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hidelooktropic

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hidelooktropic··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
I don't see any log scaled graphs.
hidelooktropic··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
> Evaluating Number formats > I'm considering that the question might be about comparing two numbers, 9.11 and 9.9, in different contexts such as different locale formats or representing dates. 9.11 is larger than 9.9

Well, it's kind of right because we left it ambiguous what kinds of numbers these are. September 11 is a greater date than September 9. However, I would want the model to have the street smarts to assume without further context, I must be just talking about numbers as in numbers.

hidelooktropic··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
I see it in the mac and iOS app.
hidelooktropic··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
> THERE ARE THREE R’S IN STRAWBERRY

It finally got it!!!

hidelooktropic··on Show HN: Simple Alternative to Complex Project Management for Freelancers
I trust your product is as good as you say it is but I'm looking at the website trying to suss out why.

I'd love it if you could just tell me exactly what sets it apart. A lot of the language reads as abstract marketing fluff like boosting my productivity and the like.

Maybe you could tell me what is bad about trello, asana, jira etc that you sought to fix with your product?

I would also ditch the ai image at the top. It kind of sends the message you phoned it in when making the website. You'd be better off just showing the product itself right from the start.

hidelooktropic··on Lottery Simulator (2023)
Looks a lot like https://www.adamgrant.info/heres-1m-dollars-try-to-win-the-l...
hidelooktropic··on How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?
I didn't see a signup link for the AI balloon?
hidelooktropic··on Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text
The microphone icon on the keyboard does this.
hidelooktropic··on Polychromatic Pixels
Incredible accomplishment, but the question remains what this will look like at the scale of a display on any given consumer device.

Of course, it's only just now been announced, but I'd love to see what a larger scale graphic looks like with a larger array of these to understand if perceived quality is equal or better, if brightness distribution across the spectrum is consistently achieved, how pixels behave with high frame rates and how resilient they are to potential burn-in.

hidelooktropic··on OpenAI slashes the cost of using its AI with a "mini" model
Going out on a limb here that they're not focusing the entire company on one objective.

Adding to this, reducing cost means they've reduced compute and improved quality per unit of computation.

That matters! It matters that these systems currently require an embarassing amount of energy to run otherwise. It matters that these models could be portable to the point where they can be run locally on portable consumer electronics rather than being locked into remote compute and HTTP calls.

hidelooktropic··on Show HN: I will call your phone to hold you accountable
Thanks for that feedback. I have a website redesign that I think will touch on some of your points.

I agree that "drill sergeant" wouldn't actually be the proper metaphor to use in this case. I'm literally a program manager as my day job so I see this as exercising those skills of accountability.

hidelooktropic··on [dead]
I don't get it
hidelooktropic··on Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
Clever idea! Well done.
hidelooktropic··on Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
To me it doesn't need to be a solution-to-a-problem so much as a different paradigm for using a familiar tool that is more pleasant to use.
hidelooktropic··on Show HN: I will call your phone to hold you accountable
Cheers. Beautifully put. Can I quote you on that? :)
hidelooktropic··on Show HN: I will call your phone to hold you accountable
Thanks!
hidelooktropic··on Show HN: Dillusion Browser
How is this on the front page?
hidelooktropic··on Large Language Models are not a search engine
Agreed, I don't see why the abundance of pages that come up in searches these days with a paragraph of text and a long scroll of ads are doing any better than the generalizations LLMs are trained to make.

I think it's also worth pointing out the more advanced LLMs are exceptionally accurate (despite being imperfect and not without bias) and highly available. That's not a peg below your average search result.

hidelooktropic··on Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn
Search was "Find companies that are looking for designers with a print background."

Result was: "We have analyzed 1072 candidates and found 0 records matching the search criteria."

Why would you analyze _any_ candidates if the query was to find companies?

hidelooktropic··on Context caching guide
Isn't this what the Assistants API is meant for? Honestly not sure, I haven't used it before but their documentation seems to suggest you can set up the assistant to already have this context, then just send API commands to it without said context.
hidelooktropic··on Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
There's not so much as a screenshot of MC on their official page. Hard to say.

Did the author say their product was better?

hidelooktropic··on Developing Palo Alto is worth $1T
NIMBY = Not in my backyard

Since I couldn't find it in the article or the tweet it linked to, maybe someone else needed this too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY

hidelooktropic··on Show HN: The Current Time as a Date
Damn. What region are you in timezone-wise?
hidelooktropic··on Tiny in size, a Cupertino home is selling for big bucks: $1.7M
Even after fixing it up and paying expensive energy bills on it, You'll have to pay the taxes on it too. There's a reason they're cheap up front.
hidelooktropic··on Show HN: I made an AI Software Engineer with Claude 3 Opus
I'm kind of shocked at how little substance there is here and then immediately I'm asked if I want to pay $29 and get started with whatever this is.
hidelooktropic··on Why hasn't GitHub bumped the Lists limit yet? It's so easy
What are lists?
hidelooktropic··on DOE Announces $75M to Advance Desalination and Water Reuse Tech
It’s going to require a lot of concentration.
hidelooktropic··on With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work
I've always been skeptical of generative AI being used to make slides. I like the idea of it, and maybe someday we will get there. But right now, they all feel like they are trying to fully automate the process where what I really want them to do is automate the tedious parts, co-piloting with me.

Because what ends up happening is I need a high degree of precision and I have a very concrete idea of what I need to present on a slide and exactly how to do it. But because it's fully automated, I have to instead convince the AI to generate my concrete idea on its own. Then I just don't use it entirely. Meanwhile, I go back to tediously making little shapes and moving them into precise locations, aligning things, and so on.

hidelooktropic··on Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
I made a Wordle like game that asks you to add two emojis together

https://everything.io

hidelooktropic··on Ask HN: What impact does remote work have on your life?
Hmm, 0 minutes old and has 2 votes and a comment...
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