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Read on and see the retropredictions of top and bottom quark energies!

Even a retrodiction can be impressive and/or interesting if it is a sufficiently "nothing up my sleeve" [1] type of prediction. I don't know enough about this field and the article isn't informative enough for me to guess, but it's possible that they made a retrodiction where they didn't tune the parameters for it explicitly and got near the correct result directly. In that case, it would at least constitute some sort of clue, even if it isn't necessarily correct. Or they could have tuned the heck out of it and glossed over it in the article, I dunno.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number


Being able to predict such values from first principles is actually a very good sign for a theory.

Did anyone say it is a risk? What if courts eventually decide that users of products of closed models have to pay some reasonable fee to the owners of the training data?

That is fun: it lends c-style block markers (curly braces) and python-style line separation (new lines). No objection.

It uses the same trick as Go [1]. The grammar has semicolons, but the tokeniser silently inserts them for ease of use. I think quite a few languages do it now

[1] https://go.dev/doc/effective_go#semicolons


JavaScript and Kotlin do that too.

Lends? What does that mean?

blends

Hopefully, this will turn out better than proton therapy, which held similar promises of improvement. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11506991/

Confusing name because of the existence of pageant, the putty agent.

Darn. Pageant would've been a nice name though. Maybe `page-agent.js` is more relevant in web dev community.

I think every successful Show HN post ends up with a "thought this was about X" or "didn't look up the name first?" comment. Consider it a win! I don't think anyone will mistake a tool for putty with your tool, but you might share a google search page with it.

I think page agent is good. I've never heard of putty's pageant. And I think it's better to distinguish it from general meaning of pageant (for beauty).

Thanks!

Came here to say missed opportunity to call it "PAgent". Rolls off the tongue better than Page Agent.

I'm 2 years too late for that one...

Museum directors, this is a piece of art. Give this installation its place in history. I have certainly seen worse artifacts in your lots.


Give KiCad a try for drawing schematics. It is FOSS.


Yeah that is still on my list to learn eg. designing my own circuit board. My stuff is still basic eg. wiring together an Arduino/RPi to break out sensor boards.


David Graeber is the correct spelling.https://davidgraeber.org/books/


If you have to brake hard, it is still important to not brake harder than necessary, to give the cars behind you the best possible chance to react in time.


In the same voice as saying that some language is Turing complete, we can now say that an electronic component is 555 complete.


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