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New comment by JLemay in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

JLemay — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:46:51 +0000

this is excellent haha

New comment by JLemay in "[dead]"

JLemay — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:52:44 +0000

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New comment by JLemay in "Solving a Childhood Mystery: How BASIC Games Learned to Win"

JLemay — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:13:54 +0000

The 1970s saw the birth of many foundational algorithms and concepts in machine learning, with research focusing on decision tree algorithms, clustering, and ensemble methods. I believe one of the first decision tree algorithms was created in 1973, crazy how early it all started!

New comment by JLemay in "What does connecting with someone mean?"

JLemay — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:08:52 +0000

Empathy plays a crucial role in strengthening human connections, which unfortunately I believe has been eroded strongly by social media and a rise in individualism. The combination of anonymity, and the modern day psychological wiring towards instant gratification, makes online cruelty largely rewarding unfortunately.

New comment by JLemay in "ESA's Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration"

JLemay — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:05:59 +0000

I mean it sounds great for materials extraction, but I’m a bit skeptical on infrastructure that will make long-term exploration and a lunar economy actually viable

New comment by JLemay in "Ask HN: Is someone else also having some issue posting comments in Reddit?"

JLemay — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:42:16 +0000

What you are running into is most likely new user restrictions. Most subreddits have restrictions on posting and commenting based on account age, karma, or both

New comment by JLemay in "Techniques for Limiting Manipulation of URLs (PDF, Patent)"

JLemay — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:38:42 +0000

God the way this was formatted is painful for the eyes, but TLDR the paper gives a pretty detailed overview of a method for mitigating the manipulation of URLs to artificially influence search rankings, which plagues many online service providers, especially in the retail and e-commerce sectors. Basically there’s a problem with editable URLs being exploited by automated systems or "click farms" to inflate the prominence of certain search results, which ultimately skews the integrity of web interactions and analytics. The paper does provide a solution to preserve the authenticity of user interactions and ensure that request data is verifiable, so if that’s your thing good luck trying to read this

New comment by JLemay in "Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease"

JLemay — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:29:46 +0000

This is such an incredible breakthrough and a huge win for science and families alike, however its sad that despite decades of work there is still no cure for mitochondrial disease. But the chance to preventing it being passed on is still such a major improvement. Also it’s sad that only the uk is capable of doing this atm bc it was the first country in the world to introduce laws to allow their creation after a vote in Parliament in 2015, while other countries were debating that it would open the doors to genetically-modified "designer" babies