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Hmm it's kinda crazy how well his main points [on why Matt Levine educates so well] map to ML concepts:

1. cases with known outcomes/answers => data with labels

2. first-principles explanations: most people experience an “illusion of depth” => avoiding local minima

3. spaced repetition enabled by fast turnover => stochastic optimization

> Very quickly identify what the foundational knowledge is.

This seems to be the most important part but also has the hidden and problematic dependency of... already knowing (i.e. already having learned) what the foundational stuff is?

"First up a webgpu wifi simulator has emerged, although details remain sparse due to trouble extracting data from the linked resource"

Sounds about right

There's ways to export the notes btw, for example https://github.com/storizzi/notes-exporter

Reminds me of "When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages" [0]

[0]: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-disc...

Every paid service shuts down eventually.

In their nascent years I played two of their early games, both mobile games - Florence and Gorogoa. Both beautiful. I still play Florence once in a while and it really evokes emotions. Gorogoa is a great puzzle game that the HN crowd would love. Highly recommend both if you haven't tried them!

Is that the only thing you talk to your friends about?

I mean yeah literally you could talk about your plans [i.e. by yourself or with the other real people] or what's going on in your life and have the bot chime in with thoughts too. You could talk about food, philosophy, politics, travel, complain about stuff, get advice for relationships or work, gossip. All in a group chat setting.

It's not hard to imagine a bot that's able to contribute here and there in a meaningful way in any of these subjects, and other unlimited subjects. But perhaps you weren't open to it in the first place so I'm not going to try to convince you further if you don't buy it; If you don't want to really give it consideration then nobody is going to convince you otherwise.

For all the same reasons you talk to humans...

I think it's inevitable that group chats will involve LLM agents in the future.

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Nobody talks like this, it's super awkward

Real interaction is about living in the moment and reading the room

This is a nerd solution to a nerd problem

That's a failure of imagination. If I can architect and describe my interfaces and have Claude write the current component, then I can repeat with every other component and write minimal code / corrections.

At the same time, I've minimized complexity in my codebase. It's a win-win, and honestly probably the next paradigm of software engineering.

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Kinda sounds like we're heading for the authoritarian surveillance state that China has spearheaded, only with more steps

I don't understand, if I think something is going to do well am I not allowed to invest in it? Isn't that the whole point of investing? Where is the misalignment here?

This has made me want the Apple Watch more than any ad

> There’s strong evidence no individual trader can expect to beat the market.

I don't understand that. If you just bought Apple instead of SPY 20 years ago wouldn't you be doing great?

Any chance to port this to mac? :)

Reminds me of the probability based counting algorithm that was on the front page last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379175

How does the zero-knowledge solution make sense? Can't you just cheat and show me two random different colors whenever I click two post-its?

Surely there's a way to build a wiki on top of GitHub? That automatically converts wiki changes to PRs for example. So that arbitrary wikis can be built open source and leverage github's free hosting

Not surprising. When I was researching options for a client I tried a few companies including ElevenLabs and Play.ht, each seemed happy to talk to us... except Coqui. I think I went as far as reporting bugs to them, just to have them aggressively ignore me. I guess they're more of a research team than a business?

I mean it feels like 2-factor authentication where both factors are one and the same.

If someone had the willpower to ignore distractions already, they would do so with or without gadgets like this one. And ultimately if they crave those distractions again they're just going to stop using this tool after those 15 minutes or whatever time.

Similar tools have existed for a long time, and while sure there's an opportunity to capture a small market in the same way diet pills sell to a few people, it's nothing novel or even effective at solving the real problem.

This is just yet another gimmick that tries to tackle the symptoms of the underlying issue that we actually like the distractions and need those dopamine hits.

Here's the whole article:

> Early stages of learning focus on concrete steps to imitate (shu), the focus then shifts to understanding principles (ha) and finally into self-directed innovation (ri)

Surely the issue in "AI profiling" is "profiling" not "AI"?

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Having the right metrics is very important in product development. Your team will improve the things you measure.

Daily active people is the de facto north star metric for a lot of companies, and to move forwards and adjust their definition is interesting.

"Obfuscated" is a judgment we're making. I'm assuming internally it's very well-defined. Perhaps they need to better define it outwardly.

I am giving them the benefit of the doubt and if they are indeed doing it as obfuscation, I agree it's not good.

> When a company starts playing weird games with how it reports user activity, something is going very, very wrong. In general, when a company starts trying to obfuscate the true numbers about its revenue, growth, or profit, it’s a bad sign.

Citation needed. When companies shift from Monthly to Daily active users for example it's a perfectly valid way to recognize that they want to change the way they think about their north star metrics. At Facebook scale, I think it's rather brave for them to change the most important metrics that they report, showing that they're still open-minded to innovate on that frontier (and they are most certainly on that frontier as few companies operate on that scale). Having worked there in the past I would believe that this isn't just a vanity change, most likely a fundamental change on how their teams will be viewing these metrics and objectives, and may lead to material differences, likely for the better.

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