simonreiff

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by simonreiff 1mo ago
"The honest summary is that a plain-English end-to-end layer would fill a real and currently empty tier, sitting on top of roughly two thousand fast deterministic tests doing work no browser tool can do. Both halves of that sentence ar
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by simonreiff 1mo ago
Personally I dislike hyperreals for the reason that we lose the all-powerful Archimidean property (for all real numbers x, there exists a natural number N such that N > x or N = x). But yes, hyperreals are completely consistent. Robinson
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by simonreiff 1mo ago
Actually Leibniz invented the modern dy and dx notation and did view the differentials as genuinely nonzero, which is generally speaking a safe assumption. In other words, dy/dx really was a quotient, albeit of really tiny values (at l
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by simonreiff 1mo ago
I actually did add a timer as a final "if all else fails" for my regex implementation rather recently, maybe 6 months ago. I don't even know of any scenario that could reach the timer because I have a robust allowlist/de
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by simonreiff 1mo ago
Publicity benefit corporation HAHAHA typo, think they mean public benefit corporation. Anthropic however is DEFINITELY a publicity benefit corporation.
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
Not for vibe-coders, and also not for any business or user with any project using AI for "most" of the code (an ill-defined term in their ToS that nonetheless safely excludes many serious projects adopting AI for a variety of reas
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
Ah yes. The famous problem that is ambiguous because it ignores space travel! Let M_n := Mary's age now = 24, A_n := Ann's age now, and let M_p, A_p be the ages of Mary and Ann at a certain point in the past. We have that M_n = 24
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
Can't go wrong with Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
I studied harmony and music analysis many years ago as a piano performance major in school. One thing I will say is that harmony really is not an abstract set of symbols on a page representing chords, but rather is a taxonomy of common spec
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
Squid is my working guess as well
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
I am very skeptical of the Guardian's skepticism
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
I really don't want AI-generated copy to walk me through how to understand various famous paintings by answering 8 boilerplate questions about each of them. If the answers were written entirely by a human who was an art expert, though,
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
I fully agree with everything in this essay. Make distillation fair use. And let us use Mythos/Fable and Sol and successor or future models for all cybersecurity purposes.
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
That sounds like the worst "exam nightmare" scenario imaginable, but did the student get the PhD in the end?
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
Being charitable, "more scientific" means more rigorous, reproducible, reliable based on the consensus of that scientific community (if any consensus exists, which it usually does in math and hard sciences), transparent in methodo
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
I have to concur, unfortunately. This isn't reliable, reproducible, or interpretable.
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
Wow, congrats on this project! Really cool. I majored in piano performance many years ago and will definitely check this out.
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
Sorry to hear about the stress of being a founder; I also am a solo founder and feel the pressure every day too. For what it's worth, you've already achieved something very special if you have thousands of users. That already show
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
Question: Why does AWS need to roll back estimated bills to a "last known good" state? I get wanting to do that for ACTUAL billing mistakes, but for estimates, they're just that -- approximations. I guess it's fine for p
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
Nice game -- a bit more of a challenge than the usual word games, so I appreciated it. I suggest including a little demo before the game starts to showcase how it works because it was slightly unclear how the game would work before the firs
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
FYI just 502'd
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
lol fair and I appreciate the feedback. I'm overhauling tbe home page to include a demo and will definitely revisit the tagline as well. (Even if I still do believe it's true!)
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
The author pointed out that JSON-wrangling and regex issues are a pain in the ass. I found them to be a pain in the ass in my own project, too. He also argued that his project implemented a kernel pattern that acted as a buffer between the
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
I think tools have to be flexible enough to accommodate a range of expected inputs. Even assuming models are trained to supply a particular schema, they are stochastic and randomly output variants regularly. My experience has been that it&#
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
I call it tool-response engineering -- the tool-response JSON object itself and any content supplied, plus the available mechanisms after an initial tool call has been made.
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
I did indeed read every word. And read the code. Don't be rude.
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
I really wish this study had chosen to focus on more useful endpoints like revenue, profitability, customer retention, conversion rate, etc....at a minimum, don't look at PRs merged without also looking at bugs in production code, numb
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
Why don't you say how you really feel instead of being so wishy-washy?
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
That's a good question. My view is that AI-assisted research is an important and valid use, and getting human-written articles and papers is (I think) the whole point of this thread. However, a lot of the academic or technical posts on
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by simonreiff 2mo ago
The recent rule addition to the Guidelines says this: "Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans." And I think that covers comments, but I'd be happy to see it also cover articles

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