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by quinndupont 7mo ago
This isn’t ChatGPT-style slop. There’s some secret sauce and it takes your process from 30-60 min per application to just minutes. It’s been through many recruiters for testing.
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Show HN: JobApplicator (tailored job applications in minutes)(jobapplicator.win)
1 points by quinndupont 7mo ago|2 comments
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by quinndupont 7mo ago
Interesting to see the mathematical solution space get optimized away. On account of “there’s no accounting for taste” this actually makes me hopeful that creative workers have durable skills that can’t be optimized, which I can’t say about
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by quinndupont 10mo ago
SO MANY ADVERTISEMENTS. Tis a shame everything has to be fluffed up and sold
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by quinndupont 10mo ago
To what degree is marginalism dependent on price as the active force? How can marginal utility be realized without all goods having a market price? What happens when goods are difficult or impossible to price?
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by quinndupont 10mo ago
Vanity is contextual. Everything is vanity from some ultimate perspective.
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by quinndupont 11mo ago
Representing the alphabetic orthography for Hello World is obviously impossible in a written script lacking letters, revealing the folly implicit in the exercise.
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by quinndupont 1y ago
There’s a long history of attempts at artificial speech that take this approach, recreating mouth parts and vibrating air. They are all pretty silly, like this work, which fails to understand how writing isn’t just a derivative of speech.
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by quinndupont 1y ago
Y’all need to learn about the history and development of spoken language and writing. Writing isn’t just a copy or derivation of writing. LLMs work because of the conceptual characteristics of writing (consider the distinctions between ideo
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by quinndupont 1y ago
pictograms ≠ alphabetic symbols
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by quinndupont 1y ago
Corporate capture of payment rails, masquerading as open payments.
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by quinndupont 1y ago
The hardware is UGLY.
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by quinndupont 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Making sure the issuer is legit is basically an oracle challenge that needs off chain coordination.
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Alumni Labs: public good funding for blockchain diplomas(mirror.xyz)
1 points by quinndupont 5y ago|2 comments
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by quinndupont 5y ago
This short article offers wild opinions with no understanding of history or any meaningful analysis. The authors also clearly have an ideological axe to grind (I mean, come on… the CATO Institute?) If there were any facts presented I’d say
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by quinndupont 5y ago
I use Libib as well. It has a blazing fast barcode scanner, though manual entry is a bit cumbersome. They seem like a good company, though longevity might be a concern. There is an easy export option, anyways.
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by quinndupont 7y ago
Is nobody going to mention how beautifully it was written? Surprising erudition and style.
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by quinndupont 7y ago
Seems to me that the real story here isn’t Amazon but the heartbreaking frequency of vehicular crashes. Always fun to pick on Amazon though.
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Cadaverine (Wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by quinndupont 7y ago|1 comments
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by quinndupont 8y ago
Agreed. While I find minimum price thresholds and sin taxes personally annoying, there's lots of good research associating ease of access and low prices with alcoholism, which has high costs in terms of healthcare and individual suffer
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Researching the Traders Behind the Cryptocurrency Mania(cryptoslate.com)
1 points by quinndupont 8y ago|0 comments
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by quinndupont 8y ago
Naive question: are these sorts of advertising/documentary things common in open source programming languages? Open source software more generally? I watched the documentary and I found it to be compelling and well produced while also
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Show HN: Blockchain Research Network(blockchainresearchnetwork.org)
2 points by quinndupont 8y ago|0 comments
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Facebook’s Ban on Cryptocurrency Ads Means I Can’t Advertise My Book(amp.slate.com)
2 points by quinndupont 8y ago|0 comments
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by quinndupont 9y ago
Not to turn HN into ebay, but if anyone wants to buy my Freewrite (modern version of AlphaSmart, as the developers point out below), hit me up: iqdupont.com
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“The Voynich Manuscript” is not cracked “and Truth on the Internet”(newyorker.com)
2 points by quinndupont 9y ago|0 comments
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by quinndupont 9y ago
That's the curious thing: to an academic there's no such thing as "extremely boring Latin", especially when it comes to the Voynich. Why we're only given a tantalizing line is odd. Perhaps there is no single "u
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by quinndupont 9y ago
Agreed. It's a super strange article (sure, written like an academic, but even most don't bury the lede that badly!) From the article it isn't clear if all or just a portion of the text is decipherable using the implied logic
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by quinndupont 9y ago
Bitcoin wants to be money, but it really isn't. It fails the traditional account (originally from Jevons); see Kubát 2015 [1]; Mandjee 2015 [2]. More obviously, it is far too volatile to function like money in a normal sense, see Golum
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by quinndupont 9y ago
If I recall the gist of the Rogaway article, from memory, (again, it's an important enough article that it really does merit serious attention): he argues 1) cryptographers (and computer scientists in general) should be more political

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