Hacker News: kenny239

AlphaSnake: Policy Iteration on a Nondeterministic NP-Hard MDP

kenny239 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:56:45 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09622

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44960413

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New comment by kenny239 in "I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace"

kenny239 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:53:59 +0000

We need more projects like this maybe I'll help write some part in the near future.

New comment by kenny239 in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

kenny239 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:52:41 +0000

keep up the good view & never stop i guess

New comment by kenny239 in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

kenny239 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:50:30 +0000

I was reminded of this article from a better time of the internet: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/

Back then people were kinda just complaining about the centralization of Wikipedia. The bar keeps getting lower.

Is everything going to be encrypted behind a VPN protocol in the future?

New comment by kenny239 in "GPT-5"

kenny239 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:44:31 +0000

not a researcher for long enough....but we are witnessing open source effort & Chinese models starting to fall one "level" behind the most advanced models, mainly due to a lack of compute i think...

on the other hand, there are still some flaws regarding GPT-5. for example, when i use it for research it often needs multiple prompts to get the topic i truly want and sometimes it can feed me false information. so the reasoning part is not fully there yet?

New comment by kenny239 in "Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation"

kenny239 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:37:29 +0000

things you get away with when you remove one level of simulation...

New comment by kenny239 in "Good system design"

kenny239 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:36:18 +0000

wise article. thanks op.

New comment by kenny239 in "Good system design"

kenny239 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:35:42 +0000

lol that's sad and real. modern software engineering has a lot of bloatware, costing security, etc.

New comment by kenny239 in "Do not download the app, use the website"

kenny239 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 23:49:17 +0000

> Think about it this way. What can a website on your browser really get from you?

> Apps, on the other hand, are a different beast entirely.

Then the article mentions how it can collect user's location, contacts, etc. But some of those information can be tracked by linking the google tracker (and various other trackers) to the website visitor's identity. It's harder but it can still be done (privacy badger and other methods can help i think).

New comment by kenny239 in "Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA"

kenny239 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:11:46 +0000

it seems grok thinks that its mainly due to more people using linux now: https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg%3D%3D_3ca6a3ae-6342-422e-9...

New comment by kenny239 in "The Rise of Whatever"

kenny239 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 08:59:06 +0000

Yeah at least at its current stage it still is. but a calculator boosts productivity just like a microwave. A lot of experiments and boilerplate code with low entropy is made a lot easier with LLMs.