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by colbyn 1y ago
Today it's LLMs/ChatBots, when I was younger it was StackOverflow. Interestingly, when I was just starting out I remember being told to avoid copying & pasting snippets from SO in favor of learning to solve problems on my own,
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by colbyn 1y ago
To play devils advocate, I’m not a mathematician but I’ve heard that the topics that lead to modern cryptography was once considered absolutely useless. They say for centuries, number theory (especially areas like prime numbers, modular ari
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by colbyn 1y ago
> I should hope that the purpose of a class writing exercise is not to create an artifact of text but force the student to think; a language model produces the former, not the latter. Personally, I’ve been enjoying using ChatGPT to explo
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by colbyn 1y ago
It's called sum types and pattern matching, and this is like 80% of the reason why I like Swift and Rust.
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by colbyn 1y ago
Oh thanks! I always feel a little uneasy when people are going back on my history lol. But anyway to answer your question, nothing in particular. At the time I was in school and making tools that I myself wanted to use. I'm not in sch
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by colbyn 1y ago
I really wish I finished my old Freeform note taking app that complies down to self contained webpages (via SVG). IMO it was a super cool idea for more technical content that’s common in STEM fields. Here’s an example from my old chemistry
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by colbyn 2y ago
I wish there was more thought with regard to building better geographically colocated communities and not just “digital communities”.
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by colbyn 2y ago
The only solution is better community building.
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by colbyn 2y ago
I.e. there is this problem called doom scrolling where negative content is perpetuated in some positive feedback loop.
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by colbyn 2y ago
I think it’s an interesting idea honestly, one that’s worth brainstorming in the off chance that something interesting comes out of it… If only I worked at a think tank with some others like me with too much energy. Since personally I’d lov
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Design a business model for an algorithmically free content consumption platform
1 points by colbyn 2y ago|2 comments
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by colbyn 5y ago
Looking for inspiration for designing visually rich science and math related content.
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Ask HN: Best tutorials you’ve ever seen (in terms of production value)?
1 points by colbyn 5y ago|2 comments
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by colbyn 6y ago
Also, what's I really like about Subscript compared to LaTeX is stuff like this: <desmos> <expr>y = x^2</expr> </desmos> Not that the above is hasn't yet been moved over from the original Subs
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by colbyn 6y ago
Also, things definitely evolved a bit. In the following order: 1. Originally I just used LaTeX https://github.com/colbyn/colbyns-math-notes-old 2. Then moved to AsciiDoc https://github.com/colbyn/c
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by colbyn 6y ago
Note that lots of stuff is still being moved over from the original implementation: https://github.com/colbyn/subscript But I'm pretty happy with the current feature set.
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Show HN: My Subscript project I used at School for taking notes using HTML/CSS(github.com)
1 points by colbyn 6y ago|3 comments
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by colbyn 7y ago
Interesting. Personally, I’ve been using VMAF extensively in my imager.io project. With regards to only testing the luma channel, someone submitted a PR for such some time ago yet it’s never been merged; I was under the impression that the
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by colbyn 7y ago
Author here. Just open sourcing my work for anyone interested. Happy to answer any questions. PS: I haven’t tested this on Windows. Update: Had to shorten the title. Should be: > Brute force image optimization; optimizes the compression
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Show HN: Brute Force Image opt(rust); Ops the compression using ML based metrics(github.com)
1 points by colbyn 7y ago|1 comments