andrewla

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by andrewla 5d ago
I don't love graphical programming environments like this and Scratch and I can't quite put my finger on why I find them so unattractive. A big part of it is that you can, to some degree, learn programming from this. But you absol
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by andrewla 5d ago
My quibble here is with the house style "Iran-backed" that they attach to every mention of the Houthi's. While it's fine for governments to use that language, I don't think journalists should use it without being ve
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by andrewla 6d ago
The reason that the four-color theorem remains a fascinating problem for so many people and the source of so many cranks is not that the problem is easy to express. It's that Kempe's proof, though in the end incorrect, is very ele
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by andrewla 7d ago
They have a side-button based Touch ID on the iPads already. I've used it there and it works great. Not as nice as the old button iPhone (RIP) but totally usable.
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by andrewla 7d ago
Annoying that they gave this thing touch id but not the non-folding version. Restoring Touch ID is one of the things that might make me upgrade my existing iPhone before its time.
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by andrewla 7d ago
Not even just a category error -- this is blatant malpractice to have this as a headline! The article is talking about reading scores, and this is especially pernicious given the fact that the last couple of years has not been "typical
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by andrewla 12d ago
Wow -- looks like thanks to Claude, Lean checks off another box on https://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/100/
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by andrewla 12d ago
This is part of the reason why alignment is a kind of poorly defined term, and it isn't just a property of the model. It's instead a property of the harness and the context. A model (like a human) should be able to play a video ga
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by andrewla 12d ago
You have to be careful here because the systems we're talking about are AI agents, not LLMs. An agent is essentially an append-only context loop with an LLM, with a harness that can run tools at the LLM's request. This ends up bei
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by andrewla 13d ago
Kids In The Hall had a sketch about overuse of a word or phrase [1]. This is the world that Claude is building for us. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStcwT_RGrQ
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by andrewla 14d ago
They both have similar roles, but O-1 is an immigrant visa and H-1B is a non-immigrant visa (a temporary worker visa). Everything else is downstream of that.
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by andrewla 15d ago
I tried out Monica when it was posted to hn ages ago and still get the occasional reminder. But I've mostly switched to using the contacts app on my iphone for everything. It has primitive features that support 95% of what I need.
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by andrewla 15d ago
Speak for yourself! My default position for a long time has been that all results in the social sciences are garbage. If they go against intuition or my biases, then they are most likely garbage. If they confirm my intuition or my biases, t
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by andrewla 16d ago
I find this way of thinking to be almost alien. There's nothing here that I would want to go back to. You could not give me enough money that I would trade down to a 2000-era cell phone from my current phone. "Technology was a too
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by andrewla 16d ago
> The OP doesn't claim the it was the peak of humanity, the claim is much tighter than that: it was the perfect balance of technology usage. From the literal title of the article: > Early 2000s were peak of humanity
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by andrewla 19d ago
I think this both overstates and understates the case. The evidence being weak does not invalidate the decision; as the court notes, the government gets substantial deference on matters of national security. The invalidation comes from the
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by andrewla 20d ago
In my opinion, as someone who does *not* think that they have aphantasia, the two things are definitely not equivalent. I know what the afterimage is, I know what it is to visualize something, and they are completely different both qualitat
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by andrewla 20d ago
I agree, of course nobody can actually do this (barring mind-altering drugs or brain trauma, and even then, not voluntarily). But there are people on this thread an on the attached survey ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by andrewla 20d ago
I'm with you -- human experience is complicated, and language is a poor approximation to our inner lives. But there are lots of people on this thread who are saying "well, of course you can't *see* the apple, it's just a
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by andrewla 20d ago
The cube test is an interesting one, but, to pile on another stupid internet trend, that seems more like a "shape-rotator" vs. "word-cel" question. For very simple fold-ups I can do this, but for more complex decompositi
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by andrewla 20d ago
Maybe you're right, but there are people on this thread claiming that they can actually see things in their field of vision, not "akin to seeing things" but see-see them. I can't do this and I don't think I have aph
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by andrewla 20d ago
I actually agree with you about the "is my red the same as your red" -- I do not believe that aphantasia is real but simply that people are talking past each other and getting hung up on semantics. I see things with my eyes, exper
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by andrewla 20d ago
In a sense I agree with you that this is the intent of the article. I find this kind of laughable because I do not consider myself to have aphantasia (I can visualize things just fine) but the afterimage test is not even vaguely representat
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by andrewla 20d ago
So you would be "No, I cannot, and I don't think I have aphantasia" -- that's where I am too
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by andrewla 20d ago
I created https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469365 to see how many people perceive things this way. It is quite possible that this is drawing a line, as you say, between hyperphantashia and regular phantasia, though I&
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by andrewla 20d ago
I made a poll to see if anyone can (like D-Machine or jhedwards) actually see a superimposed image and not just "see" a superimposed image: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469365
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Poll: Are You Aphantastic
5 points by andrewla 20d ago|10 comments
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by andrewla 20d ago
No, I cannot, and I think I have aphantasia
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by andrewla 20d ago
No, I cannot, and I don't think I have aphantasia
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by andrewla 20d ago
Yes, I can, literally, not just imagine what it would look like

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