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Comment · 2 months ago
Do they go after people using similar names or just any game with similar mechanics?
Comment · 2 months ago
It is too hard to be fun :P
Comment · 3 months ago
The decision to shorten "cybersecurity" or "cyberattacks" to "cyber" alone is so annoying!

All models are "cyber-capable" :P

Comment · 6 months ago
I recently tried buying a domain in cloudflare, they refused the payment -- even using my account which I use actively for years -- tried to pay with paypal, no luck. Went to porkbun and bought the same domain in 5 minutes and pointed it to cloudflare name server.

Maybe they should fix the regular flow before automating it with agents?

Comment · 6 months ago
Does it produce real svgs as opposed to foreign object html in svg mess that mermaid compilers produce?
Comment · 6 months ago
Well, the paper explicitly takes the principal branch to solve this.

So it isn't exploiting the branching for computation.

Comment · 6 months ago
Exactly! If you didn't strictly limit the operator's complexity, you could just smuggle a Turing machine in via bitwise logic and turn the whole thing into a parlor trick. The beauty here is that eml(x,y) is a pure, continuous analytical function with no hidden branching whatsoever.

To clarify my earlier point: the author isn't trying to build a practical calculator or generate human-readable algebra. Using exp and ln isn't a cheat code because the goal is purely topological. The paper just proves that this massive, diverse family of continuous math can be mapped perfectly onto a uniform binary tree, without secretly burying a state machine inside the operator.

Comment · 6 months ago
I think the point here is to explore the reduction of these functions to finite binary trees using a single binary operator and a single stopping constant. The operator used could be arbitrarily complex; the objective is to prove that other expressions in a certain family — in this case, the elementary functions — can be expanded as a finite (often incomplete) binary tree of that same operation.

In other words, this result does not aim to improve computability or bound the complexity of calculating the numerical value. Rather, it aims to exhibit this uniform, finite tree structure for the entire family of elementary expressions.

Comment · 6 months ago
This is a very in depth graph compression research presented with unmatched visuals. Trully inspiring and mind blowing.

2swap produces the type of content that makes me genuinely happy about existing :)

Comment · 8 months ago
To be clear I never said custom vibe coded personal software is bad. But clearly that's not the point from OP. Quoting directly:

> you download a skill file that tells a coding agent how to add a feature

This is suggesting a my_feature.md would be a way of sharing and improving software in the future, which I think is mostly a bad thing.

Comment · 8 months ago
Why would this new paradigm create interesting tooling? From your description I expect wrose not better tools.
Comment · 9 months ago
I did some more reading and want to walk back my skepticism a bit. There is actually serious effort going into this, such as Google’s research on space-based AI infrastructure: https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalabl...

They highlight the exact reliability constraint I was thinking of: that replacing failed TPUs is trivial on Earth but impossible in space. Their solution is redundant provisioning, which moves the problem from "operationally impossible" to "extremely expensive."

You would effectively need custom, super-redundant motherboards designed to bypass dead chips rather than replace them. The paper also tackles the interconnect problem using specialized optics to sustain high bitrates, which is fascinating but seems incredibly difficult to pull off given that the constellation topology changes constantly. It might be possible, but the resulting hardware would look nothing like a regular datacenter.

Also this would require lots of satelites to rival a regular DC which is also very hard to justify. Let's see what the promised 2027 tests will reveal.

Comment · 9 months ago
How are you doing pci express x16 with lasers without fiber optics? Have you touched data center hardware in your life?
Comment · 9 months ago
Haha, hard pass on the job. I prefer my oxygen at 1 atm.

I'm not a data center technician myself, but I have deep respect for those folks and the complexity they manage. It's quite surprising the market still buys Musk's claims day after day.

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