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New comment by efangs in "A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine"

efangs — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:30:38 +0000

exactly, thank you

New comment by efangs in "A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine"

efangs — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:29:49 +0000

how is this new? evolutionary heuristics have been around for a long time. why give it a new name?

New comment by efangs in "Accidentally writing a SAT solver"

efangs — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:24:47 +0000

sorry this is not fast

New comment by efangs in "OpenAI o1 system card"

efangs — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:41:54 +0000

This is dumb because it's literally doing what it has been instructed to do, as well as given access to means to carry out those actions. Just another hype mechanism for OpenAI.

New comment by efangs in "13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted"

efangs — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:07:53 +0000

From my experience, pihole is very easy to setup for this use case: https://pi-hole.net/

New comment by efangs in "PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium"

efangs — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:52:32 +0000

everyone should just have a pihole

New comment by efangs in "America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not a Coincidence"

efangs — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:42:56 +0000

OK explain to me why I have to book a campsite 6 months in advance

New comment by efangs in "How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole"

efangs — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 23:26:54 +0000

I feel like this is missing a "know when it's time to call it quits" section.

New comment by efangs in "Show HN: Practice Job Interview with ChatGPT API"

efangs — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 04:42:17 +0000

fun tool, but tbh I found it frustrating right out of the gate. It felt like being stuck in an infinite loop. https://practiceinterview.co/interview/330?key=36a0893b-6a2b...

New comment by efangs in "Ask HN: Is it normal to be ghosted for senior position job interviews?"

efangs — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:35:06 +0000

You might want to check your timezone settings.

New comment by efangs in "Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?"

efangs — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:07:12 +0000

Yes

New comment by efangs in "Cloudflare's Disruption"

efangs — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:52:47 +0000

I was with the article until this final point about integrated solutions. I see the argument around data lock-in, but integration is typically non-trivial unless it's coming from the same provider. Plus, I'm certain cloudflare would equally love to provide more services in an integrated way.

New comment by efangs in "Launch HN: Navattic (YC W21) – Shareable demos for selling your SaaS product"

efangs — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:26:12 +0000

In your demo, I got to the point of "Click Metrics to continue...", and "Metrics" was unclickable: https://imgur.com/a/i5LWFaa

I'm using FireFox 86.0 on MacOS 11.2 (Apple M1 chip).

New comment by efangs in "Introducing dbt + Materialize"

efangs — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 22:50:27 +0000

Is it possible to backfill a materialized view? I'm maybe confused, but does this potentially replace a traditional data lake or is it specifically for streaming applications?

New comment by efangs in "OpenAI LP"

efangs — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:28:37 +0000

We the OpenAI board have decided it would benefit all humanity for us to claim 100x profits.

New comment by efangs in "Google Docs gets an API for task automation"

efangs — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:16:21 +0000

This will be nice until they take it away...

New comment by efangs in "Show HN: Convert a Markdown Doc to WordPress Posts and Pages"

efangs — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:15:15 +0000

Is it? How many hours for you to set up something similar, and then what do you get paid per hour?

New comment by efangs in "New research a ‘breakthrough for large-scale discrete optimization’"

efangs — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 16:20:23 +0000

Ah ok, yeah TBH I didn't read the article, but was guessing from the headline this is what they meant since in exponentially scaling problems theres always room at the top (unless explicitly proven otherwise).

New comment by efangs in "New research a ‘breakthrough for large-scale discrete optimization’"

efangs — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 12:20:19 +0000

Title could also be "Researchers find a better heuristic for a class of exponentially scaling problems."

There's no claim to have changed the complexity class, so"exponentially faster" just means the problem is still exponentially in problem size, but the exponent is smaller.

From the looks of it, though, it is a nice result because it has pretty wide applicability.

New comment by efangs in "AI and Compute"

efangs — Wed, 16 May 2018 22:45:08 +0000

This plot essentially ignores all other computational science. People in HPC have been operating at these scales for awhile, and yet don't make claims about their field taking over the world.