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New comment by nekopa in "China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made"

nekopa — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:23:53 +0000

Great game BTW!

New comment by nekopa in "Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app"

nekopa — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 08:58:15 +0000

What happens after 20K books? I am at about 13K books, and I haven't run into any issues yet. I make extensive use of virtual libraries in Calibre, and tags for organization.

New comment by nekopa in "EP–133"

nekopa — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:24:54 +0000

I have to back up the others: just buy the microfreak, it is awesome. It was my first hardware purchase, and I am so glad I got it. They keep adding functionality via firmware updates, so recently they added sample playback to it, along with granular synthesis. I added a volca drum and a multi effect pedal to my hardware line up, so now I can head out to my local pub and jam out without needing a laptop with me, and the whole setup fits in an old messenger bag.

A Musical War of the Worlds

nekopa — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 20:35:09 +0000

Article URL: https://boredreading.com/articles/all/recent/read/4065662/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35403821

Points: 1

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New comment by nekopa in "Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?"

nekopa — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 09:42:18 +0000

I found it on there. It seems to include ArXiV.

New comment by nekopa in "AI Homework"

nekopa — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:36:28 +0000

First attempt it didn't try to respond, just said it didn't know anything about sparrows or coconuts.

I asked it to retry, and got this:

function calculateSparrowFlightVelocity(coconutWeight) { // Assume that a sparrow can carry a maximum of 1.5 ounces of weight if (coconutWeight > 1.5) { return 0; }

// Assume that the flight velocity of a sparrow is 5 meters per second // and the weight of a coconut is 0.5 ounces return 5 * (1 - (coconutWeight / 0.5)); }

// Example usage: console.log(calculateSparrowFlightVelocity(0.5)); // Output: 4 meters per second console.log(calculateSparrowFlightVelocity(1.0)); // Output: 3 meters per second console.log(calculateSparrowFlightVelocity(1.5)); // Output: 0 meters per second (sparrow cannot carry this weight)

Can any Monty Python fans confirm if this is correct?

New comment by nekopa in "AI Art Tools and Resources in One Place"

nekopa — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:08:59 +0000

Great site! I found a small typo:

Explore images genereted with getimg.ai

New comment by nekopa in "GET3D: A Generative Model of High Quality 3D Textured Shapes Learned from Images"

nekopa — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 08:18:21 +0000

One step closer to a dream I have: To describe scifi objects to Stable Diffusion, use the image to create a 3D object, print that object on my 3D printer. All on my laptop. (Well, I have SD running at home now, will have to see how the code for this runs when it is finally released)

New comment by nekopa in "AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans"

nekopa — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 11:22:41 +0000

Jeff Koons did that (kinda)

New comment by nekopa in "Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”"

nekopa — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:10:03 +0000

If you are referring to this section:

Mar 2019 - H. Left the company, all permissions removed except on one game which we were still using H.'s consultation on - The app was unpublished later on

04 Dec 2021 - Termination of H. (Former Employee) account because of multiple policy violations

26 Jan 2022 - Termination of our company account (Raya Games Ltd - AKA TOD Studio) without prior notices and warnings

I think the 04 Dec 2021 is Google's termination of the "H" account.

New comment by nekopa in "Peter Norvig Joins Stanford HAI"

nekopa — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:39:48 +0000

It's funny you mention this, as there is a big thread above that discusses his contribution to learning by reading, and his second point here is "Program. The best type of learning is learning by doing".

New comment by nekopa in "Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]"

nekopa — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 08:41:58 +0000

Makes me smile to think that one day my bank account will be drained of all its BTC because I forgot to patch my bedside lamp last tuesday...

New comment by nekopa in "I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year"

nekopa — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:28:03 +0000

I don't understand this viewpoint. This type of data is being misused already. I think it would be a net positive for individuals to get their own data and use it for positive outcomes. It shouldn't be shared with the world at large, but when I've tracked certain info about myself, it has helped me immensely.

New comment by nekopa in "Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back"

nekopa — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:24:51 +0000

I can second this recommendation. Mapy.cz is especially awesome for me as I live in the Czech Republic. It has more updated satellite imagery for the CZ than Google, and shows all the hiking trails quite nicely. And the download function works pretty painlessly.

New comment by nekopa in "CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)"

nekopa — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:07:09 +0000

I think that is kinda normal for lawyers though. In the Czech Republic (I've been here 16 years and work with a lot of lawyers) it's normal for lawyers to be "contractors", very few are salaried.

In fact it's a funny rite of passage for most lawyers: after graduation they have to work for 3 years for a law firm before they are allowed to take the bar exam and become "real" lawyers. During this time they earn a salary. When they finally become "real" lawyers by passing the bar, they get fired. :) And immediately taken back on as contractors.

New comment by nekopa in "Major Flaws of Human Thinking"

nekopa — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:31:44 +0000

I prefer the idea behind the steelman technique (as opposed to a strawman argument): state the position of the person you disagree with so well they say "I wish I had put it that way!" then proceed to refute the central argument.

New comment by nekopa in "On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics"

nekopa — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:52:48 +0000

That, is fantastic.

New comment by nekopa in "1MB Club"

nekopa — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:40:19 +0000

And it has an ad on it. (Boy do I miss the days of Google's text only ads)

New comment by nekopa in "1MB Club"

nekopa — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:38:45 +0000

And it looks much nicer zoomed in (as in your link) ;)

New comment by nekopa in "Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?"

nekopa — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 16:18:58 +0000

Just to let you know OP, HN doesn't show your email in your profile, so even though you ask people to send you an email, it's no where visible. You need to add the contact info yourself in the "about" section.