<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: chadcmulligan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chadcmulligan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:22:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chadcmulligan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chadcmulligan in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>where's it mentioned on that link? I can't seem to find hallucinations (don't worry found it).<p>Yes, sometimes its wrong, most times its right, cross checking is fairly easy, not using it because of the possibility its wrong seems a baby with the bath water thing.<p>I learnt a lot of functional programming from it, stuff I've always wanted to learn, but just didn't have the time and really the sources can be difficult, it really explained things well, and as someone else said in this thread, you can ask questions over and over until you understand, asking a person that (if you can get an expert) would drive them nuts. Maybe my experience isn't typical, its hard to tell, everyone reports something different.</p>
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<p>These animations are great. I have learnt so many things from LLM's, cross checking things is easy enough, but the hallucinations are really not much of a thing any more (in my experience). When you deep dive on things it does seem to get very wordy sometimes (this is claude anyway). Its taught me flutter and dart without opening a book (with the occasional reference page), set me straight on monads finally, refined some linear algebra, various bits of history, and philosophy, I'm learning spinors at the moment. Is some of it wrong - maybe, but it's not like my brain is 100% accurate any way, and when I need accuracy I look up references. It is fantastic getting a broad overview of a subject you don't know or a precis of a current subject, and its so much faster.</p>
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<p>> The state needs to use AI to make bureaucracy instantaneous<p>The stuff of many sci fi tropes - it seldom ends well.<p>A bit OT but there's a character in a couple of frank Herbert books - Jorj X Mckie saboteur extraordinary in the Bureau of Sabotage (BuSab). BuSab is a government agency responsible for conducting dirty tricks "in lieu of red tape" to help slow down and regulate the vast galaxy-spanning bureaucracy.</p>
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<p>My side project so that I can get out of here</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:01:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015896</link><dc:creator>chadcmulligan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chadcmulligan in "Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very cool, did you suggest Rust/Bevy? Claude is always recommending it to me as an exemplar, it does seem nice but moving to rust would be a project. I wonder how it gets these ideas stuck in its pseudo head.</p>
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<p>an SEP - somebody else's problem</p>
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<p>There's an xkcd for everything, I wonder if there's an xkcd for that?</p>
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<p>interesting, probably has something to do with why some people like pair programming. I'm in the visio-spatial-tacit and refuse pair programming because its so much work, but all thinking in words its probably not a stretch.</p>
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<p>Sure, but that has nothing to do with watching the news though, I would put it paying attention to the news actually takes time from things you could do.</p>
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<p>"We should be aware of current events" - should we? Why? There is an avalanche of current events, I've stopped paying attention and I still find out - its impossible to avoid, I see absolutely no value in paying attention to things that I'm just not interested in. War in Iran - yep, battle of the stupids - it just doesn't matter, there is nothing I can do about it, best to ignore it all. I have friends obsessed with the news, wake up in the morning and watch the news during breakfast - they discuss it endlessly, get a lot of angst from it, its all just noise to my mind.</p>
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<p>+1 for La Roche - my daughter has fair sensitive skin and burns easily, its the best she finds (in Australia)</p>
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<p>Phone companies used to be able to listen to all your phone calls, this seems a similar thing?</p>
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<p>It's sort of ruined those movies where the president becomes an action hero though - 'Air Force one', 'White House Down' ....</p>
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<p>I'm not a car guy so please forgive me if this is a dumb question but with electrics do high performance cars even matter any more? Like Tesla had its ludicrous mode years ago, I suppose you'd need decent suspension but if they can churn out that then what do places like Ferrari offer now? apart from the brand I suppose.</p>
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<p>"why do neural networks work better than other models?" That sounds really interesting - any references (for a non specialist)?</p>
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<p>If you dive into Analysis (the underlying theory behind calculus) this book - "How to Think About Analysis" by Lara Alcock is the book I wish I had when I studied it. Calculus by Spivak is the book I learnt from but it is probably not the easiest, it is very thorough though.</p>
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<p>with vampires!</p>
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<p>+1 for Stross, Egan and the Bobiverse - I haven't read the others so will have a look, just wanted to add Stand on Zanzibar by Brunner, if the Bobiverse is there then MurderBot should be to.</p>
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<p>I find myself worrying the AI bubble will pop and we'll lose this aspect of AI's without it ever being properly explored. Instead of doomscrolling now I find myself firing up claude and saying 'explain ... to me' and it proceeds to tell me all about it. I can ask it questions and it seems fairly right - at least right enough for me to proceed, it's way better at this than building code, in my experience anyway.</p>
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<p>Maybe OT - I find Claude Code hit or miss, I spend a lot of time removing dumb code or asking Claude to remove it eg "why do you have a separate..." Claude: "Good catch — there's no real reason...." and so on.<p>Where I find it incredible - learning new things, I recently started flutter/dart dev - I just ask Claude to tell me about the bits, or explaining things to me, it's truly revolutionary imho, I'm building things in flutter after a week without reading a book or manual. It's like a talking encyclopaedia, or having an expert on tap, do many people use it like this? or am I just out of the loop, I always think of Star Trek when I'm doing it. I architected / designed a new system by asking Claude for alternatives and it gave me an option I'd never considered to a problem, it's amazing for this, after all it's read all the books and manuals in the world, it's just a matter of asking the right questions.</p>
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