Hacker News: goldfeld

New comment by goldfeld in "Slow and steady, this poem will win your heart"

goldfeld — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:13:13 +0000

I think maybe the reason is more arbitrary, as here look at this 90s author's symbolism, it's not just the old classics that are readable in-depth; contemporary style etc

New comment by goldfeld in "Slow and steady, this poem will win your heart"

goldfeld — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:08:14 +0000

> until i slowed down

Maybe the poem has a message

New comment by goldfeld in "Show HN: Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network"

goldfeld — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:11:37 +0000

What if our todo list/commits/issue tracker could affect the blob and bloat could kill him? no?

This might also see a long shelf life, say, as familiars of fantasy rpgs, as pets from a fictionalized world-building narrative online; I guess it could be so for any LLM in principle, but the basic Sims-like gamification behind a tamagotchi seems like a solid foundation for those usecases.

New comment by goldfeld in "Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit"

goldfeld — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:13:02 +0000

My own markov chains follow up "until he" with fundamentally distinct follow-ups.

New comment by goldfeld in "UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed"

goldfeld — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:36:37 +0000

And here I was genuinely under the impression it was about some startup's stack, way these news go, maybe british unicorns are perforce dinosaurs..

New comment by goldfeld in "Sora is here"

goldfeld — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:55:39 +0000

If you use it in a utilitarian way it'll give you a run for your money, if you use for expression, such as art, learning to embrace some serendipity, it makes good stuff.

New comment by goldfeld in "In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse"

goldfeld — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:09:45 +0000

But the tome's weight is borne up by the table, whereas throwing any light in your face will affect your eyes. Possibly dawn and twilight gazing are quite beneficial.

New comment by goldfeld in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

goldfeld — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:21:01 +0000

Yes, those bills should be paid out by the state such as happens in developed countries like Brazil.

New comment by goldfeld in "Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)"

goldfeld — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:49:42 +0000

The author of GEB is a phenomenal writer, an old-style researcher who knew his greek, and the book for me is more interesting in its commentary on literature, and psychology, approaching themes of say, Foucault.

I don't know about the work's true impact on AI or tech languages, but it's a masterpiece of criticism, analysis and penmanship.

New comment by goldfeld in "Research in psychology: are we learning anything?"

goldfeld — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:10:41 +0000

Psychology is not inherently treated as soft, it's jusst that its human element attracts intuitive people much more than rational ones. If nore rationally minded people took up the study and research of psychology fields, more hard stuff would come to the front, although soft stuff is hardly behind in intelligence.

New comment by goldfeld in "Do AI companies work?"

goldfeld — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:28:14 +0000

No, clearly, AIs do all the work for them.

New comment by goldfeld in "Screenpipe: 24/7 local AI screen and mic recording"

goldfeld — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:24:34 +0000

If really it is to become widespread it means we as society really got completely lost in the fold. It would be an act of defeat of the human element. But the magnates gonna love it.

New comment by goldfeld in "Screenpipe: 24/7 local AI screen and mic recording"

goldfeld — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:21:01 +0000

Potentially.. I'd say absolutely leaking sensitive information.

New comment by goldfeld in "Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those that don't cooperate"

goldfeld — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:34:44 +0000

But octopi is also trying to be pedantically latin, octopodes though it could be pedantic is at least correct, and entirely descriptive. In practice I wouldn't expect someone to say octopi to my face, but writing weird words online is another matter.

New comment by goldfeld in "The Intelligence Age"

goldfeld — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:22:39 +0000

I see how AI is used today and extrapolate. A lot. Everything in tech is extrapolation with the march of capital. It takes one to know one; rather it takes a smart ass to wield a smart tool. So the smart get smarter.

Is it a separate phenomenon, in the big picture, from the rich getting richer, from the monopolies over means of production?

Not sure, but I see as well that the dumb will surely get dumber; that "intelligence" will be a product of using intelligent humans' means of production, and not owning them of course, but being owned in the process. Populations will be literally made lighter of their smarts, outsourcing intelligence to agents out of general control (classic bait and switch.) Since AI feel my own process getting more clueless as I go, I'd better conclude somehow.

I see the Age of Ignorance ahead, there was once an Enlightenment, and here light takes on its other side or meaning, the workers being enlightened, to wit, made lighter of their horrible burden which is intelligence and its obnoxious demands of upkeep. Just pay someone for upkeep and stop messing with wet messy neurons already, says the technocrat to the cheerful mob.

New comment by goldfeld in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

goldfeld — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:24:59 +0000

Possibly the pagers had to have a popular brand to "work as designed", and this brand was up for sale, but declares it won't admit this to the real customers.

New comment by goldfeld in "Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math"

goldfeld — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:07:18 +0000

Obviously, physics never creates any math but discovers it, there are no new things under the sun.

New comment by goldfeld in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

goldfeld — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:34:19 +0000

I wouldn't consider your months spent on it in any way wasted, even if you have native critics, it's a kind of ad-hoc anthropological resource that you add to the pool of tools available in the web, and on the long run I think it will have a good impact.

Thanks for your review also and yes it's still early days, tons to do but of the fun type. I'll look into Manitoba as I have relatives which may be related to the cultures you mentioned, thank you!

When you say syllabics it reminds me of syllabaries (?) of mesopotamian languages and hieroglyphs, but I guess it's just the terms sounding alike.

New comment by goldfeld in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

goldfeld — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:15:55 +0000

Yes it is right up my hacking alley. I'm working too with two-way asymmetric conversions between languages/charsets as noted in this thread. It's interesting to have such a niche tech challenge associated with your ethnic group of languages. In Manitoba are any of those spoken?

New comment by goldfeld in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

goldfeld — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:14:31 +0000

Then congrats all the more on this work, I had assumed a motivation from attachment also. As for the tech stacks and langs yeah they're fun, but I meant in how abstract Inuktitut looks, I guess the human language in the loop is the real meat of the problem and of the "working with".