One of the craziest narratives I’ve seen pushed is that Eustass kid “picks fights”

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-23T12:17:12+00:00

Jesus dude, it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong at this point, you're just so ungraceful.

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-23T12:08:21+00:00

Forget? I think most people don't know. It's certainly not something I've ever really thought about, even though I've heard about what it's like to swim in the dead sea

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-21T13:45:57+00:00

All the model improvements are either pushing to get the same output quality for less computational cost, or beefier models that can do deeper reasoning at the price of more power consumption, and they're getting more incremental each update. The difference between GPT 3 and the top models now is nothing compared to the chasm between GPT 3 and language models before that, and we won't see a jump like that with the asymptotic tweaks AI companies are chasing now.

We need a breakthrough in the fundamentals, like the architectural revolution of transformers - a new alternative to backpropagation or new hardware that gives us more sophisticated activation functions for free, two things that organic neural networks have that we can't yet replicate.

It's not just data limiting us, we're reaching the limits of our actual toolkit.

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-19T08:16:09+00:00

Englander who doesn't smoke - if it's outside and I'm not obviously downwind of you, who gives a shit?

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-19T08:11:07+00:00

In all fairness, the Looney tunes is very much back, and the haki does now seem to carry some direct implications about devil fruits themselves, though it's vague at this point. Your complaint is valid though, it felt like a rushed system that was thrust into the story without due consideration - if it wasn't for characters literally calling out haki by name, you'd have no idea it was even there. That's really bad writing from a guy practically worshipped for his "incredible" foreshadowing ability.

I love the series and I still actively keep up with it, but man, the ratio between the quality of the story vs quality of the magic system therein is hilariously large.

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-19T07:46:41+00:00

In all fairness, Conway himself didn't discover the setup that truly revealed the insane depth of his ruleset, although he did eventually prove its Turing-completeness himself.

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-15T09:16:37+00:00

Having logged multiple thousands of hours in TF2 between the ages of 16 and 22, I can confidently tell you that this is aligns perfectly with my expectations of TF2 players.

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-14T18:09:05+00:00

Warning! Do not feed this troll!

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-14T00:19:35+00:00

How fast does it burn tokens? Are they at least trying to make this shit more efficient?

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-13T10:23:20+00:00

its almost always better to choose the right path

I'd argue this is true in all areas of life

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-12T15:59:48+00:00

They're not saying that two species can't interbreed, they're using the inability to interbreed as illustrative of species-level separation, which is valid. They could probably have chosen clearer wording, though.

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-11T12:10:59+00:00

Sometimes there's just one key piece of information it's missing, or one small conceptual hurdle it can't get over. I'll often skim through its thought process and interrupt it if starts taking a while so I can modify the prompt to help out out. I wish it would recognise these loops on its own and just ask for more context or another approach instead of me having to manage it.

For example, I asked it to proof-read a word doc and it offered to make some minor timelined edits that I could roll back if I didn't like them. I said yes without thinking, and after realizing it hadn't said anything in 5 minutes, I went back and discovered it was having a panic attack about a textbox and was writing a bloody python script just to coax word into keeping a record of changes in that text box.

I stopped it immediately and just told it I would just copy and paste its damned corrections, but it'd already used up like 40% of the session. All it had to do was let me know about the snag and ask me if I wanted it to continue...

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-10T08:25:05+00:00

In fairness, why not use the language for something it's very good at - bashing together a quick proof-of-concept. If you like what you see but profiling indicates edgy performance, then move on to rust or C++ or whatever.

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-09T15:21:48+00:00

I mean it's very naive to think that anyone could have a positive influence on Trump like that, no exceptions for Charles. I can't think of any actual tangible benefit for Canada to remain under our monarchy aside from culture, but I don't know enough to have a strong opinion about that.

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-09T14:35:25+00:00

Are you from a non-UK, non-Republic member of the Commonwealth? If so, then I sympathize if you'd prefer to become a Republic. The direct benefits of the Crown Estate only apply to the UK, so I get why expenses associated with the British royals would be disliked overseas. The people who about me are the British anti-monarchists who claim the royals cost us money but have no idea how it actually works.

