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erikerikson commented on Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization   visualrambling.space/movi... · Posted by u/damarberlari
ghostly_s · 3 days ago
There are instructions on the first slide. I think adding a secondary swipe mechanic would be nice tho (although I prefer the tap), as that's how these "card stack" interfaces are usually navigated in social media apps.
erikerikson · 3 days ago
Oh, you're right. Small and at the bottom. I guess I tried to scroll before my eyes got there. Thanks for pointing out my error.
erikerikson commented on Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization   visualrambling.space/movi... · Posted by u/damarberlari
erikerikson · 3 days ago
Thanks. My useful feedback is that navigation violated my expectations. I was in mobile FWIW. I didn't know what to do so I started to scroll. My touch to the screen kicked into the next pane so I'm like "oh, okay". I happened to touch the right side so I thought that advanced it and so when I later clicked an extra time unintentionally, I tried to click the left side to go back (note that people who read right to left it top to bottom may have different intuitions [or be used to an insensitive web]). Unfortunately that just skipped another screen so that I missed two in a row. Not fatal because I kept going but disappointing and micro-sad. I think some subtle guidance could have removed the ambiguity and helped me focus and engage better.
erikerikson commented on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature   sso.tax/... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
erikerikson · 4 days ago
Whoever wrote this erroneously sees the entry level pricing as a viable product rather than just a part of the sales funnel for the customers that bring the bulk of buying power and revenue.
erikerikson commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn
dragonwriter · 5 days ago
> As I said, they measurably improve health outcomes relative to the meats they're replacing

They imitate meats, but is there any evidence that, in practice, they replace them? In menus, and I suspect in actual human eating behavior, they seem to replace earlier vegetarian options like old-school TVP, not meat.

erikerikson · 5 days ago
We have eaten impossible burgers as a replacement of beef burgers we would have otherwise eaten on burger night. Some of us even prefer the flavor but the prices are sometimes higher than beef and that reduced our consumption (at that moment we were tighter). If they were substantially less expensive we would have had to financially rationalize beef, beyond the health and environmental rationalizations.
erikerikson commented on Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills   news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/paulpauper
beej71 · 6 days ago
Out of curiosity, how are federal student loans rigged in favor of the borrower? Asking for a friend.
erikerikson · 6 days ago
They are issued for something [contingently] incredibly valuable that cannot be repossessed. They are also generally issued at a lower rate of interest with little collateral, in part due to the fact that they cannot be discharged in bankruptcy and the resulting lower risk.

[edit: added "contingently" above. Some education programs have been found to be scams yet could be paid for with debt. I generally stand by the value of higher education and have found it to be a net benefit in my own life. The value has been strained as costs have shifted and the social contract is rearranged behind the backs of educators at all levels]

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erikerikson commented on IQ tests results for AI   trackingai.org/home... · Posted by u/stared
technothrasher · 6 days ago
> The way human IQ testing developed is that researchers noticed people who excel in one cognitive task tend to do well in others

My son took an IQ test and it wouldn't score him because he breaks this assumption. He was getting 98% in some tasks and 2% in others. The psychologist giving him the test said it was unlikely enough pattern that they couldn't get an IQ result for him. He's been diagnosed with non-verbal learning disability, and this is apparently common for nvld folks.

erikerikson · 6 days ago
A term of use for your son is twice exceptional. The GP is correct about the theoretical basis of the tests. Note the use of "tend" in the quote. Even those who fit that better tend to have differential strengths so that has shown to be too simple. Over time the models of intelligence have complected adding EQ (emotional quotient), SQ (social q...), and so on but IQ was first, continues to be considered useful in some ways even as it's also been considered an oppression by some.
erikerikson commented on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations   anthropic.com/research/en... · Posted by u/virgildotcodes
viccis · 8 days ago
>This feature was developed primarily as part of our exploratory work on potential AI welfare ... We remain highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs ... low-cost interventions to mitigate risks to model welfare, in case such welfare is possible ... pattern of apparent distress

Well looks like AI psychosis has spread to the people making it too.

And as someone else in here has pointed out, even if someone is simple minded or mentally unwell enough to think that current LLMs are conscious, this is basically just giving them the equivalent of a suicide pill.

erikerikson · 8 days ago
I read it more as the beginning stages of exploratory development.

If you wait until you really need it, it is more likely to be too late.

Unless you believe in a human over sentience based ethics, solving this problem seems relevant.

erikerikson commented on What kids told us about how to get them off their phones   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/jc_811
jeffbee · 8 days ago
I don't get it either, especially because I don't know any parents who act like this. All the kids in my neighborhood just roam around, including mine.

I wonder if this is another coastal/inland, liberal/conservative rift where the conservatives are for some reason afraid of everything.

erikerikson · 8 days ago
Our experience of Seattle, conservative hotbed that it is, is that everything is as described in the article. We've been discussing moving somewhere else for this exact reason. Doesn't matter if we would let our kid out if there's no one to play with.
erikerikson commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation   theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man
Gud · 11 days ago
I’ve never come across Google docs in the wild in a corporate setting.

Seems to me Microsoft office is still the dominant player.

erikerikson · 11 days ago
Thoughtworks was on GSuite when I was there.

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Studied learning linearly inseparable functions in biologically plausible networks (MSc Edinburgh). (Hebbian learning of XOR [up to six dimensions demonstrated] in Hopfield networks)

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