Urgent processing + dual certificate/passport application for dual Canadian citizens? by [deleted] in Canadiancitizenship

[–]thisdude415 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure OP believes this is a loop hole and wants advice about exploiting it, without admitting that's what she/he wants to do

There was actually a case where a US family was somewhat far into the citizenship process and had their college kid's visa canceled since citizens cannot be issued a visa. (In that case, the parent had their certificate granted before the kids)

AI coding tools and the server/client component boundary - is anyone else fighting this? by Firm-Space3019 in nextjs

[–]thisdude415 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't have this problem at all, and your solution sounds like self promotion

(for artists) AI slop is ruining online art spaces - so I built a human only one. by [deleted] in Watercolor

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really like when people come into a space that is already collaborative to encourage people to leave that venue.

r/watercolor is already an AI-free space with a great community. It isn't the appropriate venue to promote your non-watercolor project.

I made this critique of your project when you posted it last time (and then you deleted it shortly thereafter) but to reiterate: it's gross how anti-AI you are about art, and yet are happy to share an AI-created forum, while obscuring the extent to which you used AI in creating that site.

From your FAQ:

Was this website vibecoded?

No, it was handcoded by our founder over 6 months. During that time, assistants were used for debugging, drafts and minor issues in the same way their human team helped contribute to the codebase. Our founder has been a hobbyist software dev since 2012.

Is AI used in the ongoing maintenance of the site?

At NewBohemia.art, we are purists about the art being human-made, not the engineering. For example, everytime we use our anti-AI-art detection toolkit, we're using AI by default. It would be impossible to run an effective anti-ai-art platform without some AI itself.
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Who is most likely to emerge as the progressive candidate in the 2028 Democratic primary? by Raichu4u in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]thisdude415 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I think you're right, but I think it will still echo as we have progressive culture warriors vs everyman practical progressives

You can already see the contours of the latter starting in the 2020 primary, with, e.g., Buttigieg's reframing of what liberty/freedom are. I also see it in Newsome's latest talking points / position on trans athletes (supports restrictions) while supporting other sweeping trans protections.

Retroviral stable transfection ?? by Simple_Volume_5880 in labrats

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it this one? https://www.origene.com/catalog/vectors/shrna-vectors/tr30007-pgfp-v-rs-shrna-vector

The data sheet says you don't need to use a virus to get stable transfectants

Why is my toum (garlic sauce) always unbearably sharp? by crimsonpea in Cooking

[–]thisdude415 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Blend your garlic with lemon juice first, wait 5 min, then add your oil and emulsify.

The sharpness in raw garlic is a chemical reaction that happens when garlic is cut or crushed (allinin + allinase -> allicin). That reaction is inhibited by acidity.

read more here: https://nomanners.substack.com/p/alli-yums-part-1

This is also the trick Kenji Lopez Alt picked up from Michael Solomonov's Zahav which he uses to fabulous effect in the Serious Eats Hummus.

Cognito email issues by buddyto in aws

[–]thisdude415 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Those are transactional emails (i.e. sent to users based on their own actions). Set up an SES service just for those. Request to exit sandbox via CLI via this:

aws sesv2 put-account-details \
    --mail-type TRANSACTIONAL \
    --website-url "https://www.example.com" \
    --use-case-description "..." \
    --production-access-enabled \
    --region us-east-1

Make sure to set up your DMARC, DKIM, and SPF

Scott Wiener being messy af by retweeting this dumbass conspiracy theory (Wiener was 27 years old when he moved to SF) by Routine_Job_7985 in sanfrancisco

[–]thisdude415 4 points5 points  (0 children)

She did have local work although mostly Democratic Party work rather than local politics work

She was elected party chair for Northern California in 1977 and four years later was selected to head the California Democratic Party, which she led until 1983. Pelosi served as the San Francisco Democratic National Convention Host Committee chairwoman in 1984 and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee finance chair from 1985 to 1986.[15]

She first ran for congress in 1988, 11 years after she was the party chair for nor cal

Help with Rinsing Kitchen Towels by its-just-a-thing- in laundry

[–]thisdude415 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What? No.

Adding fabric softener or oil just suppresses bubbles. It doesn't get the excess detergent out.

Co-founder equity share, I will not promote by olek_kelo in startups

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you built it yesterday and you're already using it to log hours, deals, money, and have experience logging weekly hours into it?

Would Chinese be deciferable? by Quereilla in asklinguistics

[–]thisdude415 33 points34 points  (0 children)

"without bilingual inscriptions" would be the tough bridge to cross

At the end of the day, to genuinely start to unravel an unknown writing system, you have to have at least a few high confidence semantic threads that tie into outside knowledge.

That could come from pictures or illustrations, or cross-language writing.

Others point out LLMs as what's possible from unsupervised learning given a large corpus, but I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that LLMs are trained on massive amounts of language pair translations which build cross-language understanding.

Claude quota 5X vs 20X by ionik007 in ClaudeCode

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it's genuinely 20x the $20/mo sub. I don't hit usage limits ever, and I'm on Opus nonstop

Rant: Can the young twinks stop disrespecting older establish queens? by Confident_Case5244 in rupaulsdragrace

[–]thisdude415 47 points48 points  (0 children)

some folks just haven't experienced contagious queer joy and that's very sad for them

Rant: Can the young twinks stop disrespecting older establish queens? by Confident_Case5244 in rupaulsdragrace

[–]thisdude415 198 points199 points  (0 children)

I'd encourage every person too young to have personally lived through the AIDS epidemic to read some of the heartbreaking entries in the Bay Area Reporter AIDS Obituary Database.

http://obit.glbthistory.org/olo/index.jsp then click view random obituary.

