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shanks512

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shanks512··on Show HN: Backwords – Let AI teach you how to speak in reverse
This is so freaking awesome! I wonder if you can find palindrome sentences that sound the same forwards and backwords.
shanks512··on A collection of quant riddles with answers
Secret Santa Question #78, I feel the answer should be 50/50. If the game ends up being void, shouldn't we assign probability 0 to that scenario?
shanks512··on Guide to running Llama 2 locally
How much storage and memory does this use?
shanks512··on Update on Twitter's Rate Limits
> Why would they need to use rate limits to detect bots? Accounts that hit rate limits are more likely to be bots.

Any ideas on how to do this more trivially than toggling a global rate limit flag?

shanks512··on Bret Victor update
I have a faint memory of watching a Youtube demo video couple years back of a concept similar to Bret Victor's DynamicLand where you connect lego-block-like things together and they do cool stuff. Does anyone remember what that product is, and what its current status is?
shanks512··on How many people have ever lived on Earth?
Or you could just take that break from work now and do better things with life without having to necessarily wait for death.
shanks512··on How many people have ever lived on Earth?
I think a more useful metric would be average life expectancy of the subset of people who lived over say 20 or 30. We could compare that number at 1600s with the present to see the net impact of lifestyle changes (fast food, minimum exercise) vs advances in medical care.
shanks512··on The Password Game
Thanks, that's the one!
shanks512··on The Password Game
I can no longer access it now. But I have posted the Google maps embed link if that helps.
shanks512··on The Password Game
In one of my tries, I got a 3D model for the Geo guesser puzzle. Anyone know what/where this is: https://imgur.com/gallery/7r13Et9 ?

Edit: I had saved the url, but I don't know how to use it - https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m...