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The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI(papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by hx2a 1y ago|0 comments
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by hx2a 2y ago
I once read a book about this: How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution, by Jack Horner and James Gorman. The basic idea is that dinosaur DNA is carried around by modern day chickens. The concept seemed pretty out there
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by hx2a 2y ago
Regular user. For useful tasks, how much of a difference does the Pro plan make?
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by hx2a 2y ago
And yet, generative AI also seems to be poor at randomness. When I ask Google Gemini for a list of 50 random words, it gave me a list of 18 unique words, with 16 of them repeated exactly 3 times. Abyss: 1 Ambiguous: 3 Cacophony: 3 Crescendo
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Py5, a Python version of Processing for your creative coding projects(py5coding.org)
90 points by hx2a 2y ago|31 comments
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by hx2a 2y ago
I believe Jim Simons is also one of the founders behind the National Museum of Mathematics in NYC. https://momath.org/
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by hx2a 3y ago
> It's not just "grit" - it's the entire field of "TED-Talk-headlining applied psychology [allegedly] based in research." I see, I know what you are getting at here. I stay away from TED talks specifically b
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by hx2a 3y ago
Can you elaborate on this? Currently I am reading the book Grit by Angela Duckworth. The author cites studies of grit and has done much research on the subject. Are you suggesting that that research does not replicate? https://an
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by hx2a 3y ago
This is a neat project but it doesn't seem to render the plant at the moment. It did render plants 20 minutes ago - perhaps the HN load has hurt it? All of the code is available online, with great documentation. There is, in fact, a se
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by hx2a 3y ago
Also available for Firefox! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/what-hacker-n... Source code: https://github.com/pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext
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Poll: How interested are you in watching TV or movies created by ChatGPT?
1 points by hx2a 3y ago|0 comments
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Poll: How interested are you in watching TV or movies created by ChatGPT?
1 points by hx2a 3y ago|0 comments
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by hx2a 4y ago
> I spent some time porting some of the functions to Python, but realized to make it useful it'd be a bigger effort than I had time and skill. Getting py5 off the ground started during pandemic lockdown and took many months. Managin
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by hx2a 4y ago
> Making gifs with processing is (weirdly) one of the more painful exercises in the framework. Kind of baffling, given the goals of the project. FWIW, py5 makes it very easy to create animated GIFs. You can create a GIF from a running sk
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by hx2a 4y ago
Yes! There is py5. https://py5coding.org/ This version of Processing uses the amazing JPype library to connect the Processing Jars (Java) to Python 3.8+. (I am the creator of py5)
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by hx2a 4y ago
I once worked in a financial firm with an intern who did nothing else besides pick his nose. No joke, that's the only thing he did. He made no attempt to do actual work or help our team and no attempt to hide his nose picking. His fath
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by hx2a 4y ago
I always ask a direct question about ethics. Something like, "tell me about the kinds of ethical problems that this team is faced with and how you handle them." Good answers involve speaking up about the problem right away & n
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by hx2a 4y ago
Nice work! > Note that this is a resource-intensive filter. Memoization is strongly advised! Can you make this be the default for non Safari browsers? This really made my CPU fan work hard. Also, why does this need to recalculate the ima
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by hx2a 4y ago
> Nowadays the closest I've gotten to this is the people who keep using my Gmail address as their own email address. I find this behavior rather bizarre and don't know what it achieves. I have this problem also! I thought it wa
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by hx2a 4y ago
Please learn more about the needs of blind people before writing something like this. Adding accessibility for screen readers is much more difficult to add later in the project lifecycle. Thinking about those design considerations early mak
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by hx2a 5y ago
For anyone else looking for the 5th book: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/seeing-with-fresh-eyes
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by hx2a 5y ago
> The only way you’ll stop this thing from mutating into a variant not covered by the vaccine is by eradicating it everywhere, simultaneously. Even if it were possible and achievable to vaccinate all humans, we'd still have a proble
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by hx2a 5y ago
Can someone tell me more about how the predefined Game of Life patterns came to be? It it fascinating to me that these have names that people remember. I know this subject is well researched, but are the researchers finding these things ran
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by hx2a 5y ago
When I was in High School (early 90's) we got a new computer system that nobody was using yet. I discovered there was an email system of some kind and that every student had an email address that we were not told about. I also discover
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by hx2a 5y ago
And the reality of a "wrench attack" is illustrated in this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by hx2a 5y ago
For people who are interested in the mentioned RL resources, here are the two links: https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/ https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/
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by hx2a 5y ago
We wouldn't have been able to build it without some kind of approval and agreement of who we would bill our time to. Although I should point out that "vigilante projects" (as I call them) do have a place in investment banks,
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by hx2a 5y ago
A reason to use old computers that I don't see mentioned here has to do with accessibility. People in the US usually have current hardware such as the latest Mac laptop, but that is not the case in all other countries. Current hardware
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by hx2a 5y ago
Around 2003 I worked at Merrill Lynch, on the IT side supporting investment banking. Our users were creating Pitchbooks, which are these 100 page PowerPoint presentations that contain a lot of financial data taken from various financial sta
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All 5000 Images in Beeple’s $69M Magnum Opus:What I Found Isn’t So Pretty(news.artnet.com)
222 points by hx2a 6y ago|260 comments

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