igloopan (u/igloopan)

igloopan commented on This website is for humans localghost.dev/blog/this-... · Posted by u/charles_f

I really don't think this holds.

It's vanishingly rare to end up in a spot where your site is getting enough LLM driven traffic for you to really notice (and I'm not talking out my ass - I host several sites from personal hardware running in my basement).

Bots are a thing. Bots have been a thing and will continue to be a thing.

They mostly aren't worth worrying about, and at least for now you can throw PoW in front of your site if you are suddenly getting enough traffic from them to care.

In the mean time...

Your bowl of candy is still there. Still full of your candy for real people to read.

That's the fun of digital goods... They aren't "exhaustible" like your candy bowl. No LLM is dumping your whole bowl (they can't). At most - they're just making the line to access it longer.

igloopan · 15 days ago

I think you're missing the context that is the article. The candy in this case is the people who may or may not go to read your e.g. ramen recipe. The real problem, as I see it, is that over time, as LLMs absorb the information covered by that recipe, fewer people will actually look at the search results since the AI summary tells them how to make a good-enough bowl of ramen. The amount of ramen enjoyers is zero-sum. Your recipe will, of course, stay up and accessible to real people but LLMs take away impressions that could have been yours. In regards to this metaphor, they take your candy and put it in their own bowl.

igloopan commented on Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading? · Posted by u/mucle6

nishparadox · a year ago

Every year, I come back to "On The Shortness of Life" by Seneca to ground myself to the fact that life keeps on happening and I have to remind myself that life is long enough if I think about it...

igloopan · a year ago

The historical context behind why that was written is also quite interesting (supposedly to let his father-in-law save face when retiring early).

igloopan commented on Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards apps.ankiweb.net/... · Posted by u/bcg361

Tarrosion · 2 years ago

Anyone have suggestions for the lowest friction / best UX way to generate and study Anki cards? (my smartphone is Android, if that matters.)

I know spaced repetition is super helpful and I should be making and study cards to help with language learning and other topics I'm studying, but it always feels like a slog to try to find a deck (which won't end up being what you want) or manually make a bunch of cards, the UI is a little meh, etc.

igloopan · 2 years ago

To generate: if you're trying to learn Japanese, you can use the Yomichan [1] (or Yomitan now that Yomichan [2] has been sunset) extension for Chrome or Firefox which integrates with Anki so you can create a card for a word you don't know with two key presses.

[1] https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/ [2] https://github.com/themoeway/yomitan

igloopan commented on Ask HN: How to get into quantitative trading? · Posted by u/P6Rs4r

atanasb · 2 years ago

I was wondering the same thing last year.

I ended up in twitter/reddit rabbit holes until I found a somewhat dodgy guy on twitter (@TerribleQuant - account is now deleted).

The person compiled a guide with study resources, courses, YT videos, podcasts, textbooks and everything else you can think of in 21 pages.

If you look for: BBM PUBLISHING INC “Roadmap” Resource Guide 3rd Edition you might be able to find a copy.

igloopan · 2 years ago

It doesn't look like the account was deleted. I think the user just changed their username: https://twitter.com/quant_arb/status/1487265241692053509

igloopan commented on Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023? · Posted by u/charxyz

igloopan · 2 years ago

In the sense that it's primarily startups, YCombinator's workatastartup and Wellfound's job board are similar to the "Who is hiring?" threads, so you might have more success with those in terms of replies. Though as someone applying for 2024 New Grad positions neither seem particularly great for that, unfortunately.

igloopan commented on Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022) fullfact.org/health/stero... · Posted by u/barry-cotter

ravenstine · 2 years ago

I'd be willing to bet a substantial number of these men wouldn't take steroids if society/women didn't reward them for having a chiseled (and often times unnatural) aesthetic, so considering it gender affirming care is a stretch in the general sense.

igloopan · 2 years ago

Isn't that the case with all gender-associated traits though? Women wouldn't dress the way they do if society in general didn't reward them for doing so.

igloopan commented on Anki-fy your life abouttolearn.substack.com... · Posted by u/mililitre

rounakdatta · 2 years ago

I'm surprised no one mentioned Memoet (https://github.com/memoetapp/memoet). It is a much more modern version of Anki - much more open algorithm, REST APIs and universal interfaces and self-hosted control over one's data.

igloopan · 2 years ago

I agree that Anki is likely less developer friendly but its popularity does make up for that I feel, with ostensibly state of the art SRS algorithms being published with Anki implementations (https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki) out of the box. Though as someone that's solely used Anki for language learning, I do value the ability to remember more words in less time more than ease of development so it's not unlikely Memoet is a better choice for other usecases.