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New comment by samiskin in "Show HN: 18 Words"

samiskin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:31:31 +0000

Fun game though I wish it left more time for the longer words, also wish we could have the letters in one line and shuffle them

New comment by samiskin in "Try and"

samiskin — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 16:43:47 +0000

I think this capture’s the essence better than anything else, “try and” simply behaving as “try and see if I can” (or whatever fits instead of “I” here)

New comment by samiskin in "Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space"

samiskin — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:09:59 +0000

Language is definitely a significant part of thinking, but when I remember how cold it was outside yesterday to figure out if it was colder than today, I'm not bringing words to mind. I'm bringing up some other non-discrete information that I could never precisely encode into words and then factoring that in with the other non-discrete information I'm currently taking in through my senses. Its only after that processing that I encode it as a lossy "It was colder yesterday" statement.

New comment by samiskin in "Language models can explain neurons in language models"

samiskin — Tue, 09 May 2023 23:16:59 +0000

Evolution created intelligence without even being intelligent itself

New comment by samiskin in "Programming breakthroughs we need"

samiskin — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:31:13 +0000

This all makes sense given "for the contexts I care about (small web applications largely written by solo devs)". Unfortunately for you most software (and therefore what most developers work with) isn't for those contexts, but rather for larger projects written by multiple devs, where being lower level and compiled (runtime speed) and having static typing (more explicit and easily understood by other devs) become much more valued.

You'll probably always be in the minority with your preferences because of this.

New comment by samiskin in "Functional programming jargon in plain English"

samiskin — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 16:54:20 +0000

This makes a lot more sense than anything I've read about this in the past, thanks for the explanation!

New comment by samiskin in "State machine replication, and why you should care"

samiskin — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 22:16:40 +0000

This seems like a more restrictive version where the "Actors" must also be entirely deterministic and single threaded without really blocking in the middle of processing something.