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overengineeron LLM Inevitabilism

They are still picking low hanging fruits

overengineeron I quit my job to work on my programming language

Ever heard of a program named "git"? It is a British slang

overengineeron Seven Conversation Hacks

I call this bidirectional monologue

overengineeron The return of pneumatic tubes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Internet

overengineeron The return of pneumatic tubes

I want them with gopros livestreaming

overengineeron The the the the induction of jamais vu: word alienation and semantic satiation

"State of the art"

overengineeron The the the the induction of jamais vu: word alienation and semantic satiation

Reminds me what what what scene from The Lighthouse.

overengineeron Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

I encountered someone with no high education and no proven skills, no job but has the ability to remotely implant emotional dependency into someone from higher class, then somehow convince her to leave her wealthy family and their first world country just to live with him. Some people call this love but I consider this as a very special skill

overengineeron Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/multi-armed-bandit Applies world models and explore/exploit concepts in ML to real life. Gives insight about dynamics of priorities in our life.

overengineeron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)

Location: Istanbul

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: C++, Python, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/overengineer/overengineer/blob/master/DOC...

Email: alpersoylu.dev@gmail.com

overengineeron Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

Color theory, human color vision, color models and so on

overengineeron Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?

Micro text editor https://github.com/zyedidia/micro

MS Paint

overengineeron Ask HN: What should I build this weekend?

Search engine to search on video/movie subtitles

overengineeron Ask HN: What are your go to shell one-liners?

curl https://cheat.sh/<toolname> Example: curl https://cheat.sh/jq

overengineeron Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

solving constraint problems is CS

overengineeron Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models

If noise is desirable in this way, why not to just switch back to analog computing which comes with free noise

overengineeron Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models

For balanced binary [-1, 1] yes. -1*-1=1

overengineeron More than 2M research papers have disappeared from the Internet

"Viewing something in the browser" is technically downloading. Law system is too archaic to understand how internet works.

overengineeron Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

This is an actual attack surface: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284949922_Keyboard_...

overengineeron How to Be More Agentic

I am feeling the same way. It makes me get confused about myself a lot. I think it is ok that, I can fear from or fail at things that are easy for other people while something that is hard for the most people can be trivial for me.

overengineeron 111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude

> The metre was re-defined[0] in 1791 as one ten-millionth of the quarter-meridian

Doesn't sound like a good idea. Circumference of earth around Paris is not unchangeable.

overengineeron Cosmological time dilation in the early Universe

How can you tell difference between effect of redshift and time dilation

Unless Disney makes a live action mickey mouse movie

overengineeron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)

  Location: Istanbul
  Remote: Remote
  Willing to relocate: Nope
  Technologies: C++, Python, Linux
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alpersaidsoylu/
  Email: alpersoylu.dev@gmail.com

overengineeron Fq: Jq for Binary Formats

What is wrong with contributions from 13 year olds?

overengineeron That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something

In the age of LLMs everything is text

overengineeron YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

Is there a browser extension to switch to lightweight versions of web apps like these?

overengineeron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)

Location: Istanbul

Remote: Yes, abroad

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C++, Linux, Python, Docker

Résumé/CV: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/overengineer/overengineer/...

Email: 54alpersaid@gmail.com

overengineeron Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment

Some missing features: give access to terminal, bypass captchas, allow online payments, use a bank account, let it use a phone using TTS, let it generate photos and post on internet...

overengineeron Show HN: Simply explain 20k concepts using GPT

We already pretrain them on random internet crap then finetune on supervised data