Hacker News: tazoptica

New comment by tazoptica in "How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)"

tazoptica — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:54:45 +0000

1. Use Mathematica.

2. Draw the rest of the butt.

New comment by tazoptica in "Ask HN: How to get better at writing?"

tazoptica — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 16:11:36 +0000

Read a lot and write a lot but also edit your own work a lot, putting intervals between editing passes. There is no shortcut. A million words and you’ll be publishable. Three or for million and you might start to approach good. A third party editor might help but could also hurt and isn’t worth it unless the project requires it. Beyond what grammarly can do, labelled data is going to be in short supply— it’s mostly an unsupervised problem. Your most important editor will be you.

New comment by tazoptica in "The Overlords Finally Showed Up"

tazoptica — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 15:58:39 +0000

It’s unpredictable what the future looks like but I agree there is something new in AI’s revealed capabilities.

This could “frontfire” (that is, backfire against bad actors). The web has been flooded with corporate sock puppetry for a decade, drowning out legitimate content. What ChatGPT is scaring people about has been within an epsilon dollar amount of being true for a long time.

New comment by tazoptica in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

tazoptica — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 15:50:33 +0000

I think they’re going to blow their wad trying to take down a currently obscure debut novelist. They won’t do anything stupidly illegal because he isn’t actually that important to them, but the minor scandal will expose a few threads that the world will pull upon…

Y Combinator might not actually “go SBF” till mid year 2024 but they will start in 23… and out of sheer pettiness.