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Show HN: Name-classifier – infers attributes about a person from a name(github.com)
2 points by defgeneric 7mo ago|0 comments
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by defgeneric 8mo ago
It could be a symptom of how fragmented workflows are, which itself seems to be due to providers adding friction to guard against being integrated away by some larger platform.
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by defgeneric 8mo ago
You mention the technical aspect (readability) and others have suggested the aesthetic, but you could also look at it as a form of rhetoric . I'm not sure it's really effective because it sort of grates on the ear for anyone over
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by defgeneric 9mo ago
The development of QM was so closely connected to experiments that it's highly unlikely, even despite some of the experiments having been performed prior to 1900. Special relativity however seems possible.
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by defgeneric 10mo ago
I suspect the move back to pen-and-paper exams is being resisted by the teachers. It shouldn't be that hard though--when the workload became to great, most of my own professors would offload part of the grading task to TAs and grad stu
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by defgeneric 11mo ago
Also known as the "Gell-Mann amnesia effect" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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by defgeneric 1y ago
I'm seeing this reaction a lot from younger people (say, roughly under 25). And it's a shame this new suspicion has now translated into a prohibition on the use of dashes.
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by defgeneric 1y ago
> How do I belong? How do I make my community a better place? How do I build wealth for the people I love? What remains after is something like the social status games of the aristocratic class, which I suspect is why there's a race
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by defgeneric 1y ago
Note we currently live in the most surveilled state in history.
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by defgeneric 1y ago
It's garbage opinions like this that makes PG so tiring. The superficial air of reasonableness makes it attractive to younger SF tech people who haven't experienced the context out of which these arguments arose and have no idea w
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by defgeneric 1y ago
If it's any consolation, these companies paying for ads on a competitor's brand name are probably paying through the nose to get clicks that only bounce. IF it's worth it at all, it's probably temporary. It's an ind
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by defgeneric 1y ago
This was my first thought too. The last generation of activity tracking, while still dystopian, was a little different at least in that it was mainly statistical. So action-wise, it might point managers at "potential problems," bu
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by defgeneric 1y ago
Why would software be qualitatively different from all other forms of automation that came before? And suppose, for the sake of argument, that software is fully automated at some point--what then happens to the firm?
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by defgeneric 1y ago
Tao is great in lots of ways--obviously as a first-rate mathematician, but also as an educator and an ambassador of mathematics to the general public. It's cool to see him thinking along these lines, but if anyone is really interested
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by defgeneric 1y ago
A clerk who once used a physical filing system but now uses a computer may naturally begin to bring the filing system to a higher level of abstraction. Think filing clerk -> database administrator -> relational algebra... E.g. there w
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by defgeneric 1y ago
I've seen the same and it seems due to people moving down the stack in response to LLMs being able to code at a junior-ish level and everything that entails.
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by defgeneric 1y ago
The physicality of having to actually do things in the real world slows things down to the rate at which our brains actually learn. The "vibe coding" loop is too fast to learn anything, and ends up teaching your brain to avoid the
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by defgeneric 1y ago
This is exactly the problem, but there's still a sweet spot where you can get quickly up to speed on a technical areas adjacent to your specialty and not have small gaps in your own knowledge hold you back from the main task. I was qui
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by defgeneric 1y ago
A lot of the boosterism seems to come from those who never had the ability in the first place, and never really will, but can now hack a demo together a little faster than before. But I'm mostly concerned about those going through scho
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by defgeneric 1y ago
These notes may appear to be overly critical or an extremely pedantic reading but they're pretty good, and it's bit like like having the teacher across from you while you're reading. But some notes are a little excessive and
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by defgeneric 1y ago
This also omits how often the area needs to be resurveyed. Could be yearly, which isn't bad, but that could limit some applications.
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by defgeneric 1y ago
This has been possible for some time, and there is an open implementation here: https://quantumvillage.org/ .
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by defgeneric 1y ago
The fact that no charges have ever been brought against him by the Salvadoran government, yet they still claim to be holding him there lends credence to this. Why would they not simply release him? If he's dead it would be a major prob
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by defgeneric 1y ago
This is a lot of words to say "I don't believe him". None of us really knows, and it's not worth speculating about, because the case is about something much bigger now. It's about the limits of executive authority,
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by defgeneric 1y ago
To have the reputation as an AI company that really cares about education and the responsible integration of AI into education is a pretty valuable goal. They are now ahead of OpenAI in this respect. The problem is that there's a confl
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by defgeneric 1y ago
After reading the whole article I still came away with the suspicion that this is a PR piece that is designed to head-off strict controls on LLM usage in education. There is a fundamental problem here beyond cheating (which is mentioned, to
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by defgeneric 2y ago
The BBC's Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity [0] documentary really made it click for me. The historical development and the conceptual development are woven together nicely. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by defgeneric 2y ago
While the post talks about big LLMs as a valuable "snapshot" of world knowledge, the same technology can be used for lossless compression: https://bellard.org/ts_zip/ .
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by defgeneric 2y ago
Exactly, this is alienation . Marx went on to describe the emergence of capital in history as another form of alienation.
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by defgeneric 2y ago
This is the correct, the above relation to "synopsis" is a false etymology that only sounds plausible because of the sense of the common syn- prefix.

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