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901.
by sdwr 4y ago
Terrible post. The language is waffly and barely says anything, and the graph doesn't even work (orange hidden behind blue). Hope your product is more effective than your writing.
902.
by sdwr 4y ago
Interesting combo of disgusting and boring. Glad mayo-based sauces are getting the shellacking they deserve.
903.
by sdwr 4y ago
Great answer!
904.
by sdwr 4y ago
A (moving) picture is worth 1000 words! I'll take that little smirk as evidence any day of the week
905.
by sdwr 4y ago
Interesting that it's such a conservative, opinion-less, air-tight piece. Guess its his technical writing background coming through.
906.
by sdwr 4y ago
Wolfram's "grid cell" concept is based on cellular automata (similar to Game of Life), where each cell has simple rules that, when taken together, add up to complex overall behavior (emergent phenomena). Following it further:
907.
by sdwr 4y ago
Love that voice, great clear tone.
908.
by sdwr 4y ago
First time I've seen SNL linked on HN! Don't let the entities without functional humour modules scare you off.
909.
by sdwr 4y ago
I remember being thrilled by his 2015(?) piece (the really long "cellular automata as universal foundation" one). Felt like a proper stab at combining physics + CS, thin on details, but fertile ground. Wolfram is an explorer there
910.
by sdwr 4y ago
That doesn't sound right at all. In 2D space a line bisects the plane. There's no way of moving from one side to the other without touching it. The possibility space of images is much, much larger than 2D.
911.
by sdwr 4y ago
Device use is where smoking was 50 years ago. Everyone does it, most people kinda know it's bad for you. It's like eating candy instead of actual meals, doesn't have the balanced macros and vitamins of proper engagement+inter
912.
by sdwr 4y ago
For me, it's a "man behind the mask" thing. Clowns play big, with exaggerated expressions and responses. The incongruence between the acting and the person behind the acting wigs me out.
913.
by sdwr 4y ago
Impressive! Very valuable work for the future, opens the door to a lot of use cases. How specialized is your architecture to the dataset?
914.
by sdwr 4y ago
I was a 'gifted' child. IQ tested at 160+, graduated high school at 13. Feels like it's been an albatross around my neck that I'm only starting to shake. A lot of my self-worth came from being recognized as special. When
915.
by sdwr 4y ago
I know the feel, but I also think this is misplaced anxiety. Work can be difficult, stressful, feel pointless, etc, which is why we get paid to do it. And you need some level of stress to get over the hump and get it done, to fight off comp
916.
by sdwr 4y ago
The ones that have stood the test of time are masterpieces of storytelling. They shine insight into a facet of life. They have a strong throughline, a message without moralizing. The best ones ground an experience to make it tangible to par
917.
by sdwr 4y ago
It's been...
918.
by sdwr 4y ago
Sure, practically, it would have been more efficient to go Sweden-style scorched earth. What I want done better next time, is building an "off switch" into the messaging. It should have been made clear from the start that COVID wa
919.
by sdwr 4y ago
A lot to unpack (read - wildly speculate about) here. 10,000 generations ago. Like the next one but less of a "solved game". 1000 generations ago - Old men coupling with young women reads as small-scale tribal society to me. Polyg
920.
by sdwr 4y ago
The writing is bad, but the sci-fi elements blend with history and real life perfectly. There's a reason Obama gave a blurb for it. There are great threads in there. The dark forest as an illustration of paranoia matches up with the cu
921.
by sdwr 4y ago
Thats a lot less cheaty, biologically speaking, than full backprop. This Hinton guy sounds like he knows what he's talking about. "Context drift as data distribution changes" sounds a hell of a lot like real life to me. Norma
922.
by sdwr 4y ago
Legit genius, there's still so much to mine from that. I would love word2vec for arbitrary media. The interpolating ML algos are half there, like the one that interps between musical genres, or the music video image generator one. Ther
923.
by sdwr 4y ago
Love the analogy. For years after school I found myself going into "test mode", a timeboxed intellectual fight to the death. Works great when the work gets distilled to a number and thrown away, not so well when you have to keep w
924.
by sdwr 4y ago
Exercise is the same way, lots of effort to stay in the same place. I like to believe that maintenance work makes me better, even though the numbers don't really change. At least it gets easier to keep it up over time.
925.
by sdwr 4y ago
My jaw literally dropped when he said TV takes away your body. That's mastery of the medium, he owned the fourth wall harder than I've ever seen. Beautiful little lie, it's not true for him in the moment, but it is true for t
926.
by sdwr 4y ago
I'm guessing the risk on Stripe's side is that OP (or someone else!) is using a bunch of stolen credit cards to make purchases. If there are a lot of chargebacks, Stripe's on the hook for that.
927.
by sdwr 4y ago
Love the thought, that's the next level of scaling past exp/log. Agree that additive makes the most sense, it lets you name the components and leaves breathing room. The one coding thing I took away from playing Satisfactory is to
928.
by sdwr 4y ago
This is the classic platitude. I don't buy it - I do judge other people like that.
929.
by sdwr 4y ago
The closest thing I've seen is https://ampie.app/ , which goes in a similar direction. I bounced off of it (too cluttered, privacy concerns w browser extensions), but it has a lot of the pieces there.
930.
by sdwr 4y ago
Yeah, good points. #3, "tag cloud" idea is great, and lends itself to view by tag. I'm coming at it from the direction, where I see the primary action as "collecting" / "cultivating". Ex. 1. See an ar

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