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by sieste 7mo ago
yes. claude added a suggested random scramble (if that's what you mean?), also running average of 5/12/100, local storage of past times on first iteration, my son told it to also add a button for +2s penalties and touch scree
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by sieste 7mo ago
That may be true. But you also have to give the average parent more credit by assuming they don't want tech companies spying on their children and forcing their toxic platforms on them. There are well attended parent evenings in our sc
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by sieste 7mo ago
Just goes to show that most programmers have no idea what most programmers are mostly programming. Great that it works for you, but don't assume that this applies to everyone else.
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by sieste 7mo ago
Many parents are extremely interested in quickly building digital tools for their kids (education and entertainment) that they know are free from advertising, social media integration, user monitoring etc.
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by sieste 7mo ago
Turns out that knowing what a plain text file is will be the criterion that distinguishes users who are digitally free from those locked into proprietary platforms.
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by sieste 7mo ago
"use it from anywhere" was important, and I don't think there's an easier way than a freely hosted static website.
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by sieste 7mo ago
Related anecdote: My 12yo son didn't like the speed cubing online timer he was using because it kept crashing the browser and interrupted him with ads. Instead of googling a better alternative we sat down with claude code and put toget
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The ~fifth~ fourth postulate of decision theory (On the Independence Axiom)(lesswrong.com)
2 points by sieste 7mo ago|0 comments
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by sieste 7mo ago
The art is to decide when shaping the code yourself is worth your time. Not only financially but also experience gain and job satisfaction.
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by sieste 7mo ago
> you can use 'true' and 'false' interchangeably. made me laugh, especially in the context of LLMs.
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Major airline bans 'barebeaters' across all 24 daily flights from UK airports(metro.co.uk)
28 points by sieste 7mo ago|24 comments
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by sieste 7mo ago
The typos are interesting ("vocavulary", "inmput") - One of the godfathers of LLMs clearly does not use an LLM to improve his writing, and he doesn't even bother to use a simple spell checker.
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Israel claims killing of Khamenei, Pezeshkian(breakingthenews.net)
8 points by sieste 7mo ago|1 comments
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by sieste 8mo ago
Scrolling through a comment thread in an online forum such as this requires a lot of context switching. Does the context-switching theory of brain rot apply to text based feeds as well, or only video?
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by sieste 8mo ago
All these forced metaphors and clumsy linguistic flourishes made me cringe. Just add some typos and grammar mistakes like the rest of us to prove that your human.
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by sieste 9mo ago
Teaching is a very fulfilling profession. Organising knowledge and developing learning material on topics you care about is creative and intellectually stimulating, and connecting with your learners gives it a human component that is often
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by sieste 9mo ago
Due to pdf popularity there is a lot of demand for pdf processing tools. And the format is so complex that there are many nontrivial and creative ways to do pdf processing. That's why these "Hello World" projects usually make
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Live Coding Trance Music from Scratch in Strudel [video](youtube.com)
2 points by sieste 9mo ago|0 comments
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by sieste 9mo ago
If only they had stuck with latex maths syntax instead of inventing their own, I would have switched ages ago and encouraged others to do the same...
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by sieste 10mo ago
Polluting the internet with meat slop.
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by sieste 10mo ago
The LLM instructed him to gather training data.
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Why Everyone Is a DJ Now(kottke.org)
6 points by sieste 10mo ago|0 comments
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by sieste 10mo ago
Cool work, congratulations. Why did you put "real-time" in the title though when generation takes > 7 seconds?
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by sieste 10mo ago
In my uni, students often don't even need a medical diagnosis to get certain accommodations. This has created a kind of symbiosis between the wellbeing officers who make careers off of many students needing accommodations, and fit and
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Openreview Statement Regarding API Security Incident(openreview.net)
1 points by sieste 10mo ago|0 comments
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PocketBook – DIY pocket-sized Project Gutenberg books(github.com)
2 points by sieste 11mo ago|0 comments
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by sieste 1y ago
> The reason, they believe, is that as warm air rises over the sea, it draws moisture away from the land, yielding heavier downpours. Without reading the original article, which probably goes into more detail, I find this very speculativ
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by sieste 1y ago
Some parts of the dead mice still emit in that spectrum. There won't be a clear and distinct "the lights went out" moment but a gradual fading, so you'll have to define some threshold to translate from radiation distribu
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by sieste 1y ago
> the participants in the Q3 and Q4 groups exhibited lower cognition scores (Q3:β = -0.180, 95%CI -2.849~-0.860; Q4:β = -0.164, 95% -2.611~-0.666) This seems wrong. If "β" is the estimate here (not sure), it should be inside th
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WebR – R in the Browser(docs.r-wasm.org)
140 points by sieste 1y ago|34 comments

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