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I remember inspecting the thermostat in my parent’s house as a child. It was a coil of something metalic which I assume expands and contracts with temperature and physically pushes electrical contacts together to turn on the heat when needed. Knowing how it works, it’s hard for me to imagine that this feels like anything. The whole contraption is just an arrangement of molecules doing what molecules do. But then again, so am I.

mere trillian dollar industries. so far.

Congrats Dad and son. I was going to say something about the blue text on red being hard to read. But you know what? Keep it. Live the vibe.

ScienceClic did an excellent video about the accuracy with a better recreation: https://youtu.be/ABFGKdKKKyg

I did this and wrote about my experience:

https://mode80.github.io/7-langs-in-12-months.html

I don't regret it. But if ML is your main goal, Python is where you will end up because it's where the libraries are.

This is great. Suggest one additional bit to show black at the bottom. That way the player of black is not handicapped by playing from an upside down position.

Or just rip off the chess piece design of this other minimalist chess board simulator, which is never upside down:

https://mirrorchess.com/

(It's ok, I made it.)

Thanks for making this!

Note: I was carefully reading along and well into the third notebook before I realized that the code sections marked "TODO" were actual exercises for the reader to implement! (And the tests which follow are for the reader to check their work.)

This is a clever approach. It just wasn't obvious to me from the outset.

(I thought the TODOs were just some fiddly details you didn't want distracting readers from the big picture. But in fact, those are the important parts.)

Made this for my daughter in Algebra I. Enjoy

Karpathy ends on a note of despair "Maybe I should just do a startup. I have a really cool idea for a mobile local social iPhone app." That's exactly the path his now-boss took to bring us this. :)

I love Karpathy et al but this is what finally made it click for me: https://youtu.be/kWLed8o5M2Y?si=SJT5_lCJ0hSR7Z_k

I'll expand for those asking. The first third of the presentation does such an excellent job of steel-manning the case for concern, that I couldn't wait to hear his arguments against it. When he gets around to that, he reaches for a made-up concept he calls the "outside view" where he argues you should ignore rational arguments (aka the "inside view") if the person making those rational arguments seems weird.* Slides follow showing VCs in bad PR photos. What more evidence does anyone need?

*"But the outside view tells you something different. ... Even though their arguments are irrefutable, everything in your experience tells you you're dealing with a cult. Of course, they have a brilliant argument for why you should ignore those instincts, but that's the inside view talking."

Let me save you 20 minutes of your life: This guy's lead argument is that the smart people who advise caution in creating super-intelligence look weird. He's quite proud of this argument.

not upside down

Agree your example is more elegant than mine, and LINQ beats a list comprehension for more complex needs.

counts() was a throw-away for initializing the progress bar, so I was a little lazy there

Float you mention was needed for the looping calc at the call site.

Appreciate the feedback

I love you HN. Never change.

You might like catmath.io. Unless you hate cats.

You would have an immediate market for them since dollars are the only legal way to pay your taxes. Since everyone must do this, it creates a kind of Schelling point such that everyone defaults to using dollars for everything else also.

If you produce something of value in return for Bitcoin, you must still acquire dollars to pay your taxes. If you refuse, men with guns will escort you to jail. That is what ultimately backs Buffet’s preferred currency.

FWIW, I once explained cookies this way to my non-technical co-founder of that day. I could see the clouds part and he confessed it removed all the magic and mysticism surrounding these web cookie things. It was like “ah, just small text files. Got it.”

A web-based alternative https://accomplice.ai/

I like the way you describe it. Thanks for reminding Us. ;)

you would like this: https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding...

If you can forgive the fact that a blockchain is involved, arweave.org offers a credible solution to this.

This is false. Bitcoin’s value is “backed” by the expectation that it will be valuable tomorrow — nothing more. It’s the same with gold. Gold’s value has nothing to do with the cost of mining it out of the ground. Rather the cost of mining it is justified on the basis of its expected value.

I really hope I’m this sharp and poetic when I’m 71.

All of the returns described in the post would likely be tax-free. It's crazy that even most angel investors don't know this.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/qsbs-qualified-small-bu...

"it's the stuff that life is too short for" http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html

I always tell my startups to just send me a short monthly email containing 1) their growth-metric-of-choice 2) their cash/runway remaining, 3) anything fun they want to share (a new hire etc)... Then get back to growing the business! But if you want to go above and beyond, these _actual_ investor updates from the guys at Shoelace.com have been a joy to receive.

To those who asked: A smart contract runs with the predictability of code. Courts don't. In particular, arbitration clauses are often not upheld.

A notable advantage of smart contracts is the flexibility to choose your own arbiter in advance -- a "chair expert" perhaps.

So true. Dedication isn't a guarantee; it's more like table stakes. Maybe the trick is to be dedicated to an outcome, not a particular idea.