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I love the design aesthetics of this wiki. It also makes me happy that someone bothered with a custom tool stack and hosting solution to get something near to

I love the design aesthetics of this wiki. It also makes me happy that someone bothered with a custom tool stack and hosting solution to get something near to exactly what they wanted. Here's a page describing this: https://gwern.net/design https://gwern.net/design

gamegoblin 3y ago
With tools like GPT4 around, this kind of labor of love becomes much less laborious. What gwern has done is absolutely insane for the era it was made, but I find myself becoming so much more ambitious with taking on stuff like this with GPT4 assistance. In the last couple months I've coded my first browser plugins, custom HTML5 renderers, physics simulators, etc. Never would have done it without the AI boost. There will be a whole lot more "custom stack to get exactly what you want" going around in the near future, pretty exciting.
- DontchaKnowit 3y ago
  I appreciate your comment, its not a bad comment, but I must say that I am SO exhausted with GPT getting brought up on EVERY post on HN regardless of what the post is about. It feels like I am being advertised to and it makes me doubt the authenticity of the comments.
  - gamegoblin 3y ago
    I hear you. I actually thought about this when making the comment, but decided to make it because the website at hand, gwern, is also deeply interested in AI and GPT and has a lot of posts about it. It does feel a bit like the mid 2010s when everyone was talking about applying blockchain to everything. The difference, I think, is that the proof is in the pudding. I have browser plugins and HTML5 physics simulators now that I didn't have just months ago. Re: your particular issue, I am not joking, you should use ChatGPT to help you write a browser plugin that simply blocks those comments. The browser plugin I mentioned that I used GPT to create is actually for blocking low-effort HN comments. My HN browsing experience is much better because of it.
    - DontchaKnowit 3y ago
      Your suggestion cracked me up. That's absolutely hilarious, also practical. And agreed - the hype feels like blockchain on steroids, but unlike blockchain, it is truly a transformative technology that is breaking open the floodgates to many new avenues of technological development, so the hype is certainly warranted.
      - renewiltord 3y ago
        You can write the plugin really easily. He's right. You should do it. Much better than getting annoyed.
  - larve 3y ago
    It's so very hard to not do that when the tool has become so transformational in your life, not just in one area, but across the board. I am in the same boat of being so ambitious with my personal projects these days, now that the drudgery is gone, that it's hard to communicate to people who haven't tried it how it changes your experience of "almost everything making it on HN." gwern's page having so much about GPT makes it a prime candidate, and I think there is a link between LLM fascination and wanting to build your own stack and pursuing your own intellectual path. It is a fascinating tool for personal growth, much more so than at a team or industry level.
- dbtc 3y ago
  I'm curious to try some program-assisted programming. What's your setup with GPT4 assistance?
Sniffnoy 3y ago
Gwern's site isn't a wiki, though?
- dsr_ 3y ago
  "Gwern.net is implemented as a static website compiled via Hakyll from Pandoc Markdown and hosted on a dedicated server (due to expensive cloud bandwidth)." I would say that the distinguishing characteristics of a wiki are: - it is intended as a general repository of human-readable articles [x] - it is designed so that authorized users can edit articles easily [x] - it has affordances for lots of linking, internally and externally [x] So, from the viewpoint of Gwern Branwen and only Gwern, it's wiki-like. Nobody else has authorization or easy article editing, as far as I know. So for everyone else, it's just a really interesting site.
_dain_ 3y ago
I love the aesthetics, but he must have screwed up something lately, because it slows my Firefox to a crawl now.

gamegoblin 3y ago

With tools like GPT4 around, this kind of labor of love becomes much less laborious. What gwern has done is absolutely insane for the era it was made, but I find myself becoming so much more ambitious with taking on stuff like this with GPT4 assistance. In the last couple months I've coded my first browser plugins, custom HTML5 renderers, physics simulators, etc. Never would have done it without the AI boost. There will be a whole lot more "custom stack to get exactly what you want" going around in the near future, pretty exciting.

DontchaKnowit 3y ago
I appreciate your comment, its not a bad comment, but I must say that I am SO exhausted with GPT getting brought up on EVERY post on HN regardless of what the post is about. It feels like I am being advertised to and it makes me doubt the authenticity of the comments.
- gamegoblin 3y ago
  I hear you. I actually thought about this when making the comment, but decided to make it because the website at hand, gwern, is also deeply interested in AI and GPT and has a lot of posts about it. It does feel a bit like the mid 2010s when everyone was talking about applying blockchain to everything. The difference, I think, is that the proof is in the pudding. I have browser plugins and HTML5 physics simulators now that I didn't have just months ago. Re: your particular issue, I am not joking, you should use ChatGPT to help you write a browser plugin that simply blocks those comments. The browser plugin I mentioned that I used GPT to create is actually for blocking low-effort HN comments. My HN browsing experience is much better because of it.
  - DontchaKnowit 3y ago
    Your suggestion cracked me up. That's absolutely hilarious, also practical. And agreed - the hype feels like blockchain on steroids, but unlike blockchain, it is truly a transformative technology that is breaking open the floodgates to many new avenues of technological development, so the hype is certainly warranted.
    - renewiltord 3y ago
      You can write the plugin really easily. He's right. You should do it. Much better than getting annoyed.
- larve 3y ago
  It's so very hard to not do that when the tool has become so transformational in your life, not just in one area, but across the board. I am in the same boat of being so ambitious with my personal projects these days, now that the drudgery is gone, that it's hard to communicate to people who haven't tried it how it changes your experience of "almost everything making it on HN." gwern's page having so much about GPT makes it a prime candidate, and I think there is a link between LLM fascination and wanting to build your own stack and pursuing your own intellectual path. It is a fascinating tool for personal growth, much more so than at a team or industry level.
dbtc 3y ago
I'm curious to try some program-assisted programming. What's your setup with GPT4 assistance?

Sniffnoy 3y ago

Gwern's site isn't a wiki, though?

dsr_ 3y ago
"Gwern.net is implemented as a static website compiled via Hakyll from Pandoc Markdown and hosted on a dedicated server (due to expensive cloud bandwidth)." I would say that the distinguishing characteristics of a wiki are: - it is intended as a general repository of human-readable articles [x] - it is designed so that authorized users can edit articles easily [x] - it has affordances for lots of linking, internally and externally [x] So, from the viewpoint of Gwern Branwen and only Gwern, it's wiki-like. Nobody else has authorization or easy article editing, as far as I know. So for everyone else, it's just a really interesting site.

_dain_ 3y ago

I love the aesthetics, but he must have screwed up something lately, because it slows my Firefox to a crawl now.