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repsak··on Grok 4 Launch [video]
Agent that browses the web, analyzes information, and creates reports. Grok calls it DeepSearch. Similar to gemini/openai deep research.

https://x.ai/news/grok-3#grok-agents-combining-reasoning-and...

repsak··on LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less
I raise you the Gemini paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11805
repsak··on Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)
Obviously self driving!
repsak··on Tell HN: GCP Offers No Support
Not exactly support, but I've had some luck using their issue trackers

https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/issue-trackers

repsak··on SpaCy v3.0 Nightly
Not sure what front page you are looking at. First thing it says on spacy.io is

Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing in Python

Followed by some decent descriptions and code examples.

repsak··on From dial-up to 5G: logging on to the internet
Although the theoretical limit is higher I think 25 mbps ± a few is what you can expect in most of the world.

Here are some speed tests by country https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2018/02/state-of-lte

repsak··on Use of drugs by people seeking to boost mental performance is rising worldwide
Without reading the paper this seems somewhat similar to my experience with modafinil. When fatigued or sleep deprived it can bring me back baseline but not much more.
repsak··on Use of drugs by people seeking to boost mental performance is rising worldwide
Caffeine + l-theanine is the way to go if you feel "inpatient and restless" on coffee alone!

You could start with an even split then adjust the ratio depending on how you feel.

repsak··on A system to help you remember more of what you read
It just means distributing your learning trough time, so basically the opposite of cramming.

I guess spaced repetition can be seen as a combination of distributed learning and practice testing.

I got the terminology from here

http://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z10jaVH/60XQM/full

Here is a nice summary of the results

http://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/s...

repsak··on A system to help you remember more of what you read
I don't own a kindle but it looks like it's possible to download your highlights.

You could then bulk import them, possibly after some minor formatting manually or with a script

https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#importing-text-fil...

You would still have to go trough them and add cloze delitions.

If it's possible to add notes to your highlights you might be able to specify delitions there and then parse them.

I might actually do this myself for fun :)

repsak··on A system to help you remember more of what you read
I've heard some good things about https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

To get a quick overview try table 4 p. 45 here

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1529100612453266

I try to follow

* Distributed learning/practice

* Practice testning

* Interleaved practice

repsak··on A system to help you remember more of what you read
Just skimmed the article but underlining only seemed to be one small part of the method.

Understanding by summarizing into Anki cards and then making sure you remember it trough spaced repetition (both "output") seemed to be the most important part.

Distributed learning, practice testing and Interleaved practice all seem to have some scientific backing.

repsak··on How to build a React.js chat app in 10 minutes
It depends, those titles are definitely click baity but the content isn't necessarily bad.

No one said you're done after doing one ten minute tutorial.

Check out some of these recommendations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591918

repsak··on Ask HN: How do you manage your manager?
This is quite childish advice. Is this your solution all disagreements?

"You will then have the freedom to do whatever you want each and every single day, and won't have to spend all that time and energy constantly convincing someone of things that are often for their own good."

I wish!

Constantly convincing someone of things that are often for their own good is basically the definition of what you do when working for yourself, or should I say when your working for you clients/trying to acquire new clients.

repsak··on Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
You can y remove it in gnome too https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/545/hide-top-bar/
repsak··on Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
How do they compare to

Bishop: https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informat...

and

ESL: https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/

repsak··on You probably have too much motivation
From the MIT challenge? I don't think that was the goal. If I remember correctly the blog, and his paid courses, are mostly about how to learn efficiently. So I'm guessing the purpose was part content marketing, part research and part general interest.

He's done something similar with language learning.

repsak··on How to make a game from scratch using Lua and Löve
> The number one benefit you should get from a scripting language (Lua) as opposed to a compiled one (C) is higher productivity

OP is saying that since Lua is cumbersome to write you might as well write in C and get increased performance.

repsak··on Ask HN: Resources on vitamin D supplements and studies
To add some anecdotal evidence... We basically get no sun for half of the year where I live. I find my subjective wellbeing has increased somewhat, especially during the winter months, since I started supplementing with 5000UI D3.

Other potential benefits are harder to measure, but the cost in terms of money and likelihood of adverse effects is so low I feel I might as well continue.

To add another data point, gwern has done some more rigorous self experiments https://www.gwern.net/zeo/Vitamin-D

repsak··on Ask HN: Resources on vitamin D supplements and studies
Examine.com is a good starting point https://examine.com/supplements/vitamin-d/

If you scroll down to human effect matrix you can find links to studies based on results found.

The summary at the bottom is also pretty good.

repsak··on Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set
There is still https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

Similar extensions exist for firefox.

repsak··on Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?
Haven't read the book but the lectures are good! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66...
repsak··on How the Å came to be
As the o in 'more'
repsak··on The Ghost in the MP3 (2014)
Doubt it was meant as an attack more a statement of fact. If I remember correctly all the songs used to benchmark the compression were of "western-european" origin. Same thing for the people judging the result.

Here is an interview with the creator, mostly about the ghost in the mp3 project http://traffic.libsyn.com/dataskeptic/The_Ghost_in_the_MP3.m...

repsak··on Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
‘Nigerian Prince’ Email Scammer Arrested in Louisiana - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16035183

;-)

repsak··on Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
I use https://github.com/jonas/tig for interactive staging and git CLI for everything else. Best of both worlds and I don't have to leave the terminal.
repsak··on Show HN: Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor
Check out the nath package

... de­lim­iters adapt their size to the ma­te­rial en­closed, ren­der­ing \left and \right al­most ob­so­lete.

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/nath