Hacker News: bob88jg

New comment by bob88jg in "Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization"

bob88jg — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 08:15:22 +0000

So it's a plain vanilla ABM with lots of human crafted interaction logic? So they are making outrageous claims - since they are making it sound like it's all spontaneously arising from the interaction of LLMs...

New comment by bob88jg in "Greppability is an underrated code metric"

bob88jg — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:20:09 +0000

Which of his suggestions would "make the city stop working"?

New comment by bob88jg in "Greppability is an underrated code metric"

bob88jg — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:29:38 +0000

Nah, you've got it backwards. The article isn't about dodging understanding - it's about making it way easier to spot patterns in your code. And that's exactly how you start to really get what's going on under the hood. Better searching = faster learning. It's like having a good map when you're exploring a new city

New comment by bob88jg in "Show HN: CeLLama – Single cell annotation with local LLMs"

bob88jg — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:33:53 +0000

Can anyone explain how an LLM is useful here? The clustering is done traditionally right? Then the llm is given the centroids and asked to give a label? Assumption being that the llm corpus already contained some mapping from gene up/down regulations to clusters of differentiation?

New comment by bob88jg in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

bob88jg — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:42:15 +0000

He literally started the UK side of the persecution - starmer is a cop, always has been always will be....

New comment by bob88jg in "Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?"

bob88jg — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:19:23 +0000

Nobody is being cut off from anywhere - their route is being made longer in order to avoid residential areas - their journeys would be quicker if they walked they just don't want to...and that is the point highly polluting journeys are being disincentivised...if you absolutely must drive then you need to set off earlier this isn't an attack on people's civil liberties you have no right to drive somewhere..

New comment by bob88jg in "Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?"

bob88jg — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:14:16 +0000

Exactly this! It all boils down to people being pissed that their car journey in London takes longer than it used to - nobody is actually being blocked from getting anywhere just their route is being changed - somehow this has been wrapped up in the 15 minute conspiracy...

New comment by bob88jg in "Original Pirate Material"

bob88jg — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:01:32 +0000

Tbh I was not including the second one in the poo - I think the 1st and 2nd albums are both equally good in their own ways!

New comment by bob88jg in "Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?"

bob88jg — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 12:57:14 +0000

Fascist! How dare you suggest I shouldn't ever go further than 15 minutes to access necessary resources to live my life! It's my god given right to spend at least an hour in traffic to get to the doctors...

/s there is actually a whole movement of people in the UK that beleive the very idea of a 15 minute city is a conspiracy to limit their freedoms...

New comment by bob88jg in "Original Pirate Material"

bob88jg — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:03:22 +0000

This is what I clicked on this link for - a masterpiece shame later albums all got a bit poo

New comment by bob88jg in "Neural network training makes beautiful fractals"

bob88jg — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:07:59 +0000

That's not what it shows at all - it shows how varying hyper parameters (which are floats and thus can be set at any arbitary precision) effects the speed at which convergence happens - so its some function F: R^n -> Z - it has literally nothing to do with the nodes in the neural network...

New comment by bob88jg in "Neural network training makes beautiful fractals"

bob88jg — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:29:12 +0000

Same can be said for the madelbtot set or any other fractal - there is a physical bound on the precision of the values - you can in theory run a NN with arbitary precision floats...

New comment by bob88jg in "Neural network training makes beautiful fractals"

bob88jg — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:15:32 +0000

"small changes in the hyperparameters can lead to large changes in training dynamics"

This is the definition of Chaos though no? Butterfly flaps its wings, hurricane on other side of the planet...

New comment by bob88jg in "Neural network training makes beautiful fractals"

bob88jg — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:13:52 +0000

Thanks!! I was also under the impression Fractals required self similarity and not just infinite detail but glad to have that misconception corrected!

I think it probably stems from the fact that all the fractals, I have seen, for which the dimension can be analytically calculated do show obvious patterns of similarity at different scales.

New comment by bob88jg in "Neural network training makes beautiful fractals"

bob88jg — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:10:07 +0000

This is what I Initially thought too but I am less certain now - I assumed Fractal implied self similarity (which this doesn't seem to have) but this is in fact not true - I think to actually say if its fractal or not someone needs to estimate its dimension using box counting or some, way beyond me, analytical method.

New comment by bob88jg in "Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds"

bob88jg — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:37:03 +0000

It's not the financial cost of the time that's important it's the time itself - it's the requirement to completely go against my internal body clock to be at a location by a socially determined starting time - I start working at 10am usually - from home that means I can get up at 8.30 perhaps- to be in an office that means 6.30 am - I don't want to wake up at that time...

New comment by bob88jg in "Sit."

bob88jg — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:29:39 +0000

I suffer from extreme time blindness and one apparent solution to this is to have a regular metronome like pulse - I would love an app for say a smart watch or something that did this with vibrations!

New comment by bob88jg in "You do need a technical co-founder [video]"

bob88jg — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:23:08 +0000

I assumed he got some $$$ - but did he want to be removed or did you tell him he was no longer needed? Was he just as sure that he was no longer needed as u were?

New comment by bob88jg in "You do need a technical co-founder [video]"

bob88jg — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:14:31 +0000

What so the person who "provided a lot of value in getting us to where we are" got ditched in the end? Is that your story? Use people and then chuck them to the curb once everything u need has been extracted?

New comment by bob88jg in "Show HN: YCombinato – A domain-hacked "Hacker News" client"

bob88jg — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 12:40:39 +0000

But ycombinator don't "sell" HN do they? So no infringement...no customers...