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ANighRaisin commented on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs   twitter.com/skdh/status/1... · Posted by u/ksec
simonw · 5 months ago
The most interesting thing about this post is how it reinforces how terrible the usability of LLMs still is today:

"I ask them to give me a source for an alleged quote, I click on the link, it returns a 404 error. I Google for the alleged quote, it doesn't exist. They reference a scientific publication, I look it up, it doesn't exist."

To experienced LLM users that's not surprising at all - providing citations, sources for quotes, useful URLs are all things that they are demonstrably terrible at.

But it's a computer! Telling people "this advanced computer system cannot reliably look up facts" goes against everything computers have been good at for the last 40+ years.

ANighRaisin · 5 months ago
This isn't really a problem in tool-assisted LLMs.

Use google AI studio with search grounding. Provides correct links and citations every time. Other companies have similar search modes, but you have to enable those settings if you want good results.

ANighRaisin commented on I tried making artificial sunlight at home   victorpoughon.fr/i-tried-... · Posted by u/fouronnes3
ANighRaisin · 5 months ago
Cool, but you can get brightness enhancement film for very cheap in AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/i/2255799825024246.html

The brightness enhancement film is a transparent optical film. It consists of a three-layer structure. The bottom layer of the light-incident surface needs to provide a certain degree of haze by back coating, the middle layer is a transparent PET substrate layer, and the upper layer of light-emitting cotton. It is a microprism structure. When the microprism layer passes through the fine prism structure of the surface layer, the light intensity distribution is controlled by refraction, total reflection, light accumulation, etc., and the light scattered by the light source is concentrated toward the front side, and the unused light outside the viewing angle passes through the light.

So, it's similar to your design, but the grooves are very small.

ANighRaisin commented on I tried making artificial sunlight at home   victorpoughon.fr/i-tried-... · Posted by u/fouronnes3
Wistar · 5 months ago
I cannot remember if I first saw this here on HN but, here is a detailed video of an incredible artificial sunlight rig build. It's big but the results look, well, amazingly real, at least to the camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw

ANighRaisin · 5 months ago
This was referenced in the article.
ANighRaisin commented on Show HN: We are building the next DocuSign   sgnly.com... · Posted by u/esaidm
kulahan · 5 months ago
I presume it’s supposed to be “sign-ally” or something to that effect? Really strange choice for a b2b app imo. Seems like it’d be better for an iPhone app name than anything.
ANighRaisin · 5 months ago
sign-lee makes more sense.
ANighRaisin commented on Tracing the thoughts of a large language model   anthropic.com/research/tr... · Posted by u/Philpax
matthiaspr · 5 months ago
Interesting paper arguing for deeper internal structure ("biology") beyond pattern matching in LLMs. The examples of abstraction (language-agnostic features, math circuits reused unexpectedly) are compelling against the "just next-token prediction" camp.

It sparked a thought: how to test this abstract reasoning directly? Try a prompt with a totally novel rule:

“Let's define a new abstract relationship: 'To habogink' something means to perform the action typically associated with its primary function, but in reverse. Example: The habogink of 'driving a car' would be 'parking and exiting the car'. Now, considering a standard hammer, what does it mean 'to habogink a hammer'? Describe the action.”

A sensible answer (like 'using the claw to remove a nail') would suggest real conceptual manipulation, not just stats. It tests if the internal circuits enable generalizable reasoning off the training data path. Fun way to probe if the suggested abstraction is robust or brittle.

ANighRaisin · 5 months ago
This is an easy question for LLMs to answer. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite can answer this in 0.8 seconds with a cost of 0.0028875 cents:

To habogink a hammer means to perform the action typically associated with its primary function, but in reverse. The primary function of a hammer is to drive nails. Therefore, the reverse of driving nails is removing nails.

So, to habogink a hammer would be the action of using the claw of the hammer to pull a nail out of a surface.

ANighRaisin commented on Japan births fall to lowest in 125 years   ft.com/content/95d3282e-d... · Posted by u/thm
worble · 6 months ago
Why is it that the question is always "how can we increase birthrates?"

All modern countries are facing similar problems with falling birth rates. At some point the crows will come home to roost and we'll have to tackle the actual problem - that we have an unsustainable economic system that relies on constant growth. The human population can't grow infinitely, especially while we're still constrained to a single rock in space.

ANighRaisin · 6 months ago
Yes. However, once you get to population decline, no economic system can help.
ANighRaisin commented on Replace OCR with Vision Language Models   github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun... · Posted by u/EarlyOom
iLemming · 6 months ago
What's the fastest and accurate CLI OCR tool? My use case is simple - I want to be able to grab a piece of screen (Flameshot is great for that), and OCR it. I need this for note-taking during pair-programming over Zoom.

Currently I'm using tesseract - it works, it's fast, but it also makes mistakes; it would be also great if it could discern tabular data and put them in ascii or markdown tables. I've tried docling, but it feels like a bit of an overkill. It seems to be slower - remember, I need to be able to grab the text from the screenshot very quickly. I have only tried default settings, maybe tweaking it would improve things.

Can anyone share some thoughts on this? Thanks!

ANighRaisin · 6 months ago
The AI OCR build into snipping tool in windows is better than tesseract, albeit more inconvenient than something like powertoys or Capture2Text, which use a quick shortcut.
ANighRaisin commented on Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?    · Posted by u/raunometsa
raunometsa · 6 months ago
WILD can be quite hard to achieve, I think. Doing MILD with dream journal works for me very well if I give it a bit time (not on the first night after a pause.)
ANighRaisin · 6 months ago
Hmm... I'll give it a go.
ANighRaisin commented on The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine   renpy.org/... · Posted by u/Tomte
xrd · 6 months ago
My 8 year old daughter loves graphic novels. And she's a budding writer. I got really excited to show her some of the links posted here.

Then I dug a little deeper and saw that a lot of it is very sexualized. I'm not opposed to that for adults but it isn't something I want my daughter exposed to.

Anyone have suggestions for safe spaces for kids? I really love the idea of her creating using ren'py but I'm worried it is a gateway to things she isn't ready for yet.

ANighRaisin · 6 months ago
You don't need Ren'Py-like software for graphic novels unless you want them to be interactive. Even so, it may be difficult for an 8-year-old to learn python and debug something like Ren'Py, especially because half of its use is entirely 18+.

I would recommend something like Scratch. It's a visual scripting language that allows kids to make amazing games and animations. It has all the capabilities necessary with ease and kid-friendly forums and comment sections.

ANighRaisin commented on Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?    · Posted by u/raunometsa
ANighRaisin · 6 months ago
I've been attempting WILD every few days whenever it's convenient. No luck so far, but it's not something I'm taking particularly seriously. For that reason, I'm still not sure whether it'd be worth doing a dream journal or risk disrupting more of my sleep.

u/ANighRaisin

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