I wrote the “ai” for one of the early popular forks of Slime Volleyball. I have a lot of fond memories! Recently I wrote a modern interpretation of the game in pure TypeScript/html canvas. It requires a real keyboard or gamepad - sorry no phones. Some of the single player ooponents are pretty fun. It’s at https://tippycoco.com and it’s all open source.
Readit Newsmalgorithms commented on Pikachu Volleyball github.com/gorisanson/pik... · Posted by u/planede
malgorithms commented on Carcinogens that don’t create cancer cells but rouse them newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I read this article yesterday, helped me a bit. My 62yo father was recently diagnosed with multiple myeloma when a vertebrate in his back basically disintegrated. Spent his whole life as a fine finishing carpenter. When he was in his 20s he just wore flimsy paper masks, and I don't know if ever wore gloves when using stains and lacquers.
We always joked he was going to get something from the chemicals, not so funny now that it hit.
You’re probably in the process of learning this now, but in case you’re just getting started: effective multiple myeloma treatments are being approved at an astonishing rate. It was a death sentence 20 years ago. Now it’s indefinitely treatable for many people.
A close family member was diagnosed 5 years ago and went through a stem cell transplant at Dana farber and the cancer still hasn’t returned…although statistically by now I believe it should have. But when it does return there is now a massive menu of next treatments for her that will likely hold it at bay.
Things are changing so fast now that I’m not sure the stem cell treatment is the first step.
Good luck to your dad.
malgorithms commented on News Minimalist – Only significant news newsminimalist.com/... · Posted by u/t0bia_s
I'd been waiting/hoping for someone to make something like this. Well done. A few ideas that will not clutter the UI but you might consider:
- when a user changes the score slider, encode that in the URL with a hash tag, so they can bookmark the page with their preferred settings
- a left button allowing me to step back to yesterday's news
- to simplify newsletter signups, just accept an e-mail address right on that page
- your **advanced** options:
- have GPT score each news story across common labels: science, politics, entertainment, news, etc. Then allow these as a filter. If I want to see the top science stories of the day, that should be easy.
- have GPT write a 2 sentence summary of each story as a lead-in after the headline title
- a user/saved whitelist/blacklist of news sites
- any advanced setting should be shareable. For example, if someone puts the effort in to make a page with just Australian news sources, focused on sports, with a minimum score of 5.0, they could save that with a title that can be shared for anyone.
Wtf is a FM? What is Amazon bedrock and how does it relate to Titan? What a terribly written release note
According to GPT-4, and I think this is a good summary: A "Foundational Model" in AI programming refers to large-scale machine learning models that serve as a basis for a wide range of applications and tasks. These models are pre-trained on massive amounts of data and can be fine-tuned or adapted for specific tasks, domains, or applications.
One of the most well-known examples of a foundational model is the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) series developed by OpenAI. GPT models, like GPT-3 or GPT-4, are trained on large datasets containing diverse text from the internet, which enables them to generate human-like text, answer questions, translate languages, and perform various other tasks.
Foundational models are significant in the AI field because they allow researchers and developers to create a wide range of applications and solutions without having to train a new model from scratch for each specific task. This approach saves time, resources, and computational power while still providing a high level of performance across different tasks.
malgorithms commented on Show HN: I made a game, Tippy Coco tippycoco.com... · Posted by u/malgorithms
This reminds me a lot of Slime Volleyball, which I loved as a kid. Thanks for sharing.
Slime Volleyball directly inspired it! I mention that on the about page, https://tippycoco.com/about . And ~20 years ago, I actually programmed one of the popular Slime Volleyball bots.
malgorithms commented on My Lawyer who wasn't a Lawyer, or why Due Diligence matters linkedin.com/pulse/my-law... · Posted by u/altusbrown
If you’re talking to investors at all, ask them for recommendations. That’s a good place to start.
I say this because investors sit on boards and work alongside these lawyers once they invest. They learn pretty quickly who is great and can often give very direct recommendations: a specific lawyer, not just a firm. At the startup stage you should choose the lawyer, not the firm.
malgorithms commented on My Lawyer who wasn't a Lawyer, or why Due Diligence matters linkedin.com/pulse/my-law... · Posted by u/altusbrown
Sorry if this is a silly question, but what's the best way to go about finding a competent lawyer for one's company?
Let's suppose you don't have a particularly strong network to draw from for recommendations.
Googling or using Yelp don't seem like particularly good options. They mostly turn up personal injury and divorce lawyers.
If you’re talking to investors at all, ask them for recommendations. That’s a good place to start.
malgorithms commented on New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase keybase.io/blog/crypto... · Posted by u/tosh
As an example of the magic referred to in the post, here's some encrypted text that could be read by `pg` here on HackerNews: https://pastebin.com/raw/bxRaymaB . As explained in the article, the unlocking step trusts HackerNews at one step in the process.
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