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barcode_feederon Building a Korean ambiguity solver fast enough to skip the GPU: 7,300 words/SEC

Cool product! (spent a year in Seoul as a student many moons ago, would've loved something like this)

barcode_feederon Last.fm is now independent

Thanks for sharing lastfmstats, wasn't familiar with that one! Delightful and nostalgic seeing the listens sliced as they have

barcode_feederon ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser

I gave it a series of 11 images stripped of all metadata. It performed quite well, only misidentifying the two taken in a small college town in the NE of the US. It got two questions correct on photos taken in Korea (one with a fairly clear view of Haneul Park, the other a rather difficult to identify picture not resembling anything on google of Sunrise Peak). It got every other question in the US correct, ranging from some under-construction Austin taken from the river to some somewhat difficult shots in NYC (the upper halves of some building from Rockefeller terrace to the black wall of the MOMA). While not perfect, I'm bluntly shocked at how well it performed

barcode_feederon Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan

"The statements had been proved 20 years earlier by a little-known English mathematician named L.J. Rogers... Rogers was content to do his research in relative obscurity, play piano, garden and apply his spare time to a variety of other pursuits"

divinely inspiring

barcode_feederon Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011

The usage of British English as an identifying factor seems ridiculous to me. Faking such a thing is extraordinarily low-hanging fruit even for a bumbler. Letting slip some regional red herring is quite literally the easiest misdirection I can think of)

barcode_feederon A South Carolina lawmaker is suing Instagram after his son died by suicide

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/17/world/asia/my...

This has a different victim demographic but is broadly similar and was a good read (at least as far as I remember)

barcode_feederon Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

I'm glad someone else mentioned rathergood! That's the one that sticks out in my memory as older weird internet

barcode_feederon A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

While I understand why you'd remove it, I appreciate the initial inclusion. It's humanizing and genuine. Cool post even without it!

barcode_feederon Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?

barcode_feederon Poverty is linked to poorer brain development but reading can help counteract it

I don't have children yet, but I expect to in the coming years. I wish to instill a love of reading in them, but I worry about how to go about doing so.

I spent so much time reading as a child that I'd get grounded from it, forbidden from reading at the dinner table, that sort of thing. But that love came partially from a lack of alternatives; we only had local TV channels and no video games or other comparable distractions.

I worry how, to a child, a book can be as effective a lure as a screen when I, as an adult, often find myself taken by the latter.

barcode_feederon What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

looks like the temperature got messed up somehow?

barcode_feederon Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (2013)

Know of any comparably inspired venues in 2023?

barcode_feederon Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports

Which is what I figured and is a wholly disingenuous argument. Would love to see any research showing unseasoned boiled or baked potatoes being bad for you.

barcode_feederon Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports

What's the danger with potatoes? Can you point me towards a study or something?

barcode_feederon Where did the long tail go? (2022)

Such a weird, bad take.

I am very interested in outsider/experimental/extreme music. It has NEVER been more accessible.

I am very interested in a rather niche subcategory of tea. It has NEVER been more accessible.

Art house cinema, indie videogames, bespoke accoutrements... you get where I'm going with this.

This author is the reason the Long Tail is not flourishing. This author is content with Netflix and Spotify. This author is the problem.

barcode_feederon Triplebyte acquired by Karat

I used Triplebyte in 2018 and had a great experience with it. I enjoyed the interview process, I found my talent manager tremendously helpful as a new grad, everything about it was great. I was a kid from the midwest who went to a relatively no-name school and it opened a lot of doors for me. A few years later and all the candidates I've interviewed for that came through the Triplebyte pipeline were spectacular. Sad to see the turn it took. At least I've got the jacket :)