Hacker News: _steady

New comment by _steady in "AGI is not multimodal"

_steady — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:03:47 +0000

this is a glib version of exactly what i agree with. a human doesn't do the maximal efficiency with the inputs its given, but has a high number of varied inputs that allow the multi part of multi-modal to really shine. We're not a true general intelligence because we can't respond to problems in space or time that are too big or too small for us, outside of the right frame of reference or outside the right frequency of visible light for us to respond to. Also, the amount of processing power we can respond with is capped as well. So when we say AGI, we mean a computer that responds to the same set of stimuli as we do, with a repsonse somewhere in the region we can respond back to. I don't see why a robot with AGI would care about sunburn if their robot arms don't care about heat, and i don't see that as any less general as if us and a matis shrimp are talking about different frequencies of photons we can see

New comment by _steady in "The number pi has an evil twin"

_steady — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 21:50:45 +0000

oh wow that's a lot like a maximally extended penrose diagram

New comment by _steady in "Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember"

_steady — Mon, 20 May 2024 09:26:21 +0000

Really reminders me of the following phrase:

"When the work is done, it is forgotten. That is why it lasts forever."

- Tao Te Ching (Chapter 2)

New comment by _steady in "Build your own BitTorrent"

_steady — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:36:13 +0000

It does say it only asks for your email (read) privileges tbf, but yeah I didn't bother either after that step.

New comment by _steady in "Eio 1.0 – Effects-based IO for OCaml 5"

_steady — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 16:56:51 +0000

And on this farm he had OCaml. Ei Eio.

New comment by _steady in "Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn"

_steady — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:17:14 +0000

I hate the title of this. the quotes do so much heavy lifting. I was hoping for a post about removing Svelte and embracing the simplicity of vanilla javascript. Nothing against svelte.

New comment by _steady in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

_steady — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 07:39:19 +0000

Yes I could

New comment by _steady in "Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it"

_steady — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:16:55 +0000

https://heardledecades.com/ you're welcome!

New comment by _steady in "Solving the cube root of 19,683 mentally"

_steady — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 14:33:22 +0000

Loads of chat about remembering logs etc, I was expecting to see more number theory here as it’s a really lovely and applicable part of maths.

(As far as doing the calc, I thought it has to end in 7 becaus3 it’s the only one with a cub3 residue of 3 mod 10, which is what they say in post. Then 20 and 30 cubed are 8000 and 27000 respectively and assuming we’re restricting to Z 27 is the only possible answer)

New comment by _steady in "What makes Git so hard to use?"

_steady — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:46:27 +0000

IMO got is intuitive and easy to use therefore the title is subjective and incorrect. Please update to be less of an opinion.

New comment by _steady in "H-m-m: Hackers mind map"

_steady — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 17:19:19 +0000

Hey! love the thing. Quick suggestion to the README on the section "Relative navigating and moving" It looks like I have to press H <-, to move left - I am assuming that I can do either or, a la vim. A small copy edit would make that clearer. Kudos!

New comment by _steady in "Remote scan of student’s room before test violated his privacy, judge rules"

_steady — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:20:12 +0000

Curricula

New comment by _steady in "Show HN: A Visual IDE for React"

_steady — Fri, 13 May 2022 07:45:57 +0000

As someone who doesn't like to watch videos, i'd have loved some text content on this or any page explaining the proposition

New comment by _steady in "Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?"

_steady — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:49:24 +0000

Water is 27x more thermally conductive than air, so standing in water burns 27x more calories than air of the same temperature. So, go cold water swimming!

(Plenty of normal healthy ways to lose weight but that's the weirdest hack I can think of)

New comment by _steady in "Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?"

_steady — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:46:54 +0000

New comment by _steady in "Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster"

_steady — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:47:42 +0000

nice site

could do with taking out your console.logs

```export default function KeyChar(props: any) { console.log(props); return ( {`${props.keyChar}`} ); } ```