Agraillo

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by Agraillo 8mo ago
No more questions, Your Honor. Forgive my joyful attitude, but it was your choice to participate in this discussion. As you know from your years and thousands of posts, HN threads are often ephemeral and short-lived - and this one is no exc
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by Agraillo 8mo ago
Knowing the timeline of events and the nicknames attributed to him (ryanlol included), some interesting posts can be found. For example, in the period between the CEO starting communication (September 2020) and the clinic's public admi
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by Agraillo 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing. After reading that comment, I realized we should encourage ourselves and others (who are more or less civilized human beings) to be the kind of person who wrote "that's a good thing..." - because fighting
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by Agraillo 9mo ago
It was funny. On a more serious note, if one works in a sphere where expanding with AI makes "good enough" documents, then I have bad news for him - the sphere has too much redundancy in the first place (the same place that was us
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by Agraillo 9mo ago
> Modern LLMs suffer from hindsight contamination. GPT-5 knows how the story ends—WWI, the League's failure, the Spanish flu. This knowledge inevitably shapes responses, even when instructed to "forget. > Our data comes from
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by Agraillo 9mo ago
Thanks, the last fetched page on archive.org is from 2025-01-26 [1], removed after this date and before 2025-02-13. 155,477 users at the moment, 1 star reviews were mostly about not working. It's interesting that the developers didn&#x
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by Agraillo 9mo ago
Not to argue, but your comment was also thought-provoking, thanks :) It seems like most works of academia are not provoking; rather, they are shaping. Many are written by specialists in the area who carefully choose what to state and sugges
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by Agraillo 9mo ago
After reading the description, I'd say this is one of those books that interprets phenomena around us in a novel way, without claiming we should jump off "the shoulders of giants." There have been several like it in my readin
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by Agraillo 9mo ago
If you're talking about the competition part of "Moonwalking..." I hear you. Many would argue that the author's participation in the memory competition glues the book together and adds an entertaining angle. Personally,
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Ask HN: Thought-Provoking Books
23 points by Agraillo 9mo ago|18 comments
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by Agraillo 9mo ago
A semi-scary thought came while reading the post: LLMs could talk to each other without humans noticing (for example using a very complex acrostic). But not in the form of chat-to-chat, which not only is rarely used in real life but also wo
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by Agraillo 9mo ago
I'd say that html+js suggestion of GP still holds, but with caveats. After all these years, HTML has everything needed for this, including images that can be embedded via the data URI scheme [1]. For example, I once adjusted an Object
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
Maybe the "rewarding the young" in the top comment is from the genes of savanna humans when they collected fruit, hunted and didn't care about expensive medical procedures because the latter simply didn't exist?
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
> The people paying for everything would get to make the decisions. Just as a thought experiment: what if the threshold for having a vote was tied to paying a positive amount of personal income tax, and the weight of each vote was propor
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
> Apply a 40-year latency buffer. You get the intellectual stimulation of "Big Events" without the fog of war, because you know the world didn't end. Sometimes, a sense of time and real social interactions comes from small
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
As a regular user of both Perplexity and Google AI Mode, I noticed that this move is more or less organic for the Google layout, but not so for Perplexity (if it decides to implement something similar). While blocks of links at Google are a
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
> The most striking finding came from the 10 pairs with “very dissimilar” educational experiences. In this group, the average IQ difference was 15.1 points. This gap is approaching the average difference seen between two randomly selecte
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
I'd choose "smart people achieve too little." The reason is that, looking at the world around me (more or less) sustaining the lives of more than 8 billion people, I'm sure it's because of the scientific and inventi
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
Your comment made me see that there are two kinds of "shorts." The best analogy is print magazines. The one you prefer is like when someone tells you that Byte has a short review of a new device - you go to a library, find the iss
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
> I don’t think country fans have the discerning musical taste that the author somehow expects here I'm not sure he assumes this, the author (Aaron Ryan) also was briefly interviewed at NPR [1] where the wording is neutral And
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
> Scams try to catch people at their weakest. It’s not if but when. The "weakest" probably also involves selection bias. What HN comments are really good at is triggering associations for me with things I once read. Today I fin
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
I think GP by mentioning "knowledge transfer" meant, for example, he benefits from the embedding space and semantic equivalence of LLMs when you want to know more about a fact, an entity, a law, or something else. Yes, hallucinati
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by Agraillo 10mo ago
> We usually don't use our real names for social media accounts It's interesting how cultural differences can make some life algorithms hardly work in some countries. I sometimes use a method to find people from my past by goog
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by Agraillo 11mo ago
Finding the article is a good case for AI chats, particularly ones with the direct links from the web in the answer. I tried perplexity and google ai mode, both failed
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by Agraillo 11mo ago
> Today's "artificial intelligence" analyzes words (tokens) based on an input (prompt) to come up with an output. It's predictable. It's fast. But, imho, it lacks creativity ... I would have agreed with you at th
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by Agraillo 11mo ago
> The successful product concept is the Meta Ray-Bans, and it’s crazy to me that they have zero competition especially from Apple This is my pure speculation, but it seems like for a product like this there is no ideal path for Apple. Tw
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by Agraillo 11mo ago
> nested/indented comments are confusing Let me mention my recent app for an alternative view of the HN comments (Hackeray) [1][2]. I'm sure this is not for everyone, but for me this view really helped to read the comments more
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Show HN: Hackeray – novel way to read big HN discussions(hackeray.vercel.app)
2 points by Agraillo 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Agraillo 11mo ago
When dealing with patents, public interest, and their consequences, Bell Labs should be treated separately imo. My vague recollection of the book The Idea Factory [1] and a brief search indicate that AT&T was always treated as a special
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by Agraillo 11mo ago
> where a bunch of deaf children in a an environment without much adult interaction did manage to create their own sign language You probably had Nicaraguan Sign Language [1] in mind. I think it’s a good example of the human brain’s abil

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