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by ndnichols 18d ago
Took me a few reads too. I think the intended meaning is: "There are those who are convinced that there is more to things; they spend their time chasing that 'more' but typically don't find it. And there are those who ar
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by ndnichols 2mo ago
Preach! Mustafa Suleyman had a great post on some of this last year: https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming
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by ndnichols 6mo ago
This sounds awesome and exactly like the easy and safe on-ramp to OpenClaw that I've been looking for! I want to believe. Two questions as a potential user who knows the gist of OpenClaw but has been afraid to try it: 1. I don't u
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by ndnichols 4y ago
I just had this interaction with ChatGPT. Me: Reverse the digits of 12+39 ChatGPT: The sum of 12 and 39 is 51. If you reverse the digits, you get 15. Me: Reverse the digits of 12 + 84. Only respond with the reversed digits, no explanation C
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by ndnichols 4y ago
The challenge here is that ChatGPT and other LLMs can only think out loud. They only "think" through writing, and that's always displayed to the user. Has anyone tried giving LLMs a scratchpad where the model could e.g. run t
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by ndnichols 5y ago
Thanks, we're aware of that possibility. We talk a lot with them about the motivation for the limits so hopefully they will see the value in applying them to themselves even when we're not around. But it's obviously a long jo
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by ndnichols 5y ago
Haha, yes, I had the same cousin! We would go play hide and seek while he played Legend of Zelda on his own in the corner :-/
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by ndnichols 5y ago
We have three kids, aged 6, 3, and 10 months. The six-year-old gets ~30 minutes of Switch play a week (mostly driving circles in Rocket League), and the whole family watches an episode of Lego Masters on Sunday. That's the only screen
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by ndnichols 5y ago
I couldn't agree more! We built Lexio to address exactly that issue. (Our tagline is literally "Stop building dashboards that no one uses".) It does data storytelling (discovering the insights and conveying them in natural la
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by ndnichols 8y ago
That was me! I came here to comment some version of "Ahem, we were doing this in 2005 at Northwestern" and seeing your comment to the same effect made me super happy. Thanks for noticing and remembering!
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by ndnichols 11y ago
Yup! I remember my eighteen-year old self being pleased with "Planet does not have Audi, but it does have Audi TTs!" Looking at it again, I think the game works better spoken than written out like this.
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by ndnichols 11y ago
I played a similar game with some folks once, but I don't know the game's name. The person who knew the rule(s) explained that there was a planet that was like Earth, but it only had a subset of the things that Earth had. We guess
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by ndnichols 11y ago
I for one appreciated all the "I"s! To me it shows that you understand that you are expressing a subjective opinion, not a fact in the world. I think too many people express opinions as facts with puffy language. Compare yours to
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by ndnichols 11y ago
Are you being sarcastic? Or do you genuinely think the lack of office space in SF is a drag on the world?
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by ndnichols 12y ago
I guess it's not surprising, but I was super impressed by their copy on the website. "The most original Macintosh since the original Macintosh" holds up really well 17 years later. I'm looking forward to the iPhone 8 bei
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by ndnichols 12y ago
I know you said you're not seeking a therapeutic recommendation, but if you were my friend then I would buy you a beer and gently recommend seeing a therapist. I saw one for a year after I got divorced, and she was extremely helpful
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by ndnichols 12y ago
Earnest question: Have you used a monoid? I know my original comment is sort of bratty, and I was confusing monoids with monads, which... is a different functional thing that people apparently use? It feels like mon(a/oi)ds are a conce
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by ndnichols 12y ago
I hate doing memes, but sometimes they're so spot on. "Stop trying to make monoids happen. They're not going to happen."
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by ndnichols 12y ago
Hey oemerax, thanks for taking the time to respond. Like you said, I'm probably not the audience for your app :-) For me, the important aspect of social networks is their pleasure-to-time ratio. E.g., "I'm going to look at Fa
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by ndnichols 12y ago
"Bynd Zero". Yeesh. This just feels like another thing I'm obligated to burn down and manage. A better solution, for me at least, is to continue to not care about Twitter and Instagram, and stop caring about Facebook. You&#x2
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by ndnichols 13y ago
I don't know what this is doing for music, but I hear nothing from the website and it disables all audio on my Mac. (10.8.5)
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by ndnichols 13y ago
Articles like this remind me why I don't use an Android phone. To each their own, but this is not a feature that I want: "Upon install, Android apps can get access to users’ location, contacts, phone calls, email addresses, and a
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by ndnichols 13y ago
It would look like result = range(1, 3).concat(range 4, 6).map((x) -> x * x).filter (x) -> x % 2 is 0 or result = range 1, 3 result = result.concat range 4, 6 result = result.map (x) -> x * x result = res
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by ndnichols 13y ago
I think it counts as mainstream. We've basically migrated entirely off Javascript at Narrative Science, we've got a whole bunch of server- and client-side CoffeeScript. It and Python are our two first-class languages.
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by ndnichols 13y ago
This post doesn't make any sense without context. I now know that a person I've never heard of is no longer going to do a thing that I didn't realize that they were doing.
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by ndnichols 13y ago
Q: "Are mobile web apps slow?" A: "A web app's CPU budget is spent in three different buckets" Q: "That... doesn't answer my question." A: "Javascript is the puppet master of the browser engine.&
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by ndnichols 13y ago
These kinds of optimization/"hacks" articles need to include benchmarks. How does using one StringBuilder compare to using the implicit three or five? How many strings does one need to append before you should've used
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by ndnichols 13y ago
I'm with you 100%. John McWhorter wrote a nice piece on it recently for TNR: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112896/tyranny-pronouns-f...
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by ndnichols 13y ago
Is there a cohesive idea or approach here? This just feels like a bunch of unrelated utility functions. And there's basically no documentation, right? The readme description of Q.getter is just "Q.getter - wrapper which makes a
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by ndnichols 13y ago
That's funny, I was just thinking, "I would love to be well-known enough one day that my switching employers would make the front page of HN." I hear you, though. To me, it matters a lot what I think about the "celebrit

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