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matthewfelgate

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matthewfelgate··on Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles
I have a truly marvellous comment on this, which this comment box is too small to contain.
matthewfelgate··on My Students Can't Read
tl;dr
matthewfelgate··on Squares in Squares
Sometimes nature is beautiful and sometimes it isn't.
matthewfelgate··on Show HN: I built a portable Yahtzee device with custom PCB and WASM simulator
Nice job, this looks great!

What's your next project going to be? Maybe we could work together!

matthewfelgate··on Claude for Excel
I tried https://sanand0.github.io/llmexcel/#/ yesterday but it's very slow.

Not sure if this Claud for Excel can do the same thing and run =claude() inside Excel cells?

matthewfelgate··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
I use Todoist and I like it for repeating tasks:

  * A list of daily tasks small and quick too many to remember 
  * Tasks to do or check every three or four days ie about twice a week
  * Tasks to do about once a week eg hoovering.
  * Tasks to do every three months like wash house windows etc
Most days I put my todo list into ChatGPT and get it to put my todo list in order from quickest to longest.

Sometimes I ask ChatGPT to order my todo list by importance.

matthewfelgate··on Show HN: I built an under-the-door fan duct to lower bedroom CO2
Thanks for sharing, this is interesting to me.
matthewfelgate··on Britain's biggest companies are preparing for a third world war
This response suggests knowledge that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is imminent.
matthewfelgate··on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
Good question.

A while back I looked for a phone-sized eReader and was surprised there were none about at a decent price.

matthewfelgate··on What Sam Altman told OpenAI about the device he's making with Jony Ive
I struggle to see what any new device could deliver that a smartphone can't.
matthewfelgate··on Is Philosophy Still Useful in the Age of Science?
How can I get in to Philosophy? It seems so overwhelming and so many terms.
matthewfelgate··on BYD Beats Tesla in Europe for First Time with 169% Sales Surge
I believe it is a security threat to allow Chinese cars in Europe.
matthewfelgate··on Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
Are companies designing product packaging to be more compatible with robotic handling?
matthewfelgate··on Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted
Are Americans in denial about the Russia-aligned takeover of their government or have they just stopped caring?
matthewfelgate··on Ask HN: How advisable is it to hire freelance hardware talent for a startup?
Can I help you with this?
matthewfelgate··on Google Is on the Wrong Side of History
5%
matthewfelgate··on DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency
Interesting. But Chesterton's Fence assumes we can always find out why something was put there, but often we can't, which makes adding barriers easier than removing them—leading to a buildup of unnecessary rules over time?
matthewfelgate··on Show HN: Teaching a $14 ESP32 to Detect and Auto-Mute TV Ads
I believe it's more than just an interesting project—it has the potential to be a commercial product.
matthewfelgate··on Representation of BBC News Content in AI Assistants [pdf]
What's a reliable benchmark for measuring "AI Distortion" in these models, allowing for consistent tracking over time and potential improvement?
matthewfelgate··on Representation of BBC News Content in AI Assistants [pdf]
TLDR; I got ChatGPT to summarise.
matthewfelgate··on Show HN: Teaching a $14 ESP32 to Detect and Auto-Mute TV Ads
Ha, that's amazing.

I wonder what's a way to detect ADs just from audio. Maybe by volume?

matthewfelgate··on Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Baltic Sea 'Sabotage'
When is the West going to start standing up to Russia on these cable sabotages?
matthewfelgate··on AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers
But is a programmer who uses AI to program the same as

  a Typescript programmer who doesn't understand JavaScript well? 
  Or a Python programmer who doesn't know C?
  Or a C programmer who doesn't know assembly code?
  Or an assembly coder who doesn't make his own PCBs?
Is AI orchestration just adding another layer of abstraction to the top of the programming stack?
matthewfelgate··on Elderly activist to spend Christmas in prison because tag does not fit
She blocked a motorway. Very dangerous and should be punished accordingly. No sympathy.
matthewfelgate··on Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
Reddit is now only useful as data for AI training.
matthewfelgate··on Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo
Self-Driving cars will make roads safer and open up cheap travel for millions of people.
matthewfelgate··on Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo
This gives me hope WayMo might come to the UK after Japan.
matthewfelgate··on A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green."
A way to think about it is, if you went into the liars house to prove him wrong, you could find one non-green hat to prove him wrong. If he has no hats you wouldn't be able to prove him wrong.

Which reminds me of a quote from the British TV series Yes Minister: "A good speech isn't one where we can prove he's telling the truth. It's one in which nobody else can prove he's lying!"

matthewfelgate··on A New Way to Learn Complex Topics in Minutes a Day
I think better than a 14 day free trial may be one course being free. Or the first few lessons being free.
matthewfelgate··on Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke
That would be the Chinese in Chinese ship.
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