zephyrthenoble

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by zephyrthenoble 5d ago
While I get what you are saying, from my perspective, there is no longer the same breadth of content on HN, with LLM related content taking up a significant portion of the top posts. Today is actually a pretty good day, with I think 7/
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by zephyrthenoble 8d ago
But how do people realistically prep for this? Not a historian, but in my understanding, when major metropolitan areas devolved, people had to spread out significantly in order to restart the agrarian lifestyle that could sustain them witho
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by zephyrthenoble 4mo ago
I agree that these are implemented "worse" than Java but that's because Python wants these things to be optional! You can complain about it as much as you want but that just means it's the wrong language for you, if tha
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by zephyrthenoble 5mo ago
I was so frugal that I didn't refinance my (admittedly already low) interest rate during Covid because "we were planning on selling the house in a year or so". Oh well :)
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by zephyrthenoble 5mo ago
And when the haruspex LLM fails, what do we turn to?
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by zephyrthenoble 8mo ago
It was weird to read this. I know antirez is on HN, so it's strange to say this, but here goes... I always looked up to antirez. Redis was really taking off after I graduated and I was impressed by the whole system and the person behin
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by zephyrthenoble 8mo ago
On the other side of the test, I don't know a non-tech person who uses ChatGPT at all.
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by zephyrthenoble 9mo ago
Interesting, I haven't tried tests outside of the code base the LLM is working on. I could see other elements of isolation being useful, but this kind of feels like a lot of extra work and complexity which is part of the issue...
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by zephyrthenoble 9mo ago
I've felt this too as a person with ADHD, specifically difficulty processing information. Caveat: I don't vibe code much, partially because of the mental fatigue symptoms. I've found that if an LLM writes too much code, even
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by zephyrthenoble 9mo ago
Always interesting (in an informative way) to see people "defending" em-dashes from my personal perspective. Before you get mad, let me explain: before ChatGPT, I only ever saw em-dashes when MS Word would sometimes turn a dash in
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by zephyrthenoble 10mo ago
Yes, it's essentially the Pareto principle [0]. The LLM community has conflated the 80% as difficult complicated work, when it was essentially boilerplate. Allegedly LLMs have saved us from that drudgery, but I personally have found th
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by zephyrthenoble 10mo ago
Reading the text of the article, and not just reacting to the title, I do think this article has a kernal of truth to it that resonates with me. It's not really talking about intelligence, but MEASURES, and how individuals contort them
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by zephyrthenoble 10mo ago
So vibe coders need to know how to write tests? I doubt that lowers the effective barrier of entry to coding very much. I assume you can't trust the LLM to write these tests, since you are writing tests so the LLM will stop it's b
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by zephyrthenoble 11mo ago
This is super interesting to me. A lot of threads about aphantasia devolve into both sides being mildly incredulous that the other exists, I think partially because it's _hard_ for us to imagine experiences outside of our own. But here
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by zephyrthenoble 11mo ago
I think an interesting different way to talk about aphantasia is not, "Can you see an apple when you close your eyes" but more along the linked of, "Can you mentally edit the visual reality you see?" A common exercise wh
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by zephyrthenoble 1y ago
I've been trying to generate my own maps using Voronoi diagrams as well. I was using Lloyd's algorithm [0] to make strangely shaped regions "fit" better, but I like the insight of generating larger regions to define isl
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by zephyrthenoble 1y ago
I live in the DC area and whenever I hear people say "just crack a window" I think, that brings in all of the pollen I'm allergic to in all seasons except winter, plus humidity and 95 f degree heat if it's the summer...
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by zephyrthenoble 1y ago
Looks like you invented telemetry
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by zephyrthenoble 1y ago
So many drugs that unequivocally improve people's health have minor negative side effects. I think this person needs to find a way to connect with their loved ones and understand how the medication they are taking is love changing. I
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by zephyrthenoble 1y ago
I feel like this one is a mixed bag. I would be very annoyed if my every day life was disrupted by tourists, especially like in the train stop example, and losing local businesses and attractions to outsiders is terrible. I don't wan
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by zephyrthenoble 1y ago
Isn't the article about college towns in America? It's not theoretical there. A more universal example is probably towns with large seasonal influxes, such as ski towns or beach towns, but unlike a college town, these locations at
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by zephyrthenoble 1y ago
I've seen several posts like this recently. The title is something that seems very insightful into something that I've recently been dealing with, and I'm intrigued. I open the web page, read the opening paragraph, and realiz
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by zephyrthenoble 2y ago
I'm in the same boat. I want to have a stake in what I'm working, on but the politics/meetings seem overwhelming. I want to do interesting work without the pressure of unrealistic management expectations hanging over my head
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by zephyrthenoble 2y ago
Aren't there plenty of examples of the kind of speech you talk about in your second paragraph already on Twitter? There are plenty of hot takes to pick from, with some being censored more or less based on the current owner. I'd al
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by zephyrthenoble 2y ago
You are presenting opinion as objective fact for a subjective medium, which is surprising to hear from an artist. This argument, and this article, are not about the "great masters" but about amateur and professional artists who fi
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by zephyrthenoble 2y ago
Video games
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by zephyrthenoble 2y ago
> I don’t personally think that other animals will have a verbal inner monologue in the way that I do I find it funny that this article and the quotes within state that humans have a "dense internal monologue" as if that is som
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Ask HN: Alternative to Google for Health Questions
1 points by zephyrthenoble 3y ago|1 comments
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by zephyrthenoble 3y ago
I liked the article but there was a lot of statements about the case with not a lot of explaining explanation, such as, the Android app market was considered a relevant market but the Apple app market wasn't. Why? What are the differen
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by zephyrthenoble 3y ago
That's a fair point. Maybe people did react similarly, but the LK-99 hype was at the very least grounded in scientific methodology. I should keep that in perspective and be a little less harsh.

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