Hacker News: atcalan

New comment by atcalan in "LLM Daydreaming"

atcalan — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:58:58 +0000

This is a solved problem.

New comment by atcalan in "Why can't we shoot down drones? It's a political, not a technical problem"

atcalan — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:05:22 +0000

Ah yes. Govt contracting. Good times...good times.

New comment by atcalan in "DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it"

atcalan — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 13:00:42 +0000

Cool. Drop kick a hornets nest in a zorb ball. What could go wrong? Not everyone attending DEFCON is getting 6 figures to red team, I suspect.

New comment by atcalan in "This guy contacted astronaut in ISS using home made antenna"

atcalan — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:08:51 +0000

Yeah. Hundreds of hams each year hit the space station on Field Day alone :|

New comment by atcalan in "What will humans do after AI achieves cognitive superiority?"

atcalan — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:02:09 +0000

Nothing...

New comment by atcalan in "'Civilizations rise and fall' a community prepping for the downfall of America"

atcalan — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 02:37:21 +0000

It's like the 70s but parties flipped. Conservative back to the land. I remember reading my dad's mother earth news magazines. He wasn't a big hippie, but he had lots of hippie friends.

New comment by atcalan in "More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering from Psychosis"

atcalan — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:39:14 +0000

More weed == higher rate of ID of functional psychopaths?

New comment by atcalan in "ChatGPT Is Not a Technological Singularity"

atcalan — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:16:25 +0000

Chatgpt is the brain damaged version of the internal product...

New comment by atcalan in "Scientists repeat nuclear fusion breakthrough three times"

atcalan — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 08:42:56 +0000

Two weeks. Well, ten years away....

New comment by atcalan in "The HP-12C calculator has an emulator of the original processor in an ARM"

atcalan — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 08:39:48 +0000

I use a 48 emulator on my phone for everything. Even my MBA.

New comment by atcalan in "Mistral-8x7B-Chat"

atcalan — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:38:00 +0000

Why not both? Or two 3090s for that sweet, sweet nvlink for fine tuning?

New comment by atcalan in "Mistral-8x7B-Chat"

atcalan — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:37:13 +0000

It runs up to 13b models nicely on a 16g orange pi 5 fyi.

New comment by atcalan in "Ask HN: Are you, your spouse or your children gifted?"

atcalan — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:32:25 +0000

Twice exceptional. Gifted occluded by disability. Son is the same as well as my brother. His kids are all gifted as well, but some don't have a disability too. It sucks being both.

New comment by atcalan in "Wozmon for x86-64"

atcalan — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:54:55 +0000

https://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack

New comment by atcalan in "Wozmon for x86-64"

atcalan — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:53:20 +0000

That depends. Do you want to avoid the Thompson back door? Maybe a 6502 or an 1802 with flippety switches and blinken lights can be verified not to be compromised.

New comment by atcalan in "Wozmon for x86-64"

atcalan — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:50:11 +0000

I remember vapor locking on figuring out addresses in hand assembled 6809 machine code in middle school. It was amazing what Woz pulled off with this. I wish I knew that the apple ii plusses in the computer lab probably had something like wozmon on them.

New comment by atcalan in ""MVP" is dead! Long live “FPC"."

atcalan — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:23:49 +0000

Fusion Particle Cannon? Maybe a warning about AI or something?

New comment by atcalan in "Ask HN: What have you used a RaspberryPI/Arduino for?"

atcalan — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:27:20 +0000

Vex robotics kit driver for camera gimbal, ir Bridge, Bluetooth alarm clock, x10 bridge.

New comment by atcalan in "Sorry doubters, Starship had a remarkably successful flight"

atcalan — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:57:10 +0000

Two different machines attempting to solve two different problems. Yes Artemis and Orion overlap part of starship goals, but they neither have rapid turn around and reusability, nor adaptability as requirements. They are, put human on moon machines, not tanker, pickup truck, delivery vehicle, Martian launch vehicle, etc.

New comment by atcalan in "Why Dr. Gabor Maté Is Worse Than Wrong About ADHD [video]"

atcalan — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:41:18 +0000

I can't agree strongly enough with this suggestion. Understanding the regulatory prefrontal cortex role in ADHD is key to getting a handle on the disorder, and Barkley does a fantastic job of presenting the evidence and conclusions.