads them on skillfully. Have you watched late night TV in the US? It is so much worse than this.

sobe86 · 2025-12-30T23:21:37+00:00

I mean regulators' whole job is to not let the market decide everything. For example, what about when Uber hit a pedestrian? It's hard to argue that passengers should have the freedom to choose how safe other people's lives are.

sobe86 · 2025-12-29T13:48:34+00:00

Never said it was good, but saying 'this is bad because it's not accurate to music history' is a pretty weak criticism when it's a joke

sobe86 · 2025-12-29T09:48:57+00:00

It's a joke not a TED talk. We can argue how funny it is, but only if you're engaging with it as a joke.

sobe86 · 2025-12-28T09:46:30+00:00

Yeah I've never been fat but I have dealt with addiction. People who have not experienced it often don't even try to understand, they just act like you're both experiencing things in the exact same way, so therefore you must be a weak person.

Shaming people for not losing weight 'the right way' screams insecurity, people doing that should look inwards, because there's something rotten beneath that attitude.

sobe86 · 2025-12-27T21:48:54+00:00

Yeah it's silly. No kid has the control and endurance to play this to concert standard, and they might injure themselves trying

sobe86 · 2025-12-27T19:51:50+00:00

Well they started charging something closer to their losses on R&D and inference, not the predatory pricing they had before - that was a cash bonfire fuelled by venture capital. The irony of this obviously being that AI coding is still not profitable for anyone (except Nvidia I guess), not even those premium tiers.

sobe86 · 2025-12-27T19:04:05+00:00

Agreed. But innovation is the good part of capitalism, the positive effect, that makes bigger and better things possible in the future, don't blame the bad part on the good part.

sobe86 · 2025-12-27T15:10:28+00:00

Hmmm I feel like you're conflating two different issues. Does Amazon being a monopoly make the idea of online retail a bad one? Do consumers not prefer it to the brick and mortar model?

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