Hacker News: evancoop

New comment by evancoop in "Show HN: PromptToolkit – A Tool to Search and Submit ChatGPT Commands"

evancoop — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:55:19 +0000

I built PromptToolbox to collect prompts in a table that help guide ChatGPT conversations. I’ve included a list of prompts that can be used to customize conversations for different scenarios. Users can also add their own prompts to the table. This tool is intended to make it easier to create conversations with ChatGPT by providing a way to quickly find and customize the right prompt. I'm open to feedback and suggestions on how to improve it.

Show HN: PromptToolkit – A Tool to Search and Submit ChatGPT Commands

evancoop — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:52:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.prompttoolkit.com/chatgpt-gpt3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33927502

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by evancoop in "Seven Levels of Busy"

evancoop — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:57:22 +0000

And sorry I could not pull them both / And build one module, long I sat ...

New comment by evancoop in "Seven Levels of Busy"

evancoop — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:18:53 +0000

These pings annoy me, night and day, Incessant asks without delay, And lines to code to earn my pay... And lines to code to earn my pay.

New comment by evancoop in "Mistake Post: sorry, @dang plz delete this"

evancoop — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:05:37 +0000

If I gave this much thought to my weekly poker game, I might fare better.

Mistake Post: sorry, @dang plz delete this

evancoop — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:05:37 +0000

Article URL: https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tk2HbxfKNl4xxz38szfcmvYqM1TYAEp3b7yGpBSSDoQ/edit&dsh=S-284575683:1667934346042960&flowEntry=ServiceLogin&followup=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tk2HbxfKNl4xxz38szfcmvYqM1TYAEp3b7yGpBSSDoQ/edit&ifkv=ARgdvAu0sh7iN-i-JUdKhNgPgKkYtQdxZomAbTxPJIypowd-B7QK--rTQ2LvUVJR7ij2WWy6AiGj<mpl=docs&nojavascript=1&osid=1&service=wise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33522897

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Data Scientists Take on Brain Computer Interfaces [audio]

evancoop — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 21:31:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.increasinghumanagency.com/episodes/bci-trends

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33001375

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Should I Risk Getting Covid?

evancoop — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:57:36 +0000

I built “Should I get COVID” as a casual way to help people decide how long to isolate, because there’s always a debate about whether it’s worth it to lock yourself in your home for a few months or whether the decrease in quality of life for that time justifies taking your chances.

It’s a simple calculator with reductive assumptions that spits out how many quality-adjusted life years you risk by being reckless/cautious (or lose by hiding away). Also if my math is wrong, please let me know, I definitely didn’t have this peer reviewed.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32829453

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by evancoop in "Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years"

evancoop — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:50:42 +0000

Seems like, in aggregate, the question is whether adding variance to outcomes is net positive or negative?

Some students will receive multiple consecutive years of excellent instruction, others will receive multiple consecutive years of subpar instruction. Does the upside contain innovation and social mobility? Does the downside contain increased disillusionment with school and education broadly?

We pull the goalie when the odds are against us and increased variance is desirable. Is this such a case? Sadly, it may be.

New comment by evancoop in "The AI Unbundling"

evancoop — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:45:07 +0000

Why does this simply threaten artists? At what point is code a type of creative expression? When are the IDEA for a novel technology and the chops to implement equally viable applications of AI?

Artists are losing today, but why are they in any way more vulnerable? They just seem to be next on the chopping block.

Show HN: Hacker News Lite – I made a less distracting version of HN

evancoop — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:38:18 +0000

Sometimes UI can be distracting and I’ve found that I’m most focused when able to focus completely on the content on a page. I built HN Lite as a chrome extension to hide all information that isn’t vital to see. It removes excess navigation, usernames, saving/reporting features, upvotes, voting tools, account access, and styling.

Essentially it’s a lurker’s tool. Almost entirely built around content consumption and exploration. Although it desperately needs dark mode.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596258

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by evancoop in "Show HN: Quick Rewire – I made web tool to rewire your brain"

evancoop — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:05:50 +0000

Can someone rewire my brain to be hyper-efficient when clicking through articles on HN and dreadfully-inefficient if my mind wanders to fantasy sports?

New comment by evancoop in "Rules for Weird Ideas"

evancoop — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 21:32:03 +0000

I suppose, if the definition of "weird" is loosely-related to "low probability of truth" or "wildly deviant from existing orthodoxy," the highest-upside ideas would seem to be "weird."

In that vein, the question is how many "weird" ideas can your portfolio of time and money afford at any point?

New comment by evancoop in "The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism"

evancoop — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 02:11:20 +0000

The NYT is taking a swing at longtermism, the New Yorker is taking a swing at effective altruism, and this begs for a little numerical reasoning on the topic. If we must consider every life (even distant lives), and most lives haven't been lived yet, and most lives not yet lived will enjoy a higher quality of life than we do (rational optimism), doesn't protecting THOSE lives trump everything else?

https://ae.studio/blog/most-lives-havent-been-lived-yet#pg

Show HN: Hacker Who’s? – Replace HN usernames with question marks

evancoop — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:56:44 +0000

Hey HN! Anonymity can really shape how people interact with each other, and HN is no exception. After reading PG’s mention of changing some users colors to orange, and the decision to revert back ( http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html ) , we thought it’d be great to take that to the next level. “Hacker Who’s?” replaces HN usernames with question marks.

This is one of a collection of HN mods that we’ve been working on, and I’ve found this one to have a decent amount of lasting value.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32243157

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by evancoop in "The best data scientists will never win a Kaggle competition"

evancoop — Tue, 10 May 2022 14:57:48 +0000

A skilled data scientist is likely to perform reasonably well on Kaggle...but are they the type who is likely to WIN?

The best data scientists will never win a Kaggle competition

evancoop — Tue, 10 May 2022 14:57:47 +0000

Article URL: https://ae.studio/blog/kaggle-masters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327886

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by evancoop in "Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private"

evancoop — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:06:49 +0000

Bezos buys the Washington Post, Musk buys Twitter...Now we need to long for the world where megalomaniacal billionaires just bought football teams?

New comment by evancoop in "I stopped advertising and nothing happened"

evancoop — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 17:07:46 +0000

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half."

- John Wanamaker

New comment by evancoop in "I decided that I must live my life on my terms"

evancoop — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:53:26 +0000

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

― Bob Dylan

I aspire to this and to help others do the same.