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New comment by psbp in "Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13"

psbp — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:23:59 +0000

The Caravaggio was incredible too.

New comment by psbp in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

psbp — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:08:29 +0000

Doesn't pass the analog clock test either.

New comment by psbp in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

psbp — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:03:44 +0000

I have been this person. I can say that it's not a time of my life I look back on fondly.

New comment by psbp in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

psbp — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:46:54 +0000

The process of thinking and exploring ideas is inherently enriching.

Nothing can take away your ability to have incredible experiences, except if the robots kill us all.

New comment by psbp in "Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise"

psbp — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:24:45 +0000

There is legal precedent establishing healthcare providers' obligations in life-threatening situations. The same moral responsibility should exist when insurers deny lifesaving care, it's just hidden behind bureaucracy.

New comment by psbp in "The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education"

psbp — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:44:29 +0000

The interactive element itself could be really powerful. If you could put some restrictions on how much of the answer it can give you all at once, it's the perfect incremental learning tool.

New comment by psbp in "AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level"

psbp — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 20:24:38 +0000

It's funny that if I could describe my entire career, it would probably be something similar to software janitor/maintenance worker.

I guess I should have pursued a PhD when I was younger.

New comment by psbp in "Veo"

psbp — Tue, 14 May 2024 20:51:48 +0000

My brain processes too slow for modern action movies.

I can tell what's going on, but I always end up feeling agitated.

New comment by psbp in "About That OpenAI "Breakthrough""

psbp — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 21:53:04 +0000

Skeptic and completely reactionary. I had to unfollow him on Twitter because he always has to have a "take" on every AI headline, and he's often contradictory between "AI is useless" and "AI is a huge threat".

New comment by psbp in "Microsoft Swallows OpenAI's Core Team – GPU Capacity, Incentives, IP"

psbp — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:29:31 +0000

This is such a complete misreading of what's happening. Not sure why I keep seeing this on HN.

New comment by psbp in "OpenAI's chaos does not add up"

psbp — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:29:06 +0000

You don't understand how much value was lost, even if OpenAI perfectly migrates over to Microsoft (it will be messy). Sam had no incentive to not continue with the existing OpenAI structure.

New comment by psbp in "Why did Ilya fire Sam Altman? What are the exact reasons?"

psbp — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 02:17:03 +0000

No one knows.

New comment by psbp in "OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO"

psbp — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:59:08 +0000

I'd like to hear more about the board's argument before deciding that this was "virtuous board vs greedy capitalist". The motivations for both sides is still unclear.

New comment by psbp in "15 Years of Android Memories"

psbp — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 06:41:08 +0000

Android 14 has been a buggy mess for me on the Pixel 7 Pro. It's confounding that Google is still pushing out buggy Android releases.

New comment by psbp in ""Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People", 7 Years Later"

psbp — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 01:27:16 +0000

I've been using pictures of artifacts from random museum visits through the years to test the recent vision models. GPT-V is the first that has gotten anywhere close to identifying them accurately.

It's usually able to identify 1) The materials the artifact is made out of 2) The country/region it came from 3) the significance/use of the item 4) roughly when it was created.

The images that I'm sharing are my own, so it's not pulling the images directly from the internet, and for some of the artifacts it's actually difficult to find similar images online.

I think it's fairly safe to say that it's truly able to perform advanced image analysis with images that aren't directly in its dataset.

New comment by psbp in "We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT"

psbp — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:24:50 +0000

Google demoed this a few months ago

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/rt-2-new-model-translates-visi...

New comment by psbp in "Hell is ourselves"

psbp — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:21:00 +0000

"Hell is other people" is supposed to mean "Hell is ourselves"

It seems like the article makes the connection, but it doesn't make it clear that the whole point of the famous line is that a critical self-perception, sprouted from a fear of an ambiguous, judgmental "other", is truly our undoing.

New comment by psbp in "Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]"

psbp — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 20:07:53 +0000

I was always insecure about my intelligence and I remember coming away with this same idea from the book. Life is really just a series of experiences. You don't need to meet a certain standard or qualify yourself in order to have positive experiences or to have an impact. We often place so much emphasis on comparison and measuring our success/potential that we miss the whole process of living.

New comment by psbp in "Ask HN: I am lost in life. How do I fix this?"

psbp — Tue, 31 May 2022 11:24:19 +0000

Weightlifting has definitely helped me. There's something very simple about the progress (but incredibly complex when you really get into it), and it helps that your whole body just starts feeling better. One tip I have is to make sure you can activate your core before starting stronglifts. Practice breathing into your stomach and bracing, laying flat on your back and lifting your legs up while engaging your core, etc. By learning how to engage your core properly, you'll avoid injury early on.

New comment by psbp in "The Texas electric grid can barely keep the lights on"

psbp — Sat, 14 May 2022 19:47:57 +0000

July and August are much hotter. The suggestion is that if the Texas grid cannot handle unseasonable weather by a month or two, we are in a very dangerous situation going forward. Especially since unexpected weather seems to be increasingly common.