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by base698 3d ago
You learn animal husbandry and join the Amish.
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by base698 1mo ago
I saw this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro... here on HN in 2013. I'd read "Amusing Ourselves to Death" so it particularly resonated with me at the time. I&
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by base698 1mo ago
When I use it for writing I usually have an idea or thesis to explore already. I typically write it out stream of consciousness. The core idea is mine. I'm not using LLMs to think for me, instead just edit the writing so it has prope
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by base698 1mo ago
Seriously. Whatever slop is going to be an improvement for 99% of enterprise products. 99.9% of internal tools at large companies.
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by base698 2mo ago
Yeah wondering that. I ended up almost paying for one when 2.0 came out. Still not sure I've found something official.
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by base698 2mo ago
There is a bacterial outbreak and I asked if it was possible that's what made my wife sick and it downgraded.
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by base698 3mo ago
My step mom was having debilitating pain. A year of going to doctors and no one was able to find a cause. I scanned her discharge paper work which had her prescriptions on it and gave it to Claude. It identified a prescription that had t
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by base698 3mo ago
I was going to upgrade my M3 Max to an M5 Max with more RAM. The machine I priced out was $5400 yesterday and costs $7500 today.
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by base698 3mo ago
That's better than the loop grok got stuck in trying to use git and push the work it did leading to a $15 api credit deduction.
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by base698 3mo ago
My father in law owns a small manufacturing business and is not technical at all. His computer skills stop with some CAD and basic excel. He pays for ChatGPT as does his wife and her kids. The internet and dot com bubble didn't have
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by base698 3mo ago
I asked the OpenAI playground to compare and contrast the themes of Point Break and Fight Club. It did a bang up job and blew my mind. I then realized it basically worked for any of the scripts I had for my dev environment too. Fixing a
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by base698 4mo ago
I just moved from a medium sized US city and any specialist provider I contacted for myself or my parents was 5 months or more. It's not good everywhere.
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by base698 4mo ago
This was the main thing I took from the movie Her. Wild to see it materialize so quickly.
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by base698 5mo ago
Starting to like the lack of memory. Claude remembers I have a grill and will interject in conversations about how maybe this thing would go well with BBQ when it's unrelated or just also about food.
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by base698 5mo ago
It's the opening page of the book Technopoly.
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by base698 6mo ago
It's yet another Goodhart's law effect: > Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. The economic ideas are interesting, but the manipulation and 2nd order ef
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by base698 6mo ago
Which grammar tools?
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by base698 7mo ago
BETRAYAL
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by base698 7mo ago
Would you say the same for 191 people rescued hiking in Yosemite a year?
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by base698 7mo ago
The legal history is a bit more complex. TLDR: assholes that were BASE jumping in Yosemite in the early 1980s did things like throw burning barrels off the top of El Capitan and take trucks on trails not designed for vehicle traffic. Compa
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by base698 10mo ago
> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple
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by base698 10mo ago
I started a project this year similar to this with rats. It’s now two axis with tracking and a stereo camera with depth detection. The amount of hours I’ve spent on it is astounding but I’ve learned a lot! Also, ended up swapping the Pi I
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by base698 11mo ago
Until you factor in the legions of devops writing terraform, iam, and cicd scripts.
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by base698 11mo ago
https://news.yale.edu/2025/02/19/immune-markers-post-vaccina... They are looking into that.
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by base698 1y ago
Perceptual Hash. I have a Python script that does just this I did a million years ago: https://gist.github.com/base698/42d24be9309520fe8ad768844868... I used it to match frames between different quality video streams.
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Toddlerbot: Open-Source Humanoid Robot(toddlerbot.github.io)
133 points by base698 1y ago|23 comments
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by base698 1y ago
Exceptionally, I had both the highest and lowest grade in linear algebra. Probably not what they mean though.
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by base698 1y ago
Weight of the air deflecting downward. Plain ole Newtonian equal and opposite reaction.
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by base698 1y ago
I’ve used both. Claude more extensively. I’ve had good results with Gemini too, however it seems easier to get stuck in a loop. Happens with Claude too but not quite as frequent. By loop I mean you tell it no don’t implement this service
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by base698 1y ago
Or you find your users search for id strings like k1231o to find ref docs and end up needing key word search and reranking.

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