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New comment by pattt in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

pattt — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:13:53 +0000

Do we have any solid evidence these models can outperform Western models in terms of quality? Or is it more: because they are forbidden, they can't get enough training data, visibility etc. to compete?

New comment by pattt in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

pattt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:50:15 +0000

Is there a way out of this though? The seed is already planted and everything else is just a PR.

New comment by pattt in "Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals"

pattt — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:20:05 +0000

Different regions play complementary roles in the global economy. The oversimplified description is that the US drives innovation and risk-taking, Europe prioritizes social welfare and sustainability and Asia powers manufacturing. Forcing everyone to compete in the US-style growth race would be disastrous - imagine the burnouts, resource drain and market instability if every country tried to be Silicon Valley. Plus, many Europeans simply don't share the "get rich quick" mentality - they value work-life balance and social security more. Whether we're being pushed into this growth-obsessed game is another debate. Ideally, regions should focus on their strengths while maintaining independence. Europe can keep its social model while smartly adopting tech, Asia can focus on sustainable industry, and the US can lead in innovation. It's like an ecosystem - diversity makes it stronger. The goal shouldn't be for everyone to play the same exhausting game, but to maintain different approaches that complement each other.

New comment by pattt in "ChatGPT Search"

pattt — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:06:33 +0000

If you consider complex forms of life serving as an entropy-increasing phenomenon, then you might as well consider that the evolutionary algorithm is governed by such goals. It's even plausible to take the human behaviors like increasing consumerism and growth-orientation as being connected to this fundamental thermodynamic drive. Perhaps we'll find even more efficient principles to drive our consumption further.

New comment by pattt in "Unbundling Tools for Thought"

pattt — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:46:10 +0000

I tried taking notes for learning and brainstorming over the years but found it incredibly difficult, not because of a lack of note taking frameworks, apps or technologies but because _sustaining_ this process is hard. Reading posts like these makes me quite envious of author’s dedication. Recently I was contemplating about a possible lightweight middle ground solution where I think a more polished software would certainly help - _highlighting_. Imagine if you could simply highlight/select any text/image on the screen of any app (ok, let’s start with the few), optionally assign different colors, tags and have those highlights automatically synchronized in a sort of a searchable personal diary format. The main feature of such tool would be cropping and indexing what’s already read and seen as opposed to having to summarize/rephrase or enrich it with your own notes. Why I think software in this case reducing friction to a minimum would help? As opposed to taking notes, identifying illuminating corner-stone paragraphs and sentences mostly feels like an implicit process that happens naturally at least in my experience.

New comment by pattt in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

pattt — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 13:51:51 +0000

GPT3, Stable Diffusion etc. will really kick off. People will start accepting these blackbox Big Data sequence prediction models as a new norm, a powerful assistance for all sorts of domains. There will be some resistance but the argument that one doesn’t need to understand digestion in order to eat food and survive will eventually settle and the path of these models becoming a natural extension of our minds will be laid out. We will see different interfaces (speech recognition, OCR) and pipelines being created to fit these models into real problem solving pipelines and address their inaccuracies, i.e., with additional fact/spec checking and computation logic. some successful startups and products will emerge mostly from folks who already started their ventures into this space.

Microsoft Exec Says Activision Deal Is Fair Because PS Has Way More Exclusives

pattt — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:14:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-exec-says-xboxs-activision-deal-is-fair-because-playstation-has-way-more-exclusives

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33985607

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by pattt in "Alien Truth"

pattt — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:31:43 +0000

Fully agreed, the way I'd approach this would be that the said mathematical proofs about certain truths "by definition" rely on human logic as the main building block and substrate. Logic is a human basis of agreeing which seems necessary evolutionary. Counting and separating observable objects turned out to be quite necessary for survival as well. Hence this statement seems to imply that aliens would need to have a corresponding logic reasoning system and observational abilities. If that was the case perhaps there would be a strong inclination to believe that the isomorphic reasoning would be deduced.

New comment by pattt in "So you want to study mathematics"

pattt — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 20:30:49 +0000

Spivak’s Calculus reignited my interest and appreciation in math. Sad to discover the author passed away quite recently. The way of explaining principles and making you do the hard work via problems which I believe is a must with this book, is profoundly astonishing. There’s a lot of mathematical insight packed into those problems, it almost feels you can build up the entire high school and the early uni curriculum from the ground up, for instance there are a number of popular formulas you’d arrive at and derive accidentally while working on those problems. Furthermore it really works your brains by making sure you can reason within the established framework and exercise great doubt. I’m taking this book very slowly.

New comment by pattt in "It's OK to not be passionate about your job"

pattt — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:54:39 +0000

To each their own, but overemphasis of the need for passion might just be pushing societies towards even more workaholism. Being passionate about your job you would probably end up spending more hours, much more effort, making it your utmost priority. We could see these as desirable properties for the businesses, but at what cost for individuals?

