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by hatthew 11mo ago
Similarly > Crop yields increase 3-5× > Farmers go from $600/acre to $14,000/acre revenue Wouldn't that revenue jump require a 23x increase in crop yield?
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by hatthew 1y ago
I would define an illusion as something where your perception of a thing differs from the reality of the thing in a way that matters in the current context . If we were discussing how LCD screens work, I would call the color white an illus
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by hatthew 1y ago
I personally wouldn't, but it's close enough that I'm not going to disagree.
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by hatthew 1y ago
I would call it an illusion because if you pay attention you can clearly see that the color you perceive isn't actually present. You can see white on an RBG computer screen since your eyes simply don't have the resolution to disce
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by hatthew 1y ago
I don't think it's a negative thing, but I find it kinda funny that there's a new dithering article on HN at least once a month
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by hatthew 1y ago
Similar anecdote, in the past week there have been two separate games that I wanted to try out, and both were nonfunctional on linux. One had a completely black screen, and the other ignored all mouse/keyboard input. For each of them I
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by hatthew 1y ago
Something I think about sometimes is how it's usually more important to maintain shape rather than color . For example, in the first 2 images on the page, quantizing the pink hearts results in some pink, white, and grey. An error di
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by hatthew 1y ago
Sometimes I wonder how many people die indirectly from specific decisions. Like, large A-pillars in cars definitely sometimes save people when the car rolls over, but how many people die each year because a large A-pillar makes a blind sp
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by hatthew 1y ago
This is a decent analogy, but I think it understates how good transformers are. People are all making hamburgers because it's really hard to find anything better than a hamburger. Better foods definitely exist out there but nobody&#x
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by hatthew 1y ago
I've seen it used enough that it's clear to me that the implied definition is "low-quality and/or low effort AI-generated content", and the actual usage is "AI generated content that I don't like". Bu
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by hatthew 1y ago
maybe cthulhu will be nice
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by hatthew 1y ago
Sorry, that line about "reading the prompt" was unclear, I was referencing people who use it to write emails, project updates, etc. Boilerplate natural language that most people skim over because most of it is fluff. I'm well
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by hatthew 1y ago
That makes sense, thanks!
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by hatthew 1y ago
This is interesting, but I'm not convinced it's better than the python it's being compared to. Memorizing and understanding the behavior of functions that perform control flow seems no easier than memorizing and understanding
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by hatthew 1y ago
Because there's a lot of evidence that people tend to overestimate/overstate how useful LLMs are. Everyone says "I wrote this thing using AI" but most of the time reading the prompt would be just as useful as reading the
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by hatthew 1y ago
From the article, 4000 separate ingame rooms to explore
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by hatthew 1y ago
AI, or press release
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by hatthew 1y ago
Almost all progress at doing tasks reliably has been made with 2 massive caveats: 1. Force. Walking, running, fighting, doing backflips, etc. all allow for large amounts of force, without a lot of dynamic precision required. Many common
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by hatthew 1y ago
I think we all agree that the quality of the code itself goes down over time. I think the point that is being made is that the quality of the final product goes up over time. E.g. you might fix a bug by adding a hacky workaround in the co
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by hatthew 1y ago
The first part of that line is "If you want an example...". If you want to learn about more advanced usage of some function, then you don't want an example, and that line doesn't apply to you.
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by hatthew 1y ago
Luckily I track my browsing and have some stats I can share from the last 3 years on my non-work PC! Here's a breakdown (by time spent on website): 94.3%: Original 7 TLDs + .io (which is common enough these days that I consider i
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by hatthew 1y ago
I think there is a very large difference between saying, e.g., "there is too much space" (the total area is too large) vs "there is too much negative space" (there are not enough things in the area). I think there's
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by hatthew 1y ago
> Having all the music is not much different than having no music at all. This is an interesting statement; could you clarify what you mean? Taken at face value it seems like a falsism, but I'm assuming you have an interpretation in
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by hatthew 1y ago
Super cool concept! Looking at the examples below the abstract, there's several details that surprise me with how correct the model is. For examples: hairline in row 2 column 3; shirt color in row 2 columns 7, 8, 9, 11; lipstick throug
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by hatthew 1y ago
I think this is almost provably true, for the simple reason that detailed technical documentation can be a substitute for examples, but the reverse isn't true. 1. If you want an example and the docs have an example, great. 2. If you wa
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by hatthew 1y ago
I think it's a bit harsh to call everyone who disagrees amateur. However, anecdotally it doesn't feel very incorrect. When I do pair programming with less-experienced developers, I'll often watch them glance at the API docs,
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by hatthew 1y ago
A straightforward solution for larger puzzles: if you click on the four corners of a rectangle, you flip those corners while leaving the rest of the rows/columns the way they started. So after you pick the low hanging fruit at the star
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by hatthew 1y ago
It's harder than measuring CPU load, and depends a lot on context. For example, often 90% of a GPU's available flops are exclusively for low-precision matrix multiply-add operations. If you're doing full precision multiply-ad
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by hatthew 1y ago
I'm pretty sure people have been complaining about weird TLDs for as long as I've been on the internet. .guru, .tech, and .app are all equally untrustworthy to me. I don't recall seeing any .tv websites other than twitch. .io
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by hatthew 1y ago
I wear flip flops every single day, and only switch to hiking boots for better arch support when I go on long hikes that matters. Sometimes I forget to bring my boots and end up climbing a mountain or wading a muddy stream with flip flops.

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