ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
20hr ago
the state of the art for a heating system is a heat pump.
Using electricity from a natural gas turbine, or a different source?
(And yes, burning it in a turbine, generating electricity, transmitting it, and running a heat pump is usually more efficient than burning it directly in a furnace. )
ulyssessword
22hr ago
It's just a slur.
The far-right is bad, the establishment wants to (deniably) call them bad, so they call them far-right. They wish describing them as being on the fringe was accurate.
ulyssessword
3d ago
also has published a "webfic bingo card".
44/182 here, 32 either finished or at the in-progress point, and 12 dropped after at least one book-equivalent. There are a few more I peeked at but never really picked up.
EDIT: Actually, I think a couple of those kept going after I decided they were finished, so maybe a 30-14 split or so.
ulyssessword
4d ago
the Balaji 'secede' call comes from media reporting rather than the actual speech.
I've heard of the politician's strategy of "If you don't like the question they asked, imagine a better one and answer that instead". I didn't think journalists were supposed to do "If you don't like the speech they gave, imagine a better one and report on that instead".
Assuming that there wasn't a different speech that he's referring to, it's just straight-up lies stacked on top of uncharitable extrapolation and deceptive framing. Who wouldn't want an alternative to that?
ulyssessword
4d ago
They did, though. Or are our memories that short?
Nah, your standards are too low. Their level of support is insufficient to partisans because they at least gesture at evenhandedness and classical liberal tendencies.
ulyssessword
7d ago
Yeah. Each model comes close to making back its investment in a few months. Then a newer model gets released before it can actually "break even", it lasts a few months, and the cycle repeats.
Also, the more efficient models already exist: The Sonnet/Mini/Flash tier is cheaper and only months behind the Opus/[non-specified]/Pro tier. It only seems like a lot because AI progress speeds are wild.
Either a weird half-transgender situation, or they screwed up between "paternity" and "parental". I'm guessing the latter.
EDIT: or it's two different people. Bob was fired after Alice gave birth to her second child.
ulyssessword
10d ago
a preference for the use of these words with attribution
Pseudo-neutrality like that may not be obvious favoritism, but it only takes one crack before the trick becomes clear. Now that it's been revealed to a broad audience, they had to stop.
A so-called "public broadcaster" that claims to employ "journalists" should know the difference between making plain statements and hiding behind the words of others. Their leadership does know that, and minimizing Islamic terrorism was a deliberate choice by them.
ulyssessword
10d ago
We evolved to
We evolved to do a lot of things, like running from lions, starving through famines, and living to the ripe old age of died-from-childbirth. The last few millennia of technological advancements have improved many things, including communication and education.
ulyssessword
11d ago
What's the overrepresentation ratio for creationists vs. atheists?
ulyssessword
11d ago
6 hours is way too long as well, it's really nice that he dug up so many primary sources, but it's really long-winded and feels like it could have been cut to half-length.
I'd rather read 200k words (as long as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, and half of the Prisoner of Azkaban) than watch a six-hour video. It's faster, easier to quote/reference, and hopefully contains more information (maybe even links to optional external sources and/or primary evidence).
People rarely say "read several books on the topic, then we can continue the discussion", but for some reason it's common with videos.
ulyssessword
11d ago
Depending on your route, you can stop at a grocery store and get a ready-to-eat meal in not too much more time than fast food. My go-to was half a giant sandwich and a bottle of pop. It was healthier, more filling, and less expensive than a burger (and I know I'm setting the bar low).
ulyssessword
14d ago
The issue was that the police, who are ostensibly supposed to facilitate justice, handcuffed a dying man who'd just been stabbed.
Four police officers were at the scene. "The police" is a group made up of people, and you are attributing the actions of those four people to the entire group.
I think you're right. If anyone is anti-group enough to argue against it, I'd like to hear why.
ulyssessword
15d ago
Do you think that's the correct level of generalization here?
ulyssessword
16d ago
You posited a specifically anti-white agenda, and now you're presenting evidence that communists supported the case.
Are you assuming that communists can only pursue one agenda: communism? I'm not seeing a logical problem with communists stirring up anti-white sentiment. That goes double if we're talking about members/supporters of a specific political party instead of believers in the ideology.
ulyssessword
16d ago
That sequence of events was caused by the money, and would be a monkey’s paw.
In the original Monkey's Paw, it gets them their money by killing their son. I wouldn't consider a perfectly-fulfilled wish with bad consequences to be a Monkey's Paw.
It's the difference between:
A: I want a Porche 911 here right now!
Genie: Okay! Vroom, Smash!!
and
A: I want a Porche 911 here right now!
Genie: Okay!
(After years of enjoying it, his aggressive driving led to a fatal collision)
ulyssessword
16d ago
I'm missing something. My model showed 16:16 total, or a 1:1 ratio. What did you mean?
and it does not mean that black people are more violent or more prone to rape the other race.
Yes, it does.
Imagine a 80:20 split with equal propensity. The small group does 16 cross-group offenses and 4 in-group offenses. The large group does 16 cross-group offenses and 64 in-group offenses. The smaller target pool is perfectly balanced by the smaller perpetrator pool.
If that balance isn't maintained in reality, then why not?
ulyssessword
16d ago
One example:
Arday’s grad-school alma mater, Liverpool John Moores University, which first received direct complaints about the dissertation last fall, did its own investigation and cleared Arday of wrongdoing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/08/jason-arday-cambridge-academic-memoir-resignation/688206/
ulyssessword
17d ago
Accountability is just punishment. The definition has never changed, even if the targets and justifications have.
ulyssessword
18d ago
Since that claim was disproven(-ish), he is an example of a white fabulist professor.
I don't think he could draw significant protection from that claim if it was quietly known to be false, as (1) If people thought he was just there to be a Native professor, they would object to that fakery, and (2) accusations of racism hold a lot less weight when the target is (or at least will soon be known to be) white.
ulyssessword
19d ago
I would challenge you to identify 3 individuals...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ellis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Churchill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harvey_Briggs
"Roughly equivalent" has to do a lot of work and it has to reach back 40 years to find a third example.
I'm skeptical that such individuals exist. And if they don't, it lends support to the hypothesis that Arday's race was the main factor.
Me too. Three bad matches might as well be nothing when you're looking at around a million candidates.
ulyssessword
20d ago
They're probably referring to "Model 2", which is their most recent (or at least most recently revealed) internal model. Or just guessing that something like that exists and getting lucky that it's confirmed already.
Anthropic talks about it in their most recent Risk Report (pdf). Mythos -> Model 2 seems like a smaller step than Opus -> Mythos, but bigger than a 0.1-increment release.
ulyssessword
22d ago
If you're genuinely fighting it,
I'm not. I used a solved problem as a test for the models.
That said, Claude Opus 5 gave not-crazy answers.
That's substantially better than the sixth iteration in Sonnet or the 20th in ChatGPT (it was faster, but not any better). It put all the thicknesses in the right directions, connected all the pieces at the correct points, had everything facing in the correct directions, and even had decent choices for the corners.
I guess there is something to the big models being step-changes over small ones.
Yes.
For Navier-Stokes specifically, they (claim to have) found one situation where the equations predict physically-impossible results. Someone else could find a different situation that also gave impossible results.
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