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by tehnub 1y ago
Any iPhone or iPad app that does local ML inference?
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by tehnub 1y ago
Interesting exchange on the use of AI coding tools: curious how much did you write the code by hand of it? Karpathy: Good question, it's basically entirely hand-written (with tab autocomplete). I tried to use claude/cod
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by tehnub 1y ago
Self-perception can have a profound effect on one's physical and mental wellbeing, so even drugs which are for cosmetic purposes can be important for health.
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by tehnub 1y ago
It sounds like the book itself isn't nihilistic but there may be nihilistic characters in it, which doesn't seem like something worth criticizing it over.
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Feynman on Mathematical Education (1965) [pdf](web.archive.org)
2 points by tehnub 1y ago|0 comments
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A General Style Preference for Pronounceable Code (2010)(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by tehnub 1y ago|0 comments
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by tehnub 1y ago
Here’s an economics article at least: https://hbr.org/1996/07/increasing-returns-and-the-new-world... And here’s a short article about his contribution to that article: https://andrewbatson.com/201
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by tehnub 1y ago
Solar noon sunlight microdose is now on my todo list for tomorrow, thanks.
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'I Was Responsible for Those People' (2021)(theatlantic.com)
7 points by tehnub 1y ago|1 comments
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New Textbooks for the "New" Mathematics (1965) [pdf](web.archive.org)
2 points by tehnub 1y ago|0 comments
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Apple Lightning Adapter Audio Quality (2017)(kenrockwell.com)
5 points by tehnub 1y ago|0 comments
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by tehnub 1y ago
Another good, recently created text is Information Theory: From Coding to Learning . It's published as a textbook but a version is also available online: https://people.lids.mit.edu/yp/homepage/data/itbo
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by tehnub 1y ago
A dark evening at the edge of the airfield? Write the rest of this short story please.
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by tehnub 1y ago
Not sure if it's full on satire, slightly outrageous ideas expressed in fanciful language for the fun of it, or the writing of a true believer. Fun read, good luck with the stealth B2B!
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by tehnub 1y ago
I think foremost it's a reference to this tweet https://x.com/karpathy/status/1835561952258723930 .
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by tehnub 1y ago
My understanding is that all that extra gear is mainly to enable more ergonomic manual control for things like focus. The matte box and ND filter are probably the biggest boosts to image and motion quality, and there are affordable ways to
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by tehnub 1y ago
IMO it's not the recording of ideas that is thinking, but rather the act of putting thoughts into language. To me there isn't a big cognitive difference between conversing about a topic (during which you put thoughts into words) a
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Tinyio: A tiny (~200 line) event loop for Python(github.com)
117 points by tehnub 1y ago|18 comments
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by tehnub 1y ago
>As I see it, the path to AGI is a three-horse race right now: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Sleeping on Keen Technology I see
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by tehnub 1y ago
Pair programming with coworkers over the years, many seem to have trouble with the keyboard, to the point where pressing right parenthesis is a significant burden and they don’t use right or down arrow to get out of the span but actually mo
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Recursive factorial in 14 characters (2023)(mvanier.github.io)
1 points by tehnub 1y ago|0 comments
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by tehnub 1y ago
When I saw the title I assumed it was originally "Why I" or "How I" and was trimmed automatically by HN, but this is the original. Could it be that the author was influenced by HN's title guidelines and titled it th
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by tehnub 1y ago
Navigation is a narrow task. For many intents and purposes, LLMs are generally intelligent.
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by tehnub 1y ago
I sometimes used to think about things. Now I just ask ChatGPT and it tells me.
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by tehnub 1y ago
Yep, not reinventing the wheel is advice you should consider in a business context, not when you’re programming for fun, although I’m sure there are hordes of people giving this advice outside of the business context and perhaps that’s wh
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by tehnub 1y ago
So Steve was against haptic feedback on the iPhone? I may have to turn it off in that case.
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by tehnub 2y ago
Apple Books on macOS is pretty nice
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by tehnub 2y ago
What do you risk by not giving that disclaimer?
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by tehnub 2y ago
Not a fork but a similar program I've been using: https://github.com/tidwall/jj?tab=readme-ov-file#performance
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by tehnub 2y ago
> If I write it, they will come. They won’t. There are billions of blog posts out there. The internet is an infinite void, and your blog is a whisper in a hurricane. Where are the interesting, technical blog posts that nobody is reading?

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