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New comment by wordpad25 in "The housing theory of everything (2021)"

wordpad25 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 02:49:43 +0000

Don't you think it helps seeing opposing perspective, especially if it might likely be the majority opinion rather than just be an echo chamber of all the other comments agreeing with each other on how it's unfair and inefficient how unaffordable housing has become?

New comment by wordpad25 in "Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working"

wordpad25 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:02:23 +0000

average and median inheritance is tiny, few thousand dollars

New comment by wordpad25 in "GPT-4.5"

wordpad25 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:36:21 +0000

I tried it out, looks nice and clean.

But as I mentioned, my main concern is what will happen in 6 months when you fail to get traction and abandon it. Because that's what happened to previous 5 products I tried which were all "good enough" .

Getrecall seems to have a big enough user base that will actually stick around.

New comment by wordpad25 in "GPT-4.5"

wordpad25 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:51:33 +0000

there are literally hundreds of extensions and sites that do this

the problem is that they are competing each other into the ground hence they go unmaintained very quickly

getrecall.ai has been the most mature so far

New comment by wordpad25 in "A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter"

wordpad25 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:20 +0000

Does that mean LLMs can already be considered conscious at some level since they are able to reason and self reflect?

New comment by wordpad25 in "Show HN: LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced)"

wordpad25 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:42:05 +0000

Pokémon guides were definitely part of every LLM training set. Game is so old, there are thousands of guides and videos on the topic.

LLMs will readily offer high quality Pokémon gameplay advice without needing to searc online.

New comment by wordpad25 in "Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning"

wordpad25 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:26:36 +0000

the diagrams are accurate and amazing!

what do you use to draw them?

New comment by wordpad25 in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

wordpad25 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:32:53 +0000

with LLMs able to generate infinite synthetic data to train on it seems like AGI is just around the corner

New comment by wordpad25 in "Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights"

wordpad25 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:50:44 +0000

how is it net negative effect? they have Hundreds of millions of ACTIVE users

even if it was spun off to be stand alone product without Instagram it would still be worth billions

New comment by wordpad25 in "Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math"

wordpad25 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:17:21 +0000

Advances math helps with developing logical thinking and in general makes you smarter.

But I agree we could achieve same results by teaching more practical skills. Maybe, programming (data structures and algorithms) over calculus?

New comment by wordpad25 in "I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up"

wordpad25 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:58:45 +0000

fair

New comment by wordpad25 in "I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up"

wordpad25 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:14:44 +0000

I've been all over China and it's true current generations are only all too happy to be rich and quite often obscenely rich.

They have very real understanding that all of it could be unilaterally taken away by the state at any time, so even if they flash their wealth they keep their mouths shut. At the same time many do buy in to state propoganda.

But what of their children who are born into comfort of middle class and are less materialistic and willing to fight to justice?

New comment by wordpad25 in "I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up"

wordpad25 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:32:14 +0000

such a shift in demographics will bring a lot of difficult societal problems that come with emerging Middle Class who will want more housing and more freedoms

New comment by wordpad25 in "The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: Science and Sacrifice in a City Under Siege"

wordpad25 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:21:29 +0000

Lets not forget that's where WW2 was fought and won. With two thirds of German army committed to eastern front, the entire D-day Normandy is just a pheriphiral operation.

Even Soviet propaganda aside, Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg now) objectively wasn't abandoned due to naked greed of the elite, after all USSR was fighting for survival and had to make tough decisions. Even if Stalin didn't care about the people, the city itself was really important strategically.

New comment by wordpad25 in "Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts"

wordpad25 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:51:56 +0000

hey, that's a niche too

just tag it in a non-offensive way (deep-state related?) and allow other users to filter it out

New comment by wordpad25 in "Show HN: I made a language tool that forces you to talk"

wordpad25 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:33:23 +0000

How did you get the latency so low?

Is it going through your own backend or directly connects to OpenAI for transcription?

New comment by wordpad25 in "Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts"

wordpad25 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:16:24 +0000

doctors don't have any experience doing that and are set in their ways

Maybe, it's diagnosing chronic conditions is an opportunity for a disruptive startup?

Crowd sourced diagnosis detective work!

Call it DrHouse.io, you dump your data and hobbyist doctor investigators try to figure a diagnosis that fits all the symptoms

Top ranking users collect mad fees from "commissioned" diagnosis.

New comment by wordpad25 in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

wordpad25 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:59:49 +0000

That's like saying you can't compare a sedan to a truck.

Sure you can.

Even though one is more appropriate for certain tasks than the other.

New comment by wordpad25 in "More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals"

wordpad25 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:16:10 +0000

From your strawman example, 1-employee companies wouldn't be competitive and even a small team would be able to offer more value than anybody else competing for funding due to deficiencies of scale.

Why doesn't this happen with research?

New comment by wordpad25 in "More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals"

wordpad25 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:08:25 +0000

Whoever is funding projects are probably also interested in results over beaurocracy and it's not immediately clear how they are at all locked into this system.

They got the money, they set the rules of the game.

The fact that this isn't solves tells me that it's difficult or impossible to actually recognize promising ideas except to go by track record which leads to the problems you mentioned.