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holliplex

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    Comment #48848292

    Actually, yes! Not Mythos, but a team did use LLMs with genetic algorithms to get a best-performing warrior: https://pub.sakana.ai/drq/

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    Comment #48847366

    Core Wars is a programming game from the 1980s that is close to my heart. So I wrote a modern parser and runtime for it, aiming for maximal compatibility with pMARS, the canonical …

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    Comment #47934488

    I made this. Getting the morph mechanic to feel "right" and not create horrible artifacting was an interesting mix of relatively principled math and a lot of hacky tuning based on …

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    Show HN: Face Lift, a memory game about faces

    I put this together over the weekend and think it's pretty fun. You are shown a distorted face, and have to memorise and match the distortion on the original. Compete with your fri…

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    Comment #47790262

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    Comment #47364991

    Yes, I thought that was probably the case, but it stuck out to me. Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as chiding you; I think the basic point about who is and isn't "allowed" to t…

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    Comment #47363219

    It's an interesting slip, given the premise of the article, that this hypothetical child is assumed to be a boy.

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    Comment #47337209

    I think it's mostly just that we are very good at picking up on patterns, and it's extremely noticeable that half the internet has started writing in the same voice with the same t…

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    Comment #47334194

    I would describe myself as pretty AI-positive in software engineering, and even in technical writing, but something about seeing diagrams that are clearly generated by Nano Banana …

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    Comment #40154772

    I understand the frustration. But if I were looking for a job, I simply would not publicly announce to the world that I am this much of a dick.

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    Comment #39174913

    This makes sense to me -- I find that if I ask it to generate more than, say, a paragraph of code at a time[1], I'd be much better off just writing it myself. That said, I have iss…

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    Comment #36692761

    Is this supposed to be so dim in light mode? It looks like it's covered in an invisible modal's backdrop.