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New comment by arikrak in "Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)"

arikrak — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:10:14 +0000

This drawing influenced Douglas Harding in developing "The Headless Way", a recognition that in immediate experience there is no head or self (and influential on Sam Harris).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Harding#%22Headlessnes...

New comment by arikrak in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

arikrak — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:37:42 +0000

I wouldn't have expected there to be enough text from before 1913 to properly train a model, it seemed like they needed an internet of text to train the first successful LLMs?

The Soul of Claude

arikrak — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:35:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zappable.com/p/the-soul-of-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155833

Points: 1

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New comment by arikrak in "The deadline isn't when AI outsmarts us – it's when we stop using our own minds"

arikrak — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:11:05 +0000

I recently wrote a short post on something similar: while AI is able to solve increasingly longer tasks, people's attention spans are getting shorter. https://www.zappable.com/p/ai-vs-human-attention-spans

Hopefully people can learn to use AI to help them, while still thinking on their own. It's not like that many of the assignments in school were that useful anyways...

New comment by arikrak in "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986) [pdf]"

arikrak — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:01:23 +0000

Before advanced AI, "essential complexity" was a bottleneck and Brooks was right that there couldn't be continuous exponential gains in software productivity. However advanced AI will handle essential complexity as well, which can end up making it 10x or 100x faster to develop software. We still need humans currently, but there's no area that one can point to and say we'll always need people for this aspect of software development. The latest coding agents are already reasoning with requirements before they write code, and they will only improve...

Using AI to Analyze My Saved Articles

arikrak — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:30:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zappable.com/p/using-ai-to-analyze-my-saved-articles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499029

Points: 1

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New comment by arikrak in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

arikrak — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:59:29 +0000

I've used Pocket from back when they were called "Read it later" and have saved just shy of 30k articles. They've gotten worse recently, but when I tried other apps (instapaper, getmatter, raindrop, paperspan, omnivore) they all had their own issues. Now I have to give those apps another try...

New comment by arikrak in "The emoji problem (2022)"

arikrak — Tue, 20 May 2025 23:00:51 +0000

Here's gemini https://g.co/gemini/share/ab287b25648f

I also asked Chat GPT o3 and it thought for 11.5 minutes! https://chatgpt.com/share/682d0993-db4c-8004-a66c-3908ef7203...

New comment by arikrak in "The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding"

arikrak — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:13:29 +0000

AI is a potential silver bullet since it can address the "essential complexity" that Fred Books said regular programming improvements couldn't address. It may not yet have caused an "order of magnitude" improvement in overall software development but it has caused that improvement in certain areas, and that will spread over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

New comment by arikrak in "ChatGPT now on chat.com"

arikrak — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:30:30 +0000

Clicking the link opens the Ticketmaster app on my phone.

New comment by arikrak in "A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee"

arikrak — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 01:37:22 +0000

They use higher-caffeine beans for decaf coffee - Robusta instead of Arabica. Robusta beans aren't considered as good so they're cheaper, and they sell the caffeine they extract to e.g. soda companies.

A Flower in Each Musical Genre

arikrak — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:34:30 +0000

Article URL: https://ageofai.substack.com/p/a-flower-in-each-musical-genre

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827059

Points: 1

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New comment by arikrak in "Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder"

arikrak — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:01:04 +0000

ChatGPT already does that when you create a custom GPT. If you don't connect it to an external text or service that's basically all custom GPTs are.

New comment by arikrak in "LLM Visualization"

arikrak — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 18:56:29 +0000

This looks pretty cool! Anyone know of visualizations for simpler neural networks? I'm aware of tensorflow playground but that's just for a toy example, is there anything for visualizing a real example (e.g handwriting recognition)?

New comment by arikrak in "Conversational AI is a great tool for education"

arikrak — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 23:24:41 +0000

This is certainly true and there will be many ways to improve on the default chatGPT experience to provide a full tutor / educational experience. Wonder who's working in this space (besides Khanmigo)?