Hacker News: taylorius

New comment by taylorius in "How to Write English Prose"

taylorius — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:47:45 +0000

I think Baroque is the wrong descriptor for those passages actually. The constructions employed in both are very varied, its true, and the vocabulary is wide, not to mention archaic to our modern ears - but all the words are performing a useful function in conveying what the author wanted to say. There is not much pointless ornamentation.

New comment by taylorius in "Grok 4.5"

taylorius — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:30:45 +0000

You're not voting it into office (yet, anyway. Haha). Aren't we all just using these models to write code?

New comment by taylorius in "Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D"

taylorius — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:39:48 +0000

Is it not that certain train lines are somewhat deep underground? The Piccadilly line swims with respect to the ground in the centre of town, when it is below ground. Further out where lines are at the surface the routes stick to the ground correctly.

New comment by taylorius in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

taylorius — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:31:50 +0000

"and other countries" - kind of a short list, that.

New comment by taylorius in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

taylorius — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:12:21 +0000

I think you mean hsoows hsoows

New comment by taylorius in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

taylorius — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:55:12 +0000

As the saying goes - "Alcohol is an excellent servant, but a terrible master." The same could be said for Metrics. So much is measurable these days, and we love to watch the chart go up or down. If it hasn't been measured, it doesn't exist. And the bureaucrats conjure reality with nothing but a spreadsheet and the flourish of a rubber stamp.

New comment by taylorius in "Software never had a soul"

taylorius — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:55:07 +0000

Like someone who saw U2 in a small club in Dublin in the 1970s noting that they're not the same anymore. The internet used to be a Sub Culture. Now its the whole world.

New comment by taylorius in "IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses"

taylorius — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:40:25 +0000

pretty cool. I wonder if they could add a zoom lens feature, like if you squint a bit, the lens could form into a magnifier.

New comment by taylorius in "Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?"

taylorius — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:15:49 +0000

100% yes. As you say, Psychosis is an exaggeration but frazzled captures it. And it's definitely a feeling that "this is such an opportunity, but the window will close - got to make the most of it somehow". Very stressful in a diffuse kind of way.

New comment by taylorius in "The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation"

taylorius — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:39:41 +0000

And I shall raise you the Stipa Caproni

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/13/the-strange-barrel...

New comment by taylorius in "Ask HN: Is Claude down again?"

taylorius — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:41:06 +0000

Forte of the gaps :-) I'm exactly the same.

New comment by taylorius in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

taylorius — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:33:05 +0000

Heredity is only one of many flavours of cronyism.

New comment by taylorius in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

taylorius — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:48:47 +0000

I'm working on a native code backtester that compiles pinescript strategies, and (hopefully) runs them super fast. Also a parameter optimiser with different scoring methods.

New comment by taylorius in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

taylorius — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:35:05 +0000

I thought Claude Monet - Impressionist techniques applied to coding.

New comment by taylorius in "Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI"

taylorius — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:06:04 +0000

"the dumb money"

New comment by taylorius in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

taylorius — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:11:47 +0000

maybe different preparatory "system" prompts?

New comment by taylorius in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

taylorius — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:23:21 +0000

On the contrary - the LLM has had it's own version of "skin in the game" through the whole of it's training. Reinforcement learning is nothing but that. Why is that less real than putting a person in prison. Is it because of the LLM itself, or because you don't trust the people selling it to you?

New comment by taylorius in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

taylorius — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:39:10 +0000

Why can LLMs not be responsible for things? (genuine question - I'm not certain myself).

New comment by taylorius in "Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?"

taylorius — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:11:39 +0000

I think the linear least squares is like a shear, whereas the eigenvector is a rotation.

New comment by taylorius in "Functional Flocking Quadtree in ClojureScript"

taylorius — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:39:29 +0000

This title is like an optical illusion, but for swearing.