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jmtrevarton

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jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
If you do make something, you can share it with the link here. I can see what a good or bad job it did. Ask the sprite to share if needed.
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
Oh or ask it to create a custom tracker for something. I've done game score boards, health trackers, meteor sightings. It's all made in a couple seconds. It's definitely not perfect yet, but I'd love feedback on the actual thing I made instead of the thing I made with the thing I made. If you have a minute I would appreciate it more than you know.
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
A note to anyone still checking this out.. The "sprite" knows the app well. It you're curious about anything just ask through chat. AND.. Pretty please, someone just try building something through the sprite. This is my dying wish for this thread... Please try the app this thing was built in. Create your own stargazing guide or share your telescope manual with the sprite so you can do the whole RAG pipeline with a question about how something works... maybe throw a recipe at the sprite and watch it create a step by step cooking guide. Tell it you care about your mom in California and to keep an eye on fires, earthquakes, air quality and weather. Ask the sprite about astronomy things. Switch to a new sprite and see how the capabilities stay the same but it makes you laugh more or less. Oh and ask it how it remembers you and itself and how it deals with time. I spent a lot more time on all of that than I did on astronomy. Please somebody actually use the app.
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
The model also places the moon way further from the Earth than it really is or else you wouldn't be able to see it as separate from the Earth, so that messes with creating a mental model for how the whole thing works as well.
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
Thank you! That's actually really helpful!
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
I keep thinking there should always be a little bit of a solar eclipse when there's a new moon. I think my model might need a z axis. Or maybe something in my mental model just still isn't right.
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
According to X, they still are. I think they just make for a fun day though.
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
Yeah that is the part that makes it confusing. Thank you!
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
I think the measurements are fixed. Let me know if I'm wrong.
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
I'm seeing that there's traffic coming from Europe. Realizing I use US measurements for everything. I'm working on fixing that right now. Sorry for the oversight.
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
hence the eclipse today
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit
I still don't understand why there's a new moon when the moon is between the earth and the sun and a full moon when the earth is between the moon and the sun. Maybe if I stare at the model longer it'll magically make sense.
jmtrevarton··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Does this include Deepseek? I don't know if that would crush me, but it would definitely hurt.
jmtrevarton··on Life Sprites: more fun and useful than ChatGPT
There's a free, no login demo (24 hrs or 20 messages). Ask your sprite for a tour. Ask how it can help you with X. It was basically made out of frustration with chatbots. Everyone was told not to make wrappers, so we're stuck with what the big companies made. Here's my wrapper. It's way more useful than chatGPT pro, makes me laugh when I use it, and remembers me. It's also cost optimized heavily. Downright delightful if I do say so myself!
jmtrevarton··on Life Sprites: more fun and useful than ChatGPT
There's a free, no login demo (24 hrs or 20 messages). Ask your sprite for a tour. Ask how it can help you with X. It was basically made out of frustration with chatbots. Everyone was told not to make wrappers, so we're stuck with what the big companies made. Here's my wrapper. It's way more useful than chatGPT pro, makes me laugh when I use it, and remembers me. It's also cost optimized heavily. Downright delightful if I do say so myself!
jmtrevarton··on Show HN: I built an 11-LLM consensus engine to detect AI hallucination
Does the user set up API keys for those 11 LLMs or is API cost included in the product? Do you test for tool hallucination or only information hallucination?