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by choxi 5y ago
You could do that right now though: Mitch McConnell -> click -> porn ad
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Three Body Problems(choxi.github.io)
2 points by choxi 5y ago|0 comments
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by choxi 5y ago
I'm most of the way through Diaspora where he invents a new theory of physics to drive the plot, he also elaborates on some existing theories and their philosophical implications to an advanced civilization. It's great, definitely
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by choxi 5y ago
Phone cameras have improved in resolution but their optical zoom hasn't gotten much better. The Chelyabinsk meteor is easy to see without any zoom because of the contrail and glow from burning in the atmosphere, but the UFOs that peopl
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by choxi 5y ago
This explains the stagnation in the airline industry pretty well. They don't make the planes so there isn't a lot they can change about the in-flight experience, and they don't run the airports so there isn't much they c
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by choxi 5y ago
My friend once described it as “the only place that’s modern but not western”
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by choxi 5y ago
What would you be doing that would require 100x+ more powerful tabs? I'd imagine most process-intensive work is already being done server-side or in a desktop app, not the frontend of a browser app.
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by choxi 5y ago
This looks interesting. If you're into surrealist fiction, Labyrinths by Jorge Louis Borge is a great classic and Exhalation by Ted Chiang is sort of like sci-fi surrealism.
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by choxi 6y ago
I was hoping to use computer vision for things that a user might do by hand, e.g. removing the background/foreground. I'm focusing on 2D image processing so most functions are pretty performant if you use WebGL, even for large ima
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by choxi 6y ago
I've been working on an app I describe as "Visual programming meets Photoshop" ( https://pixel.gl , just a prototype though). Any chance I could contact you for some advice/feedback? Or could you elaborate on w
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by choxi 6y ago
This post could be written better, but a lot of it resonates with me as a solo technical founder who has gone through dozens of failed projects over the last five years. I do have a strong tendency to start with an interesting concept inste
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by choxi 6y ago
if brush_time < 2.minutes return "Brush longer" else if brush_time > 5.minutes return "Brush less" end
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by choxi 6y ago
Would this be equivalent to storing the encryption key on the blockchain such that only people with an NFT have the key, and can decrypt the image (wherever the encrypted image is stored)?
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by choxi 6y ago
Is there anything a non-AI researcher can do to help support this project? Is there a way to donate money? Or could a software engineer help with testing, tooling, or other kinds of infrastructure? I was really excited about OpenAI's o
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by choxi 6y ago
> In recent years more and more evidence has been accumulated to the effect that humans were a major factor in the extinction of large animals What about this? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21201-8 I th
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by choxi 6y ago
Isn’t this true for any traditional accountant you might use as well? Any form of outsourcing financials seems like it would have the same risk.
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by choxi 6y ago
I spent a couple years learning graphics programming to build an iPad app for creating subtle animated effects. The idea was kind of like Procreate but if you had "animated brushes" that produced glimmer or other types of looping
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by choxi 6y ago
YC seems pretty committed to hard tech startups, there's a big list here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4r-yc-and-hard-tech-star... It'd be interesting to see their % of investments in hard tech startup
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by choxi 6y ago
Isn't this just a conceptual thing? It's still the electrons that are moving, and they're leaving "holes" behind so you can model either the electrons moving or the holes moving but there's still only one parti
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by choxi 6y ago
One of the most interesting concepts in the book was "efference copies." The idea is that your mind needs to distinguish between stimulus that you caused by voluntary action (moving your arm) versus stimulus that the environment c
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by choxi 6y ago
That's what I was thinking, I wonder to what extent this is a symptom of stagnation in physics.
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by choxi 6y ago
You're right, I meant the quote as a paraphrase of what I hear often but it's misleading since that exact phrase is not in the article. I removed the quote.
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by choxi 6y ago
Interesting, thanks I didn't know about this. I'm still struggling with "If we add $1T to the economy and TSLA goes up 500%, how do we calculate the actual change in TSLA's intrinsic value?" I still don't see h
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by choxi 6y ago
A lot of people say there’s no such thing as asset inflation [1] and I find that very confusing. Hypothetically, if we add $1T to the economy and everyone invests it into stocks, is that not inflation? I guess economists say it’s not, but i
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by choxi 6y ago
There’s also a growing body of research that indicates a comet impact is what triggered the end of the last ice age, which would very well have caused massive floods. Randall Carlson has a lot of fascinating theories in this area.
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by choxi 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia was mentioned in another comment
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by choxi 6y ago
It looks like Coinbase doesn't support Tether: https://www.coinbase.com/price/tether
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by choxi 6y ago
Product-market fit often has an element of luck, otherwise someone else would have found the opportunity already. So this is really good advice for anyone working on a startup, it's sort of another way of saying the classic YC advice t
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Ask HN: What book has the most accurate depiction of tech in the next 10 years?
14 points by choxi 6y ago|16 comments
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by choxi 6y ago
> You just deploy a smart contract that helps people simplify a more complex task and your code takes a few percentage points Could you list some examples? I didn't realize there were practical use cases for Ethereum yet

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