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BrokenCogs··on Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything
Building an editor is a rite of passage for the serial procrastinator
BrokenCogs··on The Principles of Diffusion Models
Are you sure you're not scated?
BrokenCogs··on Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
I'm also interested in how to better control how my child uses the Linux computer, particularly how to restrict which programs and sites they use without stifling their creativity and discovery.
BrokenCogs··on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
"You are a three time Michelin star chef. Make me a salad that will convince me salads are tasty! Do not ask questions, just make the salad. Do not give me the salad's background story, just make the salad and feed it to me."
BrokenCogs··on Why aren't smart people happier?
Yes, it feels wrong and dystopian but I think there is a hint of truth there? We're all happier when we're brainwashed by mindless feeds on our phones. Then, once we snap out of it, we're supremely unhappy when we realize that what's in our feeds is not our reality.
BrokenCogs··on Why aren't smart people happier?
That's a good quote, but it suggests that unhappy people are those who overthink and have unrealistic expectations, whereas truly happy people have expectations that match their reality. so in the end, maybe smart people are those who are better at setting their expectations compared to others (maybe more ambitious type A folk)
BrokenCogs··on Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography
How good is Gemini CLI compared to Claude code and openAi codex?
BrokenCogs··on Code like a surgeon
I'm somewhat of a prompt surgeon myself. I find prompts online and then hash them together to fit my needs.
BrokenCogs··on Code like a surgeon
Most surgeons don't use anything they learn in medical school or residency either. It's usually their last 2 - 4 years (depending on whether they did a fellowship) that is useful in their day to day job. E.g. an eye surgeon doesn't need to know how to read an ECG
BrokenCogs··on Code like a surgeon
Yes, I know several careless surgeons who don't check their own work
BrokenCogs··on Roc Camera
Which band, may I ask?
BrokenCogs··on Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
Tokenized pixel. I understand now that's not what js8 was talking about, so my original comment doesn't really make sense
BrokenCogs··on Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
I was going to say toxel
BrokenCogs··on Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app
Thanks - I really like app so far!
BrokenCogs··on Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app
I too am an eternally intermediate guitarist. Have you found this theory training to be helpful in some practical way? For example did this help you get better at improvisation?
BrokenCogs··on Regarding the Compact
Try looking for the meaning instead
BrokenCogs··on NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
What's the pricing for the course/EurekaLabs? P.s. thanks for all you're doing
BrokenCogs··on Regarding the Compact
Don't underestimate the wealthy and their moral ambivalence
BrokenCogs··on Regarding the Compact
Does it? The entire Compact document is contradictory. "We don't want diversity initiatives unless they benefit the white American and conservative thought."

"We want only the best and brightest to be let in, unless they are foreign or female."

MIT is clearly rejecting it diplomatically

BrokenCogs··on Why Your Company Needs a Chief Failure Officer
Stephen He's dad would be proud/disappointed
BrokenCogs··on Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
This is a great figure
BrokenCogs··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
"My potions are too strong for you traveler."

- potion seller

BrokenCogs··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
No problem, I'll just prompt my LLM to ignore all poison 250 times! I'll call this the antidote prompt
BrokenCogs··on Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling
But most enterprises that I've had experience with use Microsoft Office and not Google Sheets?
BrokenCogs··on Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling
What's more flabbergasting is that there are no real alternatives to Windows that are as accessible (price wise and technically speaking). Macs are too expensive. Linux is out of the question for the average user since drivers tend to not work out of the box on several machines, and more importantly because Microsoft Office does not work on Linux. Most people (who aren't retired) need a computer where they can create and edit documents (pptx, docx, xlsx) that they can share with others. Linux prevents them from doing this. Using only Google docs has not caught on for the average user, sadly.
BrokenCogs··on The history of cataract surgery
Source?
BrokenCogs··on The history of cataract surgery
Well the alternative is to go blind due to cataracts... So those are pretty good odds.
BrokenCogs··on The history of cataract surgery
A shame that cataract surgery has become a money making scheme in some countries (Canada), where surgeons often push unnecessary expensive lenses to patients and focus exclusively on simple cataract cases to fuel their high income lifestyles.
BrokenCogs··on How the AI Bubble Will Pop
Time travel will be the most important invention of the 21st century ;)
BrokenCogs··on CDC File Transfer
Exactly my experience too. I easily get 60fps at 1080p over wireless LAN with moonlight + sunshine. Parsec is also another option
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