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kang··on AI cybersecurity is not proof of work
maybe a human knowledgeable in the domain (the training) is better than a smart liguist-programmer.
kang··on YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney
It was in pre-tiktok world(push to regular content update) & before the purge. A lot of content is now gone. Its a great resource but very loosely coupled with humanity/human knowledge (and arguably a pretty poor resource for it, both theoretically (linear information with contant velocity such as video) and practically (the content just isn't there on youtube, search is truncated etc.)).

> I didn't a single thing about that I find there pretty much daily.

Rarely(never?) have I found new knowledge on youtube, however its a great source of joy/emotions/slop.

kang··on Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem
Would it be possible to make GPT3 from GPT2 just by prompting? It doesn't work/scale
kang··on Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem
Doubt if you can make a dumb model smart by feeding it proofs
kang··on Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024)
Modern world, not just India, is way worse at talent discovery. It's impossible to even publish a physics paper and get a DOI. There were some new research ideas coming in chinese and hindi during early bitcoin days, all of which were lost to a vocal english population, and some the ideas are only resurfacing now again after 15 years of noise. I know of Shannon-Satoshi level bitcoiner theorist who died in poverty as a janitor in Canada. I know of many ideas that were never discussed, so am sure many such people exit in other fields. Only cause Ramanujan's equations are from a different time and so weird have they survived plagiarism otherwise IP is completely insecure now & intelligent non-smart people are in poor health.
kang··on They See Your Photos
Uploaded my face pics - the data has 13 fields, 12 were incorrect.(With it only guessing correctly the emotion on the face and some objects in the picture. it was surprising, no photo app has guessed my age with +-20yr diff.). Pretty useless demo imo
kang··on Why are we still using Markdown?
"No, I was and remain against establishing extensions. Markdown has thrived because it’s a small idea, not a spec, and thus embraces many variants to suit particularly needs and contexts." https://x.com/gruber/status/1495119598148009991

A thread on markdown creator's stance https://x.com/nalband/status/1625541479295860752

kang··on Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
The title is not relevant to the article, not even for a single line. The author straightup assumes, does not answer the 'why', cause I was here to give Lady Lovelace argument to Turing, that you would NEVER (hire an ai instead of a student) unless you making directionless slop. You can share goals, but not the vision, and mission is different. Ai learns from experience, humans are needed to build that experience due to their extremely large 'context windows' going as deep as the constant evolution of the DNA(as long as it serves human-centric goals, which circles back to the mission part).

The article really is about "education seems directionless without economic goals", and again as comments have pointed out, it only seems so.

kang··on You Could've Invented OpenClaw
This invention is akin to 'putting radio on the internet' plot from the comedy series Silicon Valley
kang··on The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]
This article is based on a tweet with a link, no proofs.
kang··on The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]
except she didn't find anything about 'bro', just that the bot is using crypto?
kang··on Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
Turing Test is not really science (an infallible test, measurable outcome). An AI might never be able to pass TT for all humans. Just gets to be a high-def AI. Makes TT a technology.
kang··on Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
Instead of direct trivia from the content, it would be helpful to have an exercise (with evaluation) that applies the content learnt - a small artifact production with real-world practical use.

Imagine you would need, another ai pipeline that poses as the consumer and applier of the knowledge, instead of a direct processor ai of content information as it currently seems.

kang··on Care Doesn't Scale
Except the argument is university lecture (classroom structure) doesn't work. A personal tutor might be able to teach a concept to all their students, whereas not everyone in a classroom passes. Your argument about sufficiency can be made about books and is not relevant here.
kang··on Care Doesn't Scale
for eg, asic custom designed for an application is better than a generalised industrial chip
kang··on Care Doesn't Scale
> Scale isn’t bad, at least not necessarily. Industrial is perfectly capable of being better than custom. Sometimes the YouTube video is more helpful than the private tutor.

This is not true; consider the argument that there is always a loss of quality in scaling. Industrial maybe better than average custom, but is always worse than best customs. Broadcast lecture is almost always worse than a tutor whose discourse is customised to student's current knowledge. (The word guru (literally, one who leads towards light) is wrongly translated to teacher, for which the word in sanskrit is shikshak.)

kang··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
recommend the game 'i love hue' for realizing one's boundaries as a happy fun surprise
kang··on Timekeeping Before Clocks
Something one might like as a continuation of the article is digital sundials. Apart from types listed on wikipedia, there are 3D-printed versions etc.
kang··on Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24
This is not a reason not to do Yc, but to not take the if rejection seriously
kang··on What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884)
Its not that simple. Time it seems IS the first (0th?) dimension. A point is space denotes existence in time of the object & observation by the subject. In other words, rate of change of existence is observed as time. Rate of change of a point is observed as a line. A moving point accepts line as its track, moving interval accepts square as its track and moving square accepts cube as its track. 2-eyed observer has 3D vision & 1-eyed observer as 2D vision (try touching your fingers with one-eyes closed exercise) has some role about role of observation as well.

Further, dimensions being relative vs absolute makes more sense. In absolute sense, time is its own dimension T & point line cube are L, L^2 & L^3. A 3D object, a cube, has 2D object, plane, as its boundary & 1D object, lines, as its dimensional denotion. A square has 1D object as its boundary & n-2=0D objects, points, as its dimensions, relatively speaking. This is important because of the number of eyes? So basically, those 2D hypothetical characters in your physics are 1-eyed creatures, lol.

kang··on Favorites from our prompt engineering tournament
> Prompt engineering doesn't feel like an activity that creates sustainable AI advancement.

Chatgpt was created from gpt via prompt engineering? An inverse chatgpt where user answers questions instead of the other way around also has applications.

kang··on Textart.sh
9th image on topic peen is currently dickbutt
kang··on Nvidia Trains LLM on Chip Design
> It ultimately has to try something & be potentially exposing itself to detection

Yes, potential but not necessary. Think of the threat as funding a military against the military

kang··on Binance is under threat
Nice tongue-in-cheek joke. Don't. At a given time, you are to be crypto savvy & be protected in the first place or don't be crypto savvy & use the legal system with fiat for better efficiency & solution
kang··on Binance is under threat
Why are exchanges/onoff-ramps needed??

Mining, swaping, burning, spending is enough. And where it's not, the use-case is not decentralized (has centralized governance or has known membership) & can be achieved more efficiently via fiat.

kang··on Binance is under threat
> Crypto firm

Binance or exchanges are 'anti' crypto. Buying/Selling crypto defeats the purpose of crypto entirely, rather supports fiat(do the math please). Exchanges must die before crypto even starts working.

kang··on The Sound Proof Booths of Silence
One solution could be to standardize the "esport booth", so it becomes more like a squash court for example
kang··on Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
libp2p: https://curriculum.pl-launchpad.io/curriculum/libp2p/dht/
kang··on How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul
Zero screen time is not ideal. Everything over the internet is not drugs by the analogy
kang··on Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
Your excitement will turn to anxiety as millions other propose similar TV, amongst the billion entries to production, only differentiated by upload speed. Like cloths, every single person has hundreds of personalized TV shows, but unlike a fashion style, they are never seen by anyone else.

Better hurry, and capture what you can before fellow humans are bored of it & find novelty in originality again.

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