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sebastiansm··on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
On Aliexpress those Xeon+mobo+ram kits are really cheap.
sebastiansm··on Why Anthropic's Claude still hasn't beaten Pokémon
We'll have fully autonomous vahicles driving all over the world by the end of 2017... maybe 2019 at worst.
sebastiansm··on The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010
Not sure of any benefit of soil-feet connection.

But make sense to being able to move our feets freely without any hard sole that limits the development of the foot musculature and joints.

sebastiansm··on For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower
It would be interesting to know how many of those old professors with PHDs, lawyers, engineers supported Hugo Chavez at the beginning.
sebastiansm··on In S3 simplicity is table stakes
I could build a netflix in a weekend.
sebastiansm··on Gemma3 – The current strongest model that fits on a single GPU
Anyone can recommend a small model specific for translation? english to spanish mostly.
sebastiansm··on Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
5:30 wake up, dress and walk to the gym, workout, shower at the gym.

7:20 walk back home, walk the kids to school (at 7am my wife woke them up and prepare breakfast for them, she workouts in the evenings)

8:15 back home, unload dishwasher, breakfast with wife.

9:00 start working from home

sebastiansm··on Does current AI represent a dead end?
Yesterday ChatGPT helped me to elaborate a skincare routine for my wife with multiple serums and creams that she received for Christmas. She and I had no idea when to apply, how to combine or when to avoid combination of some of those products.

I could have google it myself in the evenings and had the answer in a few days of research, but with o1 in a 15min session my wife had had a solid weekly routine, the reasoning about those choices and academic papers with research about those products. (Obviously she knows a lot about skincare in general, so she had the capacity to recognize any wrong recommendation).

Nothing game changer, but is great to save lots of time in this kind of tasks.

sebastiansm··on Pi Chess Board
For a hobby project seems like good progress.

Polishing the last 20% of functionalities will take him a lifetime. Maybe other chess/robotic enthusiast could join him to accelerate some border cases.

sebastiansm··on Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize
I like that only shows 10 articles.
sebastiansm··on Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize
Agree. I think I'll stay in the OG site.
sebastiansm··on INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause
I learned that syntax 5 years ago from my boss. I still prefer to use CROSS JOIN just to make it clear to other noobs like me what I'm expecting with the query.
sebastiansm··on How I write code using Cursor
What is the best workflow to code with an AI?

Copy and paste the code to the Claude website? Or use an extension? o something else?

sebastiansm··on Make sports betting taboo again
What could be a solution to balance the freedom vs harm of those services?

For an adhd brain most of the internet is addictive, at least for me. My solution was to delete my social media accounts (still youtube is a problem), but I wouldn't want to be banned from those services just by my pre-condition.

sebastiansm··on A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final
In every race the reaction time is a key factor. Don't see how you could exclude that factor from a race.
sebastiansm··on It's not just us: Other animals change their social habits in old age
The "hack" is pretty simple, but few implement it:

-Sleep -Nutrition -Exercise -Relationships

sebastiansm··on Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
I was going to write that software too, but still think that Matlab is so much superior, or maybe is the nostalgia from university years.
sebastiansm··on Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
R or the Python Scientific stack over SAS or SPSS.
sebastiansm··on Ask HN: How has AI changed your learning methods?
Last year, when I was studying for an AWS Certification, I used a lot of chatGPT to explain me services and concepts with useful analogies and practical use cases.
sebastiansm··on Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship
I need a software that do my work while I play guitar.
sebastiansm··on Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
Google is working hard to be the next Boeing.
sebastiansm··on Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT
What alternatives exist to the analysis feature of chatgpt?
sebastiansm··on The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
Work hard != Work on your free time
sebastiansm··on FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data
Cost of doing business
sebastiansm··on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok
I'm 34 now. When I was a kid, I'd spend hours daily on a Windows 3.1 computer at home and an Atari with those old 5 1/4-inch floppy game disks at my grandpa's place.

Then the internet and cable TV came to our house, and I was glued to that for most of my time. Faster internet followed, giving us access to all sorts of unfiltered online content (sites like Ogrish were the norm with my friend group). Smartphones and apps hit the scene not long after.

Nowadays, I have a 7-year-old son who's constantly on his tablet, playing Roblox or Minecraft on my computer, or watching YouTube videos about trains and tornado sirens on the TV (yep, he's autistic). He's been seeing me do similar stuff since he was born. No surprise he started mimicking that behavior. It doesn't really bother me, though.

sebastiansm··on Obituary for a quiet life (2023)
Programmers and wood. Best friends forever.
sebastiansm··on Macs to Get AI-Focused M4 Chips Starting in Late 2024
Maybe that M4 was the real electric Apple car project.
sebastiansm··on The design philosophy of Great Tables
It's great that the RStudio team is working on Python libraries.

Hope to see dplyr and ggplot someday on Python.

sebastiansm··on Paying Netflix $0.53/H, etc.
I mostly use spotify on weekends when driving to the supermarket. So I’m on the opposite side of use than you.
sebastiansm··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
What specs are needed to run those models in your local machine without crashing the system?
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