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nxpnsv··on Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app
I only looked at the stills before, but I agree that the animation really is an impressive achievment. However, there is nothing below the surface here. The stick figure takes a few steps and lifts its hat. The medium is impressive, the art not so much.
nxpnsv··on Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app
That’s many things, but is it insanely impressive art? I don’t think so.
nxpnsv··on Mathematicians uncover a new way to count prime numbers
That validation already happens. I worked as a scientist for a decade before I went to industry, getting grants was a constant struggle - agencies and politicians don't just give out money randomly. One can argue that these processes aren't perfect and that some money gets wasted, and that it makes for weird incentives - but that's a whole other debate.
nxpnsv··on Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder
It sure looks pretty. Both the site and the machine. And the tech sounds interesting too! There are a bunch of fabulous devices out there though, not sure how to understand just how great this is, some third party validation would help me. Anyhow, excellent presentation!
nxpnsv··on Mathematicians uncover a new way to count prime numbers
Scientific work is too often challenged with this kind of question. If all you care about is results you know will happen you will never discover anything you don't allready know.
nxpnsv··on Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner
You might enjoy https://poethepoet.natn.io/ it makes tasks easier, and you don't even need poetry to benefit from it (I use it with UV these days)
nxpnsv··on Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning
What if you don't need a box or power supply? And what if you like then gpio pins?
nxpnsv··on Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s
It works though
nxpnsv··on Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories
Very retro cool though, destroying your eyes in style!
nxpnsv··on Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories
But he… what? :)
nxpnsv··on Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories
Actually, I used to love reading, but the last years I've felt exactly like I had no energy to read any more, and have switched to audiobooks and podcasts. I then checked my eyes, and it turns out I need glasses. So as you get older, check your eyes!
nxpnsv··on Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace
If the track is known, then from the context of this and other things you like, you would still reach useful recommendations in not too many clicks. Track level would be interesting, but is also harder as data is a lot sparser making it harder to build reliable recommendations.
nxpnsv··on Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace
I tried it before, and I just tried it again. It is great. I just came back from RecSys a large conference on recommender systems. Researchers and companies like Spotify, Amazon music, Deezer gave lots of presentation. However, nothing they showed were so immediately useful as this. Awesome service!
nxpnsv··on Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
Sure, there is relief and a feeling this was necessary and for the best - but also broken dreams, failing social expectations, broken friendships. I guess I mostly agree with you, but I think such traumas make for unpleasant experiences...
nxpnsv··on Moral implications of being moderately successful computer scientist and a woman
A short, worthwhile read. A mostly irrelvant comment: I think that when writing, it is fine to use ≠ and =. We can be reasonably sure that = means equals and not assignment.
nxpnsv··on Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
Either way, unpleasant.
nxpnsv··on Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next
A noteworthy part of this post is the very tall image on the right. It really is very tall indeed (50 × 32050).
nxpnsv··on Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World
Shorts are terrible, they suck you in and 15 mindless videos later you can't even remember what you've seen. I almost only want to search for videos or check subscriptions, the main page with recommendations is full of traps...
nxpnsv··on Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
But if you aren't using VSCode (we exist) this looks quite useful. That said, I just open my jupyter sessions in firefox and am pretty happy with that...
nxpnsv··on Claude's Character
They aren't open-minded or thoughtful either. But they can act that way. So yeah it will be fake curiousness, but is that really a problem?
nxpnsv··on Slack AI Training with Customer Data
How do the self hosted alternatives compare?
nxpnsv··on Databases for data scientists
Getting inputs and publishing results very often means working with databases, and that choice is often not up to the data scientist. What you do in between is another story, but at least some db skills are essential…
nxpnsv··on New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy
I don't see how that conclusion follows from this optimization.
nxpnsv··on Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python
I use poetry for dependency management and pyenv-virtual for venvs. I found this set up to work better for me than poetry's venv. Maybe things have changed, and I'm out of date on that, but now I'm just used to this setup....
nxpnsv··on Friends don't let friends export to CSV
Csv sure is a step up from excel though…
nxpnsv··on Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python
I use this every day everywhere. Together with pyenv-virtualenv and poetry it dramatically improved my python experience…
nxpnsv··on DBeaver – open-source database client
I tried tableplus, liked it, it just feels right. I reported a minor error in docs, got a friendly message and a year of license. 10/10
nxpnsv··on ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-Based Jailbreak Attacks Against Aligned LLMs
I tried a few ascii-fonts on chatgp, and it interpreted every word as "OPENAI", which is hilarious. Maybe they read the paper :)
nxpnsv··on Study: 61 UK firms tried a 4-day workweek and after a year, they still love it
How would you randomize 4 day work weeks in an unbiased way?
nxpnsv··on Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings
Did you write many papers in experimental particle physics? I did, and in my experience, peer review was not a joke. And results from different experiments really are used as validation. Citations are not just used as a metric, but helps to leverage prior work.
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