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by NameError 17d ago
I agree with your take, particularly because of this line in the article: | the skills that define a strong blindfold chess player are the same as those of a programmer who can thrive behind a Claude Code terminal whilst not reading nor wri
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by NameError 27d ago
The 'growth in completed actions runs' graph is interesting. I assume the periodic drops are weekends, so intuitively the floor of those drops corresponds more with hobby/personal projects than people at work. It looks like t
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by NameError 28d ago
Thanks! The population/demographic data is all freely available from the US Census and stored in a PostGIS database (hence the site being US-only for now- if I wanted to make it global, there are global gridded population data sets but
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Show HN: Draw.city – geography game where you circle the target population [US](draw.city)
4 points by NameError 29d ago|2 comments
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draw.city – Daily geography game where you circle the target population [US](draw.city)
2 points by NameError 1mo ago|1 comments
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by NameError 1mo ago
I've been building various geography tools & games, found a fun domain for this one. It's set up as a wordle-like daily challenge, I've backfilled some "past challenges" so there's more than one day to play
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by NameError 1mo ago
Another (semi serious) possible explanation of this is that LLMs were trained on a huge volume of text from Reddit. I wonder if you'd see similar inhuman-looking behavior if you did an iterated prisoners dilemma with a group of Reddit
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by NameError 2mo ago
I think the fun/hobbyist/urbanist answer is that people just like to know facts about where they live, I've spent hours now looking up different places' data. The more commercial answer if I were pitching this as a produ
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by NameError 2mo ago
I'd like to! It'd be pretty straightforward for the parts based on OpenStreetMap i.e. generating travel time areas / points of interest, I'd just need a bigger database. Ingesting global population & demographic data
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Show HN: How many people live within an hour walk of you?(blockatlas.com)
9 points by NameError 2mo ago|6 comments
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by NameError 1y ago
Yep, street view is not working at all for me
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by NameError 1y ago
It seems silly to expect someone to read the whole book before evaluating it when the creator didn't even read the whole book before publishing it
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by NameError 2y ago
It seems that Slack being fully down and unusable only reaches the "incident" category on their scale - I'd hate to see what counts as "outage"
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by NameError 2y ago
I think the core problem at hand for people trying to use AI in user-facing production systems is "how can we build a reliable system on top of an unreliable (but capable) model?". I don't think that's the same problem t
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by NameError 2y ago
It seems like he did everything! I first heard of Von Neumann in international relations & economics classes as the person who established game theory, then later in CS classes as the creator of mergesort, cellular automata, Von Neumann
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by NameError 2y ago
Easy way to get a fair result from an unfair coin toss: Flip the coin twice in a row, in this case starting with the same side facing up both times, so it's equally unfair for both tosses. If you get heads-heads or tails-tails, discard
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by NameError 2y ago
Reminds me of a cool proof I saw recently that there are two numbers a and b such that a and b are both irrational, but a^b is rational: Take sqrt(2)^sqrt(2), which is either rational or not. If it's rational, we're done. If not,
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by NameError 2y ago
When my primary care doc referred me to a dermatologist for a suspicious mole, I could not find an actual dermatologist who would see me in less than ~8 months. I ended up seeing a physician's assistant, which I'm still uneasy abo
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by NameError 2y ago
This article really resonates with me - I've heard people (and vector database companies) describe transformer embeddings + vector databases as primarily a solution for "memory/context for your chatbot, to mitigate hallucinat
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Show HN: One-dot-per-vote comparison map of US Election Results(votermap.github.io)
1 points by NameError 2y ago|0 comments
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by NameError 2y ago
I think something with the "wow" factor of the Vision Pro but the form factor of a pair of glasses would be the holy grail of AR/VR. I wonder if there are fundamental tradeoffs which would make that impossible in the near ter
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Show HN: Turn any Wikipedia article into a language learning "podcast"(github.com)
1 points by NameError 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: BlockAtlas – a very detailed interactive map of US Population Density(blockatlas.com)
3 points by NameError 2y ago|0 comments
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by NameError 2y ago
I bought the short-story collection this is a part of and liked it a lot: https://qntm.org/vhitaos A lot of the stories are free to read online without buying it but I thought the few dollars for the ebook was worth it
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by NameError 2y ago
I just made an update which should enable "population density" type queries to work a bit better - there is now an option to divide by 'LAND_AREA' for any variable (though this should probably be limited a bit), and this
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by NameError 2y ago
Thanks for trying it out - adding land area and supporting queries like "population density" will definitely be doable, and I'd like to make the legend and map color scheme a bit better (and ideally user-configurable) as well
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by NameError 2y ago
Hi - thank you for trying it out! These are both definitely real issues with the current approach. I've tried to reign in the "selecting an overly specific table" issue in the final "LLM-selects-from-search-results"
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Show HN: I built an interactive map and search engine for US Census data(blockatlas.com)
3 points by NameError 2y ago|6 comments
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by NameError 2y ago
This lines up with how I make tech stack decisions for my own projects. But I think it's not always obvious going into something if it's going to end up being a money-making endeavor or just an educational project in the end, so I
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by NameError 2y ago
That upstream provider being Snowflake, according to this article: https://www.hudsonrock.com/blog/snowflake-massive-breach-acc... (posted on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534868 )

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