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New comment by wolfium3 in "Y Combinator"

wolfium3 — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:37:18 +0000

Yeah, it's a bit obscure and "meta"...

Y Combinator is named after a computer science concept - the "combinator," and more specifically, the "Y combinator" function. Paul Graham and Robert Morris (co-founders of the Y combinator company), both computer scientists themselves, likely chose the name as a nod to their background and the company's focus on technology startups. The Y combinator function is a higher-order function used in functional programming languages that allows for the creation of anonymous functions, which can be useful for creating new functions from existing ones. This aligns with the company's mission of helping startups to iterate quickly and efficiently.

Also see: https://www.ycombinator.com/faq under `Why did you choose the name “Y Combinator?`

New comment by wolfium3 in "Elon Musk to Develop 'TruthGPT'"

wolfium3 — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:27:17 +0000

Catchy name. He should also make another social media company called Truth Social. Oh wait..

New comment by wolfium3 in "Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?"

wolfium3 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 18:04:49 +0000

You can use their online tool to see how it tokenizes words: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

New comment by wolfium3 in "Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)"

wolfium3 — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:23:36 +0000

Depends on person to person. For me it's on the order of ~20-30 minutes.

New comment by wolfium3 in "Sam Altman wants to convince billions to scan eyes to prove they aren’t bots"

wolfium3 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 10:38:48 +0000

Terrible idea. Any form of biometrics are effectively passwords that can not be changed/rotated. If the data is compromised/leaked even once, it's useless.

Edit: That said, one of the other commented this: "Eyeballs are usernames not passwords". I think that's ok-ish...

New comment by wolfium3 in "Linux vs. Mac"

wolfium3 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 09:00:30 +0000

I switched in the other direction (Mac to Linux).

I grew up with Windows PC's + laptops and Mac's keyboard and general way of doing things was just always really unintuitive (maybe infuriating?) for me.

I also didn't like Mac's prescriptive attitude toward me as a user. It's MY machine. I bought it, it belongs to ME. I should be able to do whatever I want to the deepest parts of the configs if I feel inclined to do so. (Like "right to repair" I would like something similar to "right to full control of my own hardware")

New comment by wolfium3 in "Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?"

wolfium3 — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 07:07:44 +0000

I think I once got it to get out of "buy" mode by lying to it and telling it I'm in a sanctioned country. Maybe it's a trick that could work for you :)

New comment by wolfium3 in "Spike mRNA vaccine sequences circulate in blood up to 28 days after vaccination"

wolfium3 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:24:59 +0000

Isn't that a good thing though? I.e. promote the production of more training material for the immune system for longer?

(Please correct me in the thread if my understanding is incorrect)

New comment by wolfium3 in "ChatGPT makes up fake academic papers"

wolfium3 — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:30:41 +0000

In my view, underestimating the platform's capabilities may lead one to assume its imminent shutdown. For instance, I find the platform particularly useful for generating succinct bullet-point summaries of articles, enabling me to consume content in 1 minute instead of, say, 15 minutes.

New comment by wolfium3 in "Why is there so much useless and unreliable software?"

wolfium3 — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:02:55 +0000

Because of "Agile" planning practices. Get things barely working (MVP) then move onto the next project to make sure your manager's manager stays happy.

New comment by wolfium3 in "Why is remote work seen as a gift?"

wolfium3 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:07:01 +0000

It strongly depends on your personality type. I'm much, much, much more productive WFH due to my ADHD.

Also, noise cancelling earphones did NOT help while I was still in the office.

New comment by wolfium3 in "Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now"

wolfium3 — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:17:41 +0000

Wow... after some searching I eventually found out what PG is... Paul Graham (PG) wrote an essay titled "The Submarine". http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Loab is showing us the unimaginable future of artificial intelligence

wolfium3 — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 08:41:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-26/loab-age-of-artificial-intelligence-future/101678206

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34135877

Points: 5

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New comment by wolfium3 in "Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says"

wolfium3 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 16:54:26 +0000

I sincerely hope they don't repair it and instead focus more on building up infrastructure around renewable energy sources.

New comment by wolfium3 in "Ask HN: Why are today's consumers not discerning what is ad and what is not?"

wolfium3 — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:23:49 +0000

I think it depends on your tolerance for ads. I hate ads so much I end up closing browser tabs or switching off whatever appliance they're on. My hate for ads is much greater than the love for the content they are attached to.

New comment by wolfium3 in "Ask HN: What are the reasons behind your success as a self-taught programmer?"

wolfium3 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:42:47 +0000

- My dad taught me the "dir" and "cd" commands very early and encouraged me to try out all the "exe" files I could find on the computer.

- I eventually discovered QBASIC.EXE and it had really good copy-paste examples which got me into programming.

New comment by wolfium3 in "Substitute certain overhyped programming terms with more accurate replacements"

wolfium3 — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:17:06 +0000

If you expand a NN to decision trees, the resulting decision tree(s) can take up orders of magnitude more space and take orders of magnitude more time to run than the original NN.

The paper is discussed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_okxGdHM5b8

New comment by wolfium3 in "Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?"

wolfium3 — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:32:11 +0000

Dataform comes to mind (if you set it up to use git like that)

New comment by wolfium3 in "Five hours' sleep is tipping point for bad health"

wolfium3 — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:24:16 +0000

Scary! How does the treatment for such a condition/situation even work?

New comment by wolfium3 in "Machine learning’s crumbling foundations"

wolfium3 — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 07:42:20 +0000

I'm not 100% familiar with the details - there's a ML component that calculates some stuff to narrow the ES search down (like categories), then at the end there's another ML system that re-ranks things. (ES alone doesn't give the best results)