Hacker News: oolonthegreat

New comment by oolonthegreat in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

oolonthegreat — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:18:14 +0000

well the full full quote is from C.S Lewis' Narnia, where Aslan says:

Do not cite the deep magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

New comment by oolonthegreat in "SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors"

oolonthegreat — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:22:48 +0000

im confused, surely there already exists clasification models, which, given multidimensional sensor data, output the most likely "activity" type? why would text modality be a better choice?

New comment by oolonthegreat in "'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem"

oolonthegreat — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:08:41 +0000

AFAIK, these islands of regularity/stability are a common aspect of chaotic systems, say the logistic map[1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos (2021)"

oolonthegreat — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 12:55:39 +0000

i would also think it is achieved by piezo's, though maybe thats specific to drum stuff?

New comment by oolonthegreat in "MakeMake: Generate make files from C source code"

oolonthegreat — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:20:43 +0000

reminds me of tsoding's nobuild, except it bypasses make and the only thing required is a C compiler. neat!

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Electronic Tiny TRS-80 Model III"

oolonthegreat — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:47:35 +0000

this is nice! wonder what it would take to make it emulate a small DOS like environment. the qt py has an esp32s3, which afaik is quite a beast for a microcontroller.

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Vocaloid 6"

oolonthegreat — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:16:52 +0000

now I know what simcard nano uses for their radiohead covers! I have always wondered where did those vocals come from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApL1d_OQYk4

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Cursorless – A spoken language for structural code editing"

oolonthegreat — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 21:20:27 +0000

from their youtube comment:

> Good question. For efficiency, we try to keep commonly used terms such as letters as short as possible. Note that the words we use for letters all one syllable, whereas the NATO phonetic alphabet are mostly two syllables. The words we use for spelling are also chosen so that they can be chained together easily and quickly, eg “harp each look look odd”. Easy to say quickly without slurring

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Alien intelligence and the concept of technology"

oolonthegreat — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 21:26:28 +0000

> The idea that fluid is solving the Navier-Stokes equation seems like an obvious error to me - it cannot solve the equation, it simply acts a fluid, which the equation was designed to approximate.

that's his "Principle of Computational Equivalence", that natural processes are themselves computations. it's easy to see this is true in a "made-up" universe, say Game of Life, but whether our universe is computational is still an open question I think.

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Simple electrical circuit learns on its own–with no help from a computer"

oolonthegreat — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:53:45 +0000

"learns on its own" makes it sound like unsupervised learning, but it's labeled data: the researchers also input the correct "output voltage" which they want the system to learn.

it's still neat tho. I feel that an AGI will come out of an analog computer rather than a digital one.

New comment by oolonthegreat in "A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world"

oolonthegreat — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:21:36 +0000

IKR, sad to see such ingenuity used to hack activists.

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?"

oolonthegreat — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:26:34 +0000

as an atheist, the new testament was a pretty fun read. if you put aside all the stuff about Jesus being God and also his son or whatever, the character was very revolutionary and anti-establishment.

"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Teaching how to code is broken"

oolonthegreat — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 14:32:53 +0000

I don't know about the card game approach, but the author definitely has a point. I'd even argue that this is a problem in most engineering teaching, talking about different little subjects with no picture of connection or purpose.

New comment by oolonthegreat in "GNU Radio"

oolonthegreat — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 13:48:51 +0000

I especially appreciate the "Simulink-like" block based visual coding style, I think it's a more intuitive alternative than textual coding in the context of systems and blocks etc.

also love the convenience of simply "adding a slider" whereas in matlab for example you have to build an "app" and add callback functions and do weird stuff to change the block parameters

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?"

oolonthegreat — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:44:25 +0000

lol didn't know about this license, amazing!

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Bypassing Door Passwords"

oolonthegreat — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:13:42 +0000

neato. must be noted that these locks are used in almost all apartment entrances in Turkey.

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions"

oolonthegreat — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 19:12:44 +0000

one would think that programming requires especially low accuracy, since most of the things you type are either language-specific or previously defined.

New comment by oolonthegreat in "Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019)"

oolonthegreat — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 17:31:16 +0000

I laughed so hard at this. It's like "We took all the good parts of being open source, and the good parts of NOT being open source".

New comment by oolonthegreat in "The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)"

oolonthegreat — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:09:23 +0000

sheesh talk about pseudoscience

New comment by oolonthegreat in "TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS"

oolonthegreat — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:45:55 +0000

apparently OBS devs don't want to share direct evidence yet and resolve it privately probably due to their GPL Cooperation Commitment. while I'm sure we all appreciate that, it would be nice to see the decompiled binaries and the exact violations, just so we can explicitly point them out and argue.

I find it VERY easy to believe that Tiktok are indeed in violation, but right now all we have are statements and a 302 redirect to Microsoft Directx download page.