Hacker News: mythas

New comment by mythas in "Take the Pedals Off the Bike"

mythas — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:41:11 +0000

Yup! I’ve taught 4 kids with this method. A year or 2 on the balance bike, 2-ish weeks with training wheels and then take the training wheels off and they get it within 5-10 minutes. Took a bunch of frustration with the first kid to arrive at this method but I’ve done it with the next 3 and it works flawlessly.

New comment by mythas in "CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017)"

mythas — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:11:07 +0000

Yeah when the CORN-FREAKING-CRETE skyscraper crowd funding video comes out we can all be more skeptical than we were for SOLAR-FREAKING-ROADWAYS.

New comment by mythas in "You'll regret using natural keys"

mythas — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:46:44 +0000

Care to expand on this thought? Curious what you have in mind!

New comment by mythas in "You'll regret using natural keys"

mythas — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:26:16 +0000

Another example that happens surprisingly often in healthcare. A registration clerk will incorrectly enter a personal health number (PHN) into the system. Then the actuall holder of that PHN shows up. If this were the PK then the system just wouldn’t handle this case and the reg clerk would have a huge mess to sort out on the spot. A surrogate key on the Person table allows this registration to be made where 2 people have the same PHN in the system. Then cleanup can be handled after the fact to track down the first person, determine their correct PHN and update the record.

New comment by mythas in "Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News"

mythas — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:15:30 +0000

It’s a nice closed loop now so it’s inevitable that ai generated content will win google search. One can pump out content, see how it scores, and iterate until they have an ai trained to top the google search results. It’s already so frustrating looking for real info. Soon it will be impossible.

New comment by mythas in "Analog Chess"

mythas — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 03:47:31 +0000

How close to the king are they covering? .0000001 units? The king can move .00000009 units. You can always make a smaller real number.

New comment by mythas in "Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1M Each to Encourage Vaccination"

mythas — Thu, 13 May 2021 20:17:53 +0000

I feel like this will make those who are scared so much more suspicious. They’ll think “There’s no free lunch so why are you bribing me to get something? It must be really bad if you have to go this far”

New comment by mythas in "75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)"

mythas — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 23:05:22 +0000

“Until you figure out where the no free lunch theorem has stashed the harm” is a saying I will be using for the rest of my days.

New comment by mythas in "Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?"

mythas — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:01:08 +0000

“Keep your dick in a vice” is a play on words of the saying “keep you stick on the ice”. The latter being made famous by the Canadian comedian Steve Smith aka Red Green.

New comment by mythas in "Is Type 2 Diabetes Reversible at Scale?"

mythas — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:15:07 +0000

As it is Peter Attia I’m assuming it was some form of intermittent fasting with some version of Keto. He doesn’t really like giving one size fits all solutions so that’s probably why it isn’t mentioned here. Source joe Rogan podcast interview.

New comment by mythas in "Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in adults admitted to psychiatric hospital"

mythas — Sat, 05 May 2018 16:05:52 +0000

These kinds of studies often feel like the result of some p-hacking. Take a smallish sample size from a population of interest, record a bunch of data on them, then pick the result that is most abnormal and say “hmmm maybe this is why this population is different.” Not saying that’s the case here I’m just always skeptical until I know the methodology.

New comment by mythas in "Why are diapers so expensive?"

mythas — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 04:49:18 +0000

I have an 8 month old and just the other day was thinking how are they able to make these things so cheaply? Seriously for 80 cents a day I can avoid the nightmare of cloth diapers (sorry planet). All the estimates in the post are soooo far off the mark. They are done with the cost of premium diapers for 4 year olds at the rate of use of a sub 2 month old. I’d say 350 bucks Canadian a year if I extrapolate out our costs to complete our kids first year.

New comment by mythas in "A letter from Drew and Arash"

mythas — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 02:05:14 +0000

Wait are you telling me that every wasted minute you have at work isn’t due to file hosting issues? Personally I feel that if people designed digital spaces with as much care as they do physical spaces my work day would be rainbows and unicorns. /s

New comment by mythas in "Hack everything without fear"

mythas — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:43:42 +0000

Like most hard things in life the most honest advice anyone can give you is stop worrying about getting stuck, embrace confusion and learn to love being lost. If you can learn to not lose confidence when you’re in the wilderness then you have learned how to learn. Unfortunately this is challenging to do. It’s like telling someone the way to do a pull up is to do a pull-up. For self motivated people this is all the coaching they need. For most however, they need someone to hold their hand through all the steps.

New comment by mythas in "How Tier 2 cloud vendors banded together to cope with Spectre and Meltdown"

mythas — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 02:30:05 +0000

Then suddenly he said, “I have it! We are going to swim all together like 0.1% of the biggest fish in the sea!”

~ Leo Lionni, Swimmy

New comment by mythas in "Can anyone make money on the moon?"

mythas — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:56:01 +0000

There is all sorts of money to be made on the moon. You can be a moon welder, you can lead EVAs for groups of tourists, you can even be a smuggler and sneak in Cuban cigars to the moons upper class.

New comment by mythas in "The Girl with the Brick Earring"

mythas — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:39:30 +0000

But the goal here really isn’t to minimize the number of pieces used. It is to minimize total cost of covering the space. This makes things much more complex as it turns into some weird variant of a knapsack problem.

New comment by mythas in "Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep"

mythas — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 06:11:19 +0000

I like the app but am offended by the idea of stars being made from cosmic dust. Can you add a divine intervention option?

New comment by mythas in "Neural Translation of Musical Style"

mythas — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 03:15:49 +0000

So my sister went 14/18. She says,

"The jazz ones are very obvious. Also the voicing of the parts in the first chunk of songs was more nuanced with the human than the AI. The jazz is too straight in the runs with the AI, too "perfect". Real life players stall/hitch, even if just a little! But really, it's pretty impressive - way better than old school canned midi player stuff!"

How effective do you think this approach can be with altering timings to try and imitate that style?

New comment by mythas in "Neural Translation of Musical Style"

mythas — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 23:31:00 +0000

First off super cool project with impressive results!! I am not a musician but I was fairly reliably (>75%) able to identify the NN. It took listening to a few examples but I quickly realized that smoothness was the give away. Humans make much more significant jumps when going from soft to aggressive or visa versa where the NN tended to smooth out these changes. I'm going to have my sister (a classically trained pianist) take a listen and see what she thinks.

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