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New comment by dennis_moore in "Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans"

dennis_moore — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:07:24 +0000

Cultural learning has definitely been observed in animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_culture

New comment by dennis_moore in "Printf debugging is ok"

dennis_moore — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 05:59:23 +0000

Ah yes, it can be quite fun chasing down heisenbugs like that, half sarcastically :)

New comment by dennis_moore in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

dennis_moore — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:51:14 +0000

> One is that math nerds at school insisted on intimidating for the win and I just hated it.

For me the worst part was the teachers that encouraged that behavior and did the same.

New comment by dennis_moore in "Tetris shows promise in reducing PTSD symptoms"

dennis_moore — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:50:11 +0000

Could the conclusions generalize to other types of anxiety such as GAD or OCD?

New comment by dennis_moore in "Twenty Years of Valgrind (2022)"

dennis_moore — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:47:13 +0000

Which profilers in particular are you referring to because I've always thought that Callgrind is a profiler? perf?

New comment by dennis_moore in "AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead"

dennis_moore — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 08:07:23 +0000

It works until it doesn't at which point you have a massive, useless pile of uninterpretable garbage.

New comment by dennis_moore in "Show HN: Wikipedia and Llama 3 70B"

dennis_moore — Mon, 27 May 2024 14:36:33 +0000

This is great: I like both the concept and how responsive the implementation is. Please consider open sourcing it.

New comment by dennis_moore in "Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”"

dennis_moore — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:03:16 +0000

> A canonical list of references from a leading figure would be appreciated by many.

That confirms the opposite, no?

New comment by dennis_moore in "Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”"

dennis_moore — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:01:17 +0000

I failed to find any evidence that this person is an OpenAI employee, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

New comment by dennis_moore in "You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it"

dennis_moore — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:54:36 +0000

> “if I didn’t chose to do it you cannot be angry at me."

Yes I can, because I didn't choose to be angry either.

New comment by dennis_moore in "Free MIT Course: Performance Engineering of Software Systems"

dennis_moore — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:01:09 +0000

I think that the term "software system" can have a much broader meaning than the one you are using here.

New comment by dennis_moore in "How will AI learn next?"

dennis_moore — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:38:13 +0000

Not sure if raw data size is a good metric. One usually gains more information by reading a book than watching a movie.

New comment by dennis_moore in "How Wittgenstein Watched Movies"

dennis_moore — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:07:28 +0000

I was not advocating for "online slacktivism", I was merely giving my opinion of what rules or laws ought to be introduced to the effect, akin to copyright laws or open-source licenses (it is not "online activism" to give correct attribution according to the terms of a license). Shouldn't we be able to have this debate, or do you think that this decision-making should be confined to policymakers?

New comment by dennis_moore in "How Wittgenstein Watched Movies"

dennis_moore — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:13:43 +0000

This made me think that we, as a society, ought to have some sort of convention to mark AI-generated images as such, like a small watermarked symbol in a corner.

UK readers may lose access to Wikipedia amid online safety bill requirements

dennis_moore — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:13:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/28/uk-readers-may-lose-access-to-wikipedia-amid-online-safety-bill-requirements

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35745050

Points: 18

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New comment by dennis_moore in "PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum (2007)"

dennis_moore — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:39:37 +0000

Shut up and calculate!

New comment by dennis_moore in "X64 Cheat Sheet (2019) [pdf]"

dennis_moore — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:40:16 +0000

"To call a function, the program should place the first six integer or pointer parameters in the registers %rdi, %rsi, %rdx, %rcx, %r8, and %r9." This sounds like System V, hence GCC.

Ransomware hunters: the self-taught tech geniuses fighting cybercrime

dennis_moore — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:48:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/04/ransomware-hunters-the-self-taught-tech-geniuses-fighting-cybercrime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083996

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dennis_moore in "New photographs of Jupiter's moon, Europa"

dennis_moore — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:26:57 +0000

But now I'm curious to know which quotes you're referring to...

New comment by dennis_moore in "Ask HN: Good intro to group theory book"

dennis_moore — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:31:41 +0000

If you're looking for an accessible introduction/overview, try Contemporary Abstract Algebra by Joseph A. Gallian. It also includes lots of applications, some of which are relevant to cryptography.