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New comment by haskellandchill in "The First Fully General Computer Action Model"

haskellandchill — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:09:54 +0000

I thought it was a good write up but did anyone catch the ending comment?

> We believe artificial general intelligence will be created within our lifetimes, and likely within the next decade.

Maybe within our lifetimes (if you are young) but I find it highly unlikely within the next decade.

US cancer research might never recover from proposed Trump funding cuts

haskellandchill — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 01:15:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(25)00414-0/fulltext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44773284

Points: 13

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Meta dishes out $250M to lure 24-year-old AI whiz kid

haskellandchill — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:55:51 +0000

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/business/meta-pays-250m-to-lure-24-year-old-ai-whiz-kid-we-have-reached-the-climax-of-revenge-of-the-nerds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763714

Points: 26

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Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates

haskellandchill — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:05:54 +0000

Article URL: https://ifspp.substack.com/p/data-on-how-america-sold-out-its

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44601096

Points: 77

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New comment by haskellandchill in "I want to leave tech: what do I do?"

haskellandchill — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:39:34 +0000

tech to med school pipeline, don't recommend it but I'm happy

New comment by haskellandchill in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

haskellandchill — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:37:01 +0000

proud owner of a financed 2024 manual nissan versa here :) but yeah the dealership made almost no money and I put down a deposit when it was a couple months from coming in at a location far from where I live. it's a $20k car though.

New comment by haskellandchill in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

haskellandchill — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 02:05:54 +0000

It's not just one unpaid intern with long term memory loss, it's several of them. And they don't need breaks.

If you could hire an army of unpaid interns with long term memory loss who work 24/7, would you?

New comment by haskellandchill in "Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffolding for lens"

haskellandchill — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:50:48 +0000

From your link

> Many studies have shown the incidence of repair procedures and worse final vision outcomes were higher in groups with autoimmune conditions (SJS, OCP). The difference in outcomes appears to be related to the degree and cumulative past period of inflammation. Overall most favorable outcomes are achieved in non-cicatrizing conditions, followed by ocular burns and OCP with the worst outcomes in SJS patients.

The patient in the article was a SJS patient

> The massage therapist says he could see just fine until he was 13 years old, when he took some ibuprofen after a school basketball game, triggering a rare auto-immune reaction known as Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

New comment by haskellandchill in "A Return to Polymathy (2015) [pdf]"

haskellandchill — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:02:54 +0000

For those without means understanding is a luxury, for many with, it is merely aesthetic. Matching drive with opportunity could unlock humanistic discovery but it is far more likely to be done artificially given the way we organize our societies.

Modern Mathematics (Pre-Print) Cutting-edge math for today's coder

haskellandchill — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:34:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.artima.com/shop/modern_mathematics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281835

Points: 50

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New comment by haskellandchill in "Data showing the 2024 tech job market is far stronger than 2023"

haskellandchill — Fri, 24 May 2024 15:33:21 +0000

I gave up a while ago and started on the path to becoming a doctor. I'm pretty happy about it except for the 10 years until I make what I used to part.

New comment by haskellandchill in "Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review"

haskellandchill — Tue, 21 May 2024 01:40:32 +0000

Not really. I had projects like that at Georgia Tech, I know Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, etc have similar.

New comment by haskellandchill in "Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review"

haskellandchill — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:40:06 +0000

Active learning and problem selection is what I came to as well going through the literature. I was thinking of teaching algorithm design by having students build their own algorithm laboratory where they create visualizations and experiments that motivate interest in problems and the design of solutions.

New comment by haskellandchill in "Show HN: LLM-Powered Infinite Test Prep for SAT, MCAT, LSAT, DMV, GMAT"

haskellandchill — Sat, 11 May 2024 13:51:41 +0000

Hm this seems potentially dangerous, doing MCAT practice I got:

  Which of the following is NOT a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system?

  serotonin
  glutamate
  acetylcholine
  dopamine

  Neurotransmitters in the central nervous system include serotonin, glutamate, and dopamine. Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter in the peripheral nervous system.

However this is wrong. Acetylcholine is both a PNS and CNS neurotransmitter. The rest are also CNS neurotransmitters.

Here is an example of a real question that is similar but accurate: https://quizlet.com/explanations/questions/which-of-the-foll...

New comment by haskellandchill in "A useful productivity measure?"

haskellandchill — Fri, 10 May 2024 00:26:57 +0000

You can say whatever you want, there are studies backing up the beneficial impact of quantitative over qualitative.

New comment by haskellandchill in "A useful productivity measure?"

haskellandchill — Mon, 06 May 2024 16:02:10 +0000

It’s really not unquantifiable. I read “How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk” and it was an eye opener. Using a table of risks and outcomes with associated probabilities and 90% confidence intervals of dollar impacts we can quantify categories of technical debt.

New comment by haskellandchill in "A useful productivity measure?"

haskellandchill — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:55:37 +0000

The problem is the muda should have expected values associated with them. Bugs and security vulnerabilities do cost money, these are 90% confidence intervals of dollar impact from How to Measure.

New comment by haskellandchill in "A useful productivity measure?"

haskellandchill — Mon, 06 May 2024 14:53:02 +0000

Here is a blog post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-project-management-meas...

New comment by haskellandchill in "A useful productivity measure?"

haskellandchill — Mon, 06 May 2024 12:30:45 +0000

What about the Bayesian methods shown in "How to Measure Anything"? They have been applied to Cybersecurity ("How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk" in a very thorough and convincing manner. It looks like the business around it is trying to apply it to product management (https://hubbardresearch.com/shop/measure-anything-project-ma...). Basically the idea is when things are hard to measure we should not abandon quantitative scales and use qualitative ones (like t-shirt sizes) but instead use probabilities to quantify our uncertainty and leverage techniques like bayesian updates, confidence intervals, and monte carlo simulations.

New comment by haskellandchill in "Why it's hard to get hired despite glowing jobs reports"

haskellandchill — Sat, 04 May 2024 00:06:40 +0000

It's not much better if you get responses. My problem was companies will schedule me for interviews so I do 100 applications have 60 phone screens, then 40 technical interviews, then 30 seconds stages/homeworks, 10 final rounds and maybe 4 calls with the VP/CTO and still nothing. It's a full time job for months with no payoff.