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kranner commented on You're Wrong About Dates – and Your Code Is Lying to You   metaduck.com/youre-wrong-... · Posted by u/pgte
ksenzee · 16 days ago
I don’t think this is related to AI at all. (Unless you’re suggesting it’s AI-generated?) It’s “thinking” as a metaphor for the abstraction being used.
kranner · 16 days ago
> And it’s not harmless — it leads to broken logic, messy hacks, and subtle bugs that only show up in production.

The AI-specific use of em dash with the list of three near-synonyms following, the "it's not just this", the "it's a fundamental shift". This article seems AI-generated or at the very least AI-massaged.

Once you suspect AI has been used to write something, you're not sure if the 'author' has bothered to double-check the article for veracity, or if you're going to be doing this work for them.

kranner commented on Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft   bl.ag/indian-sign-paintin... · Posted by u/detaro
OJFord · 23 days ago
I'm not sure if I don't understand, or completely disagree, but if you look anywhere 'digital' like Reddit for example, a lot of Hindi is written in Latin script. WhatsApp too in private communication, where people don't have or haven't understood how to use a devanagari (or transliterating) keyboard on their phone.

As a Britisher learner it's frustrating¹ actually, because there is a standard for how to do this - IAST, for Sanskrit/derived generally - but of course that's not what native speakers use casually. E.g. your 'angrezi se hindi' would be 'añgrezī se hiñdī' but anyone writing Hindi with those accents is foreign or an academic. (Also people will casually write 'ay' instead of 'e' ए or 'ee' for 'ī' ई, etc. cf. 'paneer'.)

[1: The frustration is because it leads to ambiguity, whereas IAST is 1:1 and so preserves the phonetic nature of devanāgarī, and tells me exactly which t/d/r sound, if it's aspirated, etc. which a fluent native layperson's anglicised interpretation really doesn't. They might write gora & gora and know from context if that's gora or ghoṛā, but if I don't already know the word a gora like me is stuck.]

kranner · 23 days ago
> your 'angrezi se hindi' would be 'añgrezī se hiñdī'

That should be 'aṅgrezī se hiṅdī' per IAST. In Devanagari: अंग्रेज़ी से हिंदी

If it were ñ instead of ṅ, the Devanagari would be अँग्रेज़ी से हिँदी which is incorrect.

kranner commented on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic   github.com/openai/whisper... · Posted by u/edent
kranner · a month ago
I've run lots of guided meditations through whisper-large-v3 and anything with long periods of silence gets a "© Mooji Media" line added at the end of the transcript. None of these have actually been from Mooji.

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kranner commented on Dancing brainwaves: How sound reshapes your brain networks in real time   sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/lentoutcry
chrisweekly · 3 months ago
Related tangent - here's my carefully-curated "flowstate" Spotify playlist consisting of tracks w/ no lyrics and a variety of moods. I pick one that suits me in the moment and put it on repeat. I find it boosts my focus and energy and is very helpful in attaining flowstate, for problem-solving or Cal Newport-style "deep work" sessions.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UScdOAlqXqWTOmXFgQhFA?si=...

kranner · 2 months ago
I've always thought of songs with human vocals as cries of conspecifics, impossible to ignore and thus highly distracting.
kranner commented on Stepping Back   rjp.io/blog/2025-05-31-st... · Posted by u/rjpower9000
kranner · 3 months ago
Previous discussions on psychonetics and deconcentration of attention seem relevant, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10028317

Personally I've found a continuous open awareness style of meditation has really helped me balance things out, as I went from someone with very little doggedness to e.g. being two weeks into cataloguing all my books with Delicious Library before realising it was kind of pointless. The open awareness practice (very different from focus-on-your-breath and also the visual deconcentration discussed in the link above) is about encouraging the recognition of this-is-how-things-are as it naturally and spontaneously occurs; doing this more and more also builds confidence in one's intuition about (in this context) whether to persevere at the current task or whether to step back.

