LLM (near term) will not in general be able create machine code better than a compiler. That's just a crazy suggestion.

LLMs are great if you want to run a quick statistical analysis. As long as you don’t care if you're right. So standard scientific code.

Something AI coding agents suck at is writing code in areas where there is a lot of poorly written code. Case and point: statistics in python. Even when asked to use non parametric techniques for statistics with few samples and no bootstrapping it STILL tries to use bootstrapping.

Oh this is bad. If Google really did do this, 70 million is not a high enough settlement. It should be in the billions. If not, they should have proved it. This is bad on the antitrust lawyers. They shouldn't accept this settlement.

Can Minnesota make it illegal for federal agents to use tear gas?

My only complaint with baldurs gate 3 is that it only has one campaign. I suspect now that Larian has proven that Baldurs gate 3 can exist, wizards will spend the money to make Baldurs gate 4 with heavily monetized DLC. It probably will be lower quality, but hopefully good enough.

Personally, I think the right way to do frame Gen is to actually render very low quality versions of the frames to be "generated" then use AI and a few high quality frames to up res the image. That way user input can influence the frame and lower input latency.

A few more days with the Kat walk and the tracking is quite bad. It frequently drifts so that my in game character moves in a different direction than I am walking, and the latency is quite noticeable, like half a second.

Quantum mechanics IS local, it just isn’t classical. It has non classical correlations. But it is local.

Just tried the Kat walk c2 plus enhanced. A few thoughts: 1. Not responsive enough. There's like a quarter second delay between foot movement and character movement. 2. Not accurate enough. Seems to both mistake direction and speed quite often. 3...

Regulation works. The main advantage of Teslas for a long time was there charging network. Biden's inflation reduction act equalized the playing field. Now the only advantage of Teslas is the 🤭brand 🫠

A game with conventional LLM driven NPCs is sort of like a game where all the NPCs are clayface from Harley Quinn. Yeah they can do actually a very good impression, but they are more interested I'm acting then actually being the part they are meant to play. This will inevitably derail the plot.

Whenever Trump leaves, dealing with all these ICE lunatics is gonna be a problem. Their training isn't going to just disappear. It will be a permanent generation of men who will take that evil with them and it will seap into whatever they do afterward.

In anticipation of my VR treadmill, installed skyrim. I'm disappointed that by default, I can’t just pick up a weapon, and use it like a weapon. There is some extra gesture I have to do to equip it, which is frankly kind of annoying.

Screw Trump accounts. We wanted larger child tax credits so that lower income houses can use the money toward household essentials when they need it most. Trump said no, I'll give an investment account so that people who can afford to invest in their children can dodge more taxes.

You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance

Trump once again canceling successful US programs only to bring back a much worse version that program. This time, USAID, light, privatized, explicitly religious, and only in Nigeria. www.state.gov/releases/off...

I caved. Bought a Kat walk on sale, and a quest 3s to hold me over until the steamframe gets here. Also, got a doctor's note so I should be able to pay for it with my HSA.

Not a big fan of all the fantasy racism. If two groups: 1. Can communicate with the same language, 2. Use essentially the same tools, 3. Have fertile offspring, Then for all intents and purposes they are the same species. If you want multiple races, at least one of these needs to be violated.

It's a shame that the old movie trope where the good guy gives proof the bad guy really did bad things so they get thrown into prison, just doesn't work in the US anymore. We elected a really bad guy to office, who ran on being a bad guy, and now he protects all his bad guy friends.

Okay, I just started my tests. My very expensive tests. Let's hope nothing breaks during the run.

Any legislation we can push through that will fight back against the anti consumer, monopolistic Healthcare system is good.

We should be doing more to help young people buy entry level homes, not to help people at their prime earnings and savings lock in their housing advantage further. www.fox7austin.com/news/seniors...

Many explanations of the montey hall problem are just wrong. Consider the screw up game host who (when you didn’t choose the car) accidentally screws up and shows you the care with 50% probability. Should you switch with them? If your analysis still says yes, your analysis is wrong.

I don't know exactly what went wrong with horizon worlds, but it seems like a fundamental engineering failure. Too many people pushed onto a project too fast with too unclear (and changing) requirements.

If AI does decide to kill all humans, it will probably be BECAUSE of the sci-fi warning us about it.