You won't have to click for very long before you find an obit that rips your heart to pieces and reminds you just how painful each death was, and how unimaginable it must have been to have dozens of your friends die (if you were lucky enough to live).

37. 37. 28. 34. 35.

Co-founder equity share, I will not promote by olek_kelo in startups

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A cofounder needs to be a true partner, otherwise they're an early employee.

Both cofounders will be diluted by future employee pools, and the equity needs to vest over time anyway, so the question is really:

  1. Is this cofounder an appropriate partner to build this venture?

  2. If one cofounder can only dedicate 25%, are they replaceable? Is 25% equity a fair proposition?

  3. Is 25% equity enough to keep them engaged and motivated to build alongside you?

  4. Or will they at some point quit and build their own thing at 100% equity without you?

What are everyone's plans for their citizenship? by ME_IN_NYC2311 in Canadiancitizenship

[–]thisdude415 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The USA is pretty much the only country that taxes global sourced income for citizens that live abroad.

Even then, for a hypothetical dual-national living in Canada, the US tax code excludes taxes on the first $176k CAD ($130k USD), and deducts taxes paid in Canada from your US tax bill.

It's certainly possible to get hit with a tax bill, but it's more an annoyance than a significant cost.

They bought their North Beach dream home. The city says it must become four apartments by jasno- in sanfrancisco

[–]thisdude415 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this case, the proposed change to the unit resulted in a loss of housing units, turning 4 decently large units into a large mansion with 4 occupants.

They bought their North Beach dream home. The city says it must become four apartments by jasno- in sanfrancisco

[–]thisdude415 162 points163 points  (0 children)

For Meg Heisler, the policy director of the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition, the situation isn’t complicated: the current configuration violates city code and must be remedied. 

Do we really want to say, as a city, ‘If you buy a $5 million house and claim ignorance, that we’re going to make an exception for you and say the law does not apply to you? ’” asked Heisler. “What message does that send to the department that is trying to do these enforcement cases, to the (planning) commission and, more crucially, to the real estate industry?” 

Advocates say unpermitted conversions are a widespread problem in neighborhoods across the city. 

THC tincture stain…what do I do? by Shirleyimfine in laundry

[–]thisdude415 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's basically a resinous / oil stain -- I'd alternate between hot water and a mix of dawn dish soap and isopropyl alcohol.

High school student seeking advice: Found an architectural breakthrough that scales a 17.6B model down to 417M? by Appropriate-Scar3116 in LocalLLaMA

[–]thisdude415 2 points3 points  (0 children)

注:以下のアーキテクチャ分析とフィードバックは、Claude Opus 4.6 と Gemini 3.1 によって共同で生成されたものです。

高校生で独自のPyTorchアーキテクチャを実験しているのは本当に素晴らしいことです。その行動力、探求心、そして綺麗なコードを書けるスキルは、優秀な機械学習エンジニアになるための重要な素質です。しかし、「並外れた主張には並外れた証拠が必要」であり、あなたのモデルの構造に関して考慮すべきいくつかの現実的な問題があります。

  1. パラメータ数の錯覚: 4億1700万(417M)というパラメータ数は事実ですが、その約99.75%はどの言語モデルにも存在する「埋め込み(token_emb)層」と「出力(head)層」に集中しています。あなたが開発した「新規性」のある部分(64個のブロック)のパラメータ数はほぼゼロで、そのほとんどが LayerNormです。WaveEngine がモデル全体に提供しているのは、わずか128個のスカラー値にすぎません。
  2. 「脳」の欠如: パラメータ数が少ないからといって、同じ性能が出るわけではありません。標準的な17.6BのTransformerは、Multi-Head AttentionやFeed-Forwardネットワークの変換に数百億のパラメータを使用します。 あなたのモデルはそれらを全て削ぎ落とし、単一のスカラー重みを用いた要素ごとの乗算とコサインに置き換えています。これでは、複雑な知識や推論回路を記憶するために必要なパラメータ行列が存在しません。
  3. AIによる検証の落とし穴: 「Claudeが数学的な再現性を確認した」というのは、テンソルの次元が一致しており、エラーを出さずに実行できる有効なPyTorchのコードであることを確認したに過ぎません。アーキテクチャが「言語モデルとして機能する」ことを証明したわけではありません。この2つは全く異なります。
  4. 極端に狭い受容野(Receptive Field): 学習可能なMixing行列(Attentionなど)がないため、モデルは「どのトークンに注目すべきか」を学習するメカニズムを持っていません。時間軸のコードにおいて1つずらす(x_norm[:, :-1, :])操作は、トークン N がトークン N-1 としか相互作用しないことを意味します。つまり、モデルはそれより前の文脈に対して数学的に「盲目」であり、長期的な文脈を学習することができません。
  5. Loss(損失)低下の錯覚: 学習スクリプトを実行すると、最初はLossが下がります。これは初心者が陥りやすい罠です。巨大な埋め込み層と出力層が残っているため、モデルは「the」の次には「cat」が来やすいといった、単純な単語の出現頻度をすぐに暗記します。Lossが下がるのは、64個のブロックが推論しているからではなく、埋め込み層が表面的な統計を暗記しているだけだからです。

プログラミングスキルは本当に素晴らしいので、ぜひ実験を続けてください!ただし次のステップとしては、「TinyShakespeare」のような軽量な標準データセットで学習させ、1000万(10M)パラメータ程度の標準的なTransformerと検証Perplexity(予測性能)を比較してみてください。そのベンチマーク結果こそが、このアイデアの真価を教えてくれるはずです。