Hacker News: repsak

New comment by repsak in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

repsak — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:19:28 +0000

Agent that browses the web, analyzes information, and creates reports. Grok calls it DeepSearch. Similar to gemini/openai deep research.

https://x.ai/news/grok-3#grok-agents-combining-reasoning-and...

New comment by repsak in "LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less"

repsak — Fri, 17 May 2024 20:57:39 +0000

I raise you the Gemini paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11805

New comment by repsak in "Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)"

repsak — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:53:46 +0000

Obviously self driving!

New comment by repsak in "Tell HN: GCP Offers No Support"

repsak — Wed, 04 May 2022 09:18:08 +0000

Not exactly support, but I've had some luck using their issue trackers

https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/issue-trackers

New comment by repsak in "SpaCy v3.0 Nightly"

repsak — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 17:23:22 +0000

Not sure what front page you are looking at. First thing it says on spacy.io is

Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing in Python

Followed by some decent descriptions and code examples.

New comment by repsak in "From dial-up to 5G: logging on to the internet"

repsak — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:05:24 +0000

Although the theoretical limit is higher I think 25 mbps ± a few is what you can expect in most of the world.

Here are some speed tests by country https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2018/02/state-of-lte

New comment by repsak in "Use of drugs by people seeking to boost mental performance is rising worldwide"

repsak — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 08:44:00 +0000

Without reading the paper this seems somewhat similar to my experience with modafinil. When fatigued or sleep deprived it can bring me back baseline but not much more.

New comment by repsak in "Use of drugs by people seeking to boost mental performance is rising worldwide"

repsak — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 08:36:03 +0000

Caffeine + l-theanine is the way to go if you feel "inpatient and restless" on coffee alone!

You could start with an even split then adjust the ratio depending on how you feel.

New comment by repsak in "A system to help you remember more of what you read"

repsak — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 13:17:45 +0000

It just means distributing your learning trough time, so basically the opposite of cramming.

I guess spaced repetition can be seen as a combination of distributed learning and practice testing.

I got the terminology from here

http://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z10jaVH/60XQM/full

Here is a nice summary of the results

http://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/s...

New comment by repsak in "A system to help you remember more of what you read"

repsak — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 13:08:13 +0000

I don't own a kindle but it looks like it's possible to download your highlights.

You could then bulk import them, possibly after some minor formatting manually or with a script

https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#importing-text-fil...

You would still have to go trough them and add cloze delitions.

If it's possible to add notes to your highlights you might be able to specify delitions there and then parse them.

I might actually do this myself for fun :)

New comment by repsak in "A system to help you remember more of what you read"

repsak — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 09:22:00 +0000

I've heard some good things about https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

To get a quick overview try table 4 p. 45 here

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1529100612453266

I try to follow

* Distributed learning/practice

* Practice testning

* Interleaved practice

New comment by repsak in "A system to help you remember more of what you read"

repsak — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 09:10:19 +0000

Just skimmed the article but underlining only seemed to be one small part of the method.

Understanding by summarizing into Anki cards and then making sure you remember it trough spaced repetition (both "output") seemed to be the most important part.

Distributed learning, practice testing and Interleaved practice all seem to have some scientific backing.

New comment by repsak in "How to build a React.js chat app in 10 minutes"

repsak — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:36:11 +0000

It depends, those titles are definitely click baity but the content isn't necessarily bad.

No one said you're done after doing one ten minute tutorial.

Check out some of these recommendations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591918

New comment by repsak in "Ask HN: How do you manage your manager?"

repsak — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:09:02 +0000

This is quite childish advice. Is this your solution all disagreements?

"You will then have the freedom to do whatever you want each and every single day, and won't have to spend all that time and energy constantly convincing someone of things that are often for their own good."

I wish!

Constantly convincing someone of things that are often for their own good is basically the definition of what you do when working for yourself, or should I say when your working for you clients/trying to acquire new clients.

New comment by repsak in "Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better"

repsak — Thu, 10 May 2018 17:49:02 +0000

You can y remove it in gnome too https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/545/hide-top-bar/

New comment by repsak in "Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms"

repsak — Thu, 10 May 2018 09:08:11 +0000

How do they compare to

Bishop: https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informat...

and

ESL: https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/

New comment by repsak in "You probably have too much motivation"

repsak — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:07:58 +0000

From the MIT challenge? I don't think that was the goal. If I remember correctly the blog, and his paid courses, are mostly about how to learn efficiently. So I'm guessing the purpose was part content marketing, part research and part general interest.

He's done something similar with language learning.

New comment by repsak in "How to make a game from scratch using Lua and Löve"

repsak — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:08:23 +0000

> The number one benefit you should get from a scripting language (Lua) as opposed to a compiled one (C) is higher productivity

OP is saying that since Lua is cumbersome to write you might as well write in C and get increased performance.

New comment by repsak in "Ask HN: Resources on vitamin D supplements and studies"

repsak — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:16:27 +0000

To add some anecdotal evidence... We basically get no sun for half of the year where I live. I find my subjective wellbeing has increased somewhat, especially during the winter months, since I started supplementing with 5000UI D3.

Other potential benefits are harder to measure, but the cost in terms of money and likelihood of adverse effects is so low I feel I might as well continue.

To add another data point, gwern has done some more rigorous self experiments https://www.gwern.net/zeo/Vitamin-D

New comment by repsak in "Ask HN: Resources on vitamin D supplements and studies"

repsak — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:11:33 +0000

Examine.com is a good starting point https://examine.com/supplements/vitamin-d/

If you scroll down to human effect matrix you can find links to studies based on results found.

The summary at the bottom is also pretty good.