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liamYC

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About liamYC

Really excited to work on tools that help humanity.

Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamsimpkin

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    Comment #48485497

    Developed a UI with Claude here: https://ljsimpkin.github.io/pi-compress It really shows how inefficient such a compression would be. Haha nice idea

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    Comment #48483718

    Point taken about the index potentially being really long. Why would the length be longer than the data? Don’t you need to find the right sequence?

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    Comment #45690367

    What does ADRS stand for?

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    Comment #44186906

    Smart, how do you backup the users encryption keys?

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    Comment #43941540

    You’re assuming they would attempt to produce gold exactly the same way. The process would likely evolve to become better. What happens if you add a growth rate?

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    Comment #43165504

    I’d like to 3rd the thanks for Aider it’s fantastic!

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    Comment #42609555

    How do you measure positive and negative societal impact of this technology? I find mobile phone face unlock so useful, giving every citizen the power to use face recognition could…

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    Comment #42337412

    It depends on the tool you use and I guess the use case too. Some are language model agnostic like aider in the command line, I use sonnit sometimes and then 4o other times. I wond…

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    Comment #41900669

    Haha yes!!

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    Comment #41762223

    “You can’t make this stuff up”

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    Comment #41117798

    I built an email notifier for alerting me when there is a popular news article which I defined by X number of comments. I think forums like hacker news are a really cool indicator …

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    Comment #40951871

    Thanks a lot for this, I’ll check it out

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    Comment #40941616

    I suspect you’d have trouble opening ports on the client’s machine. Maybe you could use a dedicated http proxy the client talks to

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    Comment #40884684

    Technology like this will create huge selection pressures against desktop apps if it becomes easy for people to reverse engineer, remove payment mechanisms, and then freely distrib…

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    Comment #40884483

    Did you get ChatGPT to help you write this and is one of your main use cases generating bash commands? (Code writing code, there’s a total feedback loop happening here) I did too b…

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    Comment #40884426

    Cool projects, I’d definitely like my server to be able to do all these things. What have you used to deploy it?

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    Comment #40783641

    This is awesome, thanks for sharing. I find this kind of tool really useful, Aider in particular. I made my own cli tool for interacting with GPT. It’s really useful with the -c fl…

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    Comment #39398070

    This comment is brilliant. Thank you. I’m so excited now to build a bot that uses predictive video. I wonder what the most simple prototype would be? Surely one that has a simple v…

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    Comment #39390797

    Awesome explanation, thanks for the comparison

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    Comment #35434520

    Location: Auckland, New Zealand Remote: No, prefer in person Willing to relocate: Yes, keen for Africa, America, Europe (Irish citizen), or anywhere with exciting projects! Technol…

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    Comment #35281300

    The luddites during the Industrial Revolution in England. Termed the phrase “the Luddite fallacy” the thinking that innovation would have lasting harmful effects on employment. htt…

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    Comment #34501358

    As a non smoker, I’d much rather breathe on a plane today than potentially next to someone smoking. How do you know if the reduction in filters / bleed air causes more people to ge…

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    Comment #33568979

    I liked the article! Thanks

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    Comment #33568957

    In New Zealand, most fund platforms have a custodian - an entity that holds the assets you buy on the platform. If the platform busts, you’re safe because your assets are held with…

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    Comment #32423511

    I second that, a super quick overview I find useful. The Fireship YouTube videos which explain things in”100 seconds” are great