New comment by pattt in "Yoga and meditation do not quiet the ego but instead boost self-enhancement (2018)"

pattt — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 11:08:57 +0000

Some spiritual traditions and teachers (e.g classical yoga) treat this as a trap, it’s highly advised to forget about your practice and go about your day after the daily session. They maintain that the lifestyle will adjust (or not) naturally depending on one’s needs, and those needs are usually not what the ego wants at least in its initial condition. This includes talking to others about your practice in particular unacquainted ones, any drastic adjustments to one’s diet, schedule. Any sort of excitement or obsession about the practice are detrimental, at least from the classical yoga technology perspective. But then again as the top comment says this really depends on the approach, it seems like marketing such Oriental practices as productivity/wellness hacks with immediate effects provides more excitement and profitability than just following your sensations while steadily performing a few easy looking and un-complicated asanas.

New comment by pattt in "IPython 8.0"

pattt — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 19:54:47 +0000

Any recommended workflow of integrating IPython and vim in 2022 preferably being able to edit the notebooks, execute cells etc.? Currently this is one of the few reasons why I’m running a full-blown IDE with Jupyter integration. A mature plugin for integration having similar qualities to, say, Fugitive, would be vim users dream I suppose.

New comment by pattt in "Ask HN: What is something important I should start doing in my 20s?"

pattt — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:09:10 +0000

There are already many great suggestions from others with a number of positive things you can do that will most likely have a good impact on your future, now it's all about you making choices. I'll give you just one and a simple one that I found to be an essential building block when growing up and trying to make sense out of things around which can sometimes become overwhelming.

Exercise independent thought and awareness of yourself (self-inquiry) and those around you.

Give yourself time to do it, sink it in. Time invested in understanding yourself will bring great appreciation for life which will lay a solid foundation for all the positive things to come in your future.

New comment by pattt in "Overloaded: Is there simply too much culture?"

pattt — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:34:51 +0000

Very interesting find which can have one ponder about some ideas on the perspective that nothing is really new, just changing shapes. Even if you consider the advent of AI and us striving to build higher intelligence models to me it all just seems to be stemming from solving problems via abstractions (shortcuts) using evolving frameworks of logic and math. Eventually our interest to automate things and discover all the secret sauce of problem solving got us here. However regarding Seneca you might imagine that a long while ago information retrieval wasn't that efficient and required significant amount of patience and planning which one might argue is being "optimized away" with the technology nowadays. This seems to correspond to how our brain works by optimizing energy expenditure. I remember reading somewhere that such optimization is in principle what causes us to make premature assumptions so that we don't have to do the heavy lifting by thoroughly digesting all the information that is being presented to us which is probably what we can experience in peer interactions or just skimming through those articles and comments daily.

New comment by pattt in "Ask HN: What’s the Next Big Thing?"

pattt — Wed, 05 May 2021 08:41:41 +0000

Any starting points for some of us who still don't "get it"? Having done an introductory course on Bitcoin (coursera) I found it interesting especially for somebody with a bit of crypto/security background, however it didn't really deliver that long lasting wow effect.

New comment by pattt in "Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation"

pattt — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:00:42 +0000

Zen masters also rejected meditation as a means to the spiritual progress because there is no such thing in the tradition. Sitting quietly is more appropriate IMHO.

New comment by pattt in "Myths about how the brain works"

pattt — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:07:30 +0000

I'm not somebody well informed about neuroscience hence apologies if I'm implying something that's against the common knowledge in your domain. One impression upon reading articles like these seems to be that there's a lot of research and curiosity about the way brain works together but the core model of "brain is composed of communicating neurons" seems to be generally accepted. Does that suggest that we already understand how a single neuron behaves in isolation? I'm mainly interested in the microscale model from the perspective of simulation, for example in the Wiki page of the Human Brain Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Brain_Project) among the obstacles it's mentioned that "detailed neuron representations are very computationally expensive", does it mean that we already cracked the microscale, i.e., defined exactly how a neuron behaves in a computational (mathematical) model? Perhaps the substantial intricacies of the brain can also arise in the microscale level depending on cellular mechanisms, nutrition and other side effects?

New comment by pattt in "Female Founder Secrets: Fertility"

pattt — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:05:51 +0000

I personally agree with your sentiment but the two provided advice examples are not comparable, it's not just about giving a birth but also raising your kids which can give your career a good break. Incidentally this perspective also reveals our sad state of priorities.

New comment by pattt in "Go typosquatting package relays info to tech firm"

pattt — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:24:32 +0000

Kudos for removing the nation from the title to neutralize the bait and keep it technical. I know this comment doesn't contribute much, just wanted to acknowledge the effort.

New comment by pattt in "Facebook reveals friends list even when it’s set to private"

pattt — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 12:37:25 +0000

1) Create a completely new zero account with no connections.

2) Send a friend request to a user whose "private" friends you want to see.

3) Immediately withdraw your friend request.

4) See the "people you might know" list, voilà.

(at least it used to work for me about a year ago when i was looking for one girl)