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blobbers commented on Why is D3 so Verbose? theheasman.com/short_stor... · Posted by u/TheHeasman

blobbers · 4 days ago

First of all, shocked people still use d3. Hasn't there been something better? It's pretty ancient by javascript standards. Do people still use jquery too? Haha... been about a decade since I touched this stuff!

Second of all, isn't it ungodly slow? I get that it can draw a few boxes nicely, and maybe shuffle them around, but I had to write my own engine using html canvas because d3 couldn't get svg to flow properly if I had thousands of pixels in my image.

Honestly, if you're going to go through the trouble of understanding d3, I would just write your own javascript canvas to animate things.

blobbers commented on OpenAI Progress progress.openai.com... · Posted by u/vinhnx

blobbers · 8 days ago

I talked to GPT yesterday about a fairly simple problem I'm having with my fridge, and it gave me the most ridiculous / wrong answers. It new the spec, but was convinced the components were different (single compressor, for example, whereas mine has 2 separate systems) and was hypothesizing the problem as being something that doesn't exist on this model of refrigerator. It seems like in a lot of domain spaces it just takes the majority, even if the majority is wrong.

It's seem to be a very democratic thinker, but at the same time it doesn't seem to have any reasoning behind the choices it makes. It tries to claim it's using logic, but at the end of the day it's hypotheses are just occam's razor without considering the details of the problem.

A bit, how do you say, disappointing.

blobbers commented on Piano Keys mathpages.com/home/kmath0... · Posted by u/gametorch

madaxe_again · a month ago

In my experience, you fumble for a minute and then you adapt. I had a Young Chang that followed this model, and a Yamaha at school that didn’t.

blobbers · a month ago

This is fascinating! I’ve never played a YC seriously, but I have played several Yamahas and currently play on a Kawai and Baldwin. I’ve often wondered if the Baldwin or Yamaha is laid out slightly differently than the Kawai because I feel like playing broken 4 note chords the fingering can feel off on one piano vs another. It’s a slight stretch but the 4-5 on the second 4 note chord can be uncomfortable on the Kawai and comfortable on the Yamaha. I never play them in the same room, one is at my teachers and one at home.

Very interesting! Is there a spec for this? Or a layout description? Surely something as precise as piano would note this.

blobbers commented on Piano Keys mathpages.com/home/kmath0... · Posted by u/gametorch

madaxe_again · a month ago

In my experience, you fumble for a minute and then you adapt. I had a Young Chang that followed this model, and a Yamaha at school that didn’t.

blobbers · a month ago

Generally speaking fumbling on a piano doesn’t bode well for performance… it’s a little bit like Olympic gymnastics, you only get one chance to stick the landing!

blobbers commented on My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test andymasley.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/jger15

atmavatar · 2 months ago

A small detail you're missing is that in the US, sugar (usually in the form of corn syrup) is added to everything.

Example: I'd bet many people who are at least gen X grew up with PBJs as a staple food. It seems healthy enough: bread, peanut-butter, and a little jelly. However, today there's sugar added to the bread, sugar added to the peanut butter, and most certainly sugar added to the jelly, far beyond what it was when growing up.

If you aren't really careful when at the grocery store or making food from scratch, you can easily end up consuming a lot more sugar than you realize.

blobbers · 2 months ago

Staple yes. Didn't really think of it as healthy, but you're right didn't think of it as unhealthy.

We did make our own jam growing up though, so ... there's that?

Either way, I'm way more conscious now as a nutrient nerd but I believe everyone else is... well, 'a little naive' to put it nicely.

blobbers commented on There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets blog.jxmo.io/p/there-are-... · Posted by u/bilsbie

blobbers · 2 months ago

Why is DeepSeek specifically called out?

blobbers commented on ICE test train reaches speeds of up to 405.0 km/h deutschebahn.com/de/press... · Posted by u/doener

fjfaase · 2 months ago

I fear that the general public in Germany will not be praising this achievement. The once efficient and punctional trains in Germany have deteriorated severely in the past years due to lots of delayed maintenance causing lots of delays and even regular cancelations of trains. Also the road infrastructure is suffering from delayed maintenance.

blobbers · 2 months ago

Interesting; America seems to be suffering the same fate. It takes municipalities years to fix highways. The main highway running through Silicon Valley, 101, has been under construction for more than a decade and is in dire need of improvement.

It seems the network of roads built in the 40s, 50s and 60s just can no longer be done efficiently.

blobbers commented on Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy theahura.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/theahura

sh34r · 2 months ago

At least they could pivot Hotdog or Not into a dick-pic classifier, which was less trivial when that show was airing.

$14 billion for a glorified mechanical turk platform is bananas. Between this, the $6 billion Jonny Ive acquisition, and a ChatGPT wrapper for doctors called Abridge having a $5 billion valuation, this AI fraud bubble is making pets.com look like a reasonable investment.

blobbers · 2 months ago

Jony Ive might be a genius, we've yet to see. Tim Cook couldn't get along with him anymore, he didn't respect him the way Jobs made him stand at attention.

Can Altman inspire him? Somehow I doubt it, the guy has never built a product in his life. Unclear if he's even a good investor... nobody reads the Altman essays, its PG that built the castle, Altman somehow managed to get the ear of the King.

blobbers commented on Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy theahura.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/theahura

blobbers · 2 months ago

It's an interesting take for a guy who's company labels data.

Is it a hot dog? Yes, yes it is.

14 BILLIES!

blobbers commented on My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test andymasley.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/jger15

blobbers · 2 months ago

I think most Americans do not understand what is a healthy food and would think of a "balanced" meal of carbs, protein and fat, with fat being bad circa the 1960s line of thinking.

"I think most people know what’s considered healthy food. They maybe wouldn’t be able to perfectly break down ideal ratios of macronutrients, but they have a rough idea. The average person whose bad diet is making them unhealthy would probably be able to point to the bad diet as part of the problem. If I walked up to the average person and asked them to make an ideal meal plan for themselves to be maximally healthy, I think most people would do a decent job."

This is why most of america is stuck in diabetes land. I bet you most americans couldn't tell you the difference between if something is high in carbohydrates or fat.

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