What is it with that university and questionable practices...
Readit NewsConnorMooneyhan commented on License University of Michigan's Databases of Academic Speech and Student Papers llm-academic-speech-data.... · Posted by u/lopkeny12ko
ConnorMooneyhan commented on Duolingo Sucks, Now What? ruhua-langblr.tumblr.com/... · Posted by u/legrande
Two more:
For a course format with more audio exposure? Speakly
For an immersion-based approach that will help you improve reading fluency massively once you know just a little bit? LingQ
ConnorMooneyhan commented on Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets swizec.com/blog/the-3-bud... · Posted by u/serialx
I'm in sales/marketing; bored out of my mind, so I'm studying to be in R&D.
I remember this being shown on PBS Infinite Series. God I miss that show.
ConnorMooneyhan commented on What happens in the brain while daydreaming? hms.harvard.edu/news/what... · Posted by u/gmays
It is the excrement of thought produced by not 'being aware' as the Buddhists put it. It is the waste of not pouring one's attention into being in the body. When delusion/sleep/loss of 'consciousness' takes hold, this waste will flood into the brain without cessation.
But it actually seems to serve a useful purpose, namely memory consolidation and differentiation between objects/experiences.
ConnorMooneyhan commented on What happens in the brain while daydreaming? hms.harvard.edu/news/what... · Posted by u/gmays
As someone with a terrible memory who grew up with these constant distractions around me, be it a phone or an MP3 player or what have you, I often wonder how much that contributes to my lack of substantial memory about my childhood. While it's not mentioned here, I wonder if the inverse of this finding is true; specifically, if one doesn't have time of "quiet wakefulness", are they likely to experience a larger-than-usual absence of memory?
ConnorMooneyhan commented on Show HN: Twogether AI – Multi-Person Photo Generation API twogether.ai/?source=hn... · Posted by u/yardenst
Here comes Rule 34...
ConnorMooneyhan commented on Ask HN: Does "trust" eliminate the need for code reviews? · Posted by u/jzombie
I assumed that was satire when I read it.
ConnorMooneyhan commented on Benchmarking GPT-4 Turbo – A Cautionary Tale blog.mentat.ai/benchmarki... · Posted by u/ja3k
I wonder how often a human could guess the exercise based on just the function stub.
yeah, some of the exercises are like the following:
```
function helloWorld() {
return "";
helloWorld()
```
but those sorts of obvious examples are mostly in the beginner exercises, so I wonder what the distribution of the correct answers was. If it was guessing based on function stubs, the prediction would be that correct answers would be clustered around the beginner exercises, and that as the exercises advanced in difficulty, there were fewer correct answers.
Not to mention you might have to work on projects that are mostly divorced from programming entirely, like making plugins work together in WordPress.