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by smokel 6mo ago
No, code is not the same as a specification. There are a lot of accidental implementation details that the customer may not require. By making the code the specification, you end up with those details becoming requirements, and you can th
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by smokel 6mo ago
Interestingly, most of scientific research is also not part of the public discourse.
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by smokel 6mo ago
Mechanical typewriters have different physical mechanisms to feed forward a line or make the carriage return. I think it doesn't turtle much further back than that.
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Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
189 points by smokel 6mo ago|78 comments
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by smokel 6mo ago
I find it a bit depressing that this list is tied so closely to individuals. Obviously these individuals did great things, but it is typically by standing on the shoulders of giants (Isaac Newton) that any of this has been possible. It mig
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by smokel 6mo ago
Humans are also, possibly apart from dogs, the only beings that think humans are incredible. If we take any other entity in the universe, then chances are they think pretty lowly of humans and their cherished intelligence, if at all.
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by smokel 6mo ago
This seems to be an ad for a fairly expensive book on a topic that is described in detail in many (free) resources. See for example: https://rlabbe.github.io/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyth... Is there something in this
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by smokel 6mo ago
This is great news for those of us looking for baby names. So far my list includes: Pascal, Ada, Dylan, Crystal, Lisa, Julia, Ruby, and now Lisette.
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by smokel 7mo ago
What, an article on typing and keyboards, and no mention of Dvorak or Colemak? Let's have that eternal discussion again! Swap Caps and Ctrl, use Emacs or vi keybindings, and save your wrist from moving to the arrow keys!
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by smokel 7mo ago
I think this is mostly about existing legislature, not about technology. In any other context than when your paycheck depends on it, you would probably not be following orders from a random manager. If your paycheck depended on following t
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by smokel 7mo ago
And what tooling do you use with that? In my experience, there is quite a bit of difference between using, say, OpenCode, or the commercial offerings.
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by smokel 7mo ago
We need a website with refutations that one can easily link to. This interpretations of LLMs is outdated and unproductive.
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by smokel 7mo ago
No. AlphaGo does search, and does so imperfectly. It does come up with creative new patterns not seen before.
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by smokel 7mo ago
Interestingly, the person at Microsoft states in a reply that even most of them have to pick this up in their spare time. Judging from other replies, it seems that there are quite some differences in how companies approach this. What I mea
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by smokel 7mo ago
I understand that in a research lab or in academia, this is common practice. But in the more menial coding industry that most of us are probably in, how do you find time for this? Do people read papers in their spare time and discuss over
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by smokel 7mo ago
No, there is one award each year, and this year it is shared equally between two people: Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard. This happens more often, and it has even been shared between three people (in 2002, 2007 and 2018).
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by smokel 7mo ago
This article made me enthusiastic to dive into Bayesian statistics (again). A quick search led me to Think Bayes [1], which also introduces the concepts using Python, and seems to have a little more depth. [1] https://allendow
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by smokel 7mo ago
> AI really wants to use Project Panama It would help if you briefly specified the AI you are using here. There are wildly different results between using, say, an 8B open-weights LLM and Claude Opus 4.6.
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by smokel 7mo ago
> Imagine that we made an LLM out of all dolphin songs ever recorded, would such LLM ever reach human level intelligence? Obviously and intuitively the answer is NO. Not so fast. People have built pretty amazing thought frameworks out
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by smokel 7mo ago
This is an interesting topic. I always loved the idea of extensions, for multiple reasons. But they do have their disadvantages, and I'm eager to find out how extension systems will hold up in the time of LLMs. A major advantage of (
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by smokel 7mo ago
In a typical open source project only one person has had a look at a particular piece of code. Only in the larger and more mature projects do people actually spend time reviewing code. Also, if you don't pay for the free code, there
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by smokel 7mo ago
It turned out to be pretty hard in some places. I'm using CodeMirror as the basic building block, which is great, but it does not support WYSIWYG table editing out of the box. Getting that to work requires one to use a separate CodeM
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by smokel 7mo ago
I've written an Obsidian clone for myself, which has proper Emacs keybindings . Took me a few hours too many to get in all the features that I need. What I find interesting is that I have little motivation to open source it. Making
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by smokel 7mo ago
> This outperforms the majority of online llm services I assume you mean outperforms in speed on the same model, not in usability compared to other more capable models. (For those who are getting their hopes up on using local LLMs to b
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by smokel 7mo ago
Apparently, there is no scientific evidence that ANC is or is not causing tinnitus. ANC reduces background noise, which typically allows users to listen at lower volumes, thereby reducing total sound exposure to the ear. So if the user ada
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by smokel 7mo ago
What you can do depends highly on your skill set, your network, and your willingness to spend effort on this. If you feed this into a decent chatbot, or in an Ask HN, you might be surprised.
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by smokel 8mo ago
For the uninitiated: Interestingly, it is not advisable to take this to the extreme and set temperature to 0. That would seem logical, as the results are then completely deterministic, but it turns out that a suboptimal token may result in
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TU Delft sets national record with largest human pi symbol(tudelft.nl)
2 points by smokel 8mo ago|0 comments
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by smokel 8mo ago
Ooh, let's spend next weekend doing this with my acoustic piano!
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by smokel 8mo ago
You seem to be right. The author is pumping out one such article per day. I think I've spent more time in forming my comment than they did in generating the article. Oh well :)

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