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bob_theslob646··on LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide
If someone enjoyed learning about this, where should I suggest they start to learn more about embeddings?
bob_theslob646··on Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others
Why did you reduce your carb intake?
bob_theslob646··on Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions
What's openrouter?
bob_theslob646··on Gaming cancer: How citizen science games could help cure disease
This article did such a disservice in describing how gamers were helping cure disease. I had to dig further. In the article linked, it does a much better job of explaining in my opinion.

"Paradigm Shift in Designing Therapeutics

This kind of work isn’t possible with computers alone. The number of possible combinations are beyond any reasonable method for enumeration, and thus algorithms alone can’t solve this problem efficiently. However, humans are unparalleled at recognizing patterns. As Kim points out, computers don’t go into discussion forums to exchange ideas on how to push forward, but Eterna’s players do. They also constantly pick up on each other’s designs and then work to improve them.

“The players are designing things at incredibly granular levels while staying in touch with all the complex biological rules that we impose on them,” he says. “It’s allowing us to solve this incredibly complex problem through a video game interface. I honestly don’t think a lot of players fully understand the complexity of the problems that they’re addressing.”" https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/a-game-playing-app-m...

bob_theslob646··on Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app
> July 2025: You won't be able to use the autofill password function. > August 2025: You'll no longer be able to use saved passwords

There has to be some sort of cost benefits analysis for this as this will certainly piss a ton of people off especially the tech illiterate. Maybe passkeys are extremely simple but saved passwords being disallowed is a huge pain point.

bob_theslob646··on Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI
>a) They won't use AI to fact check reports submitted when those reports stand to make them money.

They may not, but an outside vendor will. Most munis in the US usually have an outside party process their parking tickets

bob_theslob646··on Hawaii Highways
That website is a crazy labor of love. Pretty dope! Nice work

Sidenote, driving from Kona Airport south ( big Island) at night is one of the scariest things I have done with all the winding turns and hairpin like turns as well. Reminds me of the video games of need for speed, racing on a cliff. Basically, you need to be extremely careful at night on a single lane road with limited visibility and or bring glasses so that you are prepared to be blinded by other drivers's headlights.

bob_theslob646··on Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI
Most of NYC has cameras. The timestamp and location data from those can be linked.

You could also have multiple references to validate via crowdscoring.

You can also find people who are bad actors to decentivize them from mass reporting.

bob_theslob646··on Trump deploys National Guard as Los Angeles protests against immigration agents
>Dropping glitter or slime on the National Guard would be incredibly provocative, childish and counterproductive.

And Flashbangs and Teargas is not?

"LOS ANGELES (AP) — After federal immigration authorities arrested dozens of people across Los Angeles, protesters turned out to demand their release. Police in riot gear responded with tear gas to disperse the demonstrators." https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/immigration-raids-los-angel...

bob_theslob646··on GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world
Have you found a solution to mass export notes?
bob_theslob646··on DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
Isn't it against the law in the United States to use outside channels for government communications? Wasn't this the whole scandal about Clinton? Please correct me if I am wrong.
bob_theslob646··on Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage?
How is that possible?
bob_theslob646··on MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming
>Folks will start to use longer bats then and crowd the plate. (Rule 3.02 states that bats cannot be more than 2.61 inches in diameter and 42 inches in length.) [https://www.mlb.com/news/baseball-bat-history#:~:text=(Rule%...]
bob_theslob646··on Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at any dose reduces dementia risk
Do you have a source for this?
bob_theslob646··on Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34268536
bob_theslob646··on Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents
Am I the only one that read that title in Dr.Evil's voice?

All kidding aside. This looks promising

bob_theslob646··on How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
The population of New York City in 1949 was 14,892,000

It's definitely under capacity by that metric.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/subway-ridership-hits-65-year-hig...

The only issue is that then it arguably had a much larger tax base than it does now to fund it.

bob_theslob646··on How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
I wonder if there was a way to calculate how many more passengers they could serve if they had faster trains?
bob_theslob646··on How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
You're conveniently forgetting out the nuance of the MTA. You do recall that the top person in the world for Transit quit because of the bureaucracy there, right?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43561378

bob_theslob646··on How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
Well it depends because they added the Grand Central line so that you can get from the middle of Manhattan to Queens fairly quickly as Grand Central stop at Jamaica station on the Long Island railroad which is a hack to getting to JFK without having to use the Subway.
bob_theslob646··on How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
According to chatgpt, the max speed is higher than what you stated and is 155mph before needing to slow down.
bob_theslob646··on Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
Why do you think that this will not reach the market anytime soon?
bob_theslob646··on 200B Weights of Responsibility
The whole situation is absolutely tragic. Another bright, talented individual taken to soon. Please, if you haven't, tell your friends and family you love them every chance you get. RIP Felix. Gone but not forgotten.
bob_theslob646··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
Do you have any other advice that was not covered in that book that you think would be helpful to know about for a first time parent?
bob_theslob646··on Why we use our own hardware
I would gladly take your course if you offered it.
bob_theslob646··on Show HN: Gemini LLM corrects ASR YouTube transcripts
When you did this, I am assuming you cut the audio off around 5 mins?

https://github.com/google-gemini/generative-ai-js/issues/269...

bob_theslob646··on Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?
> Also, sea turtles cry 8 litres an hour

"Turtles cry because they’re eating.

No, really! The example that Czerski uses is a turtle eating jellyfish. Less than one percent of jellyfish is organic material and a turtle (the author uses a leatherback as an example) must eat 80% of her body weight.

Jellyfish have the same salinity as the ocean itself, so as you can imagine, this results in a TON of salt being ingested by turtles.

It’s not just jellyfish, either. Other marine substances and creatures have the same salinity as the sea. For example, algae.

To avoid ingesting all of this salt (which would kill the turtles), they expel it back out in the form of tears."

https://kookaunty.com/kook-aunty-blog/3vnblbkjnil2txo7jevy1u...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316669935_Crying_a_...

That was such an obscure fact that I had to look it up. Wow wild. Thanks for sharing.

bob_theslob646··on Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components
What skills do you need to run your own rack?
bob_theslob646··on Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components
What does it cost to actually run them though? It must be pretty costly
bob_theslob646··on Call for Developer Projects
This is a great question and I am looking for the answer as well.
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