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simonklitj

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Creator of (exclugeo.com)[https://exclugeo.com]
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simonklitj··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
A keyboard key is not generally considered a consumable, though.
simonklitj··on LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
I don’t suppose he was entirely wrong. I would probably be able to recall a lot more (verbatim) if it all had to be stored in me noggin. I think the trade off worthwhile, however.
simonklitj··on What We Tell AI
It seems like they did: https://www.whatwetellai.com/about-booth-alamo.jpg
simonklitj··on No AI Fridays
So you’re left with the least interesting tasks? Not trying to be too snarky, or too much of a luddite, but that would be a killer for me, motivationally.
simonklitj··on Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
> You can just tell an LLM to debate, find out inconsistencies and issues in your writing, and challenge you, and it will very well do that!

Sure, but the point is that you are supposed to be able to find these inconsistencies and issues in your writing. That is the skill.

Indeed, LLMs can be helpful as an alternative to a teacher, if thought of as a sophist (I have even done research on this [0]). But that is not the approach you are proposing.

If you want students to be able to reason about these things on their own, then LLMs doing the hard work of identifying the gaps in their logic is counter-intuitive.

[0]: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98197-5_31

simonklitj··on Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
Depends on what skills you want the students to have.

In e.g., philosophy, allowing students to write their assessments with the help of LLMs changes the students’ depth of understanding, as well as their ability to synthesize, formalize, and drum up their own arguments and objections.

These are all useful skills, even in a post-LLM world.

simonklitj··on KOReader
> Unfortunately on MacOS it seems you have to use Amazon's app to access the filesystem.

KOReader comes with SSH, so you can just SSH into it.

simonklitj··on KOReader
KOReader is my jam! With its reflow for PDFs, I've used it on my Kindle Oasis 2 to read everything for my undergrad and graduate degree. Some years ago now, I wrote a script that converts the annotations to Obsidian [0], and then another little script to automatically keep my "Articles" folders in sync between the Kindle and my laptop.

Very grateful for this software!

[0]: https://github.com/simonpacis/kohico

simonklitj··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Biggest reason for me - for a long time - was no Apple TV app. Using Infuse has fixed that for me, however.
simonklitj··on If you're a button, you have one job
I suppose a lack of testing and an assumption that the action will fail so rarely that it’s not worth accounting for? But yes, such patterns make it hard to trust and efficiently use an interface.
simonklitj··on Help I accidentally a wigglegram
Yes, the author notes as much: ‘many of them come out as less "stereoscopic" and more "kinescopic" - like little unintentional movies.’
simonklitj··on Gaussian Point Splatting
Imo they need to pad it just a bit. My scrollbar overlaps.
simonklitj··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
I mostly refrain from watching any
simonklitj··on Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore
Am I right in that I cannot demo a couple of searches without subscribing?
simonklitj··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
I don't think you're overreacting. Received mine in 2020 and decided to move as well.
simonklitj··on Hating AI Is Good
Even just in my family, the attitude has shifted significantly over the last year. Most of my family members are now critical of it and its effects.

Add to this that if ~6B people are using the internet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage), and ChatGPT only has almost a billion users (and is the largest player in the space), then I’d argue that LLM-users are in fact the minority.

simonklitj··on Flipper One – we need your help
I think this is the optimal outcome of the “Slop Police.” Normalization of these acknowledgements. Transparency is good, like a journalist declaring whether they have vested interests.
simonklitj··on Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
Yeah, I’m not disputing that, and it’s worth a lot of consideration and research. But, it’s quite far from 36 years.
simonklitj··on Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials
Source please?

I’m seeing M75/F77 w/o learning disability, and M72/F70 w/ learning disability: https://www.autism.org.uk/learn/knowledge-hub/professional-p...

simonklitj··on CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler
Might be the only thing that matters to you. And, perhaps, the only thing that matters in a functional sense. But, whether it’s human-coded/written or not matters deeply to some.
simonklitj··on Killed by Apple
Yeah. Still daily driving my two 8-year old OG HomePods. Compared to e.g., Sonos, who discontinued the Play:1 after 5 years, that's pretty good.
simonklitj··on Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
Ah, whoops! Thanks for correcting my mistake.
simonklitj··on Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
Don't have a handle on it, unfortunately. But the algorithm is in here: https://github.com/tautme/phone-sensors/blob/main/guitar-tun.... Esp. lines 221–257 and 373–417.
simonklitj··on Six years perfecting maps on watchOS
In happier news, that house is being demolished: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gqqv17v1vo
simonklitj··on Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Yes, let the LLM bias and misinterpret it instead.
simonklitj··on Peptides: where to begin?
Is HN particularly drawn to this over other platforms? I gotta say I don’t quite recognize this. In general, I think there’s a good dose of respect for science around these parts, but maybe I’m blind to it.
simonklitj··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
Please educate us then.
simonklitj··on Flighty Airports
Yes, but the question is how it makes money, not whether it could make more money by expanding into other OS’s.
simonklitj··on AirPods Max 2
I don’t know that it should be a generation specific thing. I’m a millennial, and I like their look.
simonklitj··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
Well, sure, but they’re both in the entertainment space.
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