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Interactive Tutorial to how modern AI works – accessible to a middle schooler(learnai.robennals.org)
1 points by robotelvis 16d ago|1 comments
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by robotelvis 16d ago
I wrote an interactive tutorial for how modern AI works. Every chapter is explained with interactive playgrounds and every chapter has been proof read by my 11 year old son to confirm that it is accessible. This was on hacker news a while b
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by robotelvis 5mo ago
The goal is that this tutorial shouldn't require much math knowledge. If there is anything in there that is too hard to understand then let me know. My 11 year old son seemed to get it all, so I think it should be pretty approachable,
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Show HN: An interactive AI tutorial I wrote for my 11-year-old(learnai.robennals.org)
5 points by robotelvis 5mo ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Broomy – Open-source app for working with many AI agents at once(broomy.org)
1 points by robotelvis 7mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Histomap Reborn – Interactive visualization of world history(histomap.robennals.org)
1 points by robotelvis 8mo ago|0 comments
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Slowpost – Post Once a Year(slowpost.org)
3 points by robotelvis 10mo ago|0 comments
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by robotelvis 1y ago
I also looked at getting a flip phone but decided it wasn't really viable. Realistically you need to have an iOS or Android phone, because even if you don't need it /most/ of the time, you do need it sometimes. The trick
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by robotelvis 1y ago
I played with disabling Safari but it's hard to sustain that because you'll often find yourself needing to open a random QR code to do something. But I have buried it on the third page of a sub-folder, so I'm not tempted to r
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by robotelvis 1y ago
Cool that you were able to do that. There are definitely lots of things you need a smartphone for today, but fortunately few enough that it's practical to not have a smartphone with you most of the time, even if you own one. Hopefully
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Going Phoneless(messyprogress.substack.com)
4 points by robotelvis 1y ago|10 comments
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by robotelvis 1y ago
New Public ( https://newpublic.org ) | Senior+ Software Engineer | REMOTE (US, Canada) | Full-time | 160-175k We are working with a consortium of public broadcasters around the world to create a publicly-owned public-interest onli
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Using Codex Well (Experiences so far)(messyprogress.substack.com)
4 points by robotelvis 1y ago|1 comments
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by robotelvis 1y ago
I was asked to give a talk on how to make the most out of OpenAI's new Codex coding agent, and it turned into a blog post. Codex works best when you have a really clean code base, with thorough tests, and well documented best practices
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by robotelvis 1y ago
Best to apply to the jobs you think are interesting using the form. If we think you could be a good match, then we'll reach out to you.
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by robotelvis 1y ago
New Public ( https://newpublic.org ) | Open Source Developer | REMOTE | Full time $140-$160k We are working with a consortium of public broadcasters around the world to create a publicly-owned public-interest online space. This pr
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by robotelvis 2y ago
If your advisor is one of the stars of their field, then probably more than one of their grad students will be professors. If not, then probably none of them will. Otherwise this point is indeed correct.
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by robotelvis 2y ago
In my experience the best approach is to first try to solve the problem without having read the prior work, then read the prior work, then improve your approach based on the prior work. If you read the prior work too early to you get locked
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Easy Robotics with a 3D Printer and Raspberry Pi(messyprogress.substack.com)
3 points by robotelvis 2y ago|0 comments
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by robotelvis 2y ago
I think part of the issue is that the people who want simple non-SUVs are the people who mostly buy used cars. The majority of people buy their cars used, but the car makers make the cars they can sell to the minority who buy new cars - and
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by robotelvis 2y ago
Demis was a legend at Cambridge. I was in CS a few years below him. He would have had very strong recommendations from professors.
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by robotelvis 2y ago
The flip side is that if punishments are eye watering harsh then people will be even less willing to inflict them. Bear in mind also that the vast majority of academic fraud isn’t cut and dried easily proved. It’s p hacking or “accidental”
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by robotelvis 2y ago
Calling out bad work is career suicide. You are defecting on your tribe. That’s half of the problem.
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by robotelvis 2y ago
Another reason for doing this is that if the people doing replication also do original research then calling out someone’s work as bad incentivizes them to sabotage your work when they inevitably review your papers. You can avoid that to so
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by robotelvis 2y ago
The tricky thing with randomizing is that science gets very specialized, both with equipment required and knowledge. So there may only be a handful of people whose work you can competently replicate. And those same people are reviewing the
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by robotelvis 2y ago
Well you aren’t going to get tenure unless you distort your results and it’s hard to change established habits. That, and you select for the kind of people who are willing to fake results to further their own careers.
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Virtue Is a Vector(messyprogress.substack.com)
1 points by robotelvis 2y ago|0 comments
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Compromise Coin
1 points by robotelvis 2y ago|2 comments
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by robotelvis 2y ago
To some extent the Elks is a healthy community. Our lodge is definitely a place where kids can hang out together free from interfering adults - that’s what our kids do there with their friends all the time. We show up, they run off and do t
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by robotelvis 2y ago
They do indeed that rule. It’s somewhat controversial internally and I can imagine it eventually going away, but is there now. Fortunately they are pretty relaxed about what you mean by God. I’m a pantheist (everything is God and individual

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