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by mg 3y ago
dart myself and my puppy out of the way of these jerks Imagine what problems cars would cause if traffic regulations were not enforced. Look at all the infrastructure, rules, regulations and surveillance we maintain to make the us
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by mg 3y ago
My feeling is that it would be better to tax them according to the problems they create. Scooter left on the sidewalk? Charge the operating company with a ticket. So they will charge their customer. Scooter driving in an illegal manner? Cha
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by mg 3y ago
Glad you like it! Yes, there are a lot of directions the project could evolve into. I have many ideas in a list. Finding a better business model than ads would be a good first step I think.
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by mg 3y ago
Correct, the focus is not on science fiction. Most users probably come over from https://www.gnod.com after discovering one of the other recommendation projects. The music one is pretty popular. Or they come via googling for &qu
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by mg 3y ago
The users only rate authors and enter no other data. So the only demographic data I have is the list of countries Matomo outputs. For last month, the top 10 countries look like this: United States 46.4% United Kingdom 8.
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by mg 3y ago
I run Gnooks, a self-learning literature recommendation experiment which has been used by a few million people so far. According to their likes, Tolkien is the 3rd most popular author: https://www.gnooks.com/top
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by mg 3y ago
I don't know if I am an outlier, but even though I love the idea of decentralized social media and dislike a lot about Twitter, my Twitter experience is better than my Mastodon experience. I use both as a log of interesting stuff I wan
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by mg 3y ago
My first question would be if the messages can be sent P2P or if they have to be passed through / stored on servers. If they can be sent and stored on the users devices, the server would only be a discovery service processing the occas
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by mg 3y ago
I don't mind so much about the LOC of a framework. If there is stuff in there that I don't use and that does not get in the way of me doing things, thats not that much of a problem. As for Flask not going anywhere - well, all proj
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by mg 3y ago
How is Django more heavy than Flask? When I think about heavy, I think about how hard it would be to replace the framework with my own code in the future. So I don't like magic. One thing that keeps me from investigating Flask further
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by mg 3y ago
You don’t want to deal with ... Well, I do all that and it works just fine for me. All my projects are 100% my own code down to the core. No frameworks, nothing. There might be some traces of jquery in there from when browsers wer
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by mg 3y ago
I honestly wonder if everything that is a best practice on the backend and frontend these days is a net negative compared to "Write your own PHP or Python code which outputs your own HTML+CSS+JS". Especially for indiemakers and st
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by mg 3y ago
Aren't there audio ads injected of the free version of Spotify? How can one sleep when those come up? Or do they only inject ads between songs, so that if the song is long enough, the user will never hear any ads?
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by mg 3y ago
I would love to build my next web project so it will not save any data on the server but let the user save it locally via the File System Access API. That would give the user the same experience as with a desktop application. Full control o
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by mg 3y ago
I think we should make these types of experiments with a deterministic model. Is Llama 70B deterministic? Then it could be a good option. In the article, it says To ensure that GPT-4 isn’t falling back on rote memorization, we can
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by mg 3y ago
If LK-99 turns out to be a hoax, would it be the one with the biggest media attention ever?
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by mg 3y ago
You list things we could tackle to reduce CO2 emissions. And yes, we should. And we will tackle them to some degree. But that does not change the fact that we will live on a warmer planet in the future. We can't make the planet cooler
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by mg 3y ago
I have the feeling that we are looking at climate change wrong. All the discussion is about reducing CO2 emissions. But we have nothing to show for it. Even the during the Covid lockdowns, CO2 emissions were reduced by only 10%: https:&#x2
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by mg 3y ago
recipes to make when you've worked a 16-hour day Why not just sit down in a restaurant on your way home? Or if you worked at home, take a nice walk and sit down in a nice restaurant along the way?
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by mg 3y ago
Thanks for the infos. I will look into it.
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Ask HN: Is genetic programming still actively researched?
51 points by mg 3y ago|22 comments
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by mg 3y ago
This chart looks like all 3 months since May 2023 have been extreme outliers: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F0A3/production/... These 3 months seem so out of line with all others that
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by mg 3y ago
As far as I can tell, that makes for 5 independent image search engines on the web: Baidu Bing Brave Google Yandex You can compare their results on this search comparison page I maintain: https://www.gnod
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by mg 3y ago
Google's market cap was already at over $100B with billions in revenue and hundreds of millions in profits when it bought DoubleClick and YouTube. So while those were big aquisitions (Around $3B and $2B) they only accelerated the proce
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by mg 3y ago
Google was made possible by a platform shift: From desktop apps to websites. First they positioned themselves very early in the web user experience: After the user turned on their Dell computer, booted Windows and started Internet Explorer,
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by mg 3y ago
programming a computer can be as mind-strengthening as writing When computers become more intelligent than humans, a strong mind (able to think stuff through) might not be of importance anymore. Just like being able to run fas
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by mg 3y ago
One difference is that this neighbor will always be there for you. Another is that you cannot discuss stuff with your neighbor during an exam. But you can discuss anything as much as you like with AI.
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by mg 3y ago
The similarity between the pen and AI is that both are tools that help mankind build better works of thought. Technology progresses and mankind becomes more effective all the time. At every stage, some people argue that the loss of manual a
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by mg 3y ago
My feeling is that saving writing from AI is like saving thinking from the pen. If we were to live in a society where building a cohesive thought has to be done completely in one's head and communicating it needs to be done via talking
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by mg 3y ago
Good point! The formula indeed assumes a base probability of zero. That's actually why I put "The best cafe ever" in there and that it is called an "exceptionally awesome cafe". I got a bit lax later in the text jus

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