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yuuu commented on Suno v4.5 suno.com/explore/... · Posted by u/platers

corlinp · 4 months ago

I used Suno to generate rap versions of Feynman's first lecture. It turned out really well!

https://suno.com/playlist/d2886382-bcb9-4d6d-8d7a-78625adcbe...

yuuu · 4 months ago

> we will see something similar to what is shown in Fig. 1–1

yuuu commented on Don't force your kids to do math blog.avocados.ovh/posts/h... · Posted by u/happycats

rerdavies · 4 months ago

The really important thing is to teach kids to find their joy.

At the end of my second year of piano lessons, my teacher took me into her living room, and we listened to Glen Miller records for most of the hour. And then we had a cup of tea, and she told me, "this is the music that I love. I play piano because I love that music, and I want to be able to play it myself. What kind of music do you like?" I didn't really have an answer. So she told me that we should stop doing lessons, but once I found music that I loved, she'd be happy to teach me how to play it.

In my early teens, I discovered Miles Davis. Once I had found my passion, all the hard work became play. I actually ended up learning to play jazz guitar, not piano. Even the heavy lifting was pure joy, because it had purpose and meaning.

I didn't become great at mathematics until I discovered the joy in mathematics (another brilliant teacher handed me a stack of old math contests, and said here, you might find these fun. I placed 4th among 20,000 students).

I didn't learn to write well until I discovered the joy in writings. (An absolutely brilliant English teacher who made us assign ourselves our own grades, but broke his promise in the end by upgrading all my papers to A+'s).

And I gave my kids the room to find their joy as well.

yuuu · 4 months ago

In your penultimate sentence, why did you put the period outside the parentheses instead of inside?

yuuu commented on Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution? · Posted by u/nigamanth

yuuu · 3 years ago

To gain 400 pounds of muscle mass.

yuuu commented on Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-6... · Posted by u/zackoverflow

e1g · 3 years ago

Good write-up to temper expectations at https://twitter.com/wilson_ricks/status/1602088153577246721

My TLDR (from a layman):

  * The output is greater than the energy *in the lasers*, but the lasers deliver 1% of the energy required to power them. Need 100x improvement to break even.
  * Converting the generated energy into electricity would cut the output in half. We need a further 2x improvement here, so it's ~200x to break even end-to-end.
  * The scientific equipment requires immense & expensive maintenance.
  * Plus the $3B facility around the equipment, that theoretically could deliver just 2.5 MW.

So we might be as close as 10-20 years away, as always!

yuuu · 3 years ago

temper

yuuu commented on Ask HN: Are you less envious of people with strong language skills now? · Posted by u/amichail

dtagames · 3 years ago

Yes, and none of the styles are original or yours. This will become transparent and undesirable. There's no threat to humans who can do their own research and come up their own novel analyses and conclusions. Folks who can't do that? Well, it might help them churn out crap.

Like I've said previously but seemingly unheard, it's a tool for chat support agents. It's not a research or learning tool. It's not a writing or composition tool. People who use it that way will be disappointed.

yuuu · 3 years ago

> This will become transparent

No it won't.

yuuu commented on Ask HN: Are you less envious of people with strong language skills now? · Posted by u/amichail

dtagames · 3 years ago

And, very quickly its style will be recognizable and uninteresting.

Folks might want to keep in mind that the application they have in mind for this customer service and tech support automated assistants. Think, "Calling the cable company to ask about your bill." For this kind of stuff, it will be fantastic, especially if it is trained on real documents from the company who plans to offer it as a chat. There, too, accuracy is not a problem if the answers come from official sources.

It should not, however, be used as a substitute for your own human work. Anyone doing that is going to quickly look dumb, get people hurt, or get fired.

yuuu · 3 years ago

I don't get why people keep saying its style will start to become recognizable. You can have it write things in any number of styles and levels of verbosity.

yuuu commented on Ask HN: How do you prepare for a new year? · Posted by u/ChildOfChaos

trykondev · 3 years ago

I love planning out my year and setting goals! I try to run my personal goals the way I run business goals -- by defining concrete metrics to track my progress and trying to hold myself accountable to monthly milestones. This past year was a great one, and I really credit a lot of my progress to the simple joy of "making the numbers go up" in my progress tracking spreadsheet [0].

