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Cracking a 500-Year-Old Vatican Cipher with Simulated Annealing(simonklee.dk)
2 points by zakelfassi 17h ago|0 comments
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Planning > Agents: Getting Reliable Code from LLMs(repoprompt.com)
2 points by zakelfassi 11mo ago|1 comments
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by zakelfassi 11mo ago
Everyone's chasing bigger context windows, but more tokens don't necessarily mean more intelligence. Once an agent fills its window with noise, reasoning quality drops fast. This piece breaks down why "convenience workflows&q
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by zakelfassi 11mo ago
I had a similar experience here on HN. One of my blog posts recently made it to the front page, and I ended up getting brigaded. I had to add a dozen AI-use disclaimers around the blog, not even the piece itself. It was surreal. I get the a
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by zakelfassi 11mo ago
Honestly, the best response is to embrace our inner botness. It's just humans being humans — before, they might've said "this is too smart for you to say," and now they've found a new excuse. So be it.
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Why the Em Dash Isn't an AI Tell(idiotmystic.com)
3 points by zakelfassi 11mo ago|5 comments
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
Is it AI then if there’s a human author? lol. You are funny.
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
Don’t forget; a double-dash on iOS keyboard gets automagically converted to an em—dash.
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
1/ So far, you've made five comments about this throughout the thread. 2/ I've added an update at the top; pasting it here as well: "My high school teacher in 2004 accused me of plagiarizing from Wikipedia because m
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
I'm sorry the GenAI image prevented you from engaging with the ideas. Layout removed if that makes you and others feel better.
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
Meta-response to a lot of these comments: My high school teacher in 2004 accused me of plagiarizing from Wikipedia because my research paper looked "too polished" for something typed on a keyboard instead of handwritten. Twenty ye
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
Oh well. If you say so.
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Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power(zakelfassi.com)
113 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|67 comments
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Math Is the Bridge: Axiom's Signal Flare and the Coming Reasoning Renaissance(zakelfassi.com)
5 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|2 comments
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AI Agent Creates Information Fractal: First Contact with Imagine with Claude(zakelfassi.com)
2 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|0 comments
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Morocco's GenZ Uprising and the Protocol That Can't Be Arrested(zakelfassi.com)
10 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|0 comments
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Writing Reality: When Blog Posts Become Hypersigils(zakelfassi.com)
3 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|0 comments
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
Fair push, thank you. Let me clarify where I'm coming from. Re: Figma vs Illustrator –– totally agree Figma doesn't cover Illustrator's full surface area. But in a lot of product/UI/marketing work, "good enough
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
You're right; I just have no first-hand experience with it, yet.
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The Anti-Adobe Coalition Is Here(zakelfassi.com)
4 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|4 comments
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Memory Beaches and How Consciousness Hacks Time Through Frame Density(zakelfassi.com)
3 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|1 comments
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Information, Experience, Knowledge, and Wisdom(zakelfassi.com)
1 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|0 comments
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Witnesses Carry Weights: How Reality Gets Computed(zakelfassi.com)
2 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|0 comments
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
That’s the sweet spot, honestly. It’s less about whether an LLM can crank out scaffolding faster than someone fluent in JavaScript and more about what it unlocks: the ability to collapse “thinking about it for months” into “there’s a thing
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The 12-Month Bug: Why Your Side Project Is Still Just an Idea(zakelfassi.com)
8 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|2 comments
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
If it feels opaque, you’re in good company. One of the core ideas I work with is that part of what lets us “stay ahead” cognitively is embracing density: not because every idea must be immediately digestible, but because wrestling with dens
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
Mystical is the right word. Maybe the danger is in mistaking the shimmer for a conclusion, when really it’s an invitation to keep looking.
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by zakelfassi 1y ago
Yes, exactly. That sense of “secret of the universe encoded in a proof” is what I was trying to put words around. I know the jump from RIP to consciousness is huge; I’m not claiming a formal bridge, more that the shape of the constraint fee
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Mathematics Discovering Its Consciousness: Lasso Estimator as Cosmic Backdoor(zakelfassi.com)
10 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|6 comments
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Stay vs. Live: How Verb Choice Reveals Cultural Maps of Rootedness(zakelfassi.com)
2 points by zakelfassi 1y ago|0 comments

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