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New comment by basyt in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

basyt — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:34:46 +0000

i would rather be incorrectly diagnosed by a doctor than have chudgpt treat me.

New comment by basyt in "A hallucination engine. Typed pseudorandom data via LLM"

basyt — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:32:10 +0000

A hallucination engine. Typed pseudorandom data via Anthropic API. MCP server.

A hallucination engine. Typed pseudorandom data via LLM

basyt — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:32:10 +0000

Article URL: https://pypi.org/project/grievous-mcp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919494

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by basyt in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

basyt — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:05:14 +0000

the western mind cannot comprehend kinship...

New comment by basyt in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

basyt — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:54:33 +0000

he doesn't control his own future... chatgpt implodes in 18 months max depending upon how the strait of hormuz play goes...

New comment by basyt in "Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165"

basyt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:25:35 +0000

yeah lol no shit. lets not get bothered by reactionaries...

New comment by basyt in "In the Beginning Was the Backslash"

basyt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:02:06 +0000

It was. Each and every word. Somehow missed adding my AI policy. Fixed.

In the Beginning Was the Backslash

basyt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:33:33 +0000

Article URL: https://darthcoder.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598706

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by basyt in "How I Wrote the Screenplay for “Arrival” and What I Learned Doing It"

basyt — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:22:13 +0000

you mean \documentclass{screenplay} :P

New comment by basyt in "Time Management at Khan Academy"

basyt — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:01:50 +0000

whats type A?

New comment by basyt in "Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft"

basyt — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:41:31 +0000

> Not to mention many of the people on welfare.

Woah, slow down tiger :)

More seriously, please elaborate. Or maybe I am just a bleeding heart.

New comment by basyt in "#Love: Virtually No Sex"

basyt — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:37:05 +0000

That was just a bit too much for me. Bionic people would still be using condoms - that is just common sense.

Also, will women still be getting pregnant in vivo? Because if so, then 'because bioengineering' wouldn't be sufficient protection from the hollow mutant zombie babies that would be produced (as a side effect of all the _bioengineering_)

New comment by basyt in "#Love: Virtually No Sex"

basyt — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:34:47 +0000

depends on how representative the sample is? But yeah, a few thousand _might_ be good enough if you are able to pick sufficiently randomly - but still from each representative class!

New comment by basyt in "Why Probabilistic Programming Matters"

basyt — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:28:29 +0000

seemingly the program is also run backwards. so maybe it will try coins with various biases until it determines the model that gives the fair flipping?

i am speaking from what i gathered reading the article and the other comments. seems pretty interesting to me.

New comment by basyt in "Why Probabilistic Programming Matters"

basyt — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:24:34 +0000

The buzzwording was strong in that article. I am not an expert, but I will be looking at this in the future.

New comment by basyt in "The hack that saved the astronauts of the Apollo XIII"

basyt — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:00:15 +0000

[x] duct tape

McGyver didn't lie.

New comment by basyt in "Is that whole gamification thing really over?"

basyt — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:05:50 +0000

I didn't read the article but I am going to read your thesis. I have a question: Is it possible to have enterprise gamification? What should be the end goals - the achievements so to speak?

Isn't the whole idea of gamification(an idealization that didn't quite happen I guess) is to make crud work seem like fun? But, then, wouldn't repetition of the same joyless task be mundane to the point of being Sisyphean? I agree that a game achievement is fun to get but archiving mail day after day would get old pretty fast(I think).

And as a grad student myself I must ask, have you considered the possibility of gamification systems in academe(school in general)? I guess that's what the trophies(and convocations) are for, right?

New comment by basyt in "Google Dumps MapReduce in Favor of New Hyper-Scale Analytics System"

basyt — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:32:28 +0000

Its fundamentally the same thing as MapReduce isn't it? Can someone explain the differences to me please? There isn't much of use in the article

New comment by basyt in "The Sprawling, Booming LA Tech Scene Is Having a Moment"

basyt — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:42:17 +0000

> “The broader mindset here is not just code,” said Bill Gross, the well-known serial entrepreneur and founder of an incubator called Idealab. “We have engineers with taste.”

Shots fired.

New comment by basyt in "How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010)"

basyt — Sat, 31 May 2014 11:30:29 +0000

Nobody's heard of Hy then?

https://github.com/hylang/tryhy