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aligajani··on Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)
There was a tool like this 5 years ago on [Github](https://github.com/emilwallner/Screenshot-to-code) that did similar thing using neural networks.
aligajani··on Painful Lesson: Always 'Show and Tell' Your Product Before You Develop It
What you have made isn't a real product in my honest opinion, so it is understandable why you feel this way. You need to make it better and I think you have a chance.
aligajani··on Supabase Vector, the Open Source Vector Toolkit for Postgres
How do you prevent SQL injections or bad queries?
aligajani··on Jsonformer: Generate structured output from LLMs
Nice tool, will check it out. I had to go through a painstaking trial and error process to generate valid and deterministic JSON for my AI presentation tool called Slide Genie (https://slidegenie.vercel.app/). The hard part was making it work when temperature > 0.
aligajani··on qBitcoin – Proposal for a decentralized online quantum cash system
The hype is real.
aligajani··on Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components
Oh no, not again..
aligajani··on Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)
Wow, this is great.
aligajani··on Do you think Snap will build it own data centres?
Valid point
aligajani··on A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics
This is amazing.
aligajani··on Increasing abstraction is directly proportional to decreasing software quality
Yes, this was my observation, but I see a pattern with the modern engineering workflow. It's convoluted. What could be done with basic npm scripts is now Webpack, so another abstraction that the beginners have to smash their head against, all in the pursuit of making a basic todo app. Not lying, I use these tools myself, but I try to survey a technology before using it. I ask myself the questions a) is it stable, by looking at any major GH issues and b) can I do it better natively and do away with using a library.
aligajani··on Increasing abstraction is directly proportional to decreasing software quality
OOP is for helping to "engineer" software with hierarchies. What I referred to is framework/library level abstraction. Referring to Hipsters. Hard to scale, bad software, because one doesn't know the underlying technologies they're using. I mean, I am not saying use C, but try to do it natively. Most people use underscore because of some functions that are easily doable in vanilla.
aligajani··on Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
Whenever you do /anything/ your brain may be selecting from a probability distribution over things that can be done immediately.

There is no concrete evidence that the brain does math. If the brain did select things from a probability distribution, then why isn't everyone a math genius.

No one really knows how it works.

aligajani··on GitHub: Fake News Detector
a) Yes, it is not, bad naming, but can probably be used to create one, like a Chrome extension.

b) No. It's not one man's opinion. 68 people are actively editing it.

I can also verify lots of bullshit sites like Collective Evolution that I myself know about, and is on this list.

c) Show me evidence of one fake news posted by the BBC ?

aligajani··on GitHub: Fake News Detector
Yeah but it could be used to build one. Also, disagree with it being 'my bias'. It's not my list. Many working on it.
aligajani··on Thomas Schelling has died
He was such an intellectual powerhouse.
aligajani··on Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile
Nice idea with Jasonette, but it only works for UI rendering, nothing more complex beyond that, right?
aligajani··on Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile
Why are you using 'college kids' as some metric?
aligajani··on Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile
The browser, arguably, is the greatest app of all time.
aligajani··on Show HN: SkateJS – a cross framework web components based library
Why would I use this over React, or why would I use this at all?
aligajani··on Ask HN: What is Go really good for?
Queue system? Care to elaborate.
aligajani··on Ask HN: What is Go really good for?
Hey @fiedzia, thanks for your great reply. This has got me thinking.
aligajani··on Microsoft REST API Guidelines
Roy Fielding thinks this isn't REST. He says REST APIs != HTTP APIs. So, read with caution. Also, I noticed the MSFT guide doesn't mention HATEOS.
aligajani··on Image Compression with Neural Networks
I knew this was coming. Great stuff.
aligajani··on Ducking Probabilistic Parser by Wit.ai
Duckling
aligajani··on Facebook Disables Accounts of Palestinian Editors
Not sure how true this report is, I still see those 2 pages posting every hour. Why did Facebook target a specific administrator and not the rest is a question.
aligajani··on JavaScript's ecosystem is heading into the wrong direction. Thoughts?
Nice point about training!
aligajani··on JavaScript's ecosystem is heading into the wrong direction. Thoughts?
What do you mean?
aligajani··on JavaScript's ecosystem is heading into the wrong direction. Thoughts?
Valid point.
aligajani··on JavaScript's ecosystem is heading into the wrong direction. Thoughts?
I know, I just didn't mean to deviate away from my original post. By the way, I use Buble with Webpack. Buble has a cleaner output than Babel. https://gist.github.com/angus-c/feea4e4cd0b853dc04c71fa4e7d2...
aligajani··on JavaScript's ecosystem is heading into the wrong direction. Thoughts?
That's the problem. Most 'people', such as budding developers, do not want to wire-up the internal components. They don't want to think about the complexity.
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