atemerev

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Founder at Virial, ex-EPFL
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Comment · 5 days ago
No one personally uses API prices. If you need to do something yourself, you need a subscription. Ans subscriptions shinkflated at the same time, but a lot.
Comment · 6 days ago
Amazing how this considers people will still be needed to direct AIs for something.
Comment · 6 days ago
Well now the accounts are tracked with your real biometry which will be more and more common every month thanks to Persona.

And then, when they ban you, you will not be able to create a new account and continue. Every ban will be forever. Like getting on the no-fly list.

Comment · 7 days ago
Quantum _mechanics_ cannot be understood, it is full of paradoxes. It contradicts classical EM and special relativity, among other things. A toy theory that was an important step to what came later.

Feynman's own QED is a part of QFT, but this is no longer quantum mechanics. Special relativity and quantum physics are reconciled since then. Now, we only need to reconcile GR and QFT, but this leap was so far beyond our attempts to scale it. Yet, QED/QFT/SM can be "understood" as there are fewer obvious paradoxes that plagued QM.

Comment · 7 days ago
"Was", unfortunately. He died this September. What a loss, he earned a Nobel long ago.
Comment · 7 days ago
When I learned about causal sets program and algebraic quantum field theory, I finally (somewhat) understood quantum physics.

Tl;dr spacetime does not exist as a global background where things are "placed", it is not ontic. "Things" are first, and spacetime is derived from interaction statistics of "things". This eliminates nearly all naive paradoxes like double slit etc. Now, these "things" are somewhat complicated and non-intuitive (e.g. there are no individual "particles", they are a limit of discrete distributions), but that's a good start.

Comment · 11 days ago
Originals are in the torrent
Comment · 11 days ago
Well, this is exactly how people voted for Hitler, and I would have assumed people know from history how it ended when "moral approach" was thrown away.

Apparently, everyone forgot already.

Comment · 16 days ago
I wonder why no one writes that all UWB devices - airtags, phones, headphones - form the opportunistic P2P network perfect for mass surveillance. Best case scenario, all phones and airtags can be localized on demand by FBI - yes, the current one. Worst case scenario, by FSB.
Comment · 22 days ago
I think that AI is the best thing that happened to art. It elevated _all_ human art to this mystical realm. All human work became sacred, as it is unique and bears the Secret Fire. Whatever you do as "art", as long as you didn't use AI, it automatically bears the sacral stamp. Can go to a gallery, whatever. All human art is now elite art.
Comment · 1 month ago
To Russian war machine.
Comment · 1 month ago
If you have the compute, I have the expertise.
Comment · 1 month ago
Well, if the solution is a manual workaround that forces a better query plan, this needs to be a part of Postgres itself so it builds better query plans automatically.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
But we can't program it yet.

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