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I know LLMs are getting the majority of the attention of late, but there are others of us training and using AI to… …reads MRIs and video to detect cancer …analyze genomics for ear…

Just wanted to note that this is how I work. I rarely have any window full screen/maximized and hate it when a website or application is built assuming a giant monitor with a maxim…

In my 25+ years programming, I don't yet think I've met a programmer who hasn't dreamed of "just being a lawnmower" (or some equally equiv, "mundane" job). Just the idea of ending …

I rarely see that book referenced on HN. It’s been such a long time since I read it (in high school) that maybe I’m misremembering large chunks. But with all the shifts in AI it ju…

I’m no expert either, so I hope one can corroborate or correct me… My understanding though is that these steps are really the very beginning. Using a quantum computer with quantum …

Go Forth and prosper.

Great post. I feel obligated to reply with a similar post a friend wrote a while ago that’s probably made the rounds here as well: https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html

> Any app that ever claimed to tell you what "Hemingway would say about this blog post" would evidently be lying — it'd be giving you what that specific AI model generates in respo…

> Seasoned Rust coders don’t spend time fighting the borrow checker... Experienced Rust coders aren't going to find themselves in various borrow checker (and lifetime) pitfalls tha…

I’m sure your question was rhetorical and sarcastic (that the app exists makes me sick). It absolutely is not. AI counts as a medical device: it’s used to help diagnose and inform …

I've personally found that the time taken to think through a discussion is akin to an inverse guassian curve: - on the left tail are people who know little-to-nothing about (or hav…

First, this is great information in an area I know very little about. But I’m curious - from your experience - how do you know the OP isn’t pretending in order to learn about new a…

There’s two sides to your question, I think: - professionally (for money) - personally (for knowledge’s sake) Regarding the former, I’m nearing retirement age, so personally I don’…

By that logic, if modern LLMs existed in the 80s, you’d have never learned Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, Go, Erlang, … and all the cool concepts and ideas that came with them. You’d still …

Shh! Too many secrets!

Didn’t know that. Good for them!

I haven’t lived in NYC, but I have lived in Boston. Isn’t the real concern winter? Has Waymo (or any other self driving tech company) shown that it can handle the snow well: non-vi…

Sounds like something Chuck Moore would have said. I have no idea if he did, but it made me think of him.

Take your upvote. ;-)

This feels very similar to the “radio” or “restaurant” problem: You’re driving down the street trying to decide which restaurant to stop at (or scanning through the radio trying to…

I think the distinction (from the OP’s perspective) is that it’s “just an app” to the end user. When I download the Slack desktop app, I might know it’s running on electron because…

Makes total sense. Thank you!

Walk me through the chain you’re thinking of. I want to understand it better. If you’re thinking that - for example - someone is attempting to log into my account online and simult…

I use USAA for banking. Something they do when they initiate a call to me on the phone is they start by making sure they are talking to me (they don’t ask me to prove it) and makin…

I’m currently using Onion ( https://onionbrowser.com/ - from the people who make Kagi search) and it’s been quite good. Not perfect, but it’s getting there. I recommend giving it a…