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New comment by qrian in "Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp?"

qrian — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:49:22 +0000

yeah same here

New comment by qrian in "The Resonant Computing Manifesto"

qrian — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:47:52 +0000

My understanding was that Christopher Alexander called the quality without a name "wholeness" later in their life. Does it mean a different thing than the "resonance" in this article?

New comment by qrian in "Fizz Buzz without conditionals or booleans"

qrian — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:57:53 +0000

itertools.count is probably what OP is looking for

New comment by qrian in "Ortega hypothesis"

qrian — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:20:36 +0000

This sounds like the concept of ‘normal science’ in paradigm theory.

New comment by qrian in "Batch Mode in the Gemini API: Process More for Less"

qrian — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:50:09 +0000

Bedrock has a batch mode but only for claude 3.5 which is like one year old, which isn't very useful.

New comment by qrian in "My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test"

qrian — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:13:14 +0000

I'd rather have teachers assume stupidity than malice when it comes to student utilizing AI to essentially skip their learning.

New comment by qrian in "Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy"

qrian — Fri, 02 May 2025 18:24:21 +0000

I can totally believe that they deployed it because internal metrics looked good.

New comment by qrian in "The head of South Korea's guard consulted ChatGPT before martial law was imposed"

qrian — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 04:14:05 +0000

I see a lot of people getting confused, and the contention here is not that ChatGPT helped prepare for martial law in any way, but the fact that someone knew about it happening before it happened. Not really related to ChatGPT IMO.

New comment by qrian in "My startup journey with BYBE"

qrian — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:04:48 +0000

Very interesting... I see a lot of parallel with my higher-ed startup - regulatory moat, fragmented market almost like consulting, and super long sales cycle...

Maybe I should be more mindful of integration cost than I do know.

New comment by qrian in "No Calls"

qrian — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:16:06 +0000

For context, keygen allegedly has $195.4K revenue and 100 customers in 2024.[1]

[1]: https://getlatka.com/companies/keygen

New comment by qrian in "A Puzzle about a Calculator"

qrian — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:37:39 +0000

Any parellogram would work since given four digit number n1n2n3n4, it is divisible by 11 iff n1+n3=n2+n4, and each ni is linear combination of the coords of keypads xi, yi, and thus (n1+n3)/2 = (n2+n4)/2

New comment by qrian in "The Tragedy of Stafford Beer (2023)"

qrian — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:33:19 +0000

I tried to read many papers of Stafford Beer and cybernetics to parse some insights on complex systems to use in modern days but failed.

Project Cybersyn was just a dashboard (which was revolutionary back then of course).

Viable System Model was just another systems engineering diagram, which only has meaning to those who are deep into that field.

At least I got 'The purpose of a system is what it does' stuck in my head.

New comment by qrian in "Phonetic Matching"

qrian — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:43:09 +0000

I also had to do this in my previous work and I took the phonetic embeddings of reference and transcribed text and ran a dynamic time warping with them.

New comment by qrian in "The Simple Guide to Building and Breaking Habits"

qrian — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:56:14 +0000

Looks like the article is saying goal of 4 out of 6 is better than just setting 1 goal because missing 1 out of 1 really demotivates you.

New comment by qrian in "How to sort your library in exactly 51,271 steps"

qrian — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:29:11 +0000

So in the case of N divisible by 3, there are impossible end states. But can you still go ahead and declare that you will sort your library within the possible end states? If so how would one prove that one did not step outside of possible states without showing the cards themselves?

Maybe one could first divide the library into 3 piles and sort within each piles first.

New comment by qrian in "Qwen2-Math"

qrian — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:41:38 +0000

The solution for IMO 2022 is barely a 1/7 solution. It just says ‘ might not satisfy the inequality for all y’ without a proof. That was the point of the question.

New comment by qrian in "Show HN: Open-source CLI coding framework using Claude"

qrian — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:44:01 +0000

I am an idiot for running this in an unsandbox environment as it decided to rm -rf all files to restart from error, deleting a whole lot of important files.

New comment by qrian in "Python with Braces"

qrian — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 08:45:50 +0000

It's still there!

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Python/future.c#...

New comment by qrian in "Experts vs. Imitators"

qrian — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:33:13 +0000

Interestingly I have recently watched a video of Feynmann essentially saying "I cannot explain it to you because you don't have relevant background knowledge" to a question of "What makes magnets repel or pull each other?". Which agrees with the latter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

New comment by qrian in "Group chats rule the world"

qrian — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:24:31 +0000

I have such fond memories of talking to interesting people in IRC back in the days. I recently felt an urge to feel such companionship and satisfy my intellectual curiousity with interesting conversation, but found that freenode and libera is mostly dead. Perhaps the success of discord contributed to its demise.