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kendalf89··on Ask HN: Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"?
When I download an stl and 3d print it, I don't say "I made this", I say "I printed this." When I design and 3d print something, then I say "I made this."

If the LLM is doing most of the design and implementation, you didn't make anything. You had an idea, and other people's work made that idea a reality.

kendalf89··on Solar panels that plug into your wall
I've seen some promising results from solar fences. Because the panels are getting so cheap you can offset the efficiency loss by buying more. Plus, because they are vertical and double sided they get more sunlight earlier and later in the day.
kendalf89··on Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
I've been using FreeDownloadManager in Windows for over a decade. So it's been solved just no one cares I guess?
kendalf89··on Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Corporations are legally required to maximize shareholder's value. If reaching that goal requires them to pretend to be transparent, or fudge the numbers that they show to the public, then that's what you can expect them to do.
kendalf89··on Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
Sure and health-science hasn't improved since then right?
kendalf89··on How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
Yeah, one of them kills school kids for money. The other does it for the love of the game.
kendalf89··on Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
It's a shame, anyone who's dumb enough to believe Marc Andreessen, isn't going to be smart enough to read this article.
kendalf89··on Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?
This grid based architecture reminds me of a programming game from zactronics, TIS-100.
kendalf89··on Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
I've never been able to type faster than 35 wpm and I have no idea why. I was taking the same typing lessons as the other kids in the 90s and have been writing code since high school. I can even solve a rubix cube in under 30 seconds. Feels bad man.
kendalf89··on There should be no Computer Art (1971)
Art is the product of someone expressing themselves. It requires personhood and it requires intent to express one's self.

Therefore, unless you grant an autonomous AI personhood it can't create art.

However, one could use AI as a tool to express themselves and that would be art. But that's where I admit the line gets blurred.

kendalf89··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
I don't think it's right to downplay the disproportionate response the FBI had to Aaron's actions. He was initially being threatened with 50 years in prison and a $1 million fine, the stress from which sent his mental health spiraling and in no small way contributed to his suicide. I think the original point of the person you are responding to still stands.
kendalf89··on Diffusion for World Modeling
Are you predicting node.llm right now?
kendalf89··on Machine learning and information theory concepts towards an AI Mathematician
System 1 and 2 are just another way of describing dual process theory, which existed long before Daniel Kahneman wrote, Thinking Fast and Slow, and is still the prevailing theory of mind in its category today. There were maybe 1 or 2 studies mentioned in that book that were not very replicable but other than that, the overall consensus by leading experts in that field is positive, from everything I've seen, which is impressive considering how old the book is now.

I have no idea if dual process theory is actually useful for teaching computers how to math, but it seems unfair to just dismiss it as pop science bunk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_process_theory

kendalf89··on Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models
Maybe this technique can be used for training then since that is a lot more compute intensive?
kendalf89··on Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]
Why not both?
kendalf89··on Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]
This is pretty cool. Would it be possible to just stream the audio directly into Whisper, maybe using something like vlc, at x2 play speed to get the summary faster?
kendalf89··on Bacteria generate electricity from wastewater
From the video it looks like they are just using a few mils of liquid volume. My question would be how well does this method scale up? Maybe waste water treatment plants could offset their carbon footprint a significant amount or even become a power plant if this technology gets better.
kendalf89··on The surprising behavior of male fruit flies under intense light conditions
Lol I saw this phenomenon happen at the Abby the other night.
kendalf89··on Recursively summarizing enables long-term dialogue memory in LLMs
Even something as simple as censoring swear words would be in line with what openAI are trying to accomplish but they keep lobotomizing the model instead.
kendalf89··on The state of software development in Latin America
Is there an explanation as to why this industry is growing so rapidly in Latin America right now?
kendalf89··on Death Metal English (2013)
It definitely depends on the band. Some of them are while others try to portray themselves as prophets or elevated beings.
kendalf89··on Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms
I have the same experience with books. For me I believe it's due to a complicated synergy between my autism and my ADHD.
kendalf89··on We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study
I would have thought that encapsulation hides the way data is processed, stored, and moved around. But the data itself is always available in my experience.
kendalf89··on RoboCat – A Self-Improving Robotic Agent
Your user name says otherwise.
kendalf89··on Are chiplets enough to save Moore’s Law?
This is probably a dumb question but what is stopping us from just making bigger CPUs?
kendalf89··on Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
Whenever I need an opinion about a product or a service or comparing 2 similar things reddit is the only place I can consistently get real people with honest takes. Sometimes there are paid comments but it's usually pretty obvious and the experience is still miles better than a SEO fluff affiliate marketing blog that makes up 99% of Google searches.
kendalf89··on WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners
I haven't heard anything bad about stevia yet.
kendalf89··on Is Docker eating up disk space?
I thought the whole point of docker was to allow you to be lazy at the cost of lots of resources.