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by icapybara 3y ago
Innovation for the sake of innovation doesn't make a whole lot of sense. A CPU on germanium? Why? The semiconductor industry thought about it decided silicon was a better material platform 50 years ago.
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by icapybara 3y ago
They changed the app name and icon. It's not that big of a deal.
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by icapybara 3y ago
When ChatGPT writes your ad copy.
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by icapybara 3y ago
Seems a bit deceiving then, nobody does matrix multiplications in "pure python." They use numpy or some derivative of it.
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by icapybara 3y ago
Does “90,000x speed up over pure python” with matrix multiplication mean vs using numpy arrays in python?
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by icapybara 3y ago
None of that changes the fact that this is marketing for their product. Many similar posts have made the front page of HN recently and it’s getting a bit formulaic. It’s great that you like some of them, but are you ok with HN just being a
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by icapybara 3y ago
Concerned about the number of lightweight marketing blog posts making it to the front page of HN. It’s like it’s part of the “marketing to devs” playbook at this point.
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by icapybara 3y ago
Low effort post. An AI probably wrote it because it’s full of meaningless platitudes.
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by icapybara 3y ago
How do you get the chatbot to tell the truth more? I’m a scientist and this is my biggest showstopper with AI tools. I just can’t know if I can trust what it’s telling me.
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by icapybara 3y ago
I read the page but I still don't know anything about the site, or what it does differently.
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by icapybara 3y ago
That's a broad claim, you have to prove your case. You're asking for a ban on vertical integration as a business strategy.
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by icapybara 3y ago
We do have those. It sounds more like you're saying that we shouldn't have vertically integrated companies.
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by icapybara 3y ago
Life doesn’t revolve around the search for life- there are interesting things to learn from such planets even if those planets cannot host alien life.
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by icapybara 3y ago
Creationism, but with a science-y spin this time.
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by icapybara 3y ago
I think, functionally, you have a point, but they wouldn’t sell nearly as many if it looked like a helmet. The devices have to be cool to sell, and headsets are uncool enough as it is. These companies want a mass market product, not a niche
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by icapybara 3y ago
There’s an image of Europa from Webb in the article.
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by icapybara 3y ago
Optical engineer here. For anyone not in the field, “photonics” is a fancy academic term for optical systems that involve waveguide structures. You can do some neat things with waveguides that you can’t do with more traditional optics like
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by icapybara 3y ago
> I use AI in my writing all the time, What do you think is the end game here? Do you expect people to read content that you couldn't be bothered to write? What if users start using AI to summarize the AI generated text? What's
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by icapybara 3y ago
Sounds like you're doing something too sophisticated for Excel.
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by icapybara 3y ago
I’m not a cold fusion expert but my understanding of it is that it quite grossly violates the first law at least. If the first law is out, thermodynamics as we know it is wrong.
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by icapybara 3y ago
A bit harsh don’t you think? LK-99 was plausibly a high T superconductor candidate, and high T superconductors are a real thing that exist. It is worth attempting to replicate. Cold fusion says “all of thermodynamics is wrong”. A much bigge
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by icapybara 3y ago
> Not sure that AI chat bots are actually reasoning in any basic way, so much as they are filtering out noise and presenting an output that might satisfy the input Not sure if there is a difference, for sufficiently abstract interpretati
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by icapybara 3y ago
1) doesn't make a whole lot of sense. A perfect understanding of something doesn't mean you can fix anything wrong with it. 3) has already happened. The AI chat bots aren't very smart, but they're clearly capable of some
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by icapybara 3y ago
How should we produce the muons?
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by icapybara 3y ago
Well put.
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by icapybara 3y ago
Strange headline. Compiled languages can't compete for scientific computing except as an engine language for some calculator (a ray tracer, a finite element solver, etc). Model setup and analysis will always be done in some kind of int
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by icapybara 3y ago
Well yes, you need to make a new type of display. It’s not a software technique to be applied to existing displays.
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by icapybara 3y ago
We found that our product was accidentally very useful and are taking it down while we fix this.
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by icapybara 3y ago
Much ado about nothing. Hiding 2pi behind an abstraction layer just makes things harder to debug later.
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by icapybara 3y ago
Sure but Hacker News in 2015 isn’t on the scale of 2023 Reddit, and isn’t being pitched as an alternative to 2023 Reddit…

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