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by zzzeek 1y ago
doesnt mention anything political until the 11th paragraph, where he digs in. HN "flagged for politics!" enforcer mob caught unawares. good
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I will try it. From my other comments you can gather I'm a sad lifelong monolinguist despite having a terrific Spanish foundation in middle school, and I can hardly imagine ever being conversational. But it's only been a week
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by zzzeek 1y ago
So I think people who grew up in Europe surrounded by many languages have a huge language learning advantage over mono-lingual Americans. Also exercises like "get a pen and paper and learn vocab by repeatedly writing it down" t
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by zzzeek 1y ago
oh, so you only mean like the gamified nature of duolingo? Lots of language apps have lessons that are interactive versions of language books and they also include conversational practice with language models. Conversational practice wi
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by zzzeek 1y ago
> What lengths people go just to avoid reading a book and talking to people. odd take, do you have the same negative sentiment for the entire field of language instruction? introductory German class at a local college? 7th grade French
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by zzzeek 1y ago
im re-visiting learning Spanish in my spare time and am working with Babbel, LingoDeer and a pretty good independent site morpheem ( https://morpheem.org/ ) that has the heaviest use of AI of all three. I didn't even c
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New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station(wired.com)
14 points by zzzeek 1y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
There's a major reason people seek to rationalize the tools they use and it's because we all have jobs, and we want to be allowed to use what we want at work . When some other tool comes out and is one that you find highly anno
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by zzzeek 1y ago
You think someone made a fake account with my name on hacker News ... In 2007? Look at my joined date. I'm standing in a pizzeria in Manhattan right now without server access but mostly this is weird . Feel free to look at my hachy
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Federal judge halts Trump admin ban on Harvard's ability to enroll intl students(cnn.com)
34 points by zzzeek 1y ago|9 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
he lost me here: > As soon as something is known, it will be exploited until the knowledge becomes useless. In the past, our knowledge accumulated, and our actions were limited. Now, it is exactly the opposite: Our actions can achieve un
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Coinbase's substantial data breach coincides with convenient TOS update(citationneeded.news)
3 points by zzzeek 1y ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
funny enough that the photo of the arcade asteroids cabinet has Galaga on it
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by zzzeek 1y ago
the LLM interface is also of course written in javascript [1] [1] https://x.com/frontenddude/status/1267136234775773184
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by zzzeek 1y ago
this is black and white thinking. if the practice of "let the AI write the code and assume it's fine because I'm only an incurious amateur anyway" becomes normalized, the tendency of AI to produce inaccurate slop will b
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by zzzeek 1y ago
> As vibe coding becomes normalized Just want you to know this heart monitor we gave you was engineered with vibe coding, that's why your insurance was able to cover it. Nobody really knows how the software works (because...vibes)
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Elon Musk's Grok AI Can't Stop Talking About 'White Genocide'(wired.com)
24 points by zzzeek 1y ago|4 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
there should be a meat tax, btw. I eat a ton of steak but it's costing the ecosystem dearly
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by zzzeek 1y ago
> Over the last two years, we’ve more or less run out of benchmarks where AI isn’t better than humans. this whole "benchmarks" thing is laughable. I've been using Gemini all week to do code assist, review patches, etc.
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Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible(arstechnica.com)
7 points by zzzeek 1y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
this is the perfect response to this post and here we see the big difference between the pure engineering /logic mindset vs. the liberal arts mindset. When I see these posts on hacker news that are all about some deep philosophica
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by zzzeek 1y ago
the current FDA has no chance of allowing novel new vaccines to move forward
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I found the easter egg in Adventure on my own, however, this was using the method of turning the 2600 power switch on and off really fast which caused the game to boot into a semi broken mode where one of those thin vertical black lines wou
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by zzzeek 1y ago
any work with US automakers planned? Are there issues working with EU / China due to current political realities?
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by zzzeek 1y ago
that's exactly what it says, why do you think you're missing something?
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by zzzeek 1y ago
read about the history of Nazi Germany and disease registries, with special attention to what specifically happened to those people who found their names in these registries.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing(reuters.com)
13 points by zzzeek 1y ago|6 comments
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Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry(statnews.com)
14 points by zzzeek 1y ago|5 comments
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Elon Musk's xAI in Memphis: 35 gas turbines, no air pollution permits(eenews.net)
19 points by zzzeek 1y ago|2 comments
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Microsoft Drops Law Firm That Made a Deal with Trump from a Case(nytimes.com)
11 points by zzzeek 1y ago|2 comments

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