Hacker News: bl0b

New comment by bl0b in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

bl0b — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:06:47 +0000

Yeah that diagram is all over the place. The arrows on the left branching from the outline of the diagram itself?

New comment by bl0b in "The Framework Desktop is a beast"

bl0b — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 03:01:40 +0000

Such a huge consumer that they deprecated it

New comment by bl0b in "ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data"

bl0b — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:50:17 +0000

I think they meant 'end' as in the 'ultimate destination' rather than 'conclusion'.

New comment by bl0b in "I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)"

bl0b — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:44:54 +0000

There's still the big cost of time spent working on it without making money from having a job.

New comment by bl0b in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

bl0b — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:31:56 +0000

I read it as the privilege of being able to choose a lower paying job (that lets you sleep better at night, be more fulfilled, etc)

New comment by bl0b in "Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money"

bl0b — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 21:39:57 +0000

I don't see it.

What are the consequences of, for example, staring at the live flight map and only the live flight map for a 7 hour flight [1]? Sounds boring as hell but you're not going to like bore yourself insane

[1] https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/erling-haaland-raw-dogs-7-h...

New comment by bl0b in "Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money"

bl0b — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:46:14 +0000

IMO it is a complete bastardization of the phrase.

The genz/alpha version is a noble form of asceticism, while the 'original' meaning is more a hedonistic indulgence without regard for consequences to yourself or others.

New comment by bl0b in "The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection"

bl0b — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:17:17 +0000

Ha! I have it too. Doesn't feel like 20% but we're out here

New comment by bl0b in "Show HN: Hooper – AI-driven stats and highlights for basketball play"

bl0b — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 02:43:24 +0000

Awesome! I someday hope to find the time to make something like this for soccer - individual skill drills as well as gameplay analysis.

Care to share any technical details about how your analysis pipeline works? :)

New comment by bl0b in "MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster"

bl0b — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 02:31:54 +0000

Am I missing it or is the source code not available?

New comment by bl0b in "My 2024 AI Predictions"

bl0b — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:05:32 +0000

> I personally regularly use the “voice” version of chatGPT to brainstorm with it while I walk my dog. We sped past the Turing test so fast that no one even beat an eyelash about it

I don't think that just because the author has a pseudo-conversation with ChatGPT using voice as the interface means we've passed the Turing test.

They don't seem to be actively interrogating ChatGPT to determine whether it's a human or not - something that I'd expect would still be quite easy to do. And, as I understand it, the Turing test could be administered over text.

New comment by bl0b in "Google Brain founder says big tech is lying about AI danger"

bl0b — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:23:07 +0000

I mean, fox news seems to manage doing exactly that just fine without ChatGPT

New comment by bl0b in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

bl0b — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 22:58:32 +0000

Camera powered drum machine!

https://www.3d-beats.com/

New comment by bl0b in "Fluid Simulation"

bl0b — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:43:34 +0000

I'm sure the origins of CUDA are very interesting in their own right, and it cannot be denied that the evolution of the GPU and GPU programming has had a huge impact on the growth of the field.. but, without the specific work of these specific people, at worst I think we'd only be a tiny bit behind where we are now.

The AI craze we have today is built on the continuous, sustained work of a huge amount of people over years and years.

New comment by bl0b in "Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy"

bl0b — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 15:03:04 +0000

I enjoyed the Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee.

It also is labelled a space opera and has a decent amount of naval warfare in space

New comment by bl0b in "The Vowel Space [video]"

bl0b — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 23:16:30 +0000

Sort of related, here are a couple rap songs that I like which self-impose similar constraints:

Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxmmGToZlns

Nach - Efectos Vocales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOTbm-NvLII

New comment by bl0b in "Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion"

bl0b — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:25:06 +0000

I'm learning this stuff because I think it's fascinating.

To be fair I know I'm light years behind the cutting-edge so I feel I can sleep assured that I won't take too much of the blame for having created our new AI overlords, or taking the jobs, etc.

Also, generative art and LLMs are undoubtedly impressive, but not completely my cup of tea. But you can always take your ML knowledge and find a domain/problem you care about to apply it to. It's not like literally everything will be solved in the future.

New comment by bl0b in "Amazon is offering users $2 a month for letting it track phone data"

bl0b — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:32:51 +0000

I think you meant to say 'product', not 'customers'

New comment by bl0b in "MGL – OpenGL 4.6 on Metal"

bl0b — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:19:02 +0000

Yeah.. no compute shaders though, among other things

New comment by bl0b in "We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity"

bl0b — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 02:55:44 +0000

"256 MB of curiously high bandwidth"