Hacker News: chorsestudios

New comment by chorsestudios in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

chorsestudios — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:48:59 +0000

To help learn I use LLMs to generate practice exams for whatever I'm trying to learn, then on the questions I struggle with have the LLMs explain the logic and point out my mistakes. I haven't been in college for over a decade, this is just for topics I'm curious about and want to learn. For any serious topic I recommend auditing the practice exams with a different LLM than the one used to generate to help reduce hallucinations. Seems to work well for me. I quite like reading the "thought" processes shown by DeepSeek.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Meta Reassigns 7k Employees to Focus on A.I"

chorsestudios — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:06:30 +0000

Not necessarily a bad thing, I'd rather see attempts at innovation or moonshot ideas than sitting on the cash. These are calculated business moves targeting ideas that have a reasonably high chance of success. Isn't Google's graveyard an example of too much cash chasing too few ideas?

New comment by chorsestudios in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

chorsestudios — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:06:20 +0000

Were you auto-committing everything without reading the generated code? and if you read it but didn't understand it why not just ask for detailed comments for each output? Knowing that a larger codebase causes it to struggle means the output needs to be increasingly scrutinized as it becomes more complex.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

chorsestudios — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:00:28 +0000

People noted similar issues ever since LLMs came out, but the rate at which they have been rapidly improving on all of these is significant. Documentation being 4x too long could probably be fixed with a rule instructing the agent to keep it concise and no longer than 2-3 paragraphs.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Why "everyone dies" gets AGI all wrong"

chorsestudios — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:58:54 +0000

In my mind, the idea of AGI running amok isn't literal, instead what it enables;

Optimizing & simulating war plans, predicting enemy movements/retaliation - prompting which attacks are likely to produce the most collateral damage or political advantage. How large of a bomb? which city for most damage? Should we drop 2?? Choices such as drone striking an oil refinery vs bombing a children's hospital vs blowing up a small boat that might be smuggling narcotics.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Hollow Core Fiber (HCF)"

chorsestudios — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:00:46 +0000

A key detail I found lacking in this article was the manufacturing cost difference. It mentions that it is more expensive, but no indication of how much more expensive.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Ask HN: When will LLMs be able to interrupt or interject?"

chorsestudios — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:22:19 +0000

True, however in the past we didn’t have LLMs. I would pay good money for a Clippy powered by a capable LLM.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites?"

chorsestudios — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 10:26:11 +0000

This practice is referred to as Mithridatism. Snake venom injections will help develop an increased metabolic tolerance, but this not quite the same as developing a vaccine. Bill Haast injected himself for years with gradually increasing quantities of snake venom. His blood was able to be used in place of anti-venom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haast

New comment by chorsestudios in "The Secret Behind Qualcomm's Margins? Patents"

chorsestudios — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 02:54:40 +0000

This particular bump in sales might be attributable to the boom in computer sales resulting from COVID and the surge in WFH.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Ancient stars made extraordinarily heavy elements, researchers find"

chorsestudios — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:32:19 +0000

From [2] “ All natural uranium today contains 0.720% of U-235. If you were to extract it from the Earth’s crust, or from rocks from the moon or in meteorites, that’s what you would find. But that bit of rock from Oklo contained only 0.717%.”

I find it interesting that the .003% difference in U-235 was a large enough deviation to attract attention to Oklo. Thanks for the link

New comment by chorsestudios in "New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics"

chorsestudios — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:50:16 +0000

That article linked does not completely rule out MOND. It is a great article, but it even mentions several difficulties that complicate their observations.

New comment by chorsestudios in "How much it costs Apple to increase RAM size in Macs?"

chorsestudios — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 22:00:46 +0000

Thank you for this information, exactly what I was looking for

New comment by chorsestudios in "How much it costs Apple to increase RAM size in Macs?"

chorsestudios — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:49:10 +0000

Is this statement true? In this die shot of the M1 Max the RAM appears to be integrated into the SoC

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/17019/M1MAX.jpg

New comment by chorsestudios in "What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)"

chorsestudios — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:16:05 +0000

Or perhaps it is more evidence that a variant of MOND theory is responsible for our observations and there is no dark matter.

New comment by chorsestudios in "The MacBook Air M2 is so good it's given Apple a problem"

chorsestudios — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 05:28:41 +0000

I'm not sure this is a fair comparison. The M2 was manufactured using the considerably more expensive N5P technology node. The 28nm cpu in the rasperry pi 4 was designed using a value node specifically to drive down price / transistor. EUV lithography is extraordinarily expensive so paying a premium for it seems appropriate.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Dropbox axes unlimited cloud storage for businesses"

chorsestudios — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:08:06 +0000

They could also add a clause to the ToS prohibiting specific activities, but instead it appears they are just cancelling the service entirely.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time"

chorsestudios — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:07:37 +0000

Thank you for this article link, I found it much more informative than the parent article. The video at the bottom was well made.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time"

chorsestudios — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:51:43 +0000

These ‘monster’ gravitational waves have supposedly been ‘spotted’ by calculating disparities in pulsar timings. The article didn’t have as much information as I was hoping - were any of these waves detected/confirmed by LIGO?

New comment by chorsestudios in "Pinball is booming in America"

chorsestudios — Tue, 16 May 2023 18:45:03 +0000

Stern Pinball still manufactures new pinball machines with new table designs.

New comment by chorsestudios in "Windows 11 in Svelte"

chorsestudios — Thu, 11 May 2023 06:42:43 +0000

In the About section on the Github page the following link to a vercel app is provided: win11-svelte.vercel.app