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by massung 3mo ago
I know LLMs are getting the majority of the attention of late, but there are others of us training and using AI to… …reads MRIs and video to detect cancer …analyze genomics for early target discovery …assisting surgeons …folding proteins An
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by massung 6mo ago
Just wanted to note that this is how I work. I rarely have any window full screen/maximized and hate it when a website or application is built assuming a giant monitor with a maximized window. I’ve never found a setup with multiple des
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by massung 7mo ago
In my 25+ years programming, I don't yet think I've met a programmer who hasn't dreamed of "just being a lawnmower" (or some equally equiv, "mundane" job). Just the idea of ending the day having accomplish
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Ask HN: Any others here constantly reminded of Vonnegut's Player Piano lately?
4 points by massung 9mo ago|2 comments
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by massung 11mo ago
I’m no expert either, so I hope one can corroborate or correct me… My understanding though is that these steps are really the very beginning. Using a quantum computer with quantum algorithms to prove that it’s possible. Once proven (which m
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by massung 11mo ago
Go Forth and prosper.
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by massung 11mo ago
Great post. I feel obligated to reply with a similar post a friend wrote a while ago that’s probably made the rounds here as well: https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
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by massung 1y ago
> Any app that ever claimed to tell you what "Hemingway would say about this blog post" would evidently be lying — it'd be giving you what that specific AI model generates in response to such a prompt. First, 100% agreed.
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by massung 1y ago
> Seasoned Rust coders don’t spend time fighting the borrow checker... Experienced Rust coders aren't going to find themselves in various borrow checker (and lifetime) pitfalls that newbies do, sure. That said, the borrow checker an
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by massung 1y ago
I’m sure your question was rhetorical and sarcastic (that the app exists makes me sick). It absolutely is not. AI counts as a medical device: it’s used to help diagnose and inform medical treatments. However, this is a loophole, because (qu
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by massung 1y ago
I've personally found that the time taken to think through a discussion is akin to an inverse guassian curve: - on the left tail are people who know little-to-nothing about (or have little experience with) the given topic and neeed a c
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by massung 1y ago
First, this is great information in an area I know very little about. But I’m curious - from your experience - how do you know the OP isn’t pretending in order to learn about new avenues to block or attack or to track down people who are tr
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by massung 1y ago
There’s two sides to your question, I think: - professionally (for money) - personally (for knowledge’s sake) Regarding the former, I’m nearing retirement age, so personally I don’t care as much; I’m no longer “investing [in] a dead craft”.
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by massung 1y ago
By that logic, if modern LLMs existed in the 80s, you’d have never learned Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, Go, Erlang, … and all the cool concepts and ideas that came with them. You’d still be programming Basic and Fortran, simply because that’s all
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by massung 1y ago
Shh! Too many secrets!
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by massung 1y ago
Didn’t know that. Good for them!
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by massung 1y ago
I haven’t lived in NYC, but I have lived in Boston. Isn’t the real concern winter? Has Waymo (or any other self driving tech company) shown that it can handle the snow well: non-visible lanes, downshifting to avoid braking, etc.? Definitely
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by massung 1y ago
Sounds like something Chuck Moore would have said. I have no idea if he did, but it made me think of him.
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by massung 1y ago
Take your upvote. ;-)
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by massung 1y ago
This feels very similar to the “radio” or “restaurant” problem: You’re driving down the street trying to decide which restaurant to stop at (or scanning through the radio trying to decide which song to stop on). If you stop at the first, th
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by massung 1y ago
I think the distinction (from the OP’s perspective) is that it’s “just an app” to the end user. When I download the Slack desktop app, I might know it’s running on electron because I’m a programmer. But I didn’t have to download and install
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by massung 1y ago
Makes total sense. Thank you!
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by massung 1y ago
Walk me through the chain you’re thinking of. I want to understand it better. If you’re thinking that - for example - someone is attempting to log into my account online and simultaneously call me pretending to be the bank. They are present
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by massung 1y ago
I use USAA for banking. Something they do when they initiate a call to me on the phone is they start by making sure they are talking to me (they don’t ask me to prove it) and making sure I have the app on the my phone or access to a web pag
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by massung 1y ago
I’m currently using Onion ( https://onionbrowser.com/ - from the people who make Kagi search) and it’s been quite good. Not perfect, but it’s getting there. I recommend giving it a try.
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by massung 1y ago
I know this is HN, but I honestly clicked this link initially thinking it was going to be a detailed analysis of how screen plays are constructed and executed in football. It’s late and time for bed! LoL.
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by massung 1y ago
I don’t know if your topic switch was intentional - if so, my apologies and this is just for people outside the US who don’t know… The article is about life insurance, which is very different from medical insurance. Medical insurance compan
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by massung 1y ago
I love my job. I love programming, what I work on, who I work with, etc. That said, the best "job" I ever had was volunteering at the Jewish Community Center while in college. It was forever ago, but I speak Russian and was able t
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by massung 1y ago
I’ve found the trick is to change your mindset about what you are doing. Right now (sorry if this is presumptuous) you’re thinking that the next step is releasing a product. Instead you need to believe that the next step is discovering… …wh
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by massung 1y ago
The 6809 also had two hardware stacks making it excellent for Forth programming.

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