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by nsainsbury 2mo ago
The most downvoted comment I've ever made on Hacker News was related to climate change. There's a profoundly ignorant collection of people here who want to stick their head in the sand and pretend everything is fine while the worl
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by nsainsbury 4mo ago
Yep. Smartphones and social media were the jab, jab, and now AI is the knockout punch. We're raising a generation of people who quite literally do not know how to think for themselves and completely lack the motivation (and attention s
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by nsainsbury 5mo ago
I've been working on https://www.photogenesis.app It's an iOS & Android app that applies various generative art effects to your photos, letting you turn your photos into creative animated works of art. It's fu
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by nsainsbury 6mo ago
I've been working on https://www.photogenesis.app/ It's an iOS app that applies various generative art effects to your photos, letting you turn your photos into creative animated works of art. It's fully offl
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by nsainsbury 6mo ago
Fellow generative artist here :waves: I started out in all the usual ways - inspired by Daniel Shiffman making generative art first using Processing, then p5.js, and now mostly I create art by writing shaders. Recently after being laid off
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Breaking Down the Jelly Slider(blog.swmansion.com)
2 points by nsainsbury 7mo ago|1 comments
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by nsainsbury 7mo ago
Just wait until we start to see the full impact of AI on learning. I suspect the results are going to be so catastrophic that there will actually be attempts to hide it. eg. See [1] which finds: " The report shows a rapid change over j
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by nsainsbury 8mo ago
I used to also believe along these lines but lately I'm not so sure. I'm honestly shocked by the latest results we're seeing with Gemini 3 Deep Think, Opus 4.6, and Codex 5.3 in math, coding, abstract reasoning, etc. Deep Thi
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by nsainsbury 8mo ago
I actually wrote up quite a few thoughts related to this a few days ago but my take is far more pessimistic: https://www.neilwithdata.com/outsourced-thinking My fundamental argument: The way the average person is using AI t
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by nsainsbury 8mo ago
Touching on the atrophy point, I actually wrote a few thoughts about this yesterday: https://www.neilwithdata.com/outsourced-thinking I actually disagree with Andrej here re: "Generation (writing code) and discriminati
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The Consequences of Outsourcing Thinking(neilwithdata.com)
3 points by nsainsbury 8mo ago|0 comments
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The State of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
1 points by nsainsbury 9mo ago|0 comments
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by nsainsbury 11mo ago
Yep, sold to DAZN. Who in turn do all their development out of Hyderabad, India. Almost entire tech team locally is gone now with handover done to that team.
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by nsainsbury 11mo ago
IMO, things are different this time (as someone who has been in this industry for about 20 years now) and I don't see these jobs coming back. For one, many of these companies are now used to their tech teams being remote. The tools, cu
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by nsainsbury 11mo ago
I was laid off recently along with most of the tech team (Australian company ~ very well known brand). There's a handful of people left, but even they know their time is coming soon. And this isn't about AI (well, not primarily an
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by nsainsbury 2y ago
I've always found it interesting that on Hacker News, articles like this pretty much fly by without commentary and are routinely downvoted, while articles speculating about the inevitable doom of mankind due to AI generate hundreds of
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Global Sea Surface Temperature – New Record(twitter.com)
9 points by nsainsbury 2y ago|1 comments
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Oil Executives Are Getting Refreshingly Honest These Days(newrepublic.com)
30 points by nsainsbury 3y ago|19 comments
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by nsainsbury 3y ago
We're not going to make it to anywhere close to AGI before we see widespread and systematic societal and environmental collapse on almost all fronts due to climate change. We're in the middle of the sixth mass extinction right now
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The Youth Mental Health Crisis Is International Part 4: Europe(afterbabel.com)
25 points by nsainsbury 3y ago|13 comments
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by nsainsbury 4y ago
For anyone looking for the related talk from LeCun discussing the proposed architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRzvpV9DZ8Y
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
Science does eventually self-correct, but unfortunately it takes far too long to do so. One area I've studied pretty extensively is the history of cancer treatment. In the long story of the history of cancer treatment, it is absolutely
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
Yes, absolutely this. I don't think many people outside of academia truly understand how much scientific research has degraded over the years. There are an extremely small number of fields in which the overall quality is still quite hi
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
That's true. And I agree that the vaccines have saved lives - mostly, of the old and the very sick/unhealthy. However, what is less clear today is whether there has been a net positive or negative effect of the vaccine for young h
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
Actually, I would argue we don't have good data from the use of the vaccines. Part of the reason is because all the mechanisms used for reporting things like side-effects, effectiveness, etc. have a litany of confounding variables whic
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
I started developing chest pain two days after my Pfizer shot and actually still experience some chest pain at times now, many months later. For me the pain started after exercising as well. The cardiologist I went to see about the issue sa
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
Appears to be very very common (as high as 2/3 'with' covid vs 'for' covid). See: https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1478401273317654528
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
I don't think anyone is ignoring long COVID and hospital issues. Hospital capacity is discussed front and center daily and is the primary justification given for lockdowns. Also, please see this recent meta-analysis which found that wh
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
Actually, a recent meta-analysis found that when you actually add a control group, most of the "long COVID" symptoms disappear. Higher quality studies were was associated with lower prevalence of almost all symptoms. "Long CO
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
From what I've seen there seems to be a growing body of evidence that "long COVID" is very much overblown. Eg. See this recent meta-analysis which found that when you actually add a control group, most of the symptoms disappe

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