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toppy··on GLM-5.3-Flash
By clicking this link you download some PDF in the background
toppy··on Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
Alex Murrell has a great piece on this: https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
toppy··on Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end
"You can check some of the results out here" in Qt section
toppy··on Ask HN: Advice for a CTO Visiting Silicon Valley
Noted, thanks.
toppy··on Automotive Grade Linux Launches New Expert Group Led by Toyota
F-16 aircraft is doing it already: https://thenewstack.io/how-the-u-s-air-force-deployed-kubern...
toppy··on Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls
Such a link could be created automatically when you register for a car plate.
toppy··on The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
You comment deserves at least two upvotes.
toppy··on Diffusion models are real-time game engines
I think you've just encoded the title of the paper
toppy··on GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1M FPS
I don't know this field of research thus my question: why such a high framerate is consider as a feature at all? Does it help with learning rate?
toppy··on The Endless Maze algorithm (Atari 2600)
For Commodore there is this classic recipe [1] for infinite maze:

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

[1] https://10print.org/

toppy··on Here's a puzzle game. I call it Reverse the List of Integers
The broader contexts could be this: look at this puzzle as a way for reinvent sorting as a delegation of operations (split + combine) instead of traditional "swapping" of values. As CPU arithmetic is faster then memory operations some real treasure may be hidden in this new approach.
toppy··on Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub
Where's GitHub Fraud Detection Team?
toppy··on Game Programming Patterns (2014)
Are you referring to this one? https://www.gameenginebook.com/
toppy··on RR – Railroad Diagram Generator
SQLite diagrams: https://www.sqlite.org/syntaxdiagrams.html
toppy··on Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
Absolutely love it! I've been looking for such a tool for a long time. Just a looooong text file when I can write my snippets. I like UI, icon and even the name :) One suggestion - make it collapsable.
toppy··on All code is technical debt
https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
toppy··on 2nd Batch of the A16Z Open Source AI Grant
Is it only me or this webpage hangs on mobile?
toppy··on Need a PRNG? Use a CSPRNG
Welcome on HN, your reputation precedes you :)
toppy··on Machine intelligence (2015)
"Most machine intelligence development involves a “fitness function”—something the program tries to optimize. At some point, someone will probably try to give a program the fitness function of “survive and reproduce”. Even if not, it will likely be a useful subgoal of many other fitness functions. It worked well for biological life."

Interesting, how this correlates with this Bible passage from Genesis: "God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it' ".

toppy··on Show HN: Dlt – Python library to automate the creation of datasets
Potential conflict with other quite popular Python library: https://dlthub.com/docs/intro
toppy··on What every developer should know about GPU computing
Touche!
toppy··on Locked and Loaded with New Cosmic DE Updates
Probably I am paranoid but showing battery and network status together with the rest of widgets (even configuration icon) seems like a security thread, no?
toppy··on What every developer should know about GPU computing
Why are they still called GPU? PPU (Parallel Processing Unit) sounds like a better name.
toppy··on Gnome Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director
"has raised millions of dollars throughout her career"
toppy··on AI Graphics at JetBrains
Meanwhile other tech companies (just from the last 2 weeks):

- LinkedIn lays off 563 engineering roles

- Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

- Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday

- Epic lay off 830 people thanks to “unrealistic” metaverse ambitions

Apparently they don't have such deep pockets...

toppy··on No morphological differences between living and non-living systems are yet known
There is a great book on that matter "What is life" by Erwin Schroedinger (of Erwin Schroedinger fame): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Life%3F
toppy··on Animations From First Principles (in 5 minutes)
I like clarity of your examples. You could draw an inspiration from Daniel Shifman's book "Nature of code" (https://natureofcode.com/book/) - see chapters 2 and 3 for instance.
toppy··on Are any words the same in all languages?
Quiz
toppy··on Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager
nnn [1] seems like a more advanced tool (directory management, copying, renaming, packing/unpacking) and pluggable.

[1] https://github.com/jarun/nnn

toppy··on Manias and Mimesis: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles (2019)
Nice technical metaphor: "The first things worth writing down were the terms of deals—in what is perhaps a metaphor for the destructive nature of non-market conflict, some of the oldest writing we have consists of cuneiform tablets recording the terms of loans and forward commodities contracts. These were written on clay, which could be reused, but when a city was razed the fires would bake the clay, writing the contract from random-access memory to permanent storage."
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