<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mathisfun123</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mathisfun123</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:25:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mathisfun123" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mathisfun123 in "Siri AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this shit is so normcore that i'm honestly embarrassed</p>
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<p>"think different"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:48:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448598</link><dc:creator>mathisfun123</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mathisfun123 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It replicated and trained a credible baseline<p>...<p>> The prospect of recursive self improvement feels more to real to me all of sudden<p>you really don't understand why these are two completely different tasks?</p>
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<p>> The main problem is good [doctors] have no need to sit through your 12 [years of school]. It actively selects only for the most desperate or money driven people (if you pay very well).<p>do you agree with this?</p>
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<p>don't you people get tired of reposting this take?<p>don't you realize it's exactly like<p>"attractive women reject the wrong suitors"<p>???</p>
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<p>Lol you've turned down offers or recruiter reach outs? Two very different things lololol.</p>
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<p>this is the pcmasterrace equivalent of being all upper body and with scrawny legs lol</p>
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<p>> You do realise that you need to store arbitrary binary blobs which don't nicely align to memory words?
And that once you can store them you need to write custom functions that do bitwise manipulation on those arbitrary blocks of memory?<p>Yes what part of my response to you gave you the impression that I did not?<p>> Meanwhile in racket I got arbitrary balanced ternary manista and exponent precision in less time it took to write this post.<p>Your claim was that it could not be done in cpp, not that it was faster/simpler/whatever-new-goalpost-you're-now-presenting in racket.<p>> less time it took to write this post<p>An interpreted language with a runtime and a GC is easier to use than a systems language? I think this novel discovery is worth a turing award indeed! I'll be sure to refer you for one. Maybe even an honorary doctorate at my alma mater.</p>
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<p>> Balanced ternary fp is not a reduced precision type of binary fp<p>Yes I can read very well - can you?<p>> ... by storing them in the corresponding uint</p>
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<p>lol the same way we implement all of the reduced precision fp8, fp4 types today: by storing them in the corresponding uint:<p><a href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/15095" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/15095</a></p>
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<p>> I don't even know what vector addition should look like.<p>I think you're trying to imply you're inventing something new and racket enables you to explore... But what I read (as someone with a PhD in deep learning that has worked on sparsity) is you actually don't know the prior art and you're using racket as an excuse to reinvent a whole bunch of stuff that already exists in plenty of mature libraries in more mundane languages (including python/pytorch). Which is of course fine for personal growth but please don't oversell racket as a "superpower" - to wit I can manipulate any part of my stack too <i>because it's all written in cpp</i>.</p>
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<p>I interviewed at Google last year and they said something similarly magnanimous: that they rejected people who wouldn't have been successful at Google and that the rejects actually thanked them for the wisdom. My eyes rolled all the way back in my head. I cancelled the rest of my loop and went to a different FAANG. When I sent the cancellation email I thanked the recruiter for sharing his wisdom.</p>
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<p>Every layer thinks they're the most important, most highly specialized, most highly skilled layer. Every layer is wrong because every layer is built on top of the <i>abstractions</i> of the layer beneath. Take it all the way down to the physics and the math and you'll notice that even the set theorists assume some axioms (no one knows what the logicians are doing...)</p>
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<p>How exactly is that worth mentioning?</p>
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<p>> Then solve the problem yourself? Why are you asking someone who knows less than you?<p>you seem to completely misunderstand XY: it's not someone giving you the right solution to your problem which you aren't capable of arriving at yourself. it's someone telling you the problem you're having isn't the one you should be solving. it happens very frequently that some arrogant person is 100% certain X problem isn't possible, or isn't really happening, or isn't really the source of issues and they try to gaslight you into believing you've made a mistake in your reasoning and you should solve problem Y instead. you know... kind of like how you're doing right now...</p>
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<p>> define: face value<p>> 3. Figurative Usage ("Taking at face value")When used in everyday language as a phrase, "taking something at face value" means accepting a statement, situation, or person exactly as they appear or are presented, without digging deeper for hidden meanings, motives, or questioning their authenticity<p>...<p>not sure what version of the english language you're using but in colloquial english "taking something at face value" means having a good faith interpretation.</p>
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<p>> you're just wasting everyone else's fucking time<p>you sure you're not the one wasting people's time by demanding they convince you of something you don't have any need to be convinced of - like did you know that just answering a question at face value is a completely plausible option?</p>
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<p>After becoming familiar with XY I have learned to specify "yes this is really the problem I'm trying to solve". Invariably you still get people asking "are you sure".</p>
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<p>I already implicitly responded: this should be handled like in any other walk of life - a few probing questions, maybe a preceding dialogue, etc. Admittedly tech people probably don't know how to handle this outside of tech either <shrug></p>
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<p>What if they don't, in fact, have more experience than me?<p>Edit: this is why tech people are insufferable socially. In any other walk of life assuming you know more than someone is a manifestly obvious faux pas.</p>
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