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Would model values like 'openrouter/pareto-code' or 'openrouter/auto' be of any help?

OpenAI trying their best to put the Navier-Stokes episode behind them by making the GPUs go brrrr. NYT:

https://archive.vn/lWzkk

> In its Wednesday night statement, OpenAI said: “In addition, since the completion of Navier-Stokes, we have made substantial progress on another Millennium Prize problem. We are working through how to share these results thoughtfully.”


I've got 2:1 odds on a report in 6 months detailing the break-n-entry of a cloud AI model into Terance Tao's computer looking for details on a partially solved math problem.

the only thing terrence solves lately is sorting his invitations to podcasts

I asked my clanker to summarize it for me:

https://rentry.co/2ttr46r9


>That night my family watched a war movie on the VCR, maybe saving private ryan or something similar, and the helicopter struck me.

If there was a helicopter in the movie, then we can confidently exclude Saving Private Ryan.


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Glad you noticed I’m not a native English speaker. The .cl tld is a small hint of that.

I’m trying to retake reading and writing since after joining the workforce I stopped reading books and writing and I noticed that my grammar skills were deteriorating.

I don’t know what’s wrong with that sentence to be honest or if this is sarcasm (I’m not good at reading sarcasm) but I’d love to know what’s the issue with it.


This is the longest "you write like shit" I've ever read, congratulations


You should've seen Usenet, man: it was epic!


Your username is butlerian jihad, and yet you advocate FOR the tell tale LLM writing style that the rest of the internet seems to loathe?

So while I'm still on the fence about whether you're being meta-ironic or whatever, I am very certain that I will always prefer honest, human written blog posts (including wrong idioms, phrases etc) to slop that was "improved" or downright written in full by an LLM.


> As the patient's temperature approached 22 °C (72 °F), low-frequency and low-amplitude sinusoidal electrical deflections were noted on his electrocardiogram.

Dunno about you, but this does things to me.


Can you explain?


Not op, but imagine doing cpr to someone for more than an hour (btw this means multiple people taking turns because cpr is exhausting) and at some point there is a sign of feeble heart contractile activity (and hence life)

It must have been a very emotional moment for the rescuers and parents if present.

Edit: corrected typo


An hour of cpr in an ALS scenario almost certainly involves a Lucas device:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUCAS_device

… which are commonly carried in ambulances.


TIL! thanks!


I think this fits into some "Commoditize The Complement" strategy.

https://gwern.net/complement


Current status:

> 2025-08-16: dwl IS CURRENTLY UN-MAINTAINED. AT THE PRESENT TIME, I (@fauxmight) DO NOT HAVE THE TIME OR CAPACITY TO KEEP UP WITH wlroots CHANGES.

https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl


I said build on top of wlroots, not DWL. And I only brought it up as an example of a small Wayland compositor/window manager because the poster I was replying to wants to build their own anyway. DWL is more interesting as a learning exercise than something to use.


The -IMO- important part of that quote is "NOT HAVE THE TIME OR CAPACITY TO KEEP UP WITH wlroots CHANGES".

X11 is backwards compatible, you do not have to "keep up" with its changes.

wlroots seemingly isn't. This is a significant issue when it comes to relying on most 3rd party libraries.


> X11 is backwards compatible, you do not have to "keep up" with its changes.

That's certainly one way to say "no longer developed".


When things work further development is not always a positive.


That was also true back when it was actively developed though. X apps compiled a long time ago still run fine today.


Xorg is still being under development, there is another fork in development too (XLibre) and you're in the comment thread for a project about a brand new X server written from scratch.

Usually things which are "no longer developed" do not have (at least) three implementations in development.


Mature projects often don't change much or quickly even when actively maintained or improved.


(i worked a _little bit_ on dwl) each wlroots upgrade is a pretty small diff on the dwl source. the annoying part is, as dwl is configured with patches, every patch author has to update their patch to the new 0.x, as dwl is quite minimal, and thus has no stable api. that being said, obviously, dwm doesn't have this problem :)

also, for dwl, the issue is that the initial author (not the guy that wrote that notice) is sorta mia, and he has control of the repo on codeberg, so we'd probably need to fork to be safe, and he may not want to take on project lead. (he checks every patch for merge conflicts with one another and upgrade breakages, god bless him lol)


> I said build on top of wlroots, not DWL.

Turns out, the wlroots API is so volatile atm that even the developer of the super small compositor DWL has to throw in the towel for now.

> DWL is more interesting as a learning exercise than something to use.

The same is said about DWM, its xorg counterpart, but I, for one, am a happy user of DWM.


Nearly every Wayland compositor is built on wlroots. Somehow they manage. But yeah, of course it's going to change more than X11, which is older than I am and more or less abandoned...


It's actively maintained by projects like RHEL which still have versions which are supported which in turn support X11.

Others are looking to run X11 wm under wayland with wayback, xlibre wants to keep it moving forward, and phoenix wants to replace it with a modern version.

This isn't what abandoned means.


No, I do not. I pointed out that with Wayland I'd be forced to. And DWL is an illustration of how much work that is relative to an X11 wm.


FTA:

> [Einstein's General Relativity] tells us that the universe is expanding

Does GR really tell us that though?

The way I understood it, GR's differential equations will produce solutions for many different constraints and initial conditions you throw at them. Including the constraints & conditions informed by astronomical observation.


GR tells us that a homogeneous and isotropic universe either expands or contracts. Besides being the default assumption, our universe also looks quite homogeneous and isotropic at large scales, and definitely looks like it fits the expanding option rather than the contracting one.


You're ignoring the elephant in the room: frozen mammoth dung.

To restore the gut health of humans, there is this thing called "fecal transplant" [1]: use another person's poo to bootstrap the growth of your own gut microbiome.

There is an abundance of mammoth dung in the northern permafrost. When thawed, its microbiome becomes active again, producing methane. [2]

So resurrecting the woolly mammoth as a species is the hardest part. Equipping the first individuals with a proper gut biome will be really easy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant

[2] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/melting-permaf...


> the assumption that every non-white person hired is a "diversity" hire before even looking at their qualifications is incredibly racist.

That's not an assumption that GP makes.


That's exactly the assumption the GP made.


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