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Re: Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

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Post by amerkhalid »

mmh0000 wrote: post #220
pictureofabear wrote: post #194

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It was a big moment for me too when I realized that the real world has infinitely many interesting things to do and explore. The real world is incredibly detailed.

Hard disagree. The real world only has pain and suffering. Endless trials and never a payout. Games on the other hand and very detailed and have a well defined path to success.

The real problem with real world is that it is so boring most of the time.

Well designed video games can be hard or even harder than real life but they give you constant endorphins or dopamine hits to keep you going.

And you can take a break from video games without any negative repercussions.

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Post by vinhnx »

I’m learning LLM and AI. And I’m building a multi-modal full stack LLM chat agent. And I got very fascinated by it. [0]

Using semantic-router for dynamic conversation routing, and LiteLMM for model providers.

It was lots of fun to learn and build. I will be adding function calling support (tools use) for the models to have it more capable, like an agent, in the future.

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Post by muzani »

AWS Bedrock. Set it up to experiment with different models in one place. Turned to be fascinating; UI is far more friendly than AWS usually is. Cool stuff:

Guardrails: No longer do we have to use the AI to fight AI, AWS has presets for blocking inappropriate content going into or out of the AI block.

Evaluation: Basically just give it a JSONL file of all the inputs and expected outputs, and compare two models or judge the quality of a model. This can be done by a human (it even manages the access of this team of humans). But more interestingly, it can be automated or done by AWS workers.

Knowledge base and agents: Seems like it's only for Claude, but damn, Claude has been impressive for a good price. Claude Sonnet (the mid-range) has been about as good as GPT-4 for half the price. The weakness has been things like knowledge base and AWS lets us just quickly set up vector DBs and embeddings. Then the agents feature lets us connect with it and combine it with all of the above.

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Post by sandspar »

Zenzero wrote: post #325
hirvi74 wrote: post #234

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This oddly enough has been quite a big issue in my life as of lately. I need to get off my ass and start working towards better things in real life in order to (potentially) better my situation e.g. new job, better hobbies, etc.. However, I have always had issues with gaming on and off throughout my life (perhaps a lot more on than off). I seriously think that a lot of my issues with gaming is that games are preferen…

Try recording yourself playing video games. You will quickly snap out of the illusion and realize that you're passing through life staring at a screen.

I had an unhealthy comfort meal that I couldn't kick. I filmed myself eating it and was disgusted by the sight of myself. That worked. I still eat it sometimes but in much smaller portions and not nearly as often.

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Post by ghost-towels »

d4mi3n wrote: post #119
cjohnson318 wrote: post #27

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What's your milk punch recipe?

I got my first intro to milk punch from How To Drink: https://youtu.be/zr8dtT9siq4?si=akpHbgmLrtIcgXJk I originally used their spec, but have since learned milk punch is pretty forgiving. It works really well for complex flavors that have a lot of tannins or volatile constituents (tea, wine, citrus, etc). I’ve found good black tea and a deep, sweet port tends to be a winning combination. Done correctly, the resulting…

I’d never heard of milk punch, had to look that up. And now I have my own new rabbit hole! Much thanks!

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Post by alexdowad »

"Recently" (~5 years ago) I got very interested in mathematics, and decided to self-study up to an undergrad degree-equivalent level.

I researched what topics are typically included in a 4-year math major university program and what textbooks are used to teach those topics at MIT. Then started grinding all the way through from beginning to end.

It was so awesome that upon finishing, I promptly started all over again... but with physics instead.

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Post by sandspar »

nyjah wrote: post #243
JamesSwift wrote: post #222

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I'll never set it up but I'd love to hear about the tech choices/options.

The software that I am using to simulate the courses is GSPro. There are hundreds of courses on there. It's got just about every course you could imagine. Launch monitors come with their own software too and there are a few other options for simulating courses. E6 is one and GolfClub2019 is another. AwesomeGolf. GSPro is hard to beat though. For launch monitors, there are two main types: camera based and radar. Garmi…

To what extent does it make you a better real life golfer?

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Post by umvi »

jl6 wrote: post #297
umvi wrote: post #77

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Let's hear your distro journey! What did you start with, what do you currently use?

I started with Mandrake (ironically for the game ban, I bought a retail version that came bundled with a copy of The Sims that had been rigged to run with wine), then tried Linux From Scratch (very educational), then a brief spell on Gentoo (because my Dell laptop needed some extra config to get the wifi working anyway, so I figured why not compile all the packages - then I figured out why). Then I liked KDE so moved…

Big fan of Xubuntu! Recently switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed so I could have rolling release, but I still use XFCE as my desktop manager!
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