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seidleroni commented on Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator   technoblogy.com/show?2AON... · Posted by u/chrisjj
joshmarinacci · 16 days ago
Not really. This stuff is heavily NDA and patent encumbered. You’d be better off setting up a local wifi network and using an IP based audio call system.
seidleroni · 16 days ago
I'm not sure if this applies to all carriers but with many carriers if you are on wifi you can send/receive text messages and sometimes even make calls. Certainly you could use WhatsApp or similar in that case.
seidleroni commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?    · Posted by u/unsupp0rted
jdhwosnhw · a month ago
I thoroughly disagree with this sentiment.

In my experience, the most helpful approach to performing RCA on complicated systems involves several hours, if not days, of hypothesizing and modeling prior to test(s). The hypothesis guides the tests, and without a fully formed conjecture you’re practically guaranteed to fit your hypothesis to the data ex post facto. Not to mention that in complex systems there is usually 10 benign things wrong for every 1 real issue you might find - without a clear hypothesis, its easy to go chasing down rabbit holes with your testing.

seidleroni · a month ago
That's a valid point. What I originally meant to convey is that when issues arise, people often assign blame and point fingers without any evidence, just based on their own feelings. It is important to gather objective evidence to support any claims. Sounds somewhat obvious but in my career I have found that people are very quick to blame issues on others when 15 minutes of testing would have gotten to the truth.
seidleroni commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?    · Posted by u/unsupp0rted
seidleroni · a month ago
I work in embedded systems, and the best advice I can offer is: resist the urge to speculate when problems arise. Stay quiet, grab an oscilloscope, and start probing the problem area. Objective measurements beat conjecture every time. It's hard to argue with scope captures that clearly show what's happening. As Jack Ganssle says, "One test is worth a thousand opinions."
seidleroni commented on Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids   quizmathgenius.com/... · Posted by u/min2bro
seidleroni · a month ago
This is really great, well done! I have two young kids and was thinking about putting something like this together and I'm delighted that you beat me to it. Having a 6yo and 8yo, it would be great if there were some more basic games as well.
seidleroni commented on Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)   anthropic.com/research/pr... · Posted by u/gk1
seidleroni · 2 months ago
As much as I love AI/LLM's and use them on a daily basis, this does a great job revealing the gap between current capabilities and what the massive hype machine would have us believe the systems are already capable of.

I wonder how long it will take frontier LLM's to be able to handle something like this with ease without it using a lot of "scaffolding".

seidleroni commented on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
seidleroni · 4 months ago
I'm not sure if this is just me, but with the "Starter Apps" I don't see how you can extend them using AI in aistudio. For example, there doesn't seem to be a way to add more code to the app with AI, even if you copy the Starter App. Am I missing something, or is this just a big miss from Google?
seidleroni commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)    · Posted by u/david927
com2kid · 10 months ago
Putting the finishing touches on my LLM based town simulator. Once it's finished I'll have it simulate 4 hours in the town every 2 hours in reality.

It is designed to solve the problem of "RPG hero just killed a dragon in front of the town and no one says anything about it." All the NPCs realistically react and talk about the Hero's exploits.

Visitors to the site can vote on what quest the hero undertakes next.

I'm running into the problem what the site isn't much fun. I'm honestly not sure what to do about that!

An only slightly buggy build is at https://www.generativestorytelling.ai/tinyllmtown/index.html

Importantly, I am aiming to have everything (except voice gen) working on a small model that can be ran locally.

seidleroni · 10 months ago
It would be great to give each of the NPC's their own character. For example, some of the NPC's could have a grudge against the hero for reasons of their own. They could be cheering against him for causing such a ruckus in their village, or maybe some "Monday morning quarterback" happening, thinking they could have handled the problem much better than he did. I think an LLM may be pretty good at coming up with some ideas. Or maybe even make it a bit tongue-in-cheek and have some of the NPC's be fans of the hero's enemies.
seidleroni commented on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?    · Posted by u/david927
seidleroni · a year ago
A website that sorts the recent Peloton bike rides by difficulty. https://pelohard.com/

I love my Peloton and it was really annoying finding a ride with a difficulty over a certain threshold that was recent. I'm an embedded developer by day and did this with a lot of help from ChatGPT and Claude. Hoping to add some more features to it as time goes on.

seidleroni commented on Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B   reuters.com/technology/ar... · Posted by u/colesantiago
typon · a year ago
Anyone know John Carmack's status on his AGI company?
seidleroni · a year ago
I keep wondering the same thing myself. I google it occasionally but never come up with anything.
seidleroni commented on Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable–But You're Eating Them Wrong   wired.com/story/potatoes-... · Posted by u/detrist
HeyLaughingBoy · a year ago
I have about two dozen purple potatoes growing out back. Potatoes are actually easy to grow in bags of dirt.
seidleroni · a year ago
Care to share how you're doing it? I'm a pretty terrible gardener but love potatoes and it looks like this may be an easy way to do it.

u/seidleroni

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