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I became significantly better at electronics soldering by learning to do glasswork (stain glass fixturing, etc). It wasn't intentional and it isn't even the same solder chemistry, …

Good old fashioned machine learning (GOFML?) Using mixes of different sensor data from industrial 3d printing processes to production quality. Not as fashionable as LLMs at the mom…

Yeah I had the same question. I suppose you could put the project+plan text into the commit message?

12 years here, agree that this is one of the best communities still active. Thank you HN team!

I feel seen > Your profile reads like a 'Hacker News Bingo' card: NASA, PhD, Python, 'Ask HN' about cheating, and a strong opinion on Reddit's community. The only thing missing is …

I worked on this about a decade ago, but just updated it in order to learn to use Gradio and HF as a platform. Enjoy!

I end up asking the same question when experimenting with tools like Cursor. When it can one-shot a small feature, it works like magic. When it struggles, and the context gets pois…

Another reason why the idea of AI agents for science hasn't made much sense to me. Research is an extremely collaborative set of activities. How good would a researcher be who is v…

Voynich is one of my favorite unsolved puzzles. This approach looks fascinating, so thanks for sharing your work here!

Going back to a very old school notion of "AI" : just updated a demo I did a few years back on efficiently computing cellular automata forward steps using convolution operations. A…

You and I have matching stories, unfortunately. I've made a point of sending my sons to public school for this reason. Now, of course this also means that I shopped for a district …

This is still how the aeronautics portion of NASA operates. Though since it is the direct successor to NACA, I think its unsurprising.

In my area, every controls engineer says "we can just use a PID". 99% of the time it seems they're not wrong, despite control engineering being a pretty large area of research.

I'm thinking about what I've read on social media (twitter, reddit, etc) about the event. The posts getting the most engagement/traction are convinced this is larger than Chernobyl…

I'm finding it difficult to find objective assessments of the impact of what has happened in East Palestine. It seems like there are interests in dismissing the impacts entirely, b…

Interestingly, ChatGPT seems capable of predicting this approach: https://imgur.com/a/okzZz7D

I absolutely had this issue most of last year, but the Gmail spam filter seems to be catching things more effectively for me in the last two months.

My 2011 MBA needed a new battery a few years ago, but still works amazingly well as a daily-driver computer for my wife

> But the majority of harmful errors happen in handing over patient care from one provider to another I've heard this claim before, but this seems like a communication problem more…

> Don't bullets also "expire" after a certain period of time? Modern powder and primers (and thus an assembled ammunition cartridge) easily last decades, almost indefinitely if sto…

My dad used to be a security guard at the Cleveland Museum of Art. What's funny is that often guests would ask him and the other guards about specific pieces or artists as if he wa…

I think this is related to why I got into stain glass window making as a pandemic hobby. As everything I was working on felt ephemeral and physically disconnecting, it was refreshi…

Congrats on launching. I'm not Christian, but this does remind me a bit of the Sefaria project, which aims to bring together a library of Jewish texts for scholarship, and has a gr…