rajatrocks

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by rajatrocks 2y ago
My tool is not limiting anyone's reach or suppressing content. It's giving people a tool to get more information, hopefully reputable, on a "fact".
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by rajatrocks 2y ago
I'd amend that to say "Fact checkers *can* be a tool to silence the voices they don't like". The tool I built enables people to check a statement against the knowledge of Google Search and then decide for themselves. Is
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by rajatrocks 2y ago
misinformation = getting the facts wrong ex: The lawyer who cited nonexistent cases from ChatGPT in court disinformation = intentionally misstating the facts in an effort to mislead ex: "January 6th was a day of peace and love"
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by rajatrocks 2y ago
I certainly could, but it feels like that would quickly derail on specifics and that you have a point that you want to make. I'd like to hear it.
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by rajatrocks 2y ago
I appreciate the definition, but I'm not understanding your point? fact-check : to verify the factual accuracy of "Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta." https://www.merriam-webster.com&#x2
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by rajatrocks 2y ago
Thank you for the feedback! 1) 100% agreed. I would never release a tool like this that just used an LLM. But this tool uses Grounding with Google Search. So in this case Gemini uses Google Search as a tool to try to verify whether the stat
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by rajatrocks 2y ago
This was made possible by last week's release of Google Gemini Flash 2.0, which includes 500 grounding requests/day for free: https://ai.google.dev/pricing#2_0flash Previously grounding was $35 per 1,000 queries.
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Show HN: The Internet is full of lies, so I built a Free Fact Checker(asksteve.to)
4 points by rajatrocks 2y ago|13 comments
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Show HN: I Built a 1-Click AI Comment Generator for Hacker News(asksteve.to)
2 points by rajatrocks 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Chain LLM prompts together in Google Sheets(asksteve.to)
1 points by rajatrocks 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I integrated LLMs into Chrome the way that Google should have(chromewebstore.google.com)
6 points by rajatrocks 2y ago|1 comments
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What Does It Mean for a Product to Be Delightful?(asksteve.to)
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by rajatrocks 2y ago
Thank you, I appreciate it!
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Show HN: Ask Steve Chrome Extension – Get AI help where you work(asksteve.to)
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by rajatrocks 3y ago
Very cool, thanks for sharing! I first tried out something like this in the early 1990s at VPL Research - one of the originators of the VR industry. They had a visual programming language called Body Electric for controlling how things beha
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by rajatrocks 9y ago
I had the same exact experience with 2 of my sons. Will start the third (5) on it (Teach Your Child to Read...) this summer.
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by rajatrocks 9y ago
When I was an undergrad in the CS dept at U.C. Berkeley (88-92), Geoworks is where >everyone< wanted to work.
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by rajatrocks 11y ago
I interned at VPL Research[1] in 1992 and they had a Mac-based VPL for controlling objects in VR called Body Electric[2] that was really fun to use - especially since I'd never seen anything like it. I implemented gravity for objects a
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FAN FICTION: Facebook Tower (aka How to Compete with Facebook)(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by rajatrocks 11y ago|0 comments
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by rajatrocks 11y ago
"For instance, Secret’s failure to quickly address the bullying on its network eventually led to its downfall." - this is pure conjecture being presented as fact...
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by rajatrocks 11y ago
There's a great documentary by Greg Maletic called "Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball" - http://www.tilt-movie.com/ - highly recommended, and it blows my mind that he made the whole thing himself.
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by rajatrocks 11y ago
I really like Cargo-Bot for the iPad: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669821/cargo-bot-an-addictive-i... Got Robot Turtles for the kids (4 and 7) and they got bored pretty quickly since there's only so much you can d
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by rajatrocks 11y ago
"Do they know they're competing in the wrong race, and that the right race is not office space or number of employees, but revenue growth?" Exactly. I would add "... or amount of money raised, or number of customers, or
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by rajatrocks 11y ago
I still think there's a lot of room to do something interesting with social and mobile on the spectrum of Real Identity (Facebook) <-----> "Complete" Anonymity (Whisper). Yik Yak and After School have taken a small step
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by rajatrocks 12y ago
This seems to be a popular, if misguided meme. I actually wrote a response to this on our blog when it reared it's head in Fortune a month ago: http://www.bunchball.com/blog/post/1462/gamification-just-ge
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by rajatrocks 13y ago
Hi all - long-time reader, infrequent poster. McGraw-Hill published my first book today - "Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification" The basic premise is that we've all
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Wrote a book, it was published today: Loyalty 3.0(loyalty30.com)
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by rajatrocks 13y ago
Redwood City, CA. FULL-TIME and INTERN Bunchball is the leader in gamification (aka "Motivating People through Data") and works with companies including the NFL, Coca-Cola, Urban Outfitters, Cisco, Salesforce.com, Adobe, USA Network, Showti
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by rajatrocks 16y ago
San Jose, CA Bunchball (game mechanics, gamification) is hiring a Deployment Engineer and a Program/Interaction Designer http://www.bunchball.com/careers/
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by rajatrocks 16y ago
Good list Jason! I'm still here, and have been watching all the newcomers to the space with interest. We've been providing our Nitro game mechanics platform to companies like NBC, Comcast, Hasbro, Warner Bros., etc. since 2007. We also have

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