Jesus christ. Removing MLK day and replacing it with Trumps birthday is par for the course for this administration. And it's not the worst thing he's done. But darn is it a bad look. Trump really going full villain. www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...

Okay, I tried my VR shoes. Didn't work. Gonna get a slip mill for my steam frame.

Super power idea, you can turn invisible, but: 1. You can only turn your whole body invisible at once, no partial invisibility. 2. Clothes don't become invisible. 3. You can’t see while invisible.

Can we stop making posts blaming Amazon for nitrates in water where the data does not support the conclusion? No data about size of the aquafor, specific numbers about water lost make it hard to determine the size of the effect. And the numbers in this article support the opposite of the claim.

Worried about how expensive the new steamframe will be with the dram prices. Right now 16gb is only $100, but that really shouldn't be one of the primary costs of the headset.

There are many Maga break up articles right now but this happened before after January 6. Trump won again 4 years later with greater institutional support than ever. The GOP won't turn on Trump, they'll just temporarily act disappointed until they can stop acting.

So, luckily my job has given me a very annoying thing to test at work that is requiring me to learn some knew statistics to deal with it. Essentially, I need to use the DKW inequality, but I need a strengthened one with tighter bounds on the tails. Fairly interesting stuff!

Had an idea for a VR treadmill, and now that I have some disposable income, I'm gonna try it! Anyway, if I break my ankles in the next few weeks you know what happened.

Every instrument is a drum if you believe hard enough.

We don’t need steam OS for companies to build Linux desktops. Just put Ubuntu on it, maybe with some pre-installed stuff. I'm all for valve making steam OS more widely available, but if they'd rather focus their OS on specific hardware, that's fine. Proton works on other Linux distros.

Lukewarm take: short people are cool, and genetically engineering your kids to try to make them above average height is bad. Hot take: if it was possible, genetically engineering your kids to be shorter WOULD be cool.

I mean, they should also work to set up better federal laws to regulate voting to fix fundamental problems with our voting system. But until the rules are fixed, yeah play the game to win.

Soon, very soon, one can buy truly native, Canadian Honeyberries. research-groups.usask.ca/fruit/articl... Well, half Canadian half Japanese, but close enough.

Cloud providers are not utilities like water and electric. Adding a new provider made available to everyone is not expensive. It is not expensive to switch someone from AWS to GCP. Now, they are large powerful companies and they should be regulated. But they are not utilities.

I am a little concerned that valve has chosen a two year old XPu for the steam frame. This is similar to what Oculus did for the quest 1, and probably for similar reasons. It still worked well, but it seriously hurt it's shelf life.

Early 2026, I will finally upgrade my 13 year old PC. Something will need the new hardware.

Do I even want a vr treadmill anymore? Now I just play video games while I'm waiting for my program to finish. Being too emersed could stop me from working. Anyway, yes I do.

I'm looking through my previous experiment, and I think I accidentally approximated the normal distribution using only 7 points, instead of the 121 I meant to. Maybe. Oops. It doesn’t invalidate the earlier result either way, but woops.

It's weird. The time changed and all of a sudden I'm at work 9 till 5 and eating lunch at lunch time. I guess I've always just been on standard time.

Revamped my imaginary calendar system to make sunrise approximately zero o'clock. Two major consequences: 1: time zones are now based on longitude and latitude. 2: days have more minutes in summer and fall than winter and spring. Not sure if it's better or not.

I get why we pinned time to noon and midnight. It makes timezones much simpler, plus sundials. But an alternative reality where we defined time of day based on sunrise would fix most of our stupid daylight savings time issues, even if it would mean way more time zones.

It is wild that game streaming now has less input latency than my TV. Like, why the heck is input latency on some of these TVs so high? How is it cheaper to store the image for like 5 frames before displaying it then just displaying them as they get in (with maybe 1 buffer)?

Does anyone out there know why hdrhistogram is so popular? It seems like it is just exponentially sized buckets (so larger values have larger buckets) and only the number in each bucket is stored. Why doesn't it store more things in a bucket, like average values in that bucket, or higher moments?

It's kind of wild that AWS advertises more than 3 nines of availability on any service. Like, these outages happen, and eliminating them is practically impossible while still delivering new features (which they have to do to stay competitive).