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lapama··on Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)
Is the attention received by this post an indicator of some quality issues at HN?
lapama··on Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
Material for a meme. Next... Imagine a triple boss.
lapama··on Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
Actually many many people go through such conversations inside their brain.
lapama··on Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
How long until LLMs can coach you to become your dreamed self, thus transforming human experience into empowered vs. non?
lapama··on They’re selling nudes of imaginary women on Reddit
We are beyond family as a basic unit of human civilisation.
lapama··on Why is sea level rise worse in some places?
Because in the long term the world does not act like a glass of water: there are currents and gravity.
lapama··on Photographer captures ultra-rare red ring of light over Italy
Thanks for mansplaining!
lapama··on Photographer captures ultra-rare red ring of light over Italy
Are you equating English to ai?
lapama··on The electric vehicles we need now are e-bikes (2022)
I bought an electric bike online... engine failures... wheel sending and returning fir repairs... 4 months... ended up pedalling the 15 daily km. Totally doable! Just needed time to adjust.
lapama··on Could audiobooks be the next frontier for advertising?
Totally agree!!!!
lapama··on Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
What about netlogo?
lapama··on Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for voice conversation with LLMs
I use a mental health app called woebot, an example that could be brought to the next level with conversational LLMs.
lapama··on How to create a private ChatGPT with your own data
What if it is stolen?
lapama··on Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
Write my PhD thesis, even incorporating the written and oral feedback of my advisor, which I record and use as input.

Yes it was a bad joke, one I did not think I could make just 1 year earlier.

lapama··on IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’
There is time, but no action.
lapama··on Leaving China
The scene in the restaurant in Anhui is IMHO not real, I dispute its veracity.
lapama··on Leaving China
Calling yourself an expat is a legitimate attempt to think you have got rid of prejudices against migrants so by calling yourself expat, you perceive they do not apply to you.
lapama··on Pentagon study reveals higher cancer rates for military pilots, ground crews
Brainstorming hypothesis: time spent in landing g strips and airport areas leads to contact with fuels. Smelling them for long is not advisable.
lapama··on The battle to boost our deep sleep – and help stop dementia
Is melatonin not enough for it?
lapama··on Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen
The M dash is now forbidden in several scientific journals, they think the N dash plays the same role.
lapama··on The decline of net neutrality activism
The decline of all forms of activism? Even EU/US can show patterns of totalitarian control nowadays.
lapama··on When – and How – To Keep a Poker Face at Work
Poker facing to a degree is an energy saver, but using it constantly could disengage some people.
lapama··on The words you choose within an app are an essential part of its user experience
And sane with the words you write while using it.
lapama··on Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement [video]
In the first link, I understood better many things about human history... Still the guy does not sweat in front of a furnace. Obviously irrelevant, but strange!
lapama··on A replicable decline in mood during rest and simple tasks
Would this also apply to rural populations in middle-income countries? I have some intuition telling me nowadays urban populations are too meek and prone to produce these results.
lapama··on Loneliness reshapes the brain
And what's the best thing to do about it, if you are socially excluded and cannot move out in the short term?
lapama··on Scientists lugged logs on their heads to resolve Chaco Canyon mystery
It's called passion xD !!!
lapama··on 2D Liquid Simulator with Cellular Automaton (2017)
A blurred line, I was thinking after asking. When the function has outputs that connect with space with visible logic, more CA; when not, more just optimisation. But this thus limits CA with art... not a good answer. What would be yours?
lapama··on 2D Liquid Simulator with Cellular Automaton (2017)
I am a CA researcher and I often ask myself a hard question: where is the boundary between CA and just spatially explicit optimisation?
lapama··on My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter (2014)
Another clue that indicates that it all could be just cold War PR.
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