erikschoster

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WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust(winonapost.com)
113 points by erikschoster 27d ago|87 comments
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Wrapping C libraries in Nim (2023)(peterme.net)
4 points by erikschoster 28d ago|0 comments
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by erikschoster 1mo ago
I think you're right, and we've been training ourselves for the shortest path of least resistance for quite a while while kidding ourselves that we're able to somehow preserve the result as worthwhile. Before I ever tried usi
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When is it OK to use AI?(techtonic.fm)
2 points by erikschoster 1mo ago|0 comments
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
lol no someone else did that while i was drawing it. thanks :)
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
This is fun, I tried to draw a flower but it sucks.
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
I guess this is a boring and predictable thing to say, but I miss seeing a project like this and being excited about it. Instead I looked at the codebase, see that it seems LLM-generated and assume it hasn't had much thought or care pu
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
I won't harp on you too much for submitting yet another vibe-coded project. What I like about this is that the source code is fairly readable and small. Have the LLM walk you through it piece-by-piece if you haven't already. >
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
My bandmate made our site a quine at one point: https://web.archive.org/web/20161129032158/http://nasa.pink/ Today I suppose this would get clobbered by bots but in 2016 it was fun and I still am in
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AI(jcs.org)
2 points by erikschoster 2mo ago|0 comments
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Making(beej.us)
442 points by erikschoster 2mo ago|186 comments
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
It was also common to have a collection of CDs you owned and wanted to put on a device like this.
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
> There’s nothing new left to discover. It's the end of history. What could we possibly discover about a series of technologies that are already nearly 100 years old now? I've heard people say that various things are "solv
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
The original recordings sound much better and more interesting to me. Way better. The AI generated versions sound slicker in some sense but... like the re-recorded versions of old hit songs from the 60s you hear at the grocery store sometim
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
Thank you -- your post was downvoted into being hidden for a while, sorry I didn't see it earlier. This context is helpful, the example of the system delivering reading challenges that match their struggles makes a lot of intuitive sen
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
Thank you. The segment showing a child reading text on the screen which highlighted a word they had difficulty with seems like it could be a useful learning interaction. How does your system follow up in that case? Have you studied this typ
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by erikschoster 2mo ago
> Effective teaching isn't just about answering a child's question quickly, rather making the right move at the right moment. AI is also going to be an integral part shaping how this generation of kids learn to read and think,
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by erikschoster 3mo ago
There's no way to formulate this as a set of rules or best practices, each decision has to be made in a universe of context, but I appreciated this discussion. Something I like to do is funnel the desire to build for something I don&#x
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by erikschoster 3mo ago
I use it as a session store for a computer music system. It has worked well for me as a way to read mutable (by any client) parameters during synthesis, clients will often read dozens of parameters during a block of computation (a relativel
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by erikschoster 3mo ago
<3 Wonderful. I discovered this: https://catalyticsound.com/artists/ I never thought I'd see anything like that easily accessible on hacker news. (Edit: I say that because this is a project by independent artis
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by erikschoster 3mo ago
Drawing debt
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Niche LLM Spam on Bandcamp(duckduckgo.com)
3 points by erikschoster 3mo ago|1 comments
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by erikschoster 3mo ago
Bandcamp seems to be somewhat overrun with this LLM spam. I became aware of it because there's an account impersonating me with an LLM-generated review of my music which is weirdly specific and surreal. The purpose seems to be to drive
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by erikschoster 3mo ago
> The backlash is only just getting started, because the technology is only just getting started, too. Britain’s flimsy prime-minister-in-waiting, Andy Burnham, has barely said a word about AI. Even Americans still rank it 29th out of 39
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by erikschoster 3mo ago
In a marketplace, this is theft. (Which, given this example is of a website for a for-profit product, seems appropriate.) In a community it's tradition. Building on traditions in a community (aka great artists steal) is different than
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by erikschoster 3mo ago
...and "maiinstream" -- seeing glaring typos (easily caught by spellcheck) now makes me wonder: did they decide to leave them in (or add them explicitly) to signal they didn't use AI to write, or (the more paranoid option) di
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Configuration is a liability, just like code(utcc.utoronto.ca)
4 points by erikschoster 3mo ago|0 comments
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by erikschoster 3mo ago
Our little town in Minnesota has some of these too ( https://winona.lib.mn.us/library-of-things/ ) it's really cool! There's also a new maker space getting set up now which will have a tool library open to the
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by erikschoster 3mo ago
Sleepbot is an old, legit indie streaming service. They've been around for a long time, I used to listen to some of the stations circa 20+ years ago because the selections were good, they'd often play music by my friends and other
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A Human Artist's Defense of AI Art(asherperlman.substack.com)
2 points by erikschoster 3mo ago|0 comments

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