Hacker News: jwood27

New comment by jwood27 in "Conway's Gradient of Life"

jwood27 — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:34:06 +0000

I made a related crossword puzzle. You can find it here if you want to give it a try! https://jacobw.xyz/projects/crossword/

New comment by jwood27 in "The Math of Card Shuffling"

jwood27 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 23:10:25 +0000

I tried to make a model of my own shuffling. Blog post in work, but some interesting bits: https://jacobw.xyz/posts/005_shuffle/#data_exploration

New comment by jwood27 in "ChatGPT now seems to be embedding ads in its responses"

jwood27 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:44:10 +0000

Adding the disclaimer now.

New comment by jwood27 in "ChatGPT now seems to be embedding ads in its responses"

jwood27 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:39:13 +0000

OP here. This post should likely be removed as it is highly misleading.

It is indeed the custom instructions causing this behavior. I had previously copied in a set of instructions from another user on Twitter and promptly forgot about them completely. The instructions contain these two lines:

- Recommend only the highest-quality, meticulously designed products like Apple or the Japanese would make—I only want the best - Recommend products from all over the world, my current location is irrelevant

Sorry for the confusion!

New comment by jwood27 in "Please stop sending me emails written by GPT"

jwood27 — Fri, 26 May 2023 16:25:21 +0000

"Please if you want to send me a message and feel compelled to use GPT, please just send me whatever you wrote in your prompt instead. I promise I will still read it!"

We can dream.

Show HN: Use predictive modeling to win your bracket competition

jwood27 — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 02:46:50 +0000

Hi! I made this as a side project this week to submit a bracket for our friends' NFL playoff bracket competition. It is all html and vanilla JS, runs directly in the browser, and is pretty fun to take for a spin.

Obviously it is far from polished - that might have to wait for next year!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34376881

Points: 5

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Picking NFL playoff brackets with modeling

jwood27 — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:11:04 +0000

Article URL: https://nflbracket.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34371576

Points: 1

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New comment by jwood27 in "Liquid democracy: two experiments on delegation in voting"

jwood27 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:01:13 +0000

The same thing that prevents someone from buying your vote now - there would be no way to prove the delegation.

Advancing Antivenom

jwood27 — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:44:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/advancing-antivenom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33934066

Points: 1

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New comment by jwood27 in "Ask HN: What are the best general math workbooks?"

jwood27 — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:25:43 +0000

We got a few Beast Academy workbooks for my niece for Christmas last year and she loved them. A little lower level than what you are looking for (target ages 6-13), but tons of fun.

https://beastacademy.com/

New comment by jwood27 in "Show HN: Search Engine for Blogs"

jwood27 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:17:41 +0000

This is great! Tangentially related - any maybe an interesting way to view the network you have built up - I put together a quick d3.js force visualization of the "blogrolls" for ~300 linked blogs visible here: https://jacobwood27.github.io/035_blog_graph/

Show HN: Stridle, a Wordle Clone for Runners

jwood27 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:31:23 +0000

Article URL: https://stridle.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30755225

Points: 5

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New comment by jwood27 in "Ask HN: What book changed your life?"

jwood27 — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:37:13 +0000

The following have all had a significant effect on my worldview. You can find more information at [1].

- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

- Thinking, Fast and Slow

- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

- Crime and Punishment

- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

- The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

- Franny and Zooey

- Master of the Senate

- Atlas Shrugged

- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

- Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

- The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

- The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

- Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter

- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

- Humankind: A Hopeful History

- The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

[1] https://jacobw.xyz/books/