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knicholes commented on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)   prog21.dadgum.com/29.html... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
knicholes · 12 days ago
I loved what Peter Norvig did with this. It's not just a spell checker, but a spelling corrector. https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
knicholes commented on Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds   npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/andsoitis
JKCalhoun · a month ago
I walk over 2 miles a day. My doctor suggested weight training (which I had not thought of as a way to lose weight — I don't think of it as an aerobic workout).
knicholes · 22 days ago
Your doctor is right. You burn calories both during the exercise and during recovery. You build lean muscle mass which raises your metabolism, which burns more calories. Virtuous cycle.
knicholes commented on Cerebras Code   cerebras.ai/blog/introduc... · Posted by u/d3vr
knicholes · 22 days ago
It says it works with your favorite IDE-- How do you (the reader) plan to use this? I use Cursor, but I'm not sure if this replaces my need to pay for Cursor, or if I need to pay for Cursor AND this, and add in the LLM?

Or is VS code pretty good at this point? Or is there something better? These are the only two ways I'd know how to actually consume this with any success.

knicholes commented on Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds   npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/andsoitis
JKCalhoun · a month ago
I have been, rather lazily I suppose, trying to tweak my diet in such as way as to lose weight; and with little to show for it.

I'm not sure that there is much if any processed food still in my diet (maybe just the English muffin in the morning?). I stopped buying/drinking soda pop decades ago (a low-hanging fruit indeed — I lost almost 10 pounds within a month of making that dietary change alone).

And since I have tried little things like switching to peanut butter that contains only peanuts (no salt, no sugar, not palm oil — sure, I have to stir it when I open it for the first time). I've moved to whole grain bread. Other small changes like that I can't remember right now.

I still have a BMI that's too high.

The only time I have significantly lost weight was when I was prepping for intestinal surgery nearly a decade ago. I was at the time worried that eating too much would literally kill me (I was worried about bursting my intestine) that I ate very small portions for each meal.

I'm not sure why I can't change my habits such that I continue to eat those small portions (now that the fear is gone).

knicholes · a month ago
Try a diet plan where you prep your own meals and intake a specific amount of calories. I've used Clean Simple Eats in the past. Diet only works. Diet+exercise works better, and adds all of the benefits of exercise.
knicholes commented on OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model   twitter.com/sama/status/1... · Posted by u/martinald
baobabKoodaa · a month ago
> American AI companies have shown they are money and compute eaters

Don't forget they also quite literally eat books

knicholes · a month ago
Who is literally eating books?
knicholes commented on Why are there no good dinosaur films?   briannazigler.substack.co... · Posted by u/fremden
Hikikomori · 2 months ago
Unless it's night.
knicholes · 2 months ago
Or an eclipse, but night and eclipses move on as expected.
knicholes commented on Why are there no good dinosaur films?   briannazigler.substack.co... · Posted by u/fremden
wishfish · 2 months ago
To me, the sequels were worthwhile just for one solitary scene. In the third movie, Trinity is piloting the ship and has to gain higher than usual altitude for some reason that I've now forgotten. This takes her above the black clouds permanently enveloping the Earth. Sunlight pours into the cockpit. For the first and only time in her life, she sees the real sun with her own physical eyes. She's overwhelmed. It's just a brief golden moment before the black clouds swallow her again.

#3 was not a good movie. But that scene has stayed with me longer than many scenes in much better movies.

knicholes · 2 months ago
It's always sunny above the clouds.
knicholes commented on New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source   quantamagazine.org/new-sp... · Posted by u/pseudolus
knicholes · 2 months ago
If only there were some sort of expert in everything that we could ask, it could pull expertise from all various sciences into one response. I think everyone just needs to start using LLMs.
knicholes · 2 months ago
By the way, for anyone down voting, ask o3 if humans could render fat before they had pottery. It takes seconds to find the answer.
knicholes commented on New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source   quantamagazine.org/new-sp... · Posted by u/pseudolus
readthenotes1 · 2 months ago
Earlier today there was an article about neanderthal's rendering fat.

The comments pointed out that anthropologist did not know that boiling was possible before the invention of pottery. Another comment pointed out that science teachers knew that it was possible because that was something they would do in class.

Final comment was about how people ReDiscover things in different fields - - like the trapezoidal rule for integration being discovered by someone studying glucose.

This is just yet another example of how bringing expertise from a different area can help.

knicholes · 2 months ago
If only there were some sort of expert in everything that we could ask, it could pull expertise from all various sciences into one response. I think everyone just needs to start using LLMs.
knicholes commented on Michael Madsen has died   nytimes.com/2025/07/03/mo... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
wileydragonfly · 2 months ago
Everyone dies of cardiac arrest
knicholes · 2 months ago
I thought most people died of shock?

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KarmaCake day1180October 22, 2012
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I work at Adobe as a software engineering manager. I love StarCraft II and AI. When Deepmind combined the two, it blew my mind.

My current projects are a smart toilet paper roll holder that tells you how much TP you've got left and a breast augmentation outcomes visualization AI. More recently, I've built GopherGeyser, an at-home splash pad and animal-themed app. https://gophergeyser.com/

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