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by tomthe 2y ago
Sorry, you are right and I stand corrected. I must have misremembered this. Here is a tweet from PG correcting this: https://x.com/paulg/status/1796107666265108940 via https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by tomthe 2y ago
Why do you think they might be wrong when they want a simple website?
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by tomthe 2y ago
I agree with the no, but you can make space itself rotate because things in space rotate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-dragging And that in turn would rotate things in space... or not?
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by tomthe 2y ago
Not all (look up how he got fired from ycombinator). But as long as there are enough new people who want to play with him, he might do fine (and there are a lot of willing VCs). Once the word starts to spread about him, through stories like
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by tomthe 2y ago
I would love to play some board games with Sam Altman. He is smart, strategic and very persuasive (I heard). He would excel especially at games like Risk or Mafia, where you have to persuade your opponents to collaborate with you. But afte
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by tomthe 2y ago
I made something very similar a few weeks ago. I also included usernames with the average of their comments: https://tomthe.github.io/hackmap/
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by tomthe 2y ago
Wait, how is this possible?? I tried to visualize a few tens of MB of text in the browser [1] on a canvas and it gets really choppy if I don't optimize it by not showing stuff that can't be read. Impressive that it can handle giga
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by tomthe 2y ago
And the pentagon orders randomized amounts of pizzas every few random days.
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by tomthe 3y ago
These results look really useful on a first glance! I will make an account to test this with my own questions after seeing the results (The homepage alone didn't convince me to invest that much time).
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by tomthe 3y ago
True, the topics do not have dates and a timestamp of 0.0 equals January 1st 1970. Interesting that it shows Dec31, 1969 for you. Maybe I could have used the average or first time of all the comments of that topic for the time of that topic
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Show HN: HackMap, 1.5M Hacker News stories, users and comments in one plot(tomthe.github.io)
6 points by tomthe 3y ago|2 comments
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by tomthe 3y ago
It is really cool and useful. Interesting that you were able to gather enough data from users to make it work. I guess it was much less useful in the beginning? I thought of making something similar with data from https://musicbr
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by tomthe 3y ago
I like it! Maybe you can try datamapplot instead of plotly for a better visualisation. I just did something similar for hacker news comments and stories and wrote my own visualisation around force-graph because plotly and alternatives don&#
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Show HN: HackMap, 1.5M Hacker News stories, users and comments in one plot(tomthe.github.io)
3 points by tomthe 3y ago|0 comments
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by tomthe 3y ago
The head sizes of babies are actually getting larger over the past decades [1]. This might be because of better nutrition, but maybe it is by a large part because we can do caesarean sections in every hospital now and head size is not as li
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by tomthe 3y ago
Can you share your chatGPT prompt, please? I do something similar at the moment and I try out Bert topic, but chatGPT seems also worth a try.
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by tomthe 3y ago
Yes, there is also this nice story to illustrate this: Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit. The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist tak
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by tomthe 3y ago
Thank you and the sibling comment. These are interesting resources for practical and physical simulations of real phenomena. I thought more about an idealized wave (which water waves are not) through a homogeneous euclidean medium of ideali
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by tomthe 3y ago
Since we are discussing wave equations in a computer science-related forum: What is the 'best' algorithm for a discrete 1D (or n-D) wave simulation? With 'best' I mean simple but as realistic and stable as possible. The
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by tomthe 3y ago
This is my view as well. However, if you are a young and healthy software developer, you can earn much more money in the US.
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by tomthe 3y ago
Thank you for thinking more deeply about this than I did! But I do not see a problem in your first example, only true is the true true (according to my browser and the linked definition on https://www.json.org ) I don't get
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by tomthe 3y ago
I like the "Simple Encoding Notation" (SEN) of the underlying library: https://github.com/ohler55/ojg/blob/develop/sen.md " A valid example of a SEN document is: { one: 1 two: 2 arra
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Cool Science Tricks (2005)(daveroot.neocities.org)
121 points by tomthe 3y ago|9 comments
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by tomthe 3y ago
A heat pump is much more effective if you only have a small temperature difference [0]. If your house is well insulated and you have underfloor heating, you can heat your house with 40°C (sorry for European units) water to keep it warm insi
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by tomthe 3y ago
What else did you use to calculate similarities? When I tried something similar with HN co-commenters, I just got one big blob with dang and other prolific commenters in the middle. That was not very interesting or insightful. How long did
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by tomthe 3y ago
Or check them out directly on the map: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/#12.36/-31.74456/14.8...
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by tomthe 3y ago
I agree. This would be a great usecase for the fastText.js library. It can calculate similarities of words based on embeddings in the browser - no need to wait for a slow php script.
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by tomthe 4y ago
Yes, maybe I just underestimate the abundance of bots in internet forums.
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Tell HN: There are GPT-based bots on HN commenting sophisticated nonsense
16 points by tomthe 4y ago|5 comments
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by tomthe 4y ago
Very interesting! But apart from visitor numbers, how high was the number of emails or requests that you received because of the wide circulation of that post? I could imagine that there was some interesting requests for comments?

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