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by vunderba 6mo ago
Yeah I definitely think LLMs contributed to its demise. To be honest, nobody in academic AI circles took it very seriously, because it kind of devolved into a contest over who could create the most convincing illusion of intelligence . Par
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by vunderba 6mo ago
That makes sense. The CX-2 calculators are a bit less like the iPad era and more like the equivalent of calc I/II classes which only let you use specific TI models versus an app on your smartphone. It reminds me of a family friend who&
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by vunderba 6mo ago
You should look up the history of the Loebner Prize [1]. There’s a shocking amount of technological development in some chatbots that went toward simulating mistakes and typing patterns to make them seem more human-like. In some of the la
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Even Microsoft Word stores revision history inside .docx files, and that’s been used to expose plagiarism. I heard about one case where a student took an existing paper (I believe from a previous year/student) and pasted it into Word.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
OOC was this a while ago? Even when I took the ground exam around 10 years ago, everyone had electronic flight computer calculators (CX-2s).
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Ouch. I was pretty good at that game as a kid. A few years back, one of my friends got one of those NES Classic Minis which has Punchout on it, so I was pretty jazzed to give it shot. All of my timing was off, even Bald Bull was giving me a
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Yeah I totally see what you're saying. For me if I built a tool like this I would think of it more like the equivalent of "tensors meets mind-mapping node tool" - so the idea of growing multidimensionally from a center point
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by vunderba 6mo ago
> cannot extract a password from someones brain. May I introduce you to XKCD Number 538. https://xkcd.com/538
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by vunderba 6mo ago
50ms latency would be extremely rough for games heavily reliant on frame perfect timing and lightning fast reflexes. I can't imagine playing Mike Tyson's Punchout for the NES with that kind of lag.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. I put together a similar system a while back - it's just a self-contained Go binary called paper-search along with an accompanying LLM skill to facilitate search, retrieval, and downloading of relevant academic papers using O
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Lived in Taiwan for years while studying traditional Chinese. This is spot-on. There’s this bizarre almost Pokémon level obsession (gotta catch'em all!) among foreign language learners with a STEM background where they fixate on amassi
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. Bit of feedback: - I’d recommend having the crossword grid take up the full screen. If there’s enough width and height, you could start the player in the middle. That would give it more of a feeling of unlimited bounds which feels
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Yeah, I think that's a legitimate concern. It's hard to know, even with sufficient training data, how far these systems can actually generalize their problem-solving abilities when they become data starved in the future either bec
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Having tried a number of these online loudness meters in the past, without using some reference calibration, it's likely going to give you pretty inconsistent results out of the box. ( the site does have a calibration offset ) I'v
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Heavily agreed - LLMs are also really good at diagnosing crash logs, and sifting through what would otherwise be inscrutably large core dumps.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
This. I’m sure everyone has a similar story of how difficult it was to explain the difference between a program shortcut represented as a visual icon on a desktop versus the actual executable itself to somebody who didn’t grow up in the age
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. For reference, these are known as tangram or inlay puzzles. Growing up we had a physical version of it: a stack of a hundred large cards with progressively more difficult outlines of various shapes along with a bag of simple geome
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Kind of reminds me of the "Living Chess" performances they do at ChessFest in London where actors dress up as chess pieces on a large board. Looks like they recorded people in a time-lapse and then broadcast it as a looped video s
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. Some Feedback: The AI‑generated images for the Circle of Fifths don’t make a lot of sense - why are there blurry Japanese kana/kanji on them? Clicking on the “Guitar” dropdown in the navbar doesn’t do anything. The dev consol
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by vunderba 6mo ago
This. They kind of snuck this into the release notes: switching the default effort level to Medium. High is significantly slower, but that’s somewhat mitigated by the fact that you don’t have to constantly act like a helicopter parent for
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by vunderba 6mo ago
True, I also love the equivalent of musical "variations on a theme" so I'm here for it! Honestly, when I saw the title "Sexy Math," I half-expected to see a picture of Jeffrey Goldblum (the chaos theory mathematic
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. Feedback: Eyes Dating Site I used to joke that an Afghan Tinder would just be swiping left or right on pictures of eyes because of the niqab. Sexy Math This is sort of a variation on the classic NSFW jigsaw/Rubik’s cube-s
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Agreed. I remember seeing quite a few non-standard designs in the days of Vista, especially when Microsoft was heavily promoting the Windows Presentation Foundation framework and using XAML for UI design. The problem with setups like this i
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by vunderba 6mo ago
From the Midjourney Gospel in the article: > Thou shalt not be attached to the original idea. Heh. This is a polite way of saying that Midjourney has some of the absolute worst prompt adherence in the universe (scoring a 2 out of 15 on
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by vunderba 6mo ago
From the article: > The simplest solution is to use CSS transitions, but unfortunately, transitions on <path> elements aren’t supported in Safari. Sigh. Regular Safari and iOS WebKit are the bane of my existence. I've recent
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I honestly didn't even realize Backblaze had a clientside app. Very happy user of Arq - been running a daily scheduled dual backup of my HDD to an external NAS and Backblaze B2 for years with zero issues.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Rembg has been around for a while, but it’s still a really useful tool. It supports a wide range of adapters for different background removal models, including BiRefNet, which is definitely one of the best pre-trained image segmentation mod
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice article. One of the things I used to do in the past was adjust my CCD settings based on the velocity of certain objects. Some objects would be tagged with different levels of CCD, so high‑speed bullets in the game would automatically g
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by vunderba 6mo ago
The scarves I use, as I mentioned in another thread, are actually weighted. They fall more like a traditional ball, just significantly slower. I’ve found that this works pretty well for teaching, but of course everyone learns differently.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Definitely true! A good way to practice and make sure you’re working on throw consistency rather than pure reflexes is to juggle while watching a TV show. It’s even better if it’s something like subbed anime, so you have to read the subtitl

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