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New comment by thuuuomas in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

thuuuomas — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:25:39 +0000

Tell me, is the deployment of that famous talking sand at all resource-constrained?

New comment by thuuuomas in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

thuuuomas — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:35:55 +0000

We aren’t even mining asteroids near Earth’s orbit. Space colonization is a ketamine dream. There’s no extraterrestrial economy. Earth is all we have. One pie.

New comment by thuuuomas in "Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?"

thuuuomas — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:16:34 +0000

In a phrase: Worse Is Better

New comment by thuuuomas in "Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing"

thuuuomas — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:23:42 +0000

My concern with something like this is content marketing or other forms of surreptitious advertising.

Will you clearly indicate “boosted” authors/publishers/pieces?

New comment by thuuuomas in "How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs"

thuuuomas — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:29:31 +0000

> Corporations and governments are made of actual people.

Hand-waving away the complex incentives these superhuman structures follow & impose.

New comment by thuuuomas in "Learning music with Strudel"

thuuuomas — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:20:36 +0000

Yeah, it's on codeberg https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel

New comment by thuuuomas in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

thuuuomas — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:47:25 +0000

Glad we agree that the “builder” without craft is just looking for the nearest exit.

New comment by thuuuomas in "Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people"

thuuuomas — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:01:55 +0000

In the United States, the working poor are considered deserving of their burdens in an immutable, moralizing, Calvinist way. “They make bad choices.” “They have bad culture.” “They have bad genes.”

New comment by thuuuomas in "I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits"

thuuuomas — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 03:23:53 +0000

Today’s public benchmarks are yesterday’s training data.

New comment by thuuuomas in "Deep Learning Is Applied Topology"

thuuuomas — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:21:03 +0000

I cannot understand this prideful resentment of theory common among self-described practitioners.

Even if existing theory is inadequate, would an operating theory not be beneficial?

Or is the mystique combined with guess&check drudgery job security?

New comment by thuuuomas in "Suno v4.5"

thuuuomas — Fri, 02 May 2025 22:38:19 +0000

> If you like it or it makes you feel something, that's all that matters.

You’re right!

> Even jazz uses 6-2-5-1's over and over.

You’re not even wrong! I wonder if jazz does anything else besides that?

New comment by thuuuomas in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

thuuuomas — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:10:57 +0000

A major floodplain in Michigan has a similar problem with dioxin contamination.

https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/mdhhs/Fold...

New comment by thuuuomas in "Google discontinuing work on Dart macros"

thuuuomas — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:36:12 +0000

In another world, macros could have filled the role that programmable yaml fills today.

New comment by thuuuomas in "Test-driven development with an LLM for fun and profit"

thuuuomas — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:12:32 +0000

You’re narrowly addressing LLM use cases & omitting the most problematic one - LLMs as search engine replacements.

New comment by thuuuomas in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

thuuuomas — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 17:48:45 +0000

I tire of this disingenuous comparison. The failure modes of (experienced, professional) humans are vastly different than the failure modes of LLMs. How many coworkers do you have that frequently, wildly hallucinate while still performing effectively? Furthermore, (even experienced, professional) humans are known to be fallible & are treated as such. No matter how many gentle reminders the informed give the enraptured, LLMs will continue to be treated as oracles by a great many people, to the detriment of their application.

New comment by thuuuomas in "Cultural Evolution of Cooperation Among LLM Agents"

thuuuomas — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:17:36 +0000

Why are they attempting to model LLM update rollouts at all? They repeatedly concede their setup bears little resemblance to IRL deployments experiencing updates. Feels like unnecessary grandeur in what is otherwise an interesting paper.

New comment by thuuuomas in "AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells"

thuuuomas — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:54:07 +0000

The negative tone of some comments here betrays that techno optimist suggestion that tech will solve environmental issues. Clearly, the incentives just aren’t there!

New comment by thuuuomas in "They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard"

thuuuomas — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:32:08 +0000

There’s a decent supercollider implementation as well

https://github.com/everythingwillbetakenaway/DX7-Supercollid...

New comment by thuuuomas in "AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably"

thuuuomas — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:42:58 +0000

These results speak towards the absence of an audience for poetry as much as they do the aptitude of LLMs for creative writing.

New comment by thuuuomas in "The AI Investment Boom"

thuuuomas — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:12:58 +0000

Would you feel comfortable pushing generated code to production unaudited?