Hacker News: bluepoint

New comment by bluepoint in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

bluepoint — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:08:35 +0000

Actually I get improvements when I ask two llms to simplify each other’s work repeatedly.

New comment by bluepoint in "Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen"

bluepoint — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 03:54:26 +0000

This sounds like a resolution for the Fermi paradox.

New comment by bluepoint in "Homotopy Equivalences"

bluepoint — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:55:26 +0000

How dis he do all these animations? Any idea?

New comment by bluepoint in "Learn you Galois fields for great good (2023)"

bluepoint — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:05:20 +0000

You mean they don’t understand the “but no simpler” part?

New comment by bluepoint in "Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit"

bluepoint — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:33:12 +0000

Reading the comments, is it safe to say that LLMs are a digest of the internet which is some update over google search, but with the caveat that you need to double check the results? I mean they basically have some compressed version of almost all the written knowledge and will respond correctly about things that have already been written, and hallucinate (extrapolate) about things not explicitly written. Of course if someone carefully curates the input data to filter out misinformation, it might even be an upgrade over google. Is there a consensus on this?

New comment by bluepoint in "AI will change the world but not in the way you think"

bluepoint — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:56:45 +0000

The author claims to be able to tell AI content. I am wondering, is there any test to help me train to distinguish AI content? Like: this paragraph is written by a human this by an AI and see how well we all do?

New comment by bluepoint in "An Aperiodic Monotile (2023)"

bluepoint — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:50:23 +0000

Does anyone of if there are any consequences of the existence of monotiles in algebra or number theory?

New comment by bluepoint in "Neomacs: Structural Lisp IDE/browser/computing environment"

bluepoint — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:45:27 +0000

I love TexMacs for taking math notes. It has great keyboard shortcuts too. I am wondering if it is still actively developed though…

New comment by bluepoint in "Apple delays highly anticipated device due to 'technical challenges'"

bluepoint — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 03:57:50 +0000

Why does it have to be foldable?

New comment by bluepoint in "X's new AI image generator will make anything"

bluepoint — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:35:39 +0000

I am wondering what will come to save us from this AI storm. It looks like online search and social networks will be more or less dead. Maybe we will start going out again.

New comment by bluepoint in "Physicists may now have a way to make element 120"

bluepoint — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:24:28 +0000

I think the point is that string theory is a huge model with so many parameters that it can fit everything. This is overfitting. Because of that it does not have predicting power.

New comment by bluepoint in "Physicists may now have a way to make element 120"

bluepoint — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:23:04 +0000

It is not. A nucleus is bound together by the strong force. A neutron star is bound by gravity.

New comment by bluepoint in "Physicists may now have a way to make element 120"

bluepoint — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:14:58 +0000

The point about stability is that as the curve of stability is not a straight line. That is as the number of nucleons increases, you need proportionally more and more neutron to be stable. So you cannot just smash small nuclei together to form bigger ones. Somehow you need to add some extra neutrons.

New comment by bluepoint in "The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2011)"

bluepoint — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 04:18:12 +0000

I think his point is that it is not clear why every microstate is equally probable.

New comment by bluepoint in "Ask HN: How do I figure out what skills are in demand?"

bluepoint — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 18:15:05 +0000

You are certainly right for the higher level higher paying jobs that look for elite candidates. How would you modify your answer to also include less experienced candidates who are looking for something to specialize and build complex products for?

New comment by bluepoint in "Wayland 1.23 Released with OpenBSD Support"

bluepoint — Thu, 30 May 2024 22:52:53 +0000

Does anyone know of what exactly does the openbsd support consist?

New comment by bluepoint in "Common Lisp Is Not a Single Language, It Is Lots"

bluepoint — Sat, 25 May 2024 18:54:23 +0000

Not a surprise, CL's most marketable advantage is that it is infinitely moldable.

It has the most powerful macro system which enables one to define arbitrary syntax, essentially creating mini languages. So, CL is flexible enough to be able to create many languages without changing its fundamentals, such as those in the article. CL is like clay,not even lego bricks. And while this sounds wonderful and liberating, you end up having to learn many different mini languages for each library you use. I like this idea(l), but I do not have sophisticated enough needs to use it (I wish, feel free to hire me on a common lisp project, anyone), but I can imagine that for most programmers that much flexibility may become a source agony, especially if they need to work with other people's code, essentially having to learn (frequently badly?) designed mini languages.

New comment by bluepoint in "Enlightenmentware"

bluepoint — Tue, 21 May 2024 09:13:26 +0000

> Although I’m writing these words in Visual Studio Code, I always have my Emacs open

He is writting the blog's text in Code praising Emacs. Makes me a bit sceptical or am I missing something?

New comment by bluepoint in "Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’"

bluepoint — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:37:55 +0000

The take home and "easy to digest" conclusion is that the proton is a linear superposition of states. The most likely of these states (the ones with highest amplitude) have 3 quarks. The second most likely have 5 quarks. When you make an observation you may see 3 or 5 quarks.

New comment by bluepoint in "Axiom – A scientific computation system"

bluepoint — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:34:13 +0000

I was looking at their documentation:

> For example, Axiom's integrator gives you the answer when an answer exists. If one does not, it provides a proof that there is no answer. Integration is just one of a multitude of symbolic operations that Axiom provides.

What does "an answer exists" in this case? Is axiom able to prove that an integral does not have an answer mathematically, which seems impressive, or just that it can not be found using its own substitucion rules?