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mynameisfiberon GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about

This seems like more of a comment about the hacker news audience than the physical reasoning skills of gpt3

mynameisfiberon This person does not exist

It seems the model often doesn't do exactly round pupils either.

mynameisfiberon Show HN: HyperLogLog intersections

This is great! Probabilistic datastructures are amazing.

I did straight up HLL++ a while ago but had to do intersection with the inclusion–exclusion principle. It would be cool to try to fold this in somehow! (https://github.com/mynameisfiber/gohll).

mynameisfiberon Understanding Python bytecode by implementing tail call optimization

No, but the time complexity is the same.

mynameisfiberon Show HN: See lower prices in your cart

Also, don't forget the data they are harvesting. From their privacy policy, they are monitoring your shopping habits and what you do before/after you look at a product. So, that will let them "support our relationships with the operators of the retail websites from which we  provide you with information about lower priced products"[1]

Basically, this is a data-farm.

[1] http://buyhappyapp.com/privacy-policy/

mynameisfiberon Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

Looks like the same technology as spreeder (http://www.spreeder.com/app.php)... what's the difference between the two?

As someone who tried using spreeder for a while, I can say that your retention is quite a bit lower than normal reading, especially when reading complicated texts, since you loose contextual clues (your brain is really good at doing look-aheads for clues).

mynameisfiberon Neovim

Any worry about latency with this new plugin architecture? I'm not quite sure how the current plugins communicate with the main process, but I am sure that one of the things I would most like to see in a re-write of vim is a more responsive interface, even if I have a handful of plugins running.

mynameisfiberon Gitter – Chat, for GitHub

Maybe a good solution would be to request a less privileged token if the user doesn't want integration with private repos. Then, if they want to upgrade to integration with private repos they need to get a new oauth token with the relevant privileges.

I'd love to try this service out, but I also don't want to hand out oauth tokens that can read my ssh keys.

EDIT: Just read more comments and saw that my github ssh keys are completely public. I guess that makes sense since they are public keys!

mynameisfiberon Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer

With the right rotation, any direction can be pointing "up".

mynameisfiberon Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

I found this is a useful addition to his scripts... I can't live without my tab completion!

    _jump()
    {
        local cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "$( ls $MARKPATH )" -- $cur) )
    }
    complete -F _jump jump