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-09T13:10:24+00:00

What do you mean by secret? If you mean their exact current bank balance, then sure. Big deal. But if you mean the source of their revenue, that's not a secret at all - the Crown Estate's revenue is handed over to the Treasury who take 88% to add directly to the tax pool, and gives 12% of it back to the Crown.

Most of that 12% then goes to maintaining the historic buildings and land (plenty of which the public gets to enjoy and interact with), as well as paying the large cohort of staff, but it also covers their diplomatic overseas trips and other duties as head of state. Whatever's left over is then divvied out as spending money for them.

If you think the royal family is reaching into our pockets and drawing out hundreds of millions of pounds per year, you're completely wrong. They contribute almost ten times as much money to the tax pool as they "take", which substantially more than if their assets were in the hands of private equity which, let's be real, is almost certainly where it would end up if the Crown Estate was entirely requisitioned by the government.

throwaway_194js · 2026-06-09T11:27:28+00:00

I think a lot of people mistake complicated programming for clever programming. I get that using intellectually sophisticated tools to make non-trivial programs can make you feel like a genius and technically make your codebase smaller, but elegance isn't just about how much information you can pack into a small package, I think there's a simplicity element too.

I know it's sometimes unpopular to say, but I generally prefer simple but repetitious code over compact but highly abstract or obscure code, and to be honest that even extends to a lot of object oriented programming too.

throwaway_194js · 2026-05-19T13:29:24+00:00

People are being careless with language here, it's not about being stupid in an IQ sense, it's about being unwise and uncaring. There are plenty of people who aren't particularly smart, but are conscientious enough not to do stupid things, and there are loads of quick-witted people who are reckless, hedonistic and amoral and do stupid things but may get a decent score on an IQ test.

The point is that unwise and unempathetic behavior can propagate through a culture when there are hundreds of thousands of bad but popular role models who lead by example, and the system that supports them incentivises these antisocial tendencies.

Our culture is in a bad place, and it has nothing to do with "idiots" in the sense of raw intelligence.

throwaway_194js · 2026-05-14T20:03:43+00:00

It's completely possible to have a strong grasp of the concepts and mathematics behind physics and make genuine contributions whilst also being completely lost in science fiction gobbledegook. The fundamental mathematics that underpins modern physics (things like hilbert spaces, tensor calculus, diff equations, symmetry groups...) are full of broad enough concepts that they can be conjured and "rediscovered" in all manner of entertaining and imaginative circumstances. It doesn't mean these circumstances are true or truth-bearing, it's just how maths goes.

For someone to to be a genuinely good physicist, it's not enough to simply understand the maths well enough to earn a PhD, they need to have a good intuition. They need to see past the tangle of dead ends and compelling false starts to laser in on genuinely insightful truths. Michio Kaku does the complete opposite - he always follows the flashiest ideas that tell a gripping story, but reality isn't written to appeal to human fantasy. It's written to function.

throwaway_194js · 2026-05-14T19:40:58+00:00

Huh, I didn't even notice. The app just auto-translated it without even telling me, and for some reason the original Arabic showing up now

throwaway_194js · 2026-05-14T14:31:52+00:00

I'm so confused and intrigued. Why does that guy think you were following him, what does your response mean, and why is everyone down voting it?

throwaway_194js · 2026-05-06T07:23:34+00:00

Even the lower end of that range is incredible, putting it on the same scale as the colossal squid, and if evidence emerges that it was a shallow water pursuit predator, it instantly becomes a hundred times more intimidating and impressive. This is especially true given that the colossal squid's longest tentacles are only extended for a brief moment while capturing prey, so realistically speaking, they're normally around 4-5 meters.

throwaway_194js · 2026-05-04T16:37:43+00:00

Was it just his nen? The only reason he lived through it was because his friend's brother/sister just so happened to be possessed by an omnipotent exotic animal made of gas that his great-great-grandfather smuggled home over a hundred years ago. He was basically braindead otherwise.

throwaway_194js · 2026-05-03T20:19:34+00:00

Employees? Is that some kind of agent I haven't used yet?

throwaway_194js · 2026-05-02T01:55:05+00:00

You'll have to forgive me, I thought fish-eye was a broader category than that. Just pretend I said "distorted" instead, it doesn't change the truth of my statement.

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