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fercircularbufon Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone

I love this. Thank you for sharing.

fercircularbufon Please stop the AI confidence theater

My broader team organized a 2 day hackathon and created teams of 4 each with a mix of engineers, designers, data scientists, admin, localization, and project managers from across the team and gave us 5 pain points our product was experiencing and let us loose. The amount of leverage AI tools give small interdisciplinary teams to apply their existing skill sets is kind of crazy. Lots of very impressive demos, several of which were nearly shippable and provided real value.

fercircularbufon Jira Is Turing-Complete

Not surprising if you've worked with their automation flows in-depth before. What's surprising is how awful their automation flow tools are to work with. Feels like programming in assembly to accomplish what you want.

fercircularbufon In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants

Japan has a very low cost of living. Work/life balance, however, is not good. And neither is the increasingly hostile immigration policies.

fercircularbufon Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

I don't believe the point is to construct a blank without them. Rather, the point is to capture what is already there (contaminants) so you can calibrate during the real sample.

fercircularbufon Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

I love the pedagogical approach here and the ability to easily hone in on your level before diving into content. Your approach would work really well for other subjects as well.

fercircularbufon Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg

This could be a great and easy way to add annotations to technical instruction videos in a way that is self-documenting and programmable.

fercircularbufon Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

Lately it seems there are so many poor role models with so much power. It's really disheartening to say the least.

fercircularbufon Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware

This is really terrific!!!

fercircularbufon How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?

I thought about this exact question yesterday. Curious to know why we couldn't, if it isn't feasible. Would allow one to upgrade to the next model without fabricating all new hardware.

fercircularbufon Show HN: A word game a friend and I built. How did we do?

Thank you!

fercircularbufon Show HN: A word game a friend and I built. How did we do?

Thank you for your feedback! We started with just written rules, but those just kept growing, and nobody was reading them anyway. We figured those that need guidance will learn best by guided doing, hence the move to an interactive tutorial. And those that don't can dismiss it once.

Did you feel like it was too long as in wholly unnecessary, or that it would be nicer if it was just more concise?

My friend used to play this game in long car rides with his family, and he wanted to turn that memory into something others could enjoy as well.

fercircularbufon A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

My friend and I labored over the word lists for our word game subletters.fun. We wanted the word pairs and at least one optimal path for each word pair to be from words on one list, which were simpler words that we would expect everyone to be familiar with. But players could use their own more advanced vocabulary to solve the puzzles on their own without feeling restricted. Then we bundled literally 10 years of unique word pairs into the game and shipped it.

fercircularbufon Claude Cowork exfiltrates files

This is the answer right here as for why I use claude code instead of an api key and someone else's tool.

fercircularbufon enclose.horse

Great game. I've been having fun with it every day, but today there is no puzzle! Be careful about this. I intuit that not having a puzzle on a day is enough to lose some players, with the number only increasing the more days you don't have puzzles. Not sure how you're doing it now, but you should easily be able to generate thousands of levels and have them all ready in the page like wordle.

fercircularbufon Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

Not required to eat any sugar at all. Your body will actually produce its own glucose if and when needed through gluconeogenesis [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

fercircularbufon Always bet on text (2014)

Thank you so much for introducing me to this talk. Changed my way of thinking.

fercircularbufon Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

Thank you for this post and your suggested readings!

fercircularbufon The case against social media is stronger than you think

I don't see the logic in this argument. What's the difference from your argument if I state that murder is a characteristic of our humanity? If people are to be allowed to be fully expressive as humans they need to be able to murder.

fercircularbufon The ROI of Exercise

First time I've ever heard that soreness = something wrong. Isn't soreness basically guaranteed to some degree if you've done enough work to actually build strength?

fercircularbufon Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts

As someone living in Japan, the sheer number of instances of theft in your description shocks me. Is this that common there?

fercircularbufon Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev

It sounds like Uber

fercircularbufon Pixel 6a gets a mandatory Android update next week with battery reduction

Took 5 minutes and they've confirmed they're going to deposit $100 into my bank account within 24 hours.

fercircularbufon Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027249442...

The first paragraph of the conclusions section is also stimulating and I think aptly applies to this discussion of using AI as a tool.

> it is important to mention the bidirectionality of the relationship between GPS use and navigation abilities: Individuals with poorer ability to learn spatial information and form environmental knowledge tend to use assisted navigation systems more frequently in daily life, thus weakening their navigation abilities. This intriguing link might suggest that individuals who have a weaker “internal” ability to use spatial knowledge to navigate their surroundings are also more prone to rely on “external” devices or systems to navigate successfully. Therefore, other psychological factors (e.g., self-efficacy; Miola et al., 2023) might moderate this bidirectional relationship, and researchers need to further elucidate it.

fercircularbufon Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task

As the proliferation of the smart phone eroded our ability to locate and orient ourselves and remember routes to places. It's no surprise that a tool like this, used for the purpose of outsourcing a task that our own brains would otherwise do, would result in a decline in the skills that would be trained if we were performing that task ourselves.

fercircularbufon OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames

I've intuitively felt that this general class of task is what these LLMs are absolutely best at. I'm not an expert on these things, but isn't this thanks to word embeddings and how words are mapped into high dimensional vector space within the model? I would imagine that because every word is mapped this way, finding a word that exists in the same area as mail, lawyer, log, and line in some vector space would be trivial for the model to do, right?

fercircularbufon Reverse Engineering for Everyone

This is way too short on engagement and visuals. Way too much telling and walls of text. For these reasons alone this is not for "everyone".

fercircularbufon G1 AR Glasses

One of the things that frustrates me in everyday life is people being distracted by a number of things while trying to engage with them in conversation. I understand that as we don more and more augmenting technology, we're inevitably going to have to share our attention with this technology, at least until we have BCIs, but it just makes me feel very anxious about the near-future of human-human interactions.

fercircularbufon Bollards: Why and What

So if a virtual bollard erroneously pops into existence in the wrong location or moves...

This is a nice idea but it's far future sci-fi at this point.

fercircularbufon Cancer in Younger People on the Rise

I wonder if this takes into account the number of young people going in to receive cancer-diagnosing tests. Perhaps as a result of news about microplastics, etc. people are generally becoming more worried and therefore more proactive in seeking diagnoses. But more people getting tested results in more cancer diagnoses.