grondilu

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Show HN: Mechanical linear acceleration with racks and gears(imgur.com)
1 points by grondilu 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Terminal-Based Flashcards in Bash(gist.github.com)
2 points by grondilu 2y ago|0 comments
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by grondilu 2y ago
It doesn't seem so at all from what I've tried.
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by grondilu 2y ago
> so even theoretically this is hard to imagine. Possibly a strech, but transistors are basically current amplifiers, so their optical equivalent should be... lasers. Indeed lasers are optical amplifiers. Whether or not they can be tur
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by grondilu 2y ago
> Mechanical computers are computers that operate using mechanical components rather than electronic ones. For anyone who's excited about mechanical computers, perhaps it is worth reminding that an electron is about a thousand times
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Memorizing chess openings by turning them into lists of numbers
1 points by grondilu 2y ago|0 comments
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by grondilu 2y ago
They took 20 bitcoins out of me, but I never bothered to fill the paperwork. Oh, well.
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by grondilu 2y ago
I'm quite baffled by the fact that LLMs can generate a dataset used to train other LLMs. One would think that such a feedback loop would produce utter nonsense but apparently not. This seems to work.
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by grondilu 2y ago
> But the first problem is, the number of legal transformations is actually infinite. I am fairly certain the number of legal transformations in mathematics is not infinite. There is a finite number of axioms, and all proven statements
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by grondilu 2y ago
> Nor is it music without a musician. The case of music is quite fascinating. YouTuber Rick Beato is following it very closely. He seems to think that quite soon people will listen to AI generated music even knowing it is AI-generated
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by grondilu 2y ago
"I think in the future, instead of typing up our proofs, we would explain them to some GPT. And the GPT will try to formalize it in Lean as you go along. If everything checks out, the GPT will [essentially] say, “Here’s your paper in L
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by grondilu 2y ago
Growing Neural Cellular Automata https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300376 , February 2020
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by grondilu 2y ago
> improved soil health, improved ecosystem health, better water retention, less erosion, more carbon sequestered in the soil. Regarding carbon sequestration, I think it is worth pointing out that Freeman Dyson, in one of his conferences,
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by grondilu 2y ago
For what it's worth that sounds a lot like what Max Tegmark classifies as the "level 1" multiverse. https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html
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by grondilu 2y ago
Friendly reminder that "Paris syndrome" is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
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by grondilu 2y ago
Well, isn't it what the ISS is?
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by grondilu 2y ago
Please elaborate. Are you thinking of approximating the distance function with an algebraic expression, with algebra itself being the "programming language"?
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by grondilu 2y ago
The application to graphics is interesting. It seems to me that current image generation models struggle with stylized pictures ("ligne claire" in comics, geometric shapes and so on). After all this kinds of pictures should be e
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by grondilu 2y ago
No, I didn't take any electrolyte, as it seems artificial to me.
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by grondilu 2y ago
This is only anecdotal but I had heard about the benefits of fasting for brain performance, so I once tried fasting during a chess tournament. I fasted during the first six days of the tournament. My results were disappointing so I gave u
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by grondilu 2y ago
> OTOH I think there are theoretical lower bounds on the amount of energy that needs to be ejected as heat from a non-reversible computation, such that a non-reversible SC would still need to produce some heat. Yes, it's called Land
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by grondilu 2y ago
My experience with learning chess openings is comparable : repetition is necessary but not sufficient. You need to "work" on each line, thinking deeply about each one and trying to find associations either between them or with th
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by grondilu 2y ago
This is what this post (or rather just the title, tbh) immediately reminded me of. I remember learning about it in the early 2000s. It was considered a very challenging problem, with very important applications, most notably speech recogni
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by grondilu 2y ago
Nice. Maybe a pie in the sky but considering how prevalent python is in machine learning, how likely is it that at some point most ML frameworks written in python become executable on a web browser through WASM?
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by grondilu 3y ago
I think it's due to the library used : chessboard.js[1] I used the version used in the archive, 0.3.0. It might be old. 1. https://chessboardjs.com/
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by grondilu 3y ago
It's not always going to remain limited to 5MB, which is probably much enough for an opening repertoire anyway. Also it shouldn't be too hard to create an export/import button. I'd argue it's more reliable than havi
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by grondilu 3y ago
The short answer is I tried listudy and I didn't like it. I liked memchess because of how simple it was, and I liked not having to enter my own lines (though I understand this is important for serious study). Memchess is what helped me
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by grondilu 3y ago
How do you add a GH page to a repo?
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Rebuilding memchess.com from its archive(grondilu.github.io)
187 points by grondilu 3y ago|39 comments
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by grondilu 3y ago
memchess.com was a neat website to learn chess openings with the spaced repetition method. It was closed around 2020 for some reason. I used code gathered from archive.org[1] and built a version that seems to work. It does not require a su

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