I don't think there is a foolproof system that can be developed as a substitute for this kind of intuition. Speaking for myself I can and will continue to second-guess over time any external system that may feel definitive when it is first established. But I can learn to trust the (unfortunately) indeterminate part of myself that tells me I'm doing the right thing.

kranner commented on Semicolons bring the drama; that's why I love them   ft.com/content/80c39c74-8... · Posted by u/bishopsmother
mmooss · 3 months ago
> But the phrase after the semicolon is at the same level as the initial phrase

If you mean my sentence in the GP, here's how I think it parses:

  A1 ; A2 . B
The two clauses in the first sentence, connected by the semicolon, are ~equal - but they are subparts of concept A. Concept B is separate and in a separate sentence. If I used no semicolon, I'd have three sentences and there would be no subparts, only

  A . B . C

kranner · 3 months ago
That's how I had parsed it also. But to me adding another level in the outline sounded as if you had meant:

  A (B) . C

kranner commented on Semicolons bring the drama; that's why I love them   ft.com/content/80c39c74-8... · Posted by u/bishopsmother
mmooss · 3 months ago
Semicolons are used by people who find highly nested code to be natural and necessary; they add another level to the outline. I love semicolons and couldn't write without them.
kranner · 3 months ago
But the phrase after the semicolon is at the same level as the initial phrase (I would have loved to employ nesting with parentheses while writing in natural language (though I restrict myself to one level when writing for others (but not at all in private writing)))?
kranner commented on Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy   societyforscience.org/reg... · Posted by u/felineflock
14 · 3 months ago
Seeing articles like this is almost hard to read. My kids are very smart but this girl is 1000 times what they are doing. This girl is 1000 times what I am doing. Maybe it is just imposter syndrome but sometimes I read articles like this and think I fell short in life. But I am also top of my peers at work and I am a health care provider and my clients all request me so I know I am doing good. Sometimes I just wonder what mark I will leave on this world.
kranner · 3 months ago
I think the idea that one has to leave a mark on the world before one dies is overrated and not super useful.

First, what would such a mark be like for you? Is it something you could plausibly achieve with all the resources within your reach? Is it well-defined or is it nebulous? Is it likely to remain stable over the time you would require to achieve it, or is it more defined by the whims and fancies of the world which seemingly change every other week now?

Then, even if you did achieve it, how long would it continue to matter to you? Would you remain satisfied with it or could you become habituated to the achievement in a week, month or year and replace it another mark that would then become the one task you must complete before you die? Even if you did remain satisfied with your great achievement, would it really matter to you at the end of your life, or would you completely forget about it in the physical and mental anguish that many people seem to experience at the end of their lives?

And after you are dead, how long would that achievement be remembered before being supplanted in the public eye by something bigger?

And would it really make a difference to you at that point? Whether it remains a grand success for a thousand years or is forgotten in a day, you won't be there to know the difference anyway. It really only matters to you for the brief periods of time in which you're thinking about it right now. During times that you're distracted, tired, enjoying and appreciating something else or are simply asleep, it's hard to believe it matters at all.

If you're happy, healthy, not harming others, making a decent and honourable living, raising kids, I think you're already winning.

If the idea of having to leave a mark is making you unhappy, maybe it's better to just drop the idea.

kranner commented on A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce   theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/n1b0m
OJFord · 3 months ago
I guess simply 'milk' I also missed, which is a bit sweet of course but I wasn't intending to lump it in with fruit juices and added-sugar drinks.

I did almost mention jaljeera, but thought that might be a bit niche. It is also often sweetened though. I've never known not-sweet lassi though? Salted lassi is still sweet underneath, like salted caramel, ime. We could count it with the sweet-ish milk drinks, anyway.

kranner · 3 months ago
Lassi is a traditional drink where I’m from and contains only salt traditionally. Sweetened lassi is a relatively recent restaurant-led innovation. When I was a kid “lassi” meant salted; you had to specify “sweet lassi” for the sweetened version.

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