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peter_d_sherman
18,476karma·5,706submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
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"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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So let's see, we have the following factors in play: 1) Capitalism - Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes (Keynesian Economics), etc., etc. in most places in the world... 2) Huge validated existing in…
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Observation: Claude's system prompts seem to have grown rather large over time... Generalized Speculation: It seems that for any public-facing AI/LLM, their system prompts will, due to regul…
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What a great visualizer tool! Observation: I never saw the link between Wave Equation Solvers, Finite Element Analysis (Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, etc.) and Cymatics -- until I visited the above web…
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Absolutely excellent! Open Hardware takes another step forward! Well done!
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>Isolating each peak required constructing a very specific function that, when multiplied by the original fractal-like function, would pull out just the peak and be close to zero everywhere else. T…
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>"Founding a company is a confidence game in the honest sense of the phrase: you have to get people to believe in something before it’s true, and then go make it true." An absolutely sp…
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>"The problem: Every task, your coding agent starts blind. Before it changes anything, it re-explores the repo: grep a term, open a file, follow an import, back out, try again. It is rebuildin…
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My absolute favorite HN article of all time, to date! Absolutely brilliant! The vendor locked regions (on hardware that you already own!) that this could unlock (or help future security researchers to…
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>"...and then we discovered an unexpected clue . We wanted a way to restore service that didn’t involve rolling back to the last known-good backup (which would lose a lot of data) or repairin…
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Fair enough! My intention was not to misunderstand you personally, only to express the general trend of what I see happening on HN, other message forums, and the mass media in general... In fairness t…
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I concur that most people, myself included, would not wish for video cameras of any type, overt or covert, be brought in to locker rooms or any other place where there is an expectation of at least so…
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Utterly Fascinating! For the longest time, I conceptualized LLM's as Text Input -> Text Output transformers, then later as Text Input -> Video Output transformers. Later still I conceptual…
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Well, I consider myself fairly stupid then! Explain to me how recording device A "when caught" (i.e., the glasses) differ from recording device B (say, a smartphone) "when caught",…
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Ignore the naysayers! Any article, even the really good ones on HN, while they get positive comments, for whatever reason, always get a lot of negative ones, too... That is, the negative comments are …
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My favorite part of the article: >"Here is something even more interesting. As you approach α = -1, the time domain approaches a shape of t-1, and the frequency domain approaches a flat magnit…
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>"pre-existing recording devices available already..." Exactly! People could be "covertly recorded at the gym" (as the article states!) by other pre-existing recording devices …
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>"Some people are using the glasses — which look like a pair of regular spectacles — to record people without their knowledge and publish the videos on social media. The users secretly videota…
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>The ability to think through problems to the second, third, and nth order—or what we will call second-order thinking for short—is a powerful thinking tool that not only solves problems but avoid…
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>"Canoeboot is a special fork of Libreboot, maintained in parallel to it by the same developer (Leah Rowe), who maintains both projects. Canoeboot removes all binary blobs from coreboot, there…