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Why use this over Equinox's Module, plus jaxtyping? That seems like the cleaner (and more established) solution, but maybe there are pros/cons I'm not seeing.

Death of the AI race? This is the starting gun.

"Financially, what will take me to $1B?" -Greg Brockman, August 2017

Seriously going to use AI to write a reply that would take you 30 seconds?

Thank you for the kind words! :)

This is a desperation move from the LLM providers here. Just think: if you were Sam Altman, and you actually had strong evidence that practical AGI was as imminent as claimed - would you be spending your time building AI-slop TikTok and a smut bot?

There is a beautiful irony in your misspelling of Anno Domini as Anno Domani, for the Italian speakers in the room.

What is the benefit of this over `watch nvidia-smi`, possibly prepended with an `ssh` in the case of a remove server?

I love the concept of this and hope Slate survives, but $27.5k is too expensive for what they're offering. With the Kia Soul at $21.5k and with more features, and the Honda Civic at the same cost, the value proposition isn't there for many people.

Minimialism is great, so long as the price also reflects that.

This was a disappointing article: based on the provocative title, I was hoping to learn something new. Everything in here is already clear to anyone who has read the "Getting Started" page of uv, and I don't know anyone who is making these mistakes (system-wide package installs on a venv-first package manager?) with uv.

Yes, it is completely wrong. If this were a valid explanation, flat-plate airfoils could not generate lift. (They can.)

Source: PhD on aircraft design

Funny you should mention that! The surface of a trampoline can actually be modeled as a 2nd-order wave equation PDE, which uses a Laplacian spatial kernel - for the same reasons this is called Laplacian smoothing!

This is a good question. It looks like Kalshi (which hosts the underlying market in question here) in fact does pay interest on both cash balances and open positions, at a reasonable market rate: 4.05%. https://kalshi.com/blog/article/interest-cash-open-positions

You imply that the title "King of America" is pejorative, but did he or did he not refer to himself as a king? As far as I can tell, he endorsed this title.

To add on this, prediction markets currently put Trump Sr. as 8.5% likely to win the 2028 GOP nomination (electionbettingodds.com). So, I wouldn't take your "he'll be done in four years" as certainty. The market thinks things are far more precarious than you do.

when it stops being laminar the flow separates

Not true, laminar/turbulent and attached/separated are independent descriptors. Flow can be laminar+attached, laminar+separated (e.g., laminar separation bubbles), turbulent+attached (e.g., the majority of boundary layers on large aircraft), or turbulent+separated.

...that's the joke.

literally no errors in its operation are tolerated

Aircraft designer here, this is not true. We typically certify to <1 catastrophic failure per 1e9 flight hours. Not zero.

Disagree. The kind of serious plagiarism that's alleged in cases like this, Claudine Gay, Marc Tessier-Lavigne doesn't happen by accident, it's deliberate. There are plenty of academics, both minorities and not, who are capable of original thought (and not resorting to plagiarism).

I can't wait for the day that AI is used to expose the fakers en-masse. Previously, they got away with plagiarism through obscurity - no longer. The sooner we can excise these freeloaders from our professional institutions, the better.

I did not go though the grueling process of writing an original PhD thesis, just to share a title with those who plagiarized their thesis.

Solar can absolutely be modulated; in fact, it's perhaps the easiest grid-scale power source to modulate since this can be done solid-state: just tune the MPPT to operate off-peak if needed.

This is not how unit conversions work.

This is exactly the wrong time to use a LLM. Case in point: those coordinates are not in the Atlantic ocean.

This is rule-breaking on HN; argue in good faith.

Wow, Hilderman's quore is just factually incorrect where he says:

"Fuel is 20 times more than the passenger weight"

For most transport aircraft, passenger mass fraction is roughly 12%-18% depending on what's included (cargo, seats, etc.), while fuel mass fraction is around 30% to 40%.

So this ratio is more like 2 or 3, not 20.

Passenger weight is absolutely a huge factor (speaking as an aerospace engineer focusing on vehicle design and flight performance).

There is a difference between saying "We believe LK-99 is NOT a superconductor" and "We do not believe LK-99 is a superconductor". The former is a hypothesis, the latter is a rejection of a hypothesis. The latter is really just expressing a return to an agnostic base state. Hence, the former requires evidence, and the latter is the null hypothesis.

Perhaps "safer than CO" is fair, but "much safer than CO" may be a bit of a stretch. H2S is the #2 cause of fatal chemical inhalations in the workplace, behind CO:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2019/fatal-chemical-inhalations...

I think H2S is somewhat bigger of a safety risk than presented here.

For example, check out this case where what you describe (battery rupture) happened, killing both occupants from H2S inhalation:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161005164308/http://www.wesh.c...

And this was only from a starter battery, not a battery sized for vehicle locomotion.

Generally this doesn't feel like a problem with Python, due to its massive user base advantage. Meta, Google, Microsoft, and many others contribute tens of billions of dollars annually to Python-ecosystem projects (PyTorch, Tensorflow, faster-cpython). Unless that funding differential changes I can't see Julia competing.