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New comment by paraph1n in "Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents"

paraph1n — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:56:07 +0000

Could someone point me towards a good resource for learning how to build a RAG app without llangchain or llamaindex? It's hard to find good information.

New comment by paraph1n in "Unix forking the universe by running IBM's free online quantum computer"

paraph1n — Wed, 08 May 2024 00:15:00 +0000

> The outcome provably does not exist until you measure it.

This is not true. It only provably does not exist in local hidden variables.

New comment by paraph1n in "Ask HN: Short story that was posted to HN"

paraph1n — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:57:27 +0000

I think it was a top level post, but my confidence is low.

Ask HN: Short story that was posted to HN

paraph1n — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:00:48 +0000

Trying to locate a short story that I believe was posted here a few months ago. It took place on a spaceship that contained a digital archive of all of human knowledge. At some point, one of the characters made a grave error and overwrote some important mathematical constants, causing the ship to start making erroneous computations. They noticed that the time on their wrist watch was drifting away from the time on the ship's main computer.

Any ideas? Searching the web didn't turn anything up.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39405925

Points: 3

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New comment by paraph1n in "I need to grow away from these roots"

paraph1n — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:27:31 +0000

What do I search for to find music/audio like this? It sounds so beautiful.

New comment by paraph1n in "Show HN: Kysely, a type-safe SQL query builder for TypeScript"

paraph1n — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:49:23 +0000

How does it compare to zapatos?

https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/

New comment by paraph1n in "Ask HN: How do you manage your digital footprint in 2023?"

paraph1n — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:33:32 +0000

GrapheneOS for phone

New comment by paraph1n in "Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi"

paraph1n — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 16:06:03 +0000

That's not quite true. The function call in question is

> ImageInstanceQ[x,"caprine animal",RecognitionThreshold->i/100]

I think it's less misleading to say it has a generic image recognition function that supports goats, among many other recognition targets.

New comment by paraph1n in "Modders are using AI to put voice acting in Morrowind"

paraph1n — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:49:37 +0000

Now this is an application of AI that I can get behind!

New comment by paraph1n in "Apple avoids job cuts because it didn’t overhire like Google and Amazon"

paraph1n — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:07:59 +0000

Highly unlikely? Tim cook literally said in the quote "You can never say never."

New comment by paraph1n in "Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace"

paraph1n — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:53:03 +0000

What about people who game on their laptop (at home) but don't need to game on the go? In that case an eGPU also sounds like a reasonable choice. They can just leave the eGPU at home and still be productive away from their desk.

New comment by paraph1n in "Critical brain hypothesis: A physical theory for when the brain performs best"

paraph1n — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:04:14 +0000

> "Critical" has a precise meaning in these kinds of systems; it essentially means when correlation lengths diverge (or, with a finite brain, become the size of the whole).

If someone doesn't know what "critical" means, they also don't know what a "correlation length" is, so I don't think this clarification is very helpful. Who was the intended audience?

New comment by paraph1n in "Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes"

paraph1n — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:08:17 +0000

This is not generally true in my experience. You can buy cheap take-out/counter-service food, or expensive take-out/counter-service food.

New comment by paraph1n in "Ask HN: At 45, I can't seem to read as well anymore"

paraph1n — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 19:30:13 +0000

3-4 hours every day?! How do you find the time to do that, in addition to medical school? That's 1/4 of the waking hours in a day.

New comment by paraph1n in "VSCode remote code execution advisory"

paraph1n — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 03:33:09 +0000

Can someone explain? I can barely parse this quote. Who are the 1P devs? Why does it matter that they didn't notice they had made a minor change? Why were they "tricked"?

Edit: I think I might understand it more now: This person got tricked into carefully reviewing the "entire" code, instead of focusing on the one minor change that was made to it, because they didn't realize it was only the minor change they had to review. In their careful review of the code, they uncovered vulnerabilities which were actually related to the original code (ie. VSCode) rather than the changes that this person was asked to review. Did I get it? I'm still confused about the use of "1P" here though.

New comment by paraph1n in "The mysticism of Alan Watts (2018)"

paraph1n — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:43:05 +0000

Can you elaborate on what doesn't "ring true" for you?

It's an odd statement to make, since these aren't true/false facts we're talking about.

New comment by paraph1n in "The mysticism of Alan Watts (2018)"

paraph1n — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:41:45 +0000

What parts of his work haven't aged well?

New comment by paraph1n in "Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy vs. placebo in treatment of alcohol disorder"

paraph1n — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 04:17:54 +0000

Indeed. Interestingly, psychedelics (mushrooms, LSD) work wonderfully for me, but cannabis is typically a bad experience (anxiety, nausea, no attention span, racing thoughts). Every brain is wired differently.

New comment by paraph1n in "Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy vs. placebo in treatment of alcohol disorder"

paraph1n — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:10:53 +0000

In order to understand the difference, you'd have to have a blinded and unblinded study, and compare the results. Then you could understand the difference between a guess with 90% confidence and actually knowing what treatment you received with certainty.

It seems reckless to presume the difference (between blinded and unblinded) is small. The numbers you cite (94.7% and 90% confidence) have nothing to do with the question you're trying to answer.

For example, an important difference may be with respect to expectations. If you're told you're receiving a psychedelic treatment, you may go into the experience with different expectations than if you were unsure about what treatment you were getting.

New comment by paraph1n in "Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy vs. placebo in treatment of alcohol disorder"

paraph1n — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 23:12:24 +0000

There's still a difference between "guessing" correctly versus actually knowing the truth. It's different from an actually unblinded study even if participants can "guess" correctly.