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by ccvannorman 3y ago
parseInt(0.00005) // 0 parseInt(0.000005) // 0 parseInt(0.0000005) // 5 parseInt(0.00000005) // 5 Huh??!
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
I've installed and played the game. It's Zork, but without anything important to do, and the words are thrown at you 3-4 at a time like a reader of a children's story who's had too much coffee.
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
Can you expand on "no golden path to geometry"? I've not heard this and my mind immediately went to Phi - it seems to me that in geometry, there actually is a path, e.g. anyone would arrive to parallel line axioms and platoni
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
> Do the ends justify the means, matey? Commenter's point was that it's obviously easier to pirate. This is exactly the point; As an author, I'm upset that the system is like it is, I'm not upset at the many people wh
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
Carefully, so as to not accidentally exit the simulation
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
^ this. IMO, We simply don't have enough data, nor the instruments capable of collecting the needed data yet, to explain the observations.
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
Hi! I'm a game developer and software architect building a platform to enable the quick design, iteration and deployment of web games. I would LOVE to build a game with you for this challenge (and we can split the prize money if we win
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
i've bookmarked ResGen in case i ever become desperate / crazy enough to rejoin the working class. But may I just say sir, I LOVE your lightweight pixel inspired web page -- so clean! We need more sites like this, well organized a
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
There seems to have been a few studies as described here: https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-growing-science-... But, in my opinion there is more research to be done here to establish whether or not (and to wh
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
+1 - How would one get bloodwork done to specifically test for these proteins?
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
lots of metaphors and hyperbole without any concrete examples
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
"not your platform". More Mastadons, please.
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
thanks, I understand now that the company that owns/controls domain registrations (identity.digital, formerly Donuts and Afilias, allows brands to place pre-holds on any domains that fit a trademark that they own according to some trad
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
I don't understand this statement. I'm unable to register the domain from any registrar, though it showed "available/unregistered" before I attempted to register it. Only after I attempted to register it did it show
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Ask HN: Recourse for a Stolen Domain by Registrar?
6 points by ccvannorman 3y ago|6 comments
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
My take: Regurgitation of trained-on information about LLMs does not come anywhere close to "conscious brain knows it's conscious."
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by ccvannorman 3y ago
"Tesla lawyers argue Musk cannot be held accountable for public statements [about car safety] because anyone could have made a deepfake of Musk, so no public statements can be taken seriously." Court laughs.
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
"Free speech absolutist", indeed.
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
LOL, in the article about Nikolai.. "A source who spoke to The Post on the condition of anonymity described Mushegian as a loner who lived with his dog, Sunny, following a breakup with the girlfriend he called a “spy” in his last tweet
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
This feels inherently unprovable / uncomputable. How would you prove that one model would be superior in every way to any other arbitrary model? For that you would need a model that was complete and consistent - which we've proven
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
“Have you ever seen blood in the moonlight, Will? It appears quite black.”
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
> as a consumer, how do I know that brand X is producing quality bulbs that'll last a long time? Like any informed consumer you must read every retail-based HN comment thread ;-]
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Ask HN: Vetting a Biz Dev Cofounder?
1 points by ccvannorman 4y ago|0 comments
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
"Your foster parents are dead"
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
I re-read this comment in the voice of Morgan Freeman. Noticed only mild artifacts.
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
Off-topic but, Normally, I know people like to dunk on non-traditional scrolling websites, and I almost always agree. But I actually REALLY enjoyed this right-arrow format.
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
I built startupgrid.net in 2011 using PHP to scrape CrunchBase website; it was simply a front-end search and filter for Crunchbase. It worked perfectly up until 2019 or 2020; Crunchbase didn't change their HTML and the server would run
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
I got #2 as Humidity, #22 as Humid, Hint gave me #3 as Celcius, so I guessed Farenheit which was #484. Give up, answer was Temperature. Really? Celcius #3 and Farneheit #484? smh.
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
* You are not alone * It gets better * Being self aware and making posts like this, reaching out, is a HUGE positive step and positive indicator for your own self love and care. Keep doing it * YOU ARE NOT ALONE :-] I can share my personal
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by ccvannorman 4y ago
This resonates with me; nice way of putting our psychological pitfalls into machine learning terms!

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