Hacker News: cjauvin

What does it mean to create with AI?

cjauvin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:11:17 +0000

Article URL: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/creating-with-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719351

Points: 1

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New comment by cjauvin in "Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies"

cjauvin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:55:44 +0000

For those interested in this type of climate data visualization apps, I have worked on this one in the past, which is actively maintained with a lot of love, and very nice:

https://portraits.ouranos.ca/en

Conveying math intuition is hard

cjauvin — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:38:40 +0000

Article URL: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/conveying-math-intuition-is-hard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298191

Points: 2

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Does ChatGPT know what is a question?

cjauvin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:13:21 +0000

Article URL: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/llm-question-answering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139645

Points: 1

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New comment by cjauvin in "Six Math Essentials"

cjauvin — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:35:46 +0000

Sorry for the stupid question but is Elliptic Tales your favorite or is it Summing it up?

New comment by cjauvin in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

cjauvin — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:58:20 +0000

For "something that is published" (which includes a comment like this) I clearly dislike it too, but for chatting / texting, I realize that I often use it more than my interlocutors, and I'm not sure why. There's a part of lazyness I guess, but also a vague sense of "conveying the impression of a never ending stream of communication", which is closer in my mind to the essence of the chat medium. In French, there is also the additional layer of "using the accents or not".

New comment by cjauvin in "Show HN: I wrapped the Zorks with an LLM"

cjauvin — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:38:21 +0000

Very interesting project! I cannot resist mentioning an old project of mine that was made in a very similar spirit, but way before any LLM: wrapping a classic Lone Wolf gamebook around a very crude text parser: https://projectaon.org/staff/christian/gamebook.js

I had written an entire "framework" for it, in JS (so in theory more books could be supported), but it never went anywhere: https://github.com/cjauvin/gamebook.js

The Sexual Paradise that never was

cjauvin — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:01:13 +0000

Article URL: https://quillette.com/2025/12/30/the-sexual-paradise-that-never-was-margaret-mead-samoa/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455083

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Insurmountable Hans (or the era of turbocharged goalpost moving)

cjauvin — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:03:36 +0000

Article URL: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/insurmountable-hans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46263524

Points: 2

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Some models of reality are bolder than others

cjauvin — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/metaphysical-boldness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46122114

Points: 24

# Comments: 18

New comment by cjauvin in "Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks"

cjauvin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:26:34 +0000

I asked a question about exactly this on Stack Overflow, many years ago, which I think received a nice answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57966935/asyncio-task-vs...

Manifesto: AI (as a term and field) should subsume CS

cjauvin — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:25:23 +0000

Article URL: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/cs-should-become-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047391

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

We didn't get the AI failure modes that philosophy anticipated

cjauvin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:02:26 +0000

Article URL: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/ai-failure-mode/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024057

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Proof of Prompt

cjauvin — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:09:12 +0000

Article URL: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/proof-of-prompt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45704473

Points: 1

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New comment by cjauvin in "Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube"

cjauvin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:39:26 +0000

Author here: my learning objectives, in order of importance, are: (1) vocal understanding, (2) speaking, (3) reading, and (4) typing and writing (far further). As I explain, I'm mostly bypassing the problem of typing by using screenshots (ChatGPT's OCR capabilities are very good, and Anki works very well with it too).

Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

cjauvin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:45:07 +0000

Article URL: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/learning-persian/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359524

Points: 265

# Comments: 90

New comment by cjauvin in "We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof"

cjauvin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:59:28 +0000

Thanks for suggesting it, here you go: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/learning-persian/

New comment by cjauvin in "We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof"

cjauvin — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:15:00 +0000

I've been using ChatGPT to learn Persian (as a third language) for more than a year now (along with a heavy use of Anki), and it's incredibly useful and surprisingly good, for about everything: romanization, OCR from screenshots, deep explanations of complex and subtle stuff, etc.

New comment by cjauvin in "The Ruliology of Lambdas"

cjauvin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:06:57 +0000

Counterpoint: I actually really enjoy his style of writing, which I find clear, patient (you must appreciate visual examples and exploration though) and very often challenging and stimulating (recent examples: the posts about the bigger brains, Conway GoL engineering, and biology / evolution). I find he regularly introduces intriguing and useful ideas, like the distinction between "brain-like" computers (which includes neural networks) and more general, Turing-like mechanisms, and I find his overarching concept of computational irreducibility (even though he didn't invent it) quite profound in its implications. I would add that his posts read like an ambitious research program in progress (like a book written one chapter at a time) and that is why I think certain concepts (like ruliology) may appear obscure at first, if you didn't read a lot of stuff that comes before. One tiny nitpick I have: certain language tics, like the constant use of the "And, yes" pattern (he really uses this a lot I wish someone somehow told him).

New comment by cjauvin in "AI tools are making the world look weird"

cjauvin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:09:18 +0000

One of my greatest pleasure of random walking the internet is building my list of possible next books to read.. thank you for this one!