dllthomas (u/dllthomas)

dllthomas commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

gmd63 · 4 days ago

Just in case you aren't joking, they did not fire the person responsible for the bad numbers. They fired the person responsible for observing and reporting them.

dllthomas · 3 days ago

I was joking, although it was a gesture at a real thing. I don't know how much they don't care about success, versus caring but being deeply confused about how to reach it, versus in some sense "caring" but prioritizing other things. But regardless, retaliation against bearers of bad news is a great way to horrifically mismanage an organization, and we seem to be seeing it repeatedly from this administration, and it is alarming.

dllthomas commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

gmd63 · 5 days ago

You would think the US government would be interested in the US government's success, but the past eight months have proven starkly otherwise. What makes one think they will be looking out for Intel's interests any better?

dllthomas · 5 days ago

How can you say they don't care about success? When they got bad numbers they immediately fired the person responsible.

dllthomas commented on Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust github.com/epicenter-so/e... · Posted by u/braden-w

braden-w · 9 days ago

Diarization is on the roadmap; some providers support it but some don't and the adapter for that could be tricky. Whispering is not meant for meeting notes for now; for something like that or diarization I would recommend trying Hyprnote: https://hyprnote.com or interfacing with the Elevenlabs Scribe API https://elevenlabs.io/app/speech-to-text

dllthomas · 9 days ago

I'm not looking for attributed meeting notes, so much as making it harder for a passing child to inject content.

dllthomas commented on Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust github.com/epicenter-so/e... · Posted by u/braden-w

hephaes7us · 10 days ago

Speaker diarization is the term you are looking for, and this is more difficult than simple transcription. I'm rather confident that someone probably has a good solution by now (if you want to pay for an API), but I haven't seen an open-source/open-weights tool for diarization/transcription. I looked a few months ago, but things move fast...

dllthomas · 10 days ago

Thanks, that, yeah. I've looked occasionally but it's been a bit. Necessary feature in a house with a 9yo. I've been thinking about taking a swing at solving my problem without solving the general problem.

dllthomas commented on Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust github.com/epicenter-so/e... · Posted by u/braden-w

dllthomas · 10 days ago

Can it tell voices apart?

dllthomas commented on Content-Aware Spaced Repetition giacomoran.com/blog/conte... · Posted by u/ran3000

joshdavham · 24 days ago

I've been thinking about this for a while too as an FSRS developer [1].

In general, we can think of a spaced repetition system as being (i) Content-aware vs. Content-agnostic and (ii) Deck-aware vs. Deck-agnostic

Content-aware systems care about what you're studying (language, medecine, etc) while Content-agnostic systems don't care about what you're studying.

Deck-aware systems consider each card in the context of the rest of the cards (the "deck") while Deck-agnostic systems consider each card in pure isolation.

Currently, FSRS is both Content-agnostic as well as Deck-agnostic. This makes it extremely easy to integrate into a spaced repetition system, but this also means the model will underfit a bit.

It it interesting to note that you could in practice optimize seperate FSRS models for each deck covering different topics, which would make it Content-aware in a sense. Additionally, "fuzz" is a somewhat Deck-aware feature of the model in that it exists specifically to reduce interactions between other cards in the deck.

[1] https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/py-fsrs

dllthomas · 23 days ago

I ran into a question a while ago that I couldn't find a good answer to, and while it's not exactly on topic this seems like a good place to ask it.

I was working in a detail rich context, where there were a lot of items, about which there were a lot of facts that mostly didn't change but only mostly. Getting a snapshot of these details into approximately everyone's head seemed like a job for spaced repetition, and I considered making a shared Anki deck for the company.

What wasn't clear was how to handle those updates. Just changing the deck in place feels wrong, for those who have been using it - they're remembering right, the cards have changed.

Deprecating cards that are no longer accurate but which don't have replacement information was a related question. It might be worth informing people who have been studying that card that it's wrong now, but there's no reason to surface the deprecation to a person who has never seen the card.

Is there an obvious way to use standard SRS features for this? A less obvious way? A system that provides less standard features? Is this an opportunity for a useful feature for a new or existing system? Or is this actually not an issue for some reason I've missed?

dllthomas commented on Read your code etsd.tech/posts/rtfc/... · Posted by u/noeclement

kmac_ · 24 days ago

Nah, we need defined levels like for autonomous driving. Level 5 is live deployment of a change where a business need was discovered by AI, the change specified and planned by AI, implemented by AI, and reviewed by AI. Vibe coding (without reading) would be even lower, as a human is in the loop.

dllthomas · 24 days ago

Do you want HypnoDrones? This is how you get HypnoDrones.

dllthomas commented on EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office spectrum.ieee.org/electro... · Posted by u/pseudolus

esbranson · 24 days ago

> Several countries are well on their way to this achievement, including Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland. Outside the E.U., countries such as Israel and Singapore also have very advanced systems, and after a rocky start, Australia’s My Health Record system seems to have found its footing.

When any country mentioned hits the population of a small or medium US state, let us know how it goes.

> Canada, China, India, and Japan also have EHR system initiatives in place at varying levels of maturity.

Apparently the author could not care less. Apparently even the WHO could not care less, given the linked document tells us nothing.

As always, it's the US versus the world, and the world is a giant nothingburger, save some flyover countries in Europe that could be part of Greater Germany or Greater Russia for all anyone cares. How is the UK, Germany, France, Russia, or China doing? Oh...

> The United Kingdom was hoping to be a global leader in adopting interoperable health information systems, but a disastrous implementation of its National Programme for IT ended in 2011 after nine years and more than £10 billion.

No doubt when the US gets the standards and apps done, the rest of the world will magically start working too. All the billions spent and the world piggybacks and gives nothing back, save, quite amusingly, China. As always.

dllthomas · 24 days ago

> When any country mentioned hits the population of a small or medium US state, let us know how it goes.

I don't know "how it goes" but Poland has the population of a large US state.

dllthomas commented on Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11491... · Posted by u/qsort

thaumasiotes · a month ago

That comic doesn't show someone working around a bug in such a way that their flow breaks when the bug is gone. It shows them incorporating a bug into their workflow for purposes of causing the bug to occur.

It isn't actually possible for fixing a bug to break a workaround. The point of a workaround is that you're not doing the thing that's broken; when that thing is fixed, your flow won't be affected, because you weren't doing it anyway.

dllthomas · 24 days ago

> It isn't actually possible for fixing a bug to break a workaround.

That's not true. For instance, if there's a bug in formatting, that might be worked around by handing the unintended formatting. But now you're (maybe) not handling the intended formatting, and a fix would break you.

dllthomas commented on The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well danieltan.weblog.lol/2025... · Posted by u/ksymph

jam0wal · 25 days ago

Godel's incompleteness theorem indicates illegal states as unrepresentable is impossible at a fundamental level.

dllthomas · 25 days ago

Well, no, it indicates that it is sometimes impossible at a fundamental level. That doesn't speak to whether it's a good idea some of the times when it is possible.