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justarandomqon Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019)

USD $ 450 (price) buys 72 reams of paper (amazon) which also requires a lot of storage :^)

justarandomqon Learning New Things from Google

"How far away from a nuclear blast is safe?"

Google: 6 feet

"What is the opposite of a dragon?"

Google: a Tiger

"When was running invented?"

Google: Running was invented in 1612 by Thomas Running

"where is spaghetti code grown?"

Google: Slovenia

Two months ago such a result was posted here "How many web servers are there ?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24664280 Not sure what it gives but "how many web servers" gives 'four'. Did someone at Google fix the result individually?

Also note that Logic the rapper is ranked higher than actual logic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18413380

justarandomqon Chess tactics explained

Long-time player here. Strangely enough, the hardest part of these exercises is the uncomfortable brief moment of getting acquainted with (or being teleported to) a random board position.

justarandomqon Ask HN: How to increase your exposure to technologies?

Thank you for the reminder about Connections! Great show.

justarandomqon How to Do What You Want: Akrasia and Self-Binding (2011)

I'd be motivated by the swear jar & reminders since I (would have) put it there intentionally. But I realize not everyone lives this way and busy life can be distracting.

You're very right it would depend much on the person AND the goal.

The main value I personally see here is the setup. I wouldn't have to set up reminders and tracking manually. I may even learn a new goal I hadn't considered if others share their goals. As long as it doesn't devolve into a perfectionism race to the burnout line.

I hope it results into more a tool for self improvement than yet another business preying on human flaws/needs.

justarandomqon How to Do What You Want: Akrasia and Self-Binding (2011)

"do something against your own interests because you can't be trusted"

I really like the idea behind beeminder, as it focuses on discipline/process more than the outcome, but it looks like I could accomplish this with a spreadsheet, reminders, and a 'swear jar' of cash I actually get to keep.

Might work for some people.

justarandomqon TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents

After some thought I agree with you that this is the wrong problem to solve.

I took a narrative detour I wanted to share:

Suppose we make the analogue of a scientific paper to a piece of mineral ore (in terms of their raw content, and without written symbols in them for the sake of the analogy) extracted from some mine or quarry. This ore is somehow useful to someone, even if its value is structural: the shingles on an academic roof or a heavyweight desk. What a summarizer attempts to do is use a generic refinement process that will grind up the ore and then separate the components of interest such as Iron, Uranium, or Gold.

Anyone thinking that all of metallurgy reduces to simply throwing the slab into a machine and have it spew out the precious metals will find, instead, more complexity than they bargained for, and have more questions on machines or methods to resolve. Gold, Iron, Uranium, all have different extraction process.

I believe this approach may give some insight in what problems to solve instead with AI: focus on those discoveries that have helped advance "metallurgy", those of discovering and understanding the structure of the mineral ore and contents (scientific papers) and their relation with current technologies at the time, not on the philosopher's stone of 'summarizing' process more akin to a hammer that makes everything seem like a nail.

justarandomqon TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents

What you get from applying TLDR to their paper:

We introduce SCITLDR, a new multi-target data set of 5.4KTLDRs over 3.2Kpapers.

Keeping pdf's copy-paste artifacts:

We introduceTLDRgeneration, a new formof extreme extreme summarization, for scientific pa-pers.

Adding intro and conclusion (optional):

We introduce SCITLDR, a new data set of 5.4KTLDRs over 3.2Kpapers.

[0] https://scitldr.apps.allenai.org/

justarandomqon TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents

You could link other TLDR tools and then we could read the paper to learn how they're different.

justarandomqon Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS

It was some book, and when submitting the download link, 3 of the antivirus results were red. Perhaps they were false positives.

justarandomqon Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS

Is LibGen safe? I remember testing some of its mirror links on virustotal and saw some red flags, so I decided not to risk downloading.

justarandomqon I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”

Sokath, his eyes uncovered

justarandomqon I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”

Oh. You'd be right in that. But you're the one that brought up sexism in the first case! Perhaps it's prejudiced in itself to assume implicit evil from the choice of characters in a story? Not to mention it detracts from the central discussion, which may explain downvotes.

> Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

justarandomqon I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”

noun: man; plural noun: men;

1. an adult male human being.

2. a human being of either sex; a person.

justarandomqon List of Active Class Action Lawsuit Settlements

Your data is typically sold against your own interests. In this case, unusually, your data can bring some unexpected benefits due to litigation. Posting here in case it gives people ideas.

justarandomqon Bitcoin Is Near All-Time Highs and the Mainstream Doesn't Care Yet

what's driving it?

justarandomqon Zoomquilt (2004)

Definitely getting some Powers of Ten vibe to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

justarandomqon Zoomquilt (2004)

This would be awesome in one of those monitors that look like a hanging picture frame

Extra awesome if it was infinite or procedurally generated using style transfer GANs or something to showcase different types of art.

Even extra awesomer with the ability to zoom in more than one point

justarandomqon Government Cheese

fascinating