Hacker News: jekude

New comment by jekude in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

jekude — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:50:52 +0000

All true, but I think its a valuable exercise to try to design/understand/exploit these dynamics

New comment by jekude in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

jekude — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:41:05 +0000

I think the question and article is fascinating. I do think that one should not only look at the genetic representation, and the algorithm a cell runs, but also the formalized environment that runs the simulation.

I’ve been thinking about this for a few years and I truly believe these cells need to be able to “move” in either a 3d lattice similar to a cellular automata or become nodes in some cyclic graph (or maybe both).

For the genetic representation, I had an insight that DNA/RNA looks strangely similar to SKI calculus (combinators) and have been using a Church encoding to translate the SKI program to an “action” per turn (move, connect, spike, divide, etc.). It has a nice property that the cell’s “program” and the spikes between them, and the input/output to the simulation itself can be the same thing (just a string of combinators).

Either way the author is spot on when it comes to this sort of thing having the properties 1) “always on” (no separate training mode), 2) local interactions, 3) everything stems from a genome, 4) each cell is its own little mini-program with the same genetics as everyone else.

All I can say is that evolutionary program is hard and takes either massive compute or large timescales to run the simulations. Fascinating stuff though

New comment by jekude in "Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata"

jekude — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:19:51 +0000

The abstract implies that strictly local updates are a hinderance to high res, however i would have thought there would be an interesting way to get speed up gains from neighbor-only traffic on GPUs CAM-style. am i making that up?

New comment by jekude in "Reviving Papers with Code"

jekude — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:59:28 +0000

started doing this but life got in the way, would love to pick it back up at some point

https://github.com/planetlambert/turing

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

jekude — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:55:48 +0000

Article URL: https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927903

Points: 773

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New comment by jekude in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

jekude — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:29:29 +0000

What would physical EML gates be implemented in reality?

Posts like these are the reason i check HN every day

New comment by jekude in "Every Law a Commit – US Law in GitHub"

jekude — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:50:06 +0000

Now have the agents write actual code for the laws!

New comment by jekude in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

jekude — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:48:52 +0000

if the entire open web is vulnerable to being sybil attacked, are we going to have to take this all underground?

New comment by jekude in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

jekude — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:33:44 +0000

Maybe sama was onto something with World ID...

New comment by jekude in "Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS"

jekude — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:51:45 +0000

How does this compare to https://encore.dev/ or other infrastructure-inside-application-code solutions?

New comment by jekude in "Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter"

jekude — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:08:50 +0000

Can you share how you go about searching for the interesting rules?

New comment by jekude in "Parallelizing Cellular Automata with WebGPU Compute Shaders"

jekude — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:29:08 +0000

I have been asking myself for a while: Why has Artificial Life not had its AlexNet moment with GPUs yet?

New comment by jekude in "Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal"

jekude — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:37:39 +0000

Nice, this definitely needs to be standardized

New comment by jekude in "Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal"

jekude — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:48:17 +0000

Charmbracelet is amazing. Will there be an equivalent of Claude Code's CLAUDE.md files?

ARC-NCA: Towards Developmental Solutions to the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus

jekude — Tue, 27 May 2025 02:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08778

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103383

Points: 1

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New comment by jekude in "Particle Life simulation in browser using WebGPU"

jekude — Mon, 26 May 2025 13:21:48 +0000

Also https://x.com/ciphrd

New comment by jekude in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

jekude — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:15:18 +0000

Insulin is lethal at higher dosages, so there is definitely an argument. My counter would be that someone who has to self administer this drug 5+ times a day should have the right to make determinations about dosing

New comment by jekude in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

jekude — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:59:00 +0000

Technically there is unsanctioned access (someone reverse engineered the real-time APIs [1] which I ported to Go). I think the FDA does not want easy access to real-time values so that folks can't easily recommend insulin dosing without oversight. I am personally of the opinion that it is our right to have programmatic access to the real-time data and do with it what we please.

Would love to get in touch to hear more about your long-term vision for the project!

[1] https://github.com/gagebenne/pydexcom

New comment by jekude in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

jekude — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:37:42 +0000

Also recently diagnosed and just open sourced how I'm using AI to count carbs + get insulin doses [1]. Biggest issues I've seen to starting a legit business is not having sanctioned access to real-time blood sugar values (the APIs are all one hour behind), and dealing with the FDA. Love the idea of more tech-enabled diabetes management, good luck!

[1] https://github.com/kennedyjustin/BolusGPT

New comment by jekude in "Show HN: BolusGPT – Use AI to calculate insulin doses"

jekude — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:25:04 +0000

Recently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, and learnt quickly that calculating insulin doses sucks (and you have to do it 4+ times a day). BolusGPT is a ChatGPT plugin that translates meal descriptions into nutrition information that is fed into an insulin dosing algorithm. Also hooks up to Dexcom CGMs. Happy to answer any questions!