I usually start thinking sometime in mid-November about what goals are most important to me for the upcoming year and try to finalize them by the last week of December. I think about what matters to me personally, what matters to my family, and what matters to my career.

I like to choose about 3-5 key goals to focus on and then figure out how to measure progress. For things like "Lose 30 Pounds", it's very easy to track. For more nebulous ones like "Invest Time in my Marriage", it can be hard to quantify progress, so for that one I created a monthly relationship survey that my wife and I both fill out to score each other numerically on things like "I feel my partner listens to me" or "I feel my partner is spending enough time with me". It may sound weirdly clinical, but it actually became a fun ritual to evaluate each other every month and was really helpful to pinpoint where my partner felt things were great and where things could be improved.

It's also interesting to look back on the data and see how progress (or lack thereof) toward one goal often impacted another -- for instance, as we were in the thick of closing on our house, my progress on my book editing stalled. In a challenging month between my wife and I, I gained weight instead of losing it.

A big part of this is choosing good goals -- specific, measurable goals are important. It's also been important for me to choose goals that I feel really confident I can achieve in the course of a year, rather than choosing goals which are too ambitious. For 2022, I was tempted to make my goal "Lose 50 pounds" instead. I'd actually had the goal of "Lose 50 pounds" in prior years and failed badly in trying to achieve it. I think because it's such an ambitious goal, once I fell behind, it felt impossible to catch back up. The more modest and achievable goal of losing 30 pounds was perfect for me -- meaningful enough for real progress, but realistic enough to allow for some slowdowns or screw-ups along the way.

Tracking progress also helps with reflecting on the previous year -- in my case, one of my goals in 2022 was to release another game, but I'm not going to accomplish that one. It's really helpful to look at what I earnestly thought I'd be able to achieve this year, figure out what went wrong, and make a better plan for 2023.

[0] For anyone that's interested, here's a sample of my progress tracking spreadsheet -- nothing complicated, but it can be helpful to have a predetermined structure in place. Feel free to make a copy for your own use: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13G9L1t82BtIggxEqeFUV...

yuuu · 3 years ago

Just wanted to say I appreciate your comment and your spreadsheet. Thank you.

yuuu commented on Keep Your Identity Small (2009) paulgraham.com/identity.h... · Posted by u/memorable

mdp2021 · 3 years ago

They do, and some will absolutely do (to some it is important to "assess" language) - it really depends on what you mean with "people" (of course I meant a subset).

What happened there is, in the succession of editings I left that 'people' there in a way that happened to be ambiguous. I made a composition error out of inattention.

yuuu · 3 years ago

The subset you're talking about is the union of extremely non-native English speakers and native English speakers over 120 years old.

yuuu commented on Keep Your Identity Small (2009) paulgraham.com/identity.h... · Posted by u/memorable

mdp2021 · 3 years ago

> who call themselves

In which sense? Because 'queer' means "eccentric" - many would describe as that. For that matter, people call themselves "gay" for "joyous".

Incidentally: the queer use of 'queer' predates that of 'gay' (just a piece of trivia).

yuuu · 3 years ago

> For that matter, people call themselves "gay" for "joyous".

Uh... I don't think people do that anymore.

yuuu commented on Ask HN: Should Google be concerned with ChatGPT · Posted by u/rosebay

hn_user2 · 3 years ago

One thing I have been pondering about ChatGPT and what it can replace, is that all of the training data came from human sources. So of course it might know C++ or javascript answers. So in terms of replacing Google, Twitter, or stack overflow it seems to do a great job on existing ideas. But what about the next upcoming language, or new language features.

Without a healthy online discourse and public exchanging of ideas, how will AI learn about new events, and languages.

If we start to rely on an AI to help us instead of online discussion boards, but that AI needs those discussion boards to learn, something will have to give a bit.

yuuu · 3 years ago

Transfer learning, NEXT!