Hacker News: mmazing

New comment by mmazing in "X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents"

mmazing — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:41:06 +0000

Honestly, it doesn't take any inference or need for AI, there's simply data in the documents that can be extracted.

New comment by mmazing in "'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman"

mmazing — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:46:21 +0000

Type O Negative here, they all kill me so luckily I don't have to guess!

New comment by mmazing in "Show HN: MMOndrian"

mmazing — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:44:27 +0000

It looks like you need to batch your updates and not tie them directly to UI actions, imo!

Cool project!

New comment by mmazing in "'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says"

mmazing — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:45:36 +0000

He found the loophole that courts hate!

New comment by mmazing in "'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says"

mmazing — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:44:47 +0000

Yeah, it is a far better source of information than literally anywhere else I have seen for getting commentary on the tariff's actual impact on trade.

New comment by mmazing in "Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us"

mmazing — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:42:58 +0000

Why does everything need to be tied to revenue? Genuine question.

New comment by mmazing in "Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation"

mmazing — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:51:23 +0000

That's a really good point. I wonder if eventually LLMs will start incorporating this as a feature.

New comment by mmazing in "Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation"

mmazing — Tue, 06 May 2025 00:44:32 +0000

Whitepaper contains many grammatical errors ... what else was not considered?

I don't think that necessarily negates any conclusions, but, it doesn't help the author's case.

New comment by mmazing in "Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age"

mmazing — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 03:19:46 +0000

When working with AI for software engineering assistance, I use it mainly to do three things -

1. Do piddly algorithm type stuff that I've done 1000x times and isn't complicated. (Could take or leave this, often more work than just doing it from scratch)

2. Pasting in gigantic error messages or log files to help diagnose what's going wrong. (HIGHLY recommend.)

3. Give it high level general requirements for a problem, and discuss POTENTIAL strategies instead of actually asking it to solve the problem. This usually allows me to dig down and come up with a good plan for whatever I'm doing quickly. (This is where real value is for me, personally.)

This allows me to quickly zero in on a solution, but more importantly, it helps me zero in strategically too with less trial and error. It let's me have an in-person whiteboard meeting (as I can paste images/text to discuss too) where I've got someone else to bounce ideas off of.

I love it.

New comment by mmazing in "Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point"

mmazing — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 03:03:39 +0000

What has really come with experience and what has made me a great software engineer is knowing when rules matter, when to bend where to make things move more quickly.

I prefer forgiveness over permission ...

New comment by mmazing in "Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction"

mmazing — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:09:29 +0000

> Would some hypothetical future AI just "know" that tomorrow it's going to be 79 with 7 mph winds, without understanding exactly how that knowledge was arrived at?

I think a consciousness with access to a stream of information tends to drown out the noise to see signal, so in those terms, being able to "experience" real-time climate data and "instinctively know" what variable is headed in what direction by filtering out the noise would come naturally.

So, personally, I think the answer is yes. :)

To elaborate a little more - when you think of a typical LLM the answer is definitely no. But, if an AGI is likely comprised of something akin to "many component LLMs", then one part might very well likely have no idea how the information it is receiving was actually determined.

Our brains have MANY substructures in between neuron -> "I", and I think we're going to start seeing/studying a lot of similarities with how our brains are structured at a higher level and where we get real value out of multiple LLM systems working in concert.

New comment by mmazing in "ARC-AGI without pretraining"

mmazing — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:39:51 +0000

Love the description of intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length

Seems like these could be related, going to dive into this more! :)

New comment by mmazing in "ARC-AGI without pretraining"

mmazing — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:18:11 +0000

> But, the neural networks are pretty small, so you could train a "hypernetwork" that predicts μ, Σ, θ for a given puzzle, and even predicts how to train these parameters.

Kurt Godel (or maybe Douglas Hofstadter, rather) would raise an eyebrow. :)

New comment by mmazing in "Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex"

mmazing — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:29:52 +0000

Weird. Followup - I am getting censorship on the model from ollama's public model repository, but NOT from the models I got from huggingface running on a locally compiled llama.cpp.

New comment by mmazing in "Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex"

mmazing — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:20:31 +0000

Not my experience - https://imgur.com/xanNjun just ran this moments ago.

New comment by mmazing in "Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex"

mmazing — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:20:01 +0000

I have not found any censorship running it on my local computer.

https://imgur.com/xanNjun

New comment by mmazing in "Web Locks API"

mmazing — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 04:32:42 +0000

Well, it might matter for functionality in the application.

After you fix a lock-related bug for example, how do you deal with an open tab running a different version of your code that is erroneously misusing a lock?

You need to account for that when you release new code, yeah? Rename the lock maybe? Some other logic?

New comment by mmazing in "FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant"

mmazing — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 06:42:37 +0000

My grocery store pharmacy has homeopathic stuff next to the Sudafed too. Is literally a placebo.

At least the Sudafed has acetaminophen in it ...

New comment by mmazing in "Medieval"

mmazing — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 05:14:05 +0000

I love their design aesthetic. I wish that I had even the most mild musical talent so I could justify buying some of their products.

Alas, I do not. :(

New comment by mmazing in "AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data"

mmazing — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:56:11 +0000

They make it clear in the paper that their primary "real-world" concern is that it's difficult to distinguish synthetic data from real human interaction when scraping data from the web. This will only get worse over time with our current way of doing things.

How are they supposed to deliberately train on synthetic data when they don't know whether it is (synthetic) or not?

Also, do you not feel that it is presumptuous to dismiss a body of work in a few sentences with a "seems fine to me"?