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tarl0s commented on Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game grandmasword.com... · Posted by u/lowercarbon

Kiro · a year ago

> About the game: somewhat fun but if you don't know the word, that's it. No really any way to figure out in a rewarding way.

What does this mean? You could say the same thing about Wordle.

tarl0s · a year ago

I guessed many words I didn't know on Wordle (not a native English speaker), if you are able to reduce enough the letters search space there's going to be only a few options that e.g. make sense phonetically.

tarl0s commented on Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable oimo.io/works/life/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

marshmellman · a year ago

But isn’t a “cell” composed of infinitely many cells on infinitely many levels? So changing a “cell” should change all cells on all lower levels, not just the visible level.

tarl0s · a year ago

Sure, lower levels will change, but instead of the chaos above they’ll just continue to simulate upper levels in perfect order (even if different).

Edit: putting some effort to be more precise (though I may be on the wrong track): since the period of the pattern is 35328, it depends at which tick we introduce the change. Since we're changing a cell at a certain level N it makes sense to consider tick 1 out of 35328 for level N-1 (zooming in).

If we introduce a change at any other tick (out of the 35328), what we are really doing is a big change in level N-1 rather than a single cell change in level N.

tarl0s commented on SQL looks like English is a well intentioned error github.com/SPLWare/esProc... · Posted by u/Judyrabbit

tarl0s · 2 years ago

Lately I've been experimenting the usage of LLMs for the explainability of SQL stored procedures with exceptionally good results - think about identifying important fields, linking them to existing glossaries, expanding said glossaries, etc. I wonder how much SQL looking like natural language helped for my use case.

tarl0s commented on The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s bbc.com/news/articles/crg... · Posted by u/pepys

asylteltine · 2 years ago

I feel sad for how he will simply fail to adopt to new technology and be as utterly helpless at 30 as boomers are now. They can barely do a Google search.

It’s not okay to find this stuff funny. Technology is a fundamental part of society.

tarl0s · 2 years ago

Which society? 34% of world’s population hasn’t even got Internet access

tarl0s commented on List of rivers by discharge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis... · Posted by u/abudabi123

mcalus3 · 2 years ago

It was sarcasm, no one uses anything like that outside of the US. Using football fields as a measure of distance is as "stupid american" meme around the world.

tarl0s · 2 years ago

In Italy we definitely often use "campo da calcio" as a quick measurement unit for areas. I'm guessing that's due to the fact that for most people using squared meters is really limited to measuring housing areas and other few use cases, so reverting to something that everybody knows well (a football field) is much more effective. For distances, everybody is very comfortable using all powers of 10 of the meter for all kind of purposes so there's no need to use references to real world measurements.

tarl0s commented on World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/SirLJ

jamesadevine · 3 years ago

Im all for a four day working week. Has any one thought about the impact on schooling and education? Education is centred around a 5 day working week (at least in the U.K.). Presumably teachers would not be eligible to work a four day week? This seems a little unfair.

If workers move to a four day week, should schools do too?

tarl0s · 3 years ago

France has been experimenting a 4-day week for primary school since the 80s [1], generally with a day-off on Wednesdays. The impacts are certainly there, e.g. "before September 2013, more than 40% of mothers whose youngest child was of elementary school age did not work on Wednesdays".

It sounds like a 4-day school week would be the natural consequence of a global 4-day working week.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rythmes_scolaires_en_France

tarl0s commented on ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon algolia.com/blog/ai/why-c... · Posted by u/freediver

aortega · 3 years ago

>Not bad!

Its terrible. This is totally not how GPS works, I.E. the terminal never sends a message to the satellite. This is the danger of early LLMs, a large amount of their output is false and there is no way to tell unless you are already an expert.

This makes them basically useless except for a toy.

tarl0s · 3 years ago

Asking it to “explain how GPS works like I’m a seasoned engineer” yields a more detailed explanation and there’s no mention of GPS terminals sending messages back to the satellites.

Probably the “false output” you mentioned is due to the fact that the prompt asked to “explain it like I’m five”, which made ChatGPT answer with a “dialogue between terminal and satellite” explanation, which (arguably) may be better understood by a 5 years old.

tarl0s commented on ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon algolia.com/blog/ai/why-c... · Posted by u/freediver

raegis · 3 years ago

Just heard of this, so I logged in with my google account. The mistake it makes below is interesting. If this were a human response, I would assume a brain fart. Not expecting this type of error from "A.I."

Me> Find the area of an ellipse with semimajor axis 5 and semiminor axis 4.

ChatGPT> The area of an ellipse with semimajor axis 5 and semiminor axis 4 is 40π. You can find the area of an ellipse using the formula: A = πab, where A is the area of the ellipse, a is the length of the semimajor axis, and b is the length of the semiminor axis. In this case, the semimajor axis has length 5 and the semiminor axis has length 4, so plugging these values into the formula gives us: A = π(5)(4) = 40π.

tarl0s · 3 years ago

Being not very good with numbers is one of the limitations of the current model. I imagine that in the future we will see integrations with a number of different tools to overcome these limits - WolframAlpha being the first one that comes to mind when talking about algebra and calculus.

tarl0s commented on Richard Feynman on looking at the world from another point of view (1973) cassandradispatch.org/ric... · Posted by u/shafyy

chubbnix · 3 years ago

Well go on, finish the story!

tarl0s · 3 years ago

I guess that the story is already quite explicit as it is: simply recalling all that amount of details is a clear indicator of how much the time slowed down for the gp during the event.

tarl0s commented on Automated reading of medieval manuscripts: Alternative for palaeography classes? leidenmedievalistsblog.nl... · Posted by u/danso

tarl0s · 3 years ago

The Roma Tre University has a research project named In Codice Ratio. One of its objectives is to transcribe through AI and OCR the whole Vatican Secret Archives - one of the biggest collection of manuscripts, some of them more than a thousand years old.

The code hasn't been released (yet) but you can find some preliminary results here: http://www.inf.uniroma3.it/db/icr/preliminary-results.html