Hacker News: brain_elisionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brain_elisionHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:06:26 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by brain_elision in "High-Tech salaries in Israel take nosedive in April"]]>All models are wrong but some are useful

I wonder who this is useful for

]]>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 17:15:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40891734brain_elisionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40891734https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40891734<![CDATA[New comment by brain_elision in "RHttp: REPL for HTTP"]]>Yea TUI never sat well with me since the whole point of CLI over GUI applications is that you have control over the interface that doesn't require changing the source/using an extension system. TUI applications is like a step in-between GUI and CLI that I feel isn't necessary.

]]>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:16:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40077118brain_elisionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40077118https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40077118<![CDATA[New comment by brain_elision in "Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project"]]>One of the first things software engineers learn is that people are bad at manually building models/programming.

The language and image models weren't built by people but by observing an obscene amount people going about their daily lives of producing text and images.

]]>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:14:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076501brain_elisionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076501https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076501<![CDATA[New comment by brain_elision in "Create More, Consume Less (2021)"]]>I would agree if this was about creation for the sake of currency. My take from the article is that this is about creation for the same purpose as why we consume

]]>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:48:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680183brain_elisionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680183https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680183