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New comment by crisbal_ in "Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI"

crisbal_ — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:44:21 +0000

I use the following for feeding into AI

   find . -print -exec cat {} \; -exec echo \;

Which will return for each file (and subfolders) the filename and then the content of the file.

Then `| pbcopy` to copy to clipboard and paste it into ChatGPT or similar.

New comment by crisbal_ in "Swiss evoting system – IsProbablePrime is incorrect for input 19"

crisbal_ — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 08:08:38 +0000

> big company

Isn't it the Swiss post?

New comment by crisbal_ in "Trianglify.io – Low Poly Pattern Generator"

crisbal_ — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:07:40 +0000

Well, apparently there is. Just press export and you will find it costs 8$.

New comment by crisbal_ in "How to create a dashboard in Python with Jupyter Notebook"

crisbal_ — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:57:41 +0000

How does this compare to Voila from the Jupyter team? ( https://voila.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html )

New comment by crisbal_ in "NaNoGenMo - Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel"

crisbal_ — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:46:17 +0000

A few days ago I discovered this initiative that I found very interesting and fun: during the month on November you have to develop a program to generate a novel of around 50k words. This is the 7th edition of the event.

I started reading the dev-logs (GitHub issues) of the past editions and discovered some great novels both in term of technology involved and also content.

Some gems:

* MARYSUE (https://github.com/catseye/MARYSUE), which aims to create an interesting novel with a plot and everything else (and the related write-up "A story compiler" (https://git.catseye.tc/MARYSUE/blob/master/doc/Overview%20of...)

* LIFE OF THE AZAR (https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/39), an archive/enciclopedia of some sort of an imaginary city of a couple of thousands of citizens describing the people, their relationships, events that happens in the city and much more

* THE DESERT OF THE WEST (https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/156), a generated guide of imaginary worlds together with a map generation alghoritm with rivers and erosion (http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/) and a generator for city names based on natural language theories (http://mewo2.com/notes/naming-language/)

* MEOW (https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/50) meow meow meeeooow mew

Some projects are based on Neural Networks, some on Markov Chains, some on simulations, some on Tracery grammars (https://tracery.io/), some on Prolog, some on "plain" text processing and some on a mix of all of these. (I found an overview of the approaches for the 2016 edition here https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2016/issues/154)

I find all of this very fascinating and might start my own adventure with text generation in the next days.

NaNoGenMo - Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel

crisbal_ — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:46:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2019/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21506889

Points: 2

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New comment by crisbal_ in "Show HN: HN Notify.xyz – Subscribe to Your HN Replies"

crisbal_ — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 15:50:57 +0000

Beware, since your main div has the "newsletter-subscribe" class, it gets gidden by uBlock Origin and the website is unusable.

New comment by crisbal_ in "Reddit is Down"

crisbal_ — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:11:00 +0000

It's just planned maintenance.

New comment by crisbal_ in "Reinforcement Learning – Bandit Problems"

crisbal_ — Mon, 07 May 2018 06:52:13 +0000

As someone who is doing his bachelor thesis on Reinforcement Learning this is some useful information.

OT (but not really) question: does anyone here use Reinforcement Learning techniques at work? For the thesis I am working on black-box optimization of 2 variable functions with Reinforcement Learning (and comparing it with Bayesian Optimization techniques).

As someone else suggested the Sutton & Barto book is really great knowledge but I would also like to suggest these lessons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0) by David Silver (who worked on AlphaGo)

New comment by crisbal_ in "Emoji in SQL – Using Emoji as SQL Identifiers"

crisbal_ — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:46:29 +0000

There is not a single reason to try this in production, or even for a side project.

New comment by crisbal_ in "Emoji in SQL – Using Emoji as SQL Identifiers"

crisbal_ — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:26:57 +0000

Hello, author here. Sorry if I am posting from a new account but I forgot the password to my old one (crisbal) and I didn't set a recovery email.

Let me know if you have any question.

Emoji in SQL – Using Emoji as SQL Identifiers

crisbal_ — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:25:59 +0000

Article URL: http://baldi.me/blog/emoji-in-sql

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14637516

Points: 4

# Comments: 4