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by rg111 4y ago
Not an exaggeration at all. HN gave me much better education in CS and programming than any traditional source.
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by rg111 4y ago
I will cancel my Premium subscriptions once I see this update rolled into my phone. I promise. And I will uninstall the app, too. I will keep my account for the hope of a future rollback.
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by rg111 4y ago
I read Deep Work. Twice. It has truly helped me in my life. I have done some really great work of my life using it: created value-adding solutions in Computer Vision, worked three research papers. I am much more saner, calmer, and get more
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by rg111 4y ago
We, in my last company saved our business customers US$2-3mn/year using AI products. And we made good money selling those products. Those weren't products sold from techies to techies (the way Blockchain made some people money) ei
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by rg111 4y ago
No, you are wrong. That's why I wrote non-tech companies in parenthesis. For a tech company, you can sell codegen software where the customers solely determine value. You can sell another tech company Blockchain Snake Oil and make mone
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by rg111 4y ago
It is a common and uninformed HN fallacy to equate AI and Blockchain. While Blockchain only has hype, AI has hype and real applications. While there are enough bottom-feeder AI bros on Twitter and Discord, AI does have real applications a
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by rg111 4y ago
Thanks, will try them out.
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by rg111 4y ago
Why are people always in a debate mode? Don't you think I already know what you just wrote?
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by rg111 4y ago
Money buys something much more important than happiness- it buys you freedom.
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by rg111 4y ago
Sounds really interesting. Will check it out.
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by rg111 4y ago
Absolutely. People who already pay professional artists will not stop paying them because of this. This kind of products will create many entrants into the design space. People who still haven't paid a designer/artist yet, many of
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by rg111 4y ago
Already read the first two. Heard about the third one. Will give the last two a try. Thanks.
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by rg111 4y ago
I already added that to my list. Thanks.
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by rg111 4y ago
Not really. Medicine in those times was quite standardized and effective. There was not scientific method involved. And the philosophy and mathematics was quite advanced.
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Ask HN: The Code Book by Simon Singh but for Other Fields?
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The Futhark Programming Language: Functional Array Programming in GPU(futhark-lang.org)
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by rg111 4y ago
I think what the author is calling book maybe a manuscript? I think they are counting even five written pages as a unique book? So maybe essays are also being counted as books.
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by rg111 4y ago
I think they are considering even 5 written pages as a "book"?
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by rg111 4y ago
Exactly what happened with college education expenses in the US.
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by rg111 4y ago
If you copy the link and paste it on your browser's address bar, then it works. But clicking from here does not. I don't know why!
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by rg111 4y ago
Tony Stark inherited tens of billions of dollars. YOU DIDN'T. And, so, if we get Jarvis level AI, and you will get rendered obsolete. When these tools come, inheriting billionaires will hire 10 people with Tony Stark intelligence a
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by rg111 4y ago
Others have pointed out to several other points. I agree with those. My personal reasons are these: 1. Without HN, I would not have known about Nand2Tetris, OCaml, Non-Linear Dynamics, Neal Stephenson, Greg Egan, or Aaron Schwartz. In a wa
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by rg111 4y ago
This article is so bad, I stopped reading it after one minute. Plain wrong things: > Today’s most talked-about AIs are generative — far superior to their heavily supervised predecessors. No they are not. Generative AI is one kind of AI.
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by rg111 4y ago
I am wondering what amount of head-twisting does it take to reach the conclusion that Windows is not a walled garden and Linux distros are? Ooof. HN never ceases to amaze me.
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by rg111 4y ago
I feel the same and agree with you. I still have a physical newspaper subscription that I read. I like some ads. And some of those are very original and witty. I also get a literary magazine that comes twice a month. There are lots of ads
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by rg111 4y ago
Only forced obsoleting by the company. No other reasons exist. I and tens of millions other people used removable back cover phones for years before the sealed phone became the norm. Edit: Can anyone explain why they think that this is wron
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by rg111 4y ago
I fully agree with your comment. But what you and pigsty keep repeating is that: "if it is free to choose, and lifestyle based approach adopted by anyone in West", it is wrong. I don't agree with this.
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by rg111 4y ago
> Western Buddhism is based off There is nothing well-defined as "Western Buddhism". The western buddhism I studied is based on Theraveda, and not Mahayana or Zen. > If Buddhism in East Asia is appropriation and people in
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by rg111 4y ago
> Buddhist buddhism involves demons, hell, and more praying or even chanting than meditating for the general population. You are mentioning Mahayana or later Vajrayana Buddhism. Buddha never asks you to pray, and he did not teach any con
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by rg111 4y ago
Where did Buddha define Buddhism? Even in time of Buddha, there were thousands of Buddhists who were practising Buddhist while remaining in a family. Buddha, once addressing Ananda, told him that there were hundreds of disciples who attaine

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