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New comment by mmplxx in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

mmplxx — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:14:24 +0000

Then it takes 100 billion people and their knowledge and experience plus 20 years to generate an intelligent person.

New comment by mmplxx in "Cursor 3"

mmplxx — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:15:28 +0000

The $10/month plan offers a quite limited number of tokens for advanced models. And if you are not careful and set the model to Auto it will quickly deplete them.

New comment by mmplxx in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

mmplxx — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:00:43 +0000

> Ahhh you stole my idea lol

There are some time traveling products that might help you fix that.

New comment by mmplxx in "Cinematography of “Andor”"

mmplxx — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:12:26 +0000

Also the music, it has an impressive original soundtrack, I love how they play with opening variations.

New comment by mmplxx in "Typst 0.13 is out now"

mmplxx — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:31:10 +0000

Plus ad hoc markdown extensions, Lua plugins, ... For me it's Typst.

New comment by mmplxx in "LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit"

mmplxx — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:38:10 +0000

> but C++ hasn’t replaced C, Rust hasn’t replaced C++, Typst is unlikely to replace LaTeX.

Weird conclusion, because LaTeX has mostly replaced TeX.

There is a nice symmetry here:

C -> C++ -> Rust ~ Typst <- LaTeX <- TeX

New comment by mmplxx in "LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit"

mmplxx — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:32:39 +0000

I would say that the TeX language was designed for the final user to add the "last mile", not for piling layers of macrosubstitution on top of something akin to lambda calculus. As amazing a feat of engineering LaTeX is, it has abused the TeX language beyond its natural limits. The price paid in complexity for abstraction was high. But the TeX language itself is a tiny elegant language.

New comment by mmplxx in "LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit"

mmplxx — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:31:05 +0000

New comment by mmplxx in "LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit"

mmplxx — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:25:21 +0000

Nice in theory, in practice you have LaTeX tools with synctex, command, environment and references autocompletion, live math preview, proper syntax highlighting, jump to error line, etc. Nothing like that is available for pandoc markdown AFAIK, except perhaps for Quarto, which may have its uses but is too slow for small/medium sized documents and its tooling is not that capable anyway. Besides, it adds yet another complex layer on top of an already way too layered stack.

New comment by mmplxx in "LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit"

mmplxx — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:14:26 +0000

Probably not as developed as microtype, but they have overhang, kerning and ligatures: https://typst.app/docs/reference/text/text

New comment by mmplxx in "LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit"

mmplxx — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:09:54 +0000

A legitimate concern given that Typst is still maturing. But I have at least one thing to say in its favour: you can lock the version of packages that you import. The only reason LaTeX documents full of \usepackages are reproducible ten years later is because packages are in maintenance mode, not because of well-thought-out future-proof design.

New comment by mmplxx in "Introduction to Modern Statistics"

mmplxx — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:35:03 +0000

The will to assign real numbers to degrees of belief is the controversial assumption. Converted bayesians tend to gloss over this fact. Many, as in a sibling comment, state that MLE is bayesian statistics with a uniform prior, but this isn't true of most if not all frequentist inference, based on frequentist NHT and CI, not MAP. Modeling uncertainty with uniform priors (or even more sophisticated non-informative priors a la Jaynes) is a recipe for paradoxes and there is no alternative practical proposal that I know of. I have no issue with bayesian modeling in a ML context of model selection and validation based on resampling methods, but IMO it's not up to the foundational claims its proponents often do.

New comment by mmplxx in "Emma Thompson Is Right: The Word ‘Content’ Is Rude"

mmplxx — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:12:46 +0000

I apologize for having been using this word as a label to group my bookmarks of books, articles, music, videos and movies for years.

New comment by mmplxx in "Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)"

mmplxx — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:57:13 +0000

I would say that Messi is gloriously messy.

New comment by mmplxx in "Yerba Mate – A Long but Current History (2021)"

mmplxx — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:43:09 +0000

It indeed tastes horribly to me too, but I just can't help drinking it around five times a day.

New comment by mmplxx in "Yerba Mate – A Long but Current History (2021)"

mmplxx — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:37:17 +0000

I have been drinking too much mate for such a long time that I can only relate it to withdrawal symptoms at this point :)

New comment by mmplxx in "Tell HN: Tired of Hearing about ChatGPT"

mmplxx — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:26:26 +0000

Creative how? Can you expand on that?

New comment by mmplxx in "Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)"

mmplxx — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:22:52 +0000

> just give the thing decades of emails and giant PDF folders and make sense of it.

just?

New comment by mmplxx in "Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documents and other data?"

mmplxx — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:37:58 +0000

I do the same, but also manually export takeouts every month or so with the most important stuff. And every once in a while I create a named revision for my most important docs (which gets exported as part of the takeout).

New comment by mmplxx in "Why are male testosterone levels falling?"

mmplxx — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 18:57:17 +0000

You sound as if your premise were that all there is to do is reproduce.