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scaraffeon Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it

Any idea of what kind of 'custom-trained' model does builder.io use? Is it some kind of an rnn? they claim to have 100k context window

scaraffeon Python-patterns – A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python

Are there real world exercises where I could apply these patterns?

scaraffeon GitHub Star History Graph

ben awad from youtube[1] has a slightly better solution for actual usage: stars/tags

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT6M_sqAuZo

scaraffeon Summary of Atomic Habits

what habit tracking application has worked for you?

scaraffeon Ask HN: What are some good Rust code samples?

Here is a peer-reviewed collection - https://github.com/mre/idiomatic-rust

scaraffeon Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021?

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins

scaraffeon Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

If anyone else wants to do this as a learning exercise I found https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/ which goes into design and code of most of the utilities from the original coreutils.

scaraffeon Show HN: Md2blog – A zero-config static site generator for dev blogs

netlify has something similar to what you describe - https://app.netlify.com/drop

scaraffeon The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

> a language to communicate within a group of peers while under environmental pressure

what does this mean?

scaraffeon The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

> a language to communicate within a group of peers while under environmental pressure what does this mean?

scaraffeon Programming and Writing

Another difference, that I have found, is that programming is immediately rewarding because it's verifiable. On the other hand, writing is without a feedback mechanism or a very delayed feedback or even subjective feedback, which can be painful and demotivating.

scaraffeon Quickdraw with Google AI

A bit off-topic, but is there a dataset like this for memes?

scaraffeon Show HN: Bangle.dev – Collection of tools for building rich text editors

Is there a lib like this for text augmentation? to build something like grammarly or textio.

scaraffeon The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding

can someone explain how this works? or where I can learn more about this.

scaraffeon Dogecoin Surges as Reddit Traders Push to Make It the Crypto GameStop

pump and dump at a global scale, because GME was mostly US market. They are hoping the global numbers can replicate the short squeeze.

scaraffeon Ask HN: What are you favorite discord servers?

https://discordapp.com/invite/x52Xz3y

scaraffeon Ask HN: What are the best advanced computer science courses online?

I usually prefer reading over watching videos. Can someone recommend a book that covers all the topics in this course?

scaraffeon U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal

what kind of things does the book allude to?

scaraffeon Warren Buffett 1997 Email Exchange on Microsoft [pdf]

I could be wrong, but didn't apple cannibalize its ipod business with the release of iPhone?

scaraffeon China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan

The one thing the article doesn't mention is that some of the projects under this plan passes through the Pok (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir), which creates a precarious situation between India, Pakistan and China over Kashmir.

scaraffeon What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar

If sugar is bad, why are we wired to eat it more and remember it's taste? Isn't evolution supposed make us live longer?