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MetaMonk

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About MetaMonk

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    Comment #47458921

    https://youtu.be/4P5xSntVWQE

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    Comment #47132810

    this is incredible

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    Comment #46746864

    The first pre-release for Docker Swarm came out a decade ago, the first release of OpenAI swarm came out only a year ago, I guess I'm not sure what you're trying to say. https://gi…

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    Comment #46744831

    He's really into APIary things

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    Comment #46744520

    A guy who worked at docker on docker swarm now works at Anthropic so makes sense

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    Comment #46740469

    Proof of corncept was right there!

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    Comment #44231183

    Haven't been able to turn it off yet. It's so awful looking and distracting, even with "reduce transparency" and "reduce motion" enabled. I actually think these settings are making…

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    Comment #43828288

    Someone's been raiding inputs from Perlin's page https://mrl.cs.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/quikwriting/

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    Comment #43259801

    One time he came to talk at my school, and he spent the whole hour talking about sports. He demanded that we pay the cost for a private jet to transport him, as well as his hotel c…

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    Comment #42662983

    You can also cross your eyes the other way and make the pattern in a MagicEye pop the other way (in vs out, or vice versa)

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    Comment #40094796

    Life and psychology are not neatly provable / disprovable structures all the way down though.

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    Comment #39520226

    We're all basically at the mercy of chance and the human default of iatrogenic solutioning.

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    Comment #39520203

    Nearly every computing system geared toward consumers has to provide some form of stimulation ("entertainment"), IMO, because the more time we spend on computers, the less human in…

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    Comment #39424490

    https://www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator/Californi... "Berkeley's housing expenses are 198% higher than the national average and the utility prices are 30% higher than th…

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    Comment #39392912

    Someone needs to write an article titled "Is Betteridge's Law Always Correct?"

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    Comment #39157850

    Lost: my lost dog poster, last seen here. White and covered with black patches of Calibri

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    Comment #38800939

    At In-n-Out, you have to say a magic chant to have them make the food taste better (and even then it still tastes bad).

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    Comment #38417470

    What is the minimum copywritable unit? It would vary across media, but a copyeme (like morpheme, grapheme, phoneme) is very hard to define. Will it end up being some weird tensor, …

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    Comment #37677051

    What's with all the posts lately that have edited titles for submissions

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    Comment #37547945

    LLMs will by necessity but unintentionally enforce phonotactics but more at the sentence / thought level.

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    Comment #37288800

    The essay is self-referential in a sort of Hofstadter GEB way, with individual sections containing allegorical forms of distractions or diligence (the writer being distracted by vi…

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    Comment #37231212

    It's too bad the sirens don't allow an ascending of frequency to mean "go to higher ground" and descending to mean "go to lower ground"

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    Comment #37046430

    I love these thematic submissions to HN and wish the site had a way of cataloging /grouping them. This and Ravenchord were really cool to read about.

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    Comment #37043559

    A new sequence should be added to the OEIS that comprises the unix timestamps of each individual submission of the OEIS to HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=The%20On-…