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i_am_a_squirrel··on Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
Underrated comment! I agree, it's like the LLM becomes all of the logic, all of the code. I guess that's less computationally efficient though for some simple things.. for now!
i_am_a_squirrel··on Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
I love this! I was hit with a wave of nostalgia. I used to spend hours and hours making flash animations. This tool is super intuitive :D I haven't touched an animation tool since I was like 11 years old, and it just works.
i_am_a_squirrel··on Breakthrough in nanostructure technology for real-time color display
I hate to break it to these people, but we've had real time color displays for a while now :D
i_am_a_squirrel··on DBeaver – open-source database client
I've been using it for 5+ years! So much functionality for a free tool
i_am_a_squirrel··on Launch HN: Just words (YC W24) – Optimize your product's copy for user growth
So it would detect you for example as some sort of millennial, and use the punctuation that was passed down to you as correct and a signal of competency
i_am_a_squirrel··on Launch HN: Just words (YC W24) – Optimize your product's copy for user growth
Oh! That might tie into my other comment about how this would work even better if users were individually tracked!
i_am_a_squirrel··on Launch HN: Just words (YC W24) – Optimize your product's copy for user growth
Cool! What if there isn't one optimal copy though. Would this ever be tailored to an individual user (or group that a user is in) based off of information you know about the user?

So some sort of tracking knows that your opti-cop worked well on me for some other site you service, so then it tries a similar style for another site (who uses your service)?

i_am_a_squirrel··on Mounting research shows that Covid-19 significantly lowers IQ
Only 3 points though! And most people have had covid, so it's an even playing field!
i_am_a_squirrel··on Stress reduction techniques for high stress operations (2023)
Interesting!
i_am_a_squirrel··on Show HN: Searchbase – Plug-n-play semantic/fuzzy search for your data
> Say goodbye to the complexity of crafting queries by code.

IDK about this angle, just because elasticsearch / SQL has fucky syntax doesn't mean that crafting queries in code is something we wanna say goodbye to?

I like what Google Malloy has done, it made writing things in code enjoyable by reinventing the syntax and language, but keeping it compatible with existing tech.

Otherwise this is cool! I found it daunting as a newcomer to search thinking about optimizing search and making sense of how users use it.

But even with elasticsearch, it was not that hard to craft queries to do a faceted search and it was cheap and easy to setup, so the value I see is more in the analysis. And if you're going beyond a faceted search with basic group and / or logic, then isn't vector searches the way to go anyway?

I'm probably missing something!

i_am_a_squirrel··on LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages
+1 OP should add a link!
i_am_a_squirrel··on Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (2012)
I'm guessing mushrooms and/or some sort of stimulant.
i_am_a_squirrel··on Database Fundamentals
Great read! Thank you! Now do OLAP :p
i_am_a_squirrel··on rCUDA.net gone/down?
I was looking up rCUDA and discovered that it's very hard to find current information about it. The website linked by Wikipedia rCUDA.net seems to be down or hijacked.

It would be great if someone who knows something could update the wikipedia page!

i_am_a_squirrel··on Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario
> imagine thinking we can stop matrix multiplication globally.

It's clear what's happening here. Some "lin-alg" freshman has found a magical lamp.

i_am_a_squirrel··on Android 14 review: There's always next year
Android 14 has been my favorite update ever. It seems like my Pixel 5 battery lasts wayyyyy longer!
i_am_a_squirrel··on Berry is a ultra-lightweight dynamically typed embedded scripting language
Their marketing page loaded absurdly fast
i_am_a_squirrel··on Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria
I have a surfeit of saliva and get many cavities:(
i_am_a_squirrel··on Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria
I saw this in popular mechanics magazine like 15 ish years ago as a kid and I haven't stopped thinking about what ever happened to it. I hope this happens!
i_am_a_squirrel··on The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
Search

> kritik der praktischen vernunft gutenberg

and then go to 2:00 and listen until it says "Moral reason" it's a bit creepy :(

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