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Re:AGI Is Not Multimodal on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @10:03PM (#44187632)
this is a glib version of exactly what i agree with. a human doesn't do the maximal efficiency with the inputs its given, but has a high number of varied inputs that allow the multi part of multi-modal to really shine. We're not a true general intelligence because we can't respond to problems in space or time that are too big or too small for us, outside of the right frame of reference or outside the right frequency of visible light for us to respond to. Also, the amount of processing power we can respond with is capped as well. So when we say AGI, we mean a computer that responds to the same set of stimuli as we do, with a repsonse somewhere in the region we can respond back to. I don't see why a robot with AGI would care about sunburn if their robot arms don't care about heat, and i don't see that as any less general as if us and a matis shrimp are talking about different frequencies of photons we can see
Re:The number pi has an evil twin on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @04:50PM (#42505195)
oh wow that's a lot like a maximally extended penrose diagram
Really reminders me of the following phrase:

"When the work is done, it is forgotten. That is why it lasts forever."

- Tao Te Ching (Chapter 2)

Re:Build Your Own BitTorrent on Thursday October 19, 2023 @07:36AM (#37941436)
It does say it only asks for your email (read) privileges tbf, but yeah I didn't bother either after that step.
Re:Eio 1.0 – Effects-based IO for OCaml 5 on Saturday September 09, 2023 @12:56PM (#37447455)
And on this farm he had OCaml. Ei Eio.
I hate the title of this. the quotes do so much heavy lifting. I was hoping for a post about removing Svelte and embracing the simplicity of vanilla javascript. Nothing against svelte.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:39AM (#36596978)
Yes I could
Re:Solving the cube root of 19,683 mentally on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:33AM (#34654763)
Loads of chat about remembering logs etc, I was expecting to see more number theory here as it’s a really lovely and applicable part of maths.

(As far as doing the calc, I thought it has to end in 7 becaus3 it’s the only one with a cub3 residue of 3 mod 10, which is what they say in post. Then 20 and 30 cubed are 8000 and 27000 respectively and assuming we’re restricting to Z 27 is the only possible answer)

Re:What makes Git so hard to use? on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:46PM (#33627267)
IMO got is intuitive and easy to use therefore the title is subjective and incorrect. Please update to be less of an opinion.
Re:H-m-m: Hackers mind map on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @01:19PM (#32840253)
Hey! love the thing. Quick suggestion to the README on the section "Relative navigating and moving" It looks like I have to press H <AND> <-, to move left - I am assuming that I can do either or, a la vim. A small copy edit would make that clearer. Kudos!
Re:Show HN: A Visual IDE for React on Friday May 13, 2022 @03:45AM (#31364542)
As someone who doesn't like to watch videos, i'd have loved some text content on this or any page explaining the proposition
Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:49AM (#30624700)
Water is 27x more thermally conductive than air, so standing in water burns 27x more calories than air of the same temperature. So, go cold water swimming!

(Plenty of normal healthy ways to lose weight but that's the weirdest hack I can think of)

Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:46AM (#30624672)
Xx
nice site

could do with taking out your console.logs

```export default function KeyChar(props: any) { console.log(props); return ( <span className="text-gray-800 bg-gray-100 text-xl leading-5 py-0.5 px-3 border shadow-md border-gray-300 rounded-md text-center"> {`${props.keyChar}`} </span> ); } ```