theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 6hIsraeli Arabs who live in the west bank vote in Israeli elections and all Arabs who live in annexed east Jerusalem and the Golan have Israeli citizenship and vote in Israeli elections. 000 0
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 6hA better comparison would be something like pré 1917 Puerto Ricans, whose territory is controlled by the US but is not actually a US state nor were they us citizens 100 1
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialThe Information @theinformation.com · 11hAnthropic’s slowing revenue growth is raising questions about whether it missed its best window to go public. Investors now see its IPO valuation closer to $1.5 trillion than the $2 trillion bankers previously floated. Read more: thein.fo/4BsN6kfthein.foDid Anthropic Miss Its Peak IPO Moment?It’s beginning to look like Anthropic waited too late to go public. Third-quarter revenue numbers disclosed to investors on Wednesday implied that its growth has slowed from the second quarter, which ... 011 1
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 22hIf they don't IPO soon it's also going to lead to mass sackings 000 0
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026If you were wondering who is stupid enough to take musk demos at face value, now you don't have to 020 2
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026i dont think it is power at all. In a week where some bad news was going to drop about their financials, I think this was about OpenAI trying to flood the press 0270 27
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026"Bend over and hope for a reach around" policy towards the US still in effect 000 0
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Kospi, at least, looks like bitching about NPS not riding to the rescue has had an effect 010 1
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Reminder this is another criminal offence that would result in serious consequences if it wasn't people in a tech company 000 0
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026The Korean translation by grok is unsurprisingly terrible 030 3
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public. 75151275659 15.1K
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Was particularly a must read during covid 000 0
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialnestor guillen @birdsnfrogs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Great post -- Sophie makes an important point: the results OpenAI announced with great fanfare are "normal for the current state of technology". The credit goes above all to the data -- the communal knowledge of mathematicians they relied to train their LLM 1183 18
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026His biography of Fischer Black was very good 120 2
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026There is a recent example of a company that claimed to have vibe coded clones of Adobe software so you might be a real life legal test case 010 1
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean. 13768192264 6.8K
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Kospi 10,.... Wait breaking news coming in 000 0
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Ok honestly that wasn’t a sentence I was expecting. 1233 23
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.argmin.netFaster Fourier TransformsThe OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit. 1520071 200
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialJoe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Anybody who does this deserves the outcome 925252687 5.3K
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It's a great book. He also wrote a very interesting book on how national memories are constructed 020 2
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 11/10/2026Consciousness: famously one of the hardest things to understand & explain. It fascinates me that so many random ̶I̶T̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶e̶r̶s̶ people share their complex personal theories here, & that they’re so certain. Also that they respond to experts with the most amazing technical-sounding language. Like poetry. 3305 30
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026if it really was commercially viable, it would need a korean taxpayer to hand over money at gunpoint 000 0
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Re previous conversation. I think the reason tech people are so comfortable with AI "proofs" is that claiming a flakey, half arsed PoS solves a problem that it clearly doesn't is par for the course in that field 000 0
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Do you know every definition in the openai lean proof is 100% correct, that there are no sorrys in any of the statements it relies on? That all their definitions are correct? How do you know this given the lean code and associated paper is unreadable even to experts? 000 0
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Point of Lean is that it will verify that a given statement logically derives from a series of other statements, not that those statements match what openai claims they do - and, because of that paper you dismissed, we know that in some cases they don't 100 1
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Unlike the counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture that everyone instantly recognised as correct or some of the other ai outputs. Mainly because openai generated unreadable slop in this case 100 1
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Not sure why we are pretty sure given no one actually checked the proof. Most professionals I know **assume** it's at least directionally correct but I don't know any professional who would claim they are certain until some goes through it line by line 100 1
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026What it says is the "proof" may not be an actual proof of Navier stokes but might be something else but until someone actually works through the slop no one is really going to know 100 1
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Compare and contrast this overreaction over bullshit with south Koreas "bend over and hope for a reach around" approach to the US 010 1
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Is battery ajosshi posting again? www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/bat...koreajoongangdaily.comBattery ETFs surge as AI data centers fuel ESS optimismEight of Korea’s 10 best-performing ETFs this month tracked secondary battery companies, as investors bet on energy storage demand from AI data centers. 000 0
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 254162533720 16.3K
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There was a report that openai is not growing as fast as they need to, suspect that's the reason they did the slop drop 000 0
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialBen Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Mathematician: Who at OpenAI can I contact about you using my results without credit? OpenAI: No one 04112 41
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026On same day that reports show openai not hitting growth targets 000 0
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Reupping this with the request that it you liked the cute dog photo, you take one minute of your day to send the link to any DC-area friends/family/acquaintances who do not currently have a dog but might be interested in adopting one, or even just taking one out for a day in the park. 214648 146
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“I think in reality, what socialism actually means in the American context is lug nut squirrel biscuit meow meow papa was a rolling stone.” 139622 96
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Openai internal models are uncommonly good at solving maths problems that humans have already uploaded the solution to it 020 2
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A generational opportunity missed for the UK 000 0
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If the US had enough citizens who could do basic maths then Vance wouldn't be VP 020 2
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A thing I should have mentioned: They’re waiving adoption fees for the next week. You can just have this sweet sweet pup for zero dollars down. Or take her on a day trip, also zero dollars. She will love you unconditionally and slay your foes, probably. Go meet her. 513737 137
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Worse thing about this is finding out "fuck you" money is somewhere north of 400bn 020 2
Reposted by @theseouldan.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters. 1203075539 3.1K
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have a miniscule following but fingers crossed 000 0
theseouldan.bsky.social @theseouldan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Weird how openai keeps "solving" problems that humans have done all the legwork but haven't published yet 000 0
