Hey mate what do you think learning is. Like genuinely, if you were to describe the process of learning a subject to me.

I wouldn’t argue with someone who said reasoning models are a substantial advance

Oh, I would.

I’ve seen people say stuff like “you can’t disagree the models have rapidly advanced” and I’m just like yes I can, here: no they didn’t. If you’re claiming they advanced in any way please show me a metric by which you’re judging it. Are they cheaper? Are they more efficient? Are they able to actually do anything? I want data, I want a chart, I want a proper experiment where the model didn’t have access to the test data when it was being trained and I want that published in a reputable venue. If the advances are so substantial you should be able to give me like five papers that contain this stuff. Absent that I cannot help but think that the claim here is “it vibes better”.

If they’re an AGI believer then the bar is even higher, since in their dictionary an advancement would mean the models getting closer to AGI, at which point I’d be fucked to see the metric by which they describe the distance of their current favourite model to AGI. They can’t even properly define the latter in computer-scientific terms, only vibes.

I advocate for a strict approach, like physicist dismissing any claim containing “quantum” but no maths, I will immediately dismiss any AI claims if you can’t describe the metric you used to evaluate the model and isolate the changes between the old and new version to evaluate their efficacy. You know, the bog-standard shit you always put in any CS systems Experimental section.

A company that forces you to write a “Connect” every half-year where you reflect on your performance and Impact™ : (click here for the definition of Impact™ in Microsoft® Sharepoint™)

There is only one True Word

Some of them are pretty spot on.

• Internet Explorer - 9/10, explores the internet, nothing to argue about
• Windows - 8/10, kinda simplistic but it does have windows
• Word - 10/10, it is for words, short, to the point

Quantum computing reality vs quantum computing in popculture and marketing follows precisely the same line as quantum physics reality vs popular quantum physics.

• Reality: Mostly boring multiplication of matrices, big engineering challenges, extremely interesting stuff if you’re a nerd that loves the frontiers of human knowledge
• Cranks: Literally magic, AntMan Quantummania was a documentary, give us all money

There’s something hauntingly beautiful in levelling “you also haven’t been touched by a woman loser” against a married man with a child

We already have this, it’s just a Tesla with “FSD” on

Setting my oven to YOLO Mode and dying in a fire 7 seconds later

Why did you have to make the strawberry sexy

I read the comments before the article and I thought I was about to read something with like a complicated narrative framing device but apparently HN chuds cannot disentangle a linear, first-person narrated blog post.

If you’re fine playing them on your PC, a remaster of the first two games is coming to Steam on June 10th.

Oh my god this is the best news I’ve heard this year

“I try not to let [performance] considerations get in the way

You could show me this without any context whatsoever and my first thought would’ve been “did a React dev say that”

My entire experience with Sony is that I loved Patapon on the PSP (I would sell my fucking soul to get it to play on a smartphone god) and I watch The Last of Us and that’s it. None of their games exist as far as I’m concerned because I can’t play them on PC. What, I’m going to play TLoU 2 without playing 1 or GoW 4 without playing 1-3? Go fuck yourselves.

Valhalla and Shadows are two of the best-selling Assassin’s games even though they’ve been exactly equally as shit and tedious since Origin, so I’d put a [citation needed] on your “increasing irrelevancy”.

Also which big game studios don’t suck? The list you give below has, the top 10 largest in order,

• Sony (I guess defensible, idk),
• Tencent (lol), Microsoft (lmao)
• Nintendo (legal almost as predatory as Oracle)
• NetEase (???)
• EA, Epic, Take-Two (sincerely wishing prostate cancer to all three of those CEOs)
• MiHoYo (literally one gacha game), and
• ROBLOX CORPORATION.

Not to mention that DLSS is basically standard config these days for better performance.

Ye and that’s a fucking travesty and everyone responsible for UE5 should be hanged. And this is the rational, levelled take from me, most people I know would not put it as mildly.

Since basically all graphics processing algorithms are linear algebra and all of ML is linear algebra but with a twist, I think fuzzy background removal is definitely AI.

This term is so meaningless you could call A* an “AI algorithm” at this fucking point

Hey look, it’s this meme for the n-th time

Aren’t you supposed to only use whatever “self-driving” nonsense they have on highways only? I thought Tesla explicitly says you can’t do it on a normal road cause, well, it doesn’t fucking work.

It doesn’t even seem the driver is actually holding the wheel like they don’t try to avoid that at all

Just a second before the crash a car goes by, this thing could’ve just as easily swerved right onto that other car and injured someone, someone should at least lose their license for this

If I were a half-a-billion-dollar scam I would simply not have audits taps forehead