Audalin
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- Comment on Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather? 3 months ago:
Because we have tons of ground-level sensors, but not a lot in the upper layers of the atmosphere, I think?
Why is this important? Weather processes are usually modelled as a set of differential equations, and you want to know the border conditions in order to solve them and obtain the state of the entire atmosphere. The atmosphere has two boundaries: the lower, which is the planet’s surface, and the upper, which is where the atmosphere ends. And since we don’t seem to have a lot of data from the upper layers, it reduces the quality of all predictions.
- Comment on xkcd #2954: Bracket Symbols 4 months ago:
No IPA notation? ⸨I’m somewhat disappointed⸩
- Comment on Cloudflare is bad. Youre right. 4 months ago:
It would. But it’s a good option when you have computationally heavy tasks and communication is relatively light.
- Comment on Cloudflare is bad. Youre right. 4 months ago:
Once configured, Tor Hidden Services also just work (you may need to use some fresh bridges in certain countries if ISPs block Tor there though). You don’t have to trust any specific third party in this case.
- Comment on xkcd #2934: Bloom Filter 5 months ago:
There’s a recent algorithm using somewhat similar ideas for approximate counting of unique objects in a stream with constant memory:
- Comment on Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI 5 months ago:
The article isn’t about automatic proofs, but it’d be interesting to see a LLM that can write formal proofs in Coq/Lean/whatever and call external computer algebra systems like SageMath or Mathematica.
- Comment on Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica 6 months ago:
I see, thanks. Will check. I just thought perhaps you figured out something other than those from your experience.
- Comment on Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica 6 months ago:
Any guidance on choosing appropriate conservative settings for i7-13700K? I may be hit with the same as you in the future (sometimes I have to do some heavy multithreaded combinatorial computations which run several days with 100°C temperature, using all cores). The motherboard has options for customising pretty much everything there is, but I didn’t touch anything overclocking-related, so I have Asus defaults.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 6 months ago:
I’m still waiting for the day when actual ads across the internet drown in AI-generated advertisements pointing to no real product or service. Perhaps that’ll make attention industry collapse?
If you’re looking for a side project idea, here’s one.
- Comment on How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++ 6 months ago:
Rounding?
- Comment on Why AI is going to be a shitshow. 6 months ago:
it cuts out the middle man of having to find facts on your own
Nope.
Even without corporate tuning or filtering.
A language model is useful when you know what to expect from it, but it’s just another kind of secondary information source, not an oracle. In some sense it draws random narratives from the noosphere.
And if you give it search results as part of input in hope of increasing its reliability, how will you know they haven’t been manipulated by SEO? Search engines are slowly failing these days. A language model won’t recognise new kinds of bullshit as readily as you.
Education is still important.
- Comment on Do I Need to Harden SSH over Tor? 7 months ago:
Disabling root login and password auth, using a non-standard port and updating regularly works for me for this exact use case.
- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 7 months ago:
According to mathematical platonism, yes.
Otherwise we have no idea. We have some models of physics, none perfectly describing our universe. We don’t know the structure of space, or the structure of time.
Even if we did: what would it mean for a line or a plane to exist? There could be equivalent descriptions of our universe, some including those as objects and some only as emergent properties.
- Comment on What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux? 10 months ago:
You could also help preparing XFCE for eventual Wayland compatibility: wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap .
- Comment on What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux? 10 months ago:
Okular (a rather good PDF viewer) can’t save sessions (open files & positions) in non-KDE environments.
The issue has been open since 2018: bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397463 .
There’s some partial merge request but it’s been dead for a year.