samuellevy

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by samuellevy 2y ago
Funny that you mention "accessible"... Because most of these components are anything but. Modern HTML and CSS are awesome tools on their own, and are able to do so much without needing to rely on massive JavaScript bundles, but yo
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by samuellevy 3y ago
That's covered by the very first line of the main body of the article: > Because a VPN in this sense is just a glorified proxy.
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by samuellevy 3y ago
More than just needing an oracle - the keys and the house are both physical items. There's not really any practical way for a contract on the blockchain to validate that a particular physical item is in fact the item that it purports t
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by samuellevy 3y ago
How big of a problem are "snake bite victims"? I live in Australia, one of those countries that people would class as "dangerous" with regards to snakes, and... There's only been about 40 deaths in the past 20 years
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by samuellevy 3y ago
I did read the article, and it only vaguely describes the "problem" with smartphones in one paragraph, then it spends the rest of the article talking about the effects of the pandemic. The problem that it attributes to smartphon
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by samuellevy 3y ago
They have strict specifications about the types of nails and wood that they can hammer, but they're not documented anywhere. If you send them the wrong type of nails or wood, they'll put them both into an industrial shredder and s
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by samuellevy 3y ago
Ok. I don't like React.
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by samuellevy 3y ago
https://blog.samuellevy.com/ - I haven't posted in a few years, and I really need to upgrade it/clean up everything. It's not remotely mobile friendly. I've had a few relatively popular posts over the ye
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by samuellevy 3y ago
Ehh... my dog is alive, thinks, and "speaks" in a manner - not a cute term for barking, but he communicates (with relatively high effectiveness) his wants and desires. Maybe not using human words, but he certainly has his own sort
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by samuellevy 3y ago
That's kind of the point, but also kind of not. GPT isn't making true or false outputs. It's just making outputs. The truthiness or falseness of any output is irrelevant because it has no concept of true or false. We're
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by samuellevy 3y ago
Nah, my issue with both terms is that they imply that when the answer is "correct" that's because the LLM "knows" the correct answer, and when it's wrong it's just a brain fart. It doesn't matter if t
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by samuellevy 3y ago
Yep, the "chinese room" is the classic thought experiment, but I feel like it fails to get the point across because the characters still represent language, so you could conceivably "learn" the language. I prefer the ide
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by samuellevy 3y ago
I don't really know anything about AlphaGo. There's more types of "AI" than LLMs, but that's not really the point. You don't need AI for people to lose their jobs... but nobody is losing their jobs to AlphaGo,
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by samuellevy 3y ago
So humans have a level of knowledge, understanding, and reasoning ability that LLMs simply don't have. I'm writing a response to you right now, and I "know" a certain amount of information about the world. That knowledge
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by samuellevy 3y ago
There's definitely a few echo chambers around AI, but it's definitely not something that "just techies" are onto. ChatGPT made some waves at the end of last year. My in-laws were wanting to talk to (at) me about it at Ch
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by samuellevy 3y ago
You haven't seen them already? The "AI Lawyer", all of the people trying to sell LLMs as search engines, and just generally hundreds of projects that are outright dangerous uses of LLMs but seem like they might be feasible.
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by samuellevy 3y ago
There's an interview with Bo Burnham where he puts it clearly... > Don't listen to people who just got very lucky. Taylor Swift telling you to "follow your dreams" is like a lottery winner saying "liquidise your
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by samuellevy 3y ago
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by samuellevy 4y ago
Yeah, there's a process. It's something that I've done a bunch of times for a bunch of clients. There's so much low-hanging fruit there that's so easy to fix _right now_. No version control? Good news! `git init` is
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by samuellevy 4y ago
> silently take a null instead of a string Oh, so you _haven't_ used any of the recent versions of PHP, then. You're just talking shit with no actual recent experience. Gotcha. Well, thanks for your input.
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Client-Side PHP(atymic.dev)
2 points by samuellevy 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A Naive Approach to VPN and Proxy Detection with PHP and JavaScript(samuellevy.com)
4 points by samuellevy 8y ago|0 comments
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The small tips about freelancing that I've learned over the years(blog.samuellevy.com)
1 points by samuellevy 8y ago|0 comments
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by samuellevy 9y ago
The rules are a bit more complex than the original, but I'll try to summarise them. * An empty cell has a chance to breed if there are two or more neighbours of breeding age (10-65). * The chance of breeding slightly decreases for ever
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Show HN: A variation on GoL with fertility/mortality based on the age of cells(samlev.github.io)
28 points by samuellevy 9y ago|7 comments
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Workflows for a small team of gits(blog.samuellevy.com)
4 points by samuellevy 11y ago|0 comments
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by samuellevy 11y ago
They're in Hulu. As a non-American, currently living in America, these ads are the strangest thing I've seen on TV.
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by samuellevy 11y ago
So print the message, and arrive holding a pigeon. No-one will know the difference.
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by samuellevy 11y ago
I'm not sure how the tax system works in the US, but I was just talking to my accountant about this issue the other day. In Australia, my company gets taxed at a flat 30% on all profits in a year. If I want to take cash out of the comp
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by samuellevy 12y ago
Yeah, it's great fun to put a cyrillic "а" into a variable name in code.

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