Tuesday, September 23
Daily News Stuff 23 September 2025
Steamed Hams Edition
Steamed Hams Edition
Top Story
- Nvidia is planning to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI. (Tom's Hardware)
So that OpenAI can spend the money on 10 gigawatts worth of Nvidia hardware.
It's not a bubble.
It's a Ponzi scheme with extra steps.*
Tech News
- A Twitch streamer (I know) who was raising money for his cancer treatments with blockchain donations (I know) lost everything he had raised in minutes after installing a Steam game called BlockBlasters recommended to him in a chat message (I know). (Decrypt.co)
Most of this is legitimate. Streamer "RastalandTV" does have stage 4 cancer, has been raising funds through blockchain donations, and BlockBlasters was compromised at the end of August and has stolen at least $150,000 in crypto funds from victims. It has since been pulled from Steam.
Happy ending time: Crypto bro Alex Becker - I hope he'll forgive me for calling him that - not only stepped in to cover the loss, but stepped in twice because the first donation he made was also lost.
Not so happy ending time: Blockchains.
- Mathematicians who have spent 150 years working on a simple way to categorise the complexity of knots have come to a stunning conclusion: We have no idea. (Quanta)
None whatsoever:But from another perspective, that only makes the unknotting number more intriguing. "There's just much more complexity and unknowns about knot theory than we knew there were a few months ago," Livingston said.
You might even say it's a knotty problem.
What's more, we don't know why we don't know what we don't know. We just know we don't know it:"I'm still stymied by this most basic question" about the unknotting number, Moore said. "That just lights the fire under you."
Have you checked the answers at the end of the book?
- Have you already scratched your hugely expensive iPhone 17 Pro Max. Yes. Yes you have. (The Verge)
Meanwhile my $120 Moto G14 is in pristine condition.
Anime Update
Ruri Rocks, episode 12 presumably FIN: Every episode of this is a gem, which is only appropriate. This latest outing has all five of the regular cast teaming up (more or less) to repair Ruri's grandfather's old crystal radio.
I was writing this as the closing credits played, and then it went into the usual "next episode" teaser, so it is not FIN yet. There's just enough collected manga that it's possible they're doing 24 episodes, but I expect it's 13 and we'll have to wait a year for the next season.
Highly recommended. Not Frieren or Apothecary Diaries, but a very welcome change from the teen angst. Half the cast are teenagers, but the other half are geology grad students. File this one under cute girls doing geek things.
I was writing this as the closing credits played, and then it went into the usual "next episode" teaser, so it is not FIN yet. There's just enough collected manga that it's possible they're doing 24 episodes, but I expect it's 13 and we'll have to wait a year for the next season.
Highly recommended. Not Frieren or Apothecary Diaries, but a very welcome change from the teen angst. Half the cast are teenagers, but the other half are geology grad students. File this one under cute girls doing geek things.
Musical Interlude
* Disclaimer: Nothing in this post is to be taken as fact, or for that matter rumour or even hotly contested opinion, in this or any other reality. Read at own risk. All rights reserved nonetheless. Cargo not needed during voyage.
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But Blockchain is SECURE! It's infallible! It solves EVERYTHING! We should put our elections on it!
At least that's what the Blockchain Bros pipe up and say in the middle of every unrelated discussion.
At least that's what the Blockchain Bros pipe up and say in the middle of every unrelated discussion.
Posted by: Mauser at Wednesday, September 24 2025 03:52 AM (XWgGM)
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Cars should be on blockchain, ffs! It's simple,
1) get a car, any ol car will do
2) put it on block-chain
3) hey, nelly, bob's your auntie!
1) get a car, any ol car will do
2) put it on block-chain
3) hey, nelly, bob's your auntie!
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, September 24 2025 05:44 AM (e0fX0)
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I've found a dude on wikipedia who is a quantum computing skeptic. Some Israeli mathematician (combinatorics) who sees a conflict between two mathematical models. I personally am skeptical of mathematical security where I cannot verify the mathematics of the assumptions, or I cannot verify the fit of the reality to the model, or I cannot verify the consistency of the implementation. (The joke is that I am incompetent, and subsequently do not trust mathematical security.) I'm basically skeptical of investing money in computers, but less so when it comes to spending my own money on computers for my own use. (Last computer purchased for my use may have been 2018. No, wait, it was maybe 2021 or 2022 ish.) I do not think spending billions on quantum blockchain AI is a good choice for industry to make, but my default position is perhaps way too stingy. (Not a financial advisor, and I have a decent chance of advising against actually necessary equipment investments in at least 7 out of 10 cases.)
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