psjs's comments

On: GPT-5

[psjs]

Modern WAIS-IV-type tests yield multiple factor scores: IQ is arguably non-scalar.

[FabHK → psjs]

The original theory was precisely that there's a general factor ("g").

If you run anything sufficiently complex through a principal component analysis you'll get several orthogonal factors, decreasing in importance. The question then is whether the first factor dominates or not.

My understanding is that it does, with "g" explaining some 50% of the variance, and the various smaller "s" factors maybe 5% to 20% at most.

[elcritch → psjs]

Those sub-scores BTW are very helpful in indicating or diagnosing learning disabilities. Folks with autism or adhd can have very different strength / weaknesses in intelligence.

On: The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist

[psjs]

What features did BCPL have at that point that C didn’t have (and stil does not)?

On: Making the Web Boring Again

[psjs]

Do you have a link to that podcast?

[riffraff → psjs]

this one https://open.spotify.com/show/6QrdBI77Kwg5rFjQwaeByQ

it's in italian tho

On: COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it

[psjs]

“laf” or “lag”?

[Muromec → psjs]

Lag of course. Math doors only open once in 25 years, you know the drill.

On: The new Windows update made me think I'd installed malware

[psjs]

1. Couldn't even get to try TES III Morrowind working properly on Win10, worked flawlessly on Linux + Proton.

[MattPalmer1086 → psjs]

Not perfect sure, but I don't think any other modern system exists that can still run most executables compiled for it nearly a quarter of a century ago?

Still not enough to make me want to use it, but I am genuinely impressed by that.

On: The new Windows update made me think I'd installed malware

[psjs]

As Zizek would say, you have to be most wary when the ideological subjects start saying they are acting without ideology.

On: Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

[psjs]

Won’t that degenerate the battery at a much quicker rate?

[lxgr → psjs]

No, why would it? The phone always charges as fast as it wants to, so it doesn't really matter if you connect it to a 20W or a 240W power supply.

[eimrine → psjs]

All quick charge approaches do this. You'll buy a new one faster.

[manuelabeledo → psjs]

USB-C controllers negotiate the correct voltage and amperage.