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I once read a book about this: How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution, by Jack Horner and James Gorman. The basic idea is that dinosaur DNA is carried around…

Regular user. For useful tasks, how much of a difference does the Pro plan make?

And yet, generative AI also seems to be poor at randomness. When I ask Google Gemini for a list of 50 random words, it gave me a list of 18 unique words, with 16 of them repeated e…

I believe Jim Simons is also one of the founders behind the National Museum of Mathematics in NYC. https://momath.org/

> It's not just "grit" - it's the entire field of "TED-Talk-headlining applied psychology [allegedly] based in research." I see, I know what you are getting at here. I stay away fr…

Can you elaborate on this? Currently I am reading the book Grit by Angela Duckworth. The author cites studies of grit and has done much research on the subject. Are you suggesting …

This is a neat project but it doesn't seem to render the plant at the moment. It did render plants 20 minutes ago - perhaps the HN load has hurt it? All of the code is available on…

Also available for Firefox! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/what-hacker-n... Source code: https://github.com/pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

I keep reading about all the content AI can create, from digital images to TV scripts to videos to movies. With this expected volume of content creation, someone has to be around t…

I keep reading about all the content AI can create, from digital images to TV scripts to videos to movies. With this expected volume of content creation, someone has to be around t…

> I spent some time porting some of the functions to Python, but realized to make it useful it'd be a bigger effort than I had time and skill. Getting py5 off the ground started du…

> Making gifs with processing is (weirdly) one of the more painful exercises in the framework. Kind of baffling, given the goals of the project. FWIW, py5 makes it very easy to cre…

Yes! There is py5. https://py5coding.org/ This version of Processing uses the amazing JPype library to connect the Processing Jars (Java) to Python 3.8+. (I am the creator of py5)

I once worked in a financial firm with an intern who did nothing else besides pick his nose. No joke, that's the only thing he did. He made no attempt to do actual work or help our…

I always ask a direct question about ethics. Something like, "tell me about the kinds of ethical problems that this team is faced with and how you handle them." Good answers involv…

Nice work! > Note that this is a resource-intensive filter. Memoization is strongly advised! Can you make this be the default for non Safari browsers? This really made my CPU fan w…

> Nowadays the closest I've gotten to this is the people who keep using my Gmail address as their own email address. I find this behavior rather bizarre and don't know what it achi…

Please learn more about the needs of blind people before writing something like this. Adding accessibility for screen readers is much more difficult to add later in the project lif…

For anyone else looking for the 5th book: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/seeing-with-fresh-eyes

> The only way you’ll stop this thing from mutating into a variant not covered by the vaccine is by eradicating it everywhere, simultaneously. Even if it were possible and achievab…

Can someone tell me more about how the predefined Game of Life patterns came to be? It it fascinating to me that these have names that people remember. I know this subject is well …

When I was in High School (early 90's) we got a new computer system that nobody was using yet. I discovered there was an email system of some kind and that every student had an ema…

And the reality of a "wrench attack" is illustrated in this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/538/