HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

garyiskidding

13 karma · joined December 14, 2023

Founder and Architect, PicKey.ai email : garyiskidding@yahoo.com
submissionscomments
garyiskidding··on Ask HN: Spoon vs. Fork for mixing sugar in milk/tea/coffee
thanks. Yes this is in line with my original thought too.
garyiskidding··on Ask HN: Spoon vs. Fork for mixing sugar in milk/tea/coffee
this makes me lean towards the fork even more.
garyiskidding··on Ask HN: Spoon vs. Fork for mixing sugar in milk/tea/coffee
Thank you for concurring with me. This is also the explanation i could come up with while observing food mixer blades(they resemble a fork more than a spoon), tough the flow is more turbulent in that case.
garyiskidding··on Ask HN: Spoon vs. Fork for mixing sugar in milk/tea/coffee
Yes i think shaking may induce good dissolution and mixing and may be higher intensity than mixing using spoon or fork.

My thought was on the lines of non turbulent mixing with spoon or fork, entirely on the basis of mixing efficiency.

garyiskidding··on Ask HN: Spoon vs. Fork for mixing sugar in milk/tea/coffee
Yes. This makes the debate futile haha.
garyiskidding··on Ask HN: Spoon vs. Fork for mixing sugar in milk/tea/coffee
Haha.. yes.. missed this candidate.
garyiskidding··on Ask HN: Spoon vs. Fork for mixing sugar in milk/tea/coffee
While i do understand that a larger surface area of the spoon will "flap" the liquid around better, but assuming similar motion with a fork might mean a more heterogeneous mix.

Of course we haven't mentioned the intensity of mixing. A food mixer's blades appear more closer to a fork than a spoon.

garyiskidding··on Ask HN: Spoon vs. Fork for mixing sugar in milk/tea/coffee
Thank you .. will do this experiment.
garyiskidding··on I upgraded my iBook G4 to have an SSD
Pretty cool.

I did that to a 2009 mac mini ( with an external USB-SSD) .. and it came back to life. Still use it for running some jobs.

garyiskidding··on I scraped all of OpenAI's Community Forum
This is really amazing. Pretty insightful. Thank you.
garyiskidding··on NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
Ahh. thanks. Was looking for comparisons for a quick note program on this thread.
garyiskidding··on Jamba: Production-grade Mamba-based AI model
thank you, these are very helpful.
garyiskidding··on Show HN: I made a binary enigma machine for manual encryption
really cool project..!
garyiskidding··on The London office where swinging pendulums keep cyber threats at bay
thank you.
garyiskidding··on The London office where swinging pendulums keep cyber threats at bay
Australian National University hosts a random number generator based on quantum fluctuations in the vacuum : https://qrng.anu.edu.au/

Question : With respect to breaking cryptography, today's cryptographically secure pseudo random number generators (CSPRNGs) seem capable. What threat scenarios would require true (or near-true) random generators?

garyiskidding··on Launch HN: CamelQA (YC W24) – AI that tests mobile apps
This is a great idea. I assume that inference costs will be higher for the time being, but it does aim to solve a real problem. Kudos..!
garyiskidding··on Google Scholar PDF Reader
I use Zotero and really like it, especially when working with others. This was the first thing that came into my mind on this thread.
garyiskidding··on How to Start Google
Thanks, this is the link I've been looking for with regards to this thread.
garyiskidding··on Study puts fermented foods, not fire, as pivotal moment in human brain growth
In certain countries like India and Sri Lanka, fermented rice and lentil cakes (Idli) are extremely popular too as a healthy vegetarian option that is good for the gut.
garyiskidding··on Lego price per part over the years
This is really cool. Thank you.
garyiskidding··on Show HN: Not sure you're talking to a human? Create a human check
Nice idea and clean implementation. I guess this something that can be implemented with discord/community channel new user verification (bot checkers) among other uses.
garyiskidding··on How do neural networks learn?
The 2013 Zeiler and Fergus paper also explains this based on activations during training of the network resulting in feature detection across layers.

Paper : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.2901.pdf

garyiskidding··on A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
Greg Brockman from OpenAI inserted the program drive for a game of Dota vs Dendi (popular Dota 2 player). Really memorable.
garyiskidding··on Kdenlive 24.02 open source video editor released
Been using Kdenlive for a while now and it is really good for all of the basic video editing i need. So far I've been updating it manually. Would anyone know if there is an auto-update feature available within Kdenlive?
garyiskidding··on The true, dramatic story of Robert Downey Jr.'s 'Oppenheimer' villain
Thank you for the non-paywalled link.
garyiskidding··on Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
Yep. I read chapter 10 too to start with, really nice content on Transformers and self-attention.
garyiskidding··on Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)
This helped my understanding of VC/founder relation much better. Thanks for putting a broader perspective to the situation described in the original post.
garyiskidding··on Show HN: An algorithmic audio landscape
Amazing idea and execution. Thank you for sharing.
garyiskidding··on Quantum computers move closer to the assembly line
I did not understand what real world computing use would quantum computers have over the current generation of compute in terms of architecture/efficiency or a measurable metric. Thanks for explaining.
garyiskidding··on U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe
Thanks for breaking it down, especially for people outside America.
Page 1 of 2Next →