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adelpozo··on Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are
i haven’t found that block all ads. which do you recommend for ios and for chrome/safari on macos?
adelpozo··on On File Formats
I would add to make it streamable or at least allow to be read remotely efficiently.
adelpozo··on Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
I can’t reproduce. Maybe others reported the error and someone adjusted the expected answer, I do not know enough about OpenAI operations to say for sure.

The reason this bothers me is that comments like this reinforce the believes of people that could otherwise find value in these tools.

But I think points like this would be better made in shared chats or screenshots, since we do not have something like a core dump or stacktrace to attach.

And while I am not saying OP did this, I have seen technically skilled engineers asserting/implying that llm/chatbots aren’t good or not useful to them look at their chat log that a multitude of topics that I am sure would impact the result of the query.

Yes. It can be an UX problem. Yes. It can be an algorithmc problem. But they are just tools that can be used wrong and not a perfect mechanical brain.

adelpozo··on Some terminal frustrations
I think I remember swyx had compiled some thoughts on CLIs: https://github.com/swyxio/cli-cheatsheet. I particularly liked this part, where it starts by collecting examples of CLI apps like by the the authors: https://clig.dev/#the-basics.

Beyond that, I am enjoying a little bit too much customizing Fish, bobthefish, FZF, and replacements for established CLI apps (e.g., find/fd). I spend too much time asking Claude how to do various things. And I am the happiest with my current setup—until I have to SSH into the barren lands of a production host.

adelpozo··on Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure
it does not have any dependency to a pdf parsing library, correct? That's a cool way to learn to file format and be able to work around weird pdf file. But what was the motivation to not use a library to do the pdf parsing work? is it the case that there is none available? Nice work!
adelpozo··on New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs
Yeah, but what I found thought provoking is what if you send the solar panels and the datacenter as well for training. No need to transmission of power down to earth. I guess then it becomes a heat dissipation and hardware upgrade and maintenance. But again, thought provoking.
adelpozo··on MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
And you are 100% right but I do not think the point is against LaTex. But I am willing to bet money that after seeing thousands of pdfs formatted for icml/cvpr/nips, a reviewer would have an unconscious bias towards a pdf printed from msword or markdown. That's just a group thing and not that unexpected.
adelpozo··on New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs
Or solar in space, which some have already heard of Lumen Orbit https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lumen-orbit
adelpozo··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
Caring about things and tangible consequences are two different things. I don't necessarily agree with the GP comment but one should expect a higher quality retort.
adelpozo··on Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020)
I would say it is a moving target if the goal is to write C code that compiles to a seemingly magical cpu instruction. As other have pointed out, learning assembly and compiler explorer are useful things.

As a way to show the wonderful complexities of compilers check the TOC of https://shop.elsevier.com/books/optimizing-compilers-for-mod...

adelpozo··on I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go
>all the music on earth… I would presume that adding a searchable fingerprint to every torrent link would do it
adelpozo··on Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for YC startups
A16z seems to have bought 20K GPUs to be used by the startups they fund. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andreessen-horowitz-... (July 9)

Sorry for the direct link, couldn’t get archive.is to work with this one.

adelpozo··on Quaternions in Signal and Image Processing
For the visually inclined I enjoyed Visualizing Quaternions by Andrew Hanson. Haven’t yet read the article in the post but I am curious on the applications mentioned.
adelpozo··on Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences
very grateful to have been introduced to the artist site. Inspiring
adelpozo··on Semantic note-taking
I like to repeat out loud what I heard but in my own words. I believe it uncovers assumptions made by the speaker and lets newcomers learn about them. Sometimes, though, I feel like I am calling people out when the language used was particularly obfuscated. I think it does require some level of empathy and honesty in the organization.

From another point of view, seems like we had a shared document automatically created of the meeting transcription/summary it would reduce the friction and other biases. (Oh look, the LLM is dumb, it wrote that the project is over budget and we depend of risky integrations)

adelpozo··on The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings
In the other hand, I look at myself. I place the selfview close to the lens and it appears that I am looking directly at the other party.

Idk why it works but I find it smoothing and allows me to control how I am being seen. Just my personal experience.

adelpozo··on I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
Interesting, why do you think would that be? Difficult to reuse code/infra from the mvp for the final product? Or is it that the mvp is hard to define and ends up being the product? None of the above? Interested to hear the thoughts behind the comment
adelpozo··on The Cobalt-60 Accident of Ciudad Juarez (2019)
What would be the best sensor one could get so that it could pick up random radiation sources like this? Are there any good ones in keychain form?

The thought process is that if there is random steel laying around releasing unhealthy amounts of radiation, would it be nice to know before going to the doctor?

adelpozo··on Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record
As someone that sees 65 as an overly cautious limit and not precisely born in the US, what do you mean by the effects have worn off?
adelpozo··on Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels
Couldn’t they just rebranded it? Like venmo:paypal?
adelpozo··on Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
Which VPN company is public traded? ;)
adelpozo··on Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory
Any chance to see a “before” picture? I searched without success. Or is that kind of the point?
adelpozo··on Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report
I also had a great experience with Bose costumer service a while ago. I had them for more than one year. The audio was cutting off in one of the headphones. I emailed them about the issue and I got a new pair mailed to me right away. No fuss. I didn’t have to mail mine first. They got a customer for life with me.
adelpozo··on Every Google result now looks like an ad
There used to be such feature in the results page. I just went looking for it and I got 'Cached' and 'Similar' when I click in the little drop-down arrow. Nice feature that appears to be removed. How does removing that feature benefited the users?
adelpozo··on Teaching Machines to Draw
It could also help to create another representation of an image or an object in the image. Think of "Please find something that looks like this: human sketches some lines"
adelpozo··on Snap Tumbles Below IPO Opening Price as Analysts Say Sell
Well, I did learn something from that comment. I guess I am ignorant. :)
adelpozo··on Awesome OS X Command Line
I was thinking that a few those can be found in http://secrets.blacktree.com/ and the boom the website is gone.

Thankfully the payback machine is there for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20150621044359/http://secrets.bl...

I should start donating money to those guys

adelpozo··on XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
What makes this even scarier is to see IE in the screenshots. :)
adelpozo··on A back-projection algorithm to extract 3D volume from shadows
There is a lot of research in the Computer Vision literature on this topic and its generalization. One particularly prolific researcher on the subject is Jan Koenderink[1].

Or search for "Shape from Shading" or "shape from occluding contours"

[1]http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/readings/koenderink-perce...

adelpozo··on Turkish drone shooting heralds a new age of civillian counter-surveillance
That is a very nice drone. Does anyone know it's make/model?