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prashp··on Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?
I would be curious to hear your opinion on this when you are closer to the end of your residency program. The way medical education programs are structured is inhumane, no amount of money would convince me to go through it in its current form (assuming a north american perspective). Source: most of my family are in medicine.
prashp··on Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
Congrats, great to hear a success story. I wish I had the time to do this too. How did you pitch to the publisher so they would find you during development? How did you find a publisher?
prashp··on TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
How is this different from using Gemini to summarize a video given a YouTube URL?
prashp··on Perplexity Deep Research
Perplexity markets itself as a search tool. So even if LLMs are not search engines, Perplexity definitely is trying to be one.
prashp··on Show HN: Python Code Runner – right-click to execute Python code from any site
This is a very cool idea!
prashp··on Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting
This always makes me laugh https://grathium-industries.github.io/posts/deployments/bluf...
prashp··on Nvidia might do for desktop AI what it did for desktop gaming
Still no word on where and how to buy these?
prashp··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
You can have both (and a cat while you're at it).
prashp··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
Have you tried doing things for others instead of yourself?
prashp··on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market
That's not what I'm insinuating.

https://youtu.be/eDiU2p2uzVI?feature=shared

prashp··on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market
Hey look, it's Ryan from The Office
prashp··on Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll
Glad to see there are more developments in the Vesuvius challenge - it has been one of the most interesting things I've discovered on HN.
prashp··on Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker
What framework/language did you use?
prashp··on AI-Implanted False Memories
So... AI chat bots are more like humans in conversation than a survey or a list of pre-written questions?

Notably there is no "human control" category.

prashp··on Many FDA-approved AI medical devices are not trained on real patient data
What's missing here is the risk of the medical device not performing as expected on real patients. These risks are usually mitigated reasonably by medical device manufacturers and designers such that it doesn't matter that "AI medical devices" are not trained on real patient data.

The FDA keeps a database of all adverse events reported by manufacturers or healthcare systems [1], so we can check in a few years if these AI medical devices are causing an uptick of complaints.

[1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfmaude/s...

prashp··on Let's Write a Reverb (2021)
Do you know what the tricks are?
prashp··on Let's Write a Reverb (2021)
NAM uses pytorch for its NN implementation?
prashp··on Let's Write a Reverb (2021)
I have tried NAM but with limited success in modeling some time-based effects (e.g. octave shifting). However, I have not tried to model reverb effects.
prashp··on Let's Write a Reverb (2021)
Is it possible to model reverb using a neural network (e.g. wavenet or LSTMs) for real-time use? Is this what something like Neural DSP is doing under the hood?
prashp··on Show HN: Tea-tasting, a Python package for the statistical analysis of A/B tests
It's called tea-tasting but doesn't include Fisher's exact test :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_exact_test?useskin=...

prashp··on Bash-Oneliners: A collection of terminal tricks for Linux
Recently I have found that claude sonnet 3.5 is extremely good at coming up with bash one liners that do what you ask for fantastically.
prashp··on Ask HN: How do you find new games to play?
You might like Hades!
prashp··on How I turned seemingly 'failed' experiments into a successful PhD
This is just a regular PhD experience, but the author has made it sound like some special sort of skill only they and a few others know how to master.

Everyone has to turn failed experiments into a successful PhD because they have to finish and graduate by the time funding runs out.

prashp··on Hawaii home mistakenly built on Bay Area woman's land to be torn down
Maybe he programmed in Octave/MATLAB
prashp··on Why Are Sloths So Slow?
This is a question about survival, not productivity.
prashp··on PySheets – Spreadsheet UI for Python
What's the tech stack?
prashp··on How I Search in 2024
I have wanted to write a very similar article to this, but regarding the accuracy of various search engines and LLMs in returning factual information quickly. I've done my own quick tests to evaluate all the different engines, and have found that just for factual information retrieval Google is actually better than most other options out there.
prashp··on Debugging the Doctor Brain: Who's teaching doctors how to think?
This is not unique to the US where MBAs / business-minded people are the driving factor for healthcare workers being overworked.

In Canada most fully-trained doctors are paid per patient (AKA fee-for-service)[1] and so there is a huge incentive to rush through as many patients in a day, which results in overwork for the residents (who are salaried) and nurses (also salaried), and no time for adequate education of medical students and residents.

[1] https://www.dr-bill.ca/blog/billing-tips/physician-payment-m...

prashp··on Ask HN: What are your favorite tiny, single purpose tools?
fyi you can download windows power toys and assign a keyboard shortcut to "paste as plain text" universally in Windows

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/paste-as...

prashp··on German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
Here's one:

"Switching a Windows user to Linux is like moving mountains with a teaspoon; both demand patience and a miracle."

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