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by abstractbill 2y ago
Thanks. Yes, specificity of solutions seems like a good metric to optimize for. In some of my crosswords I get clues that are specific in clever ways (e.g. one of these has "Extreme, not camping" which I thought was really strange
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by abstractbill 2y ago
Oh that's really interesting thanks! That would actually be an easy constraint to add too.
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Show HN: Experiments in AI-generation of crosswords(abstractnonsense.com)
38 points by abstractbill 2y ago|20 comments
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by abstractbill 2y ago
Thanks for the kind words, I will try to get something written up about it.
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by abstractbill 2y ago
I didn't notice HN had replaced the link ( https://crosswordracing.com ) by the current (at the time) redirect. If you want to go to the current front-page game, you should visit https://crosswordracing.com Edit
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Show HN: I made a multiplayer crossword game(crosswordracing.com)
4 points by abstractbill 2y ago|3 comments
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by abstractbill 2y ago
Same, I was a huge Orbital fan back in the day but found their version of the theme lazy and boring. In contrast, around the same time they put it out, Plaid put out a track named Unbank that I'm convinced was inspired by the Doctor Wh
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by abstractbill 2y ago
My experience with O1 has been very different. I wouldn't even say it's performing at a "good undergrad" level for me. For example, I asked a pretty simple question here and it got completely confused: https:/&#x2F
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by abstractbill 2y ago
"Online identity is hard." I suppose I'm probably in a tiny minority here, but I think I'd be pretty happy to see online identity get harder (which I think is what will happen, with better and cheaper spoofing). There
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Conway's Proof that √2 is Irrational [video](youtube.com)
3 points by abstractbill 2y ago|0 comments
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by abstractbill 2y ago
These days I much prefer a different proof of this fact, attributed to Conway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNOtOPjaLZs -- I'm actually about half-way through teaching it to my kids right now!
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Ask HN: Is anyone working on AI art critique?
1 points by abstractbill 2y ago|2 comments
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by abstractbill 3y ago
Nice project! Our house has something similar. Every room has its own rotary phone, with its own number (usually someone's birthday!). I think we have 7 or 8 total. They can't dial out or anything fancy like that, but they can all
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Using ChatGPT to read my daughter's handwriting and critique her math(imgur.com)
1 points by abstractbill 3y ago|1 comments
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by abstractbill 3y ago
I'm truly amazed that we've come this far so quickly. Even I sometimes struggle to read my daughter's handwriting! The critique seems to show a good understanding of what's happening too (I'm generally really wary
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by abstractbill 3y ago
If you want to try to help, Liberty In North Korea is a charity I donate to: https://libertyinnorthkorea.org/
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Ask HN: How can I find math community for my daughter?
6 points by abstractbill 3y ago|4 comments
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by abstractbill 3y ago
The models are a lot of fun to play with, but yeah, every time I've tried to use them for something "serious" they nearly always invent stuff (and are so convincing in how they write about it!). Most recently I've been
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by abstractbill 4y ago
Parenting is, in my experience, quite a bit like taking care of a drunk person who very slowly sobers up over several years. The internet is generally a terrible place to get parenting advice/support/etc from. For some reason it
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by abstractbill 4y ago
We recently shopped for new home appliances and were surprised at how hard it is to find non-"smart" ones these days. At this point I think it's inevitable that some appliance features will require a subscription (e.g. your f
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by abstractbill 4y ago
As the video points out (toward the end), since these robots recognize and work on each individual plant, they are much more able to deal with more biodiversity than our current methods, which can only scale for monocrops.
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by abstractbill 4y ago
Very nice. Our home has a rotary phone in most of the rooms (they're cheap on ebay and easy to repair if they're not working). Each one is plugged into a Grandstream HT802, which gets it onto our home network. A raspberry pi runs
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by abstractbill 4y ago
Oh wow! No, sadly I don't remember that, nor much else from that long ago. That's funny (assuming I wasn't a dick about mocking you!) I actually completely agree with your ordering of least-useful to most-useful comments. I s
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by abstractbill 4y ago
This is funny to me because we seem to be complete opposites! I have a great short-term memory, but my long-term memory is sadly completely trashed. I don't care if someone wants to document their code, but I never actually trust tha
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by abstractbill 4y ago
When someone dares to step forward and speak up, listen. Just be. It's one of the most powerful things you can do. Hijacking conversation doesn't create connection, it breaks it. I might be in a minority here but I feel a huge s
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by abstractbill 4y ago
Thanks!
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by abstractbill 4y ago
No, I didn't know about that until today, but I'll definitely be watching it as soon as I can.
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by abstractbill 4y ago
The Twitch marathon was my idea, and I did pretty much all of the work to make it happen, including negotiating the rights with both Janson and Bob Ross Inc (not just the rights to the content, but also permission to use Bob's likeness
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by abstractbill 4y ago
Carousels aren't for users. They are for partners -- people who partner with you will do things in exchange for a spot on the carousel.
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by abstractbill 6y ago
I try! Lots of different styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqPWtWMZHCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iapl6xIILSI https://soundcloud.com/abstractbill/spaced https://s

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