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New comment by yagyu in "Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming""

yagyu — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:55:11 +0000

In the same vein, Asimov in 1956:

Baley shrugged. He would never teach himself to avoid asking useless questions. The robots knew. Period. It occurred to him that, to handle robots with true efficiency, one must needs be expert, a sort of roboticist. How well did the average Solarian do, he wondered?

AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds

yagyu — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:16:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m17d8827ko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43011499

Points: 10

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Representation of BBC News Content in AI Assistants [pdf]

yagyu — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:53:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-research-into-ai-assistants.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43009776

Points: 2

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New comment by yagyu in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

yagyu — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:55:03 +0000

You come off as snarky, but I kind of agree. We tried this first.

It turns out digital collaborative calendars are pretty great for us in general, there is no chance in hell I could keep the analog one up to date, so it was definitely worth having a screen on the wall.

New comment by yagyu in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

yagyu — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:51:36 +0000

To answer the q above, this is what we have, too.

New comment by yagyu in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

yagyu — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:20:54 +0000

Second this.

I ended up building a nice charging station right near the entrance. It has storage for keys, wallet, and other things to grab when heading out. It has an abundance of wired and wireless chargers for all devices.

Then I got a dumb (but nice) alarm clock for the bedroom.

Then I noticed that a common reason to pick up the phone is to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying the family month/agenda calendars. It’s read only, but it prevents a lot of device checking.

Cannot recommend enough restructuring physical reality to not have device on your person at home. It also helps the kids to put theirs away and learn good habits.

New comment by yagyu in "First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids"

yagyu — Thu, 30 May 2024 01:50:03 +0000

I suppose the Murderbot Diaries is also on the theme https://marthawells.com/murderbot1.htm

New comment by yagyu in "First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids"

yagyu — Thu, 30 May 2024 01:43:50 +0000

Relevant book rec: Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky. https://adriantchaikovsky.com/dogs-of-war-series.html

JunctionOS

yagyu — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:04:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/JunctionOS/junction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40202549

Points: 1

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Combat Lander

yagyu — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 21:32:54 +0000

Article URL: https://lander.gg/public

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495315

Points: 2

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New comment by yagyu in "Hooted from the Stage: review of two new books on Keats"

yagyu — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:00:19 +0000

I met Keats through Dan Simmons - Hyperion. It's one of those books that hasn't quite left my mind despite finishing it some time ago.

New comment by yagyu in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

yagyu — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:01:47 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by yagyu in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

yagyu — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:16:42 +0000

“Hard” meaning specifically how many lawyer/HR hours, how long are the timelines, and are there other significant risks?

New comment by yagyu in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

yagyu — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:07:51 +0000

Are there good ways for US companies to host international grad students in their internship programs? How hard is it for them?

Specifically I had a conversation with a few administrators at universities in Sweden and this question came up on behalf of their students.

Thanks for regularly showing up here. I went EB2NIW some years ago and still get ptsd reading these threads. Hang in there everyone struggling with immigration.

New comment by yagyu in "When gradient descent is a kernel method"

yagyu — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 05:14:03 +0000

I’d be interested in your thoughts on the case where the f_i are optimizable: f_i(t) = K(t, z_i), i=1..m << N. Like the representer thm but much fewer terms than you have data points to fit. The points z are usually called inducing points and may be optimized by gradient descent.

There is literature on approximating exact GP inference with (something like) these objects when m << N (variational inference).

However, I’m not aware of anyone drawing a clear picture of the other direction, starting from the optimization picture and explaining it in terms of inference, similar to what TFA does.

In TFA the number of functions is large, so the system is underdetermined. In the variational inference the system is overdetermined and I wonder what inference, if any, gradient descent does..

Caveat: 1am and a few drinks deep so if I’m not making sense that’s ok

New comment by yagyu in "When gradient descent is a kernel method"

yagyu — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 04:34:25 +0000

This seems like a young talent that we’ll see more of. I like your to the point writing style and obvious passion for mathematical clarity. Keep it up and best wishes for your phd studies.

New comment by yagyu in "A mathematical formalization of dimensional analysis (2012)"

yagyu — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 03:37:41 +0000

“in order to settle any lingering unease about using such tools in physics” spoken like a true mathematician :D

I enjoyed the post a lot (at least the parts that didn’t pass right over my head). But I never met a physicist with lingering unease about dimensional analysis. We get that beaten into us until it’s as natural as breathing.

New comment by yagyu in "How to Make Viking Funerary Flatbread"

yagyu — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:20:39 +0000

You can buy this stuff in the supermarket (in Viking countries), look for paltbröd.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paltbr%C3%B6d

New comment by yagyu in "Forming the Dog Internet: Prototyping a Dog-to-Human Video Call Device (2021)"

yagyu — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 16:26:41 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...

Alphabet open sources low-cost device to make drinking water from air

yagyu — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:56:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/90690242/alphabet-designed-a-low-cost-device-to-makes-drinking-water-from-air-now-its-open-sourced

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29021049

Points: 21

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