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Re:Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU on Monday July 29, 2024 @10:25PM (#41105571)
There is an excellent hard science fiction book called permutation city that very related to this topic…it made me feel like i was in a dream when i read this post’s title
Re:Scientists put Jared Diamond's continental axis hypothesis to the test on Monday March 04, 2024 @11:19PM (#39599401)
The scientific method wasn’t novel to the western world. It’s origins date back to when the Moors conquered the southern half of western europe - and by almost all historian accounts - modernized many institutions over the subsequent hundreds of years (eg, from cutlery to math and science).

I think the most relevant book on the west’s success is called complexity: a guided tour

Re:How will we react when the aliens arrive? on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @07:45PM (#36065397)
These types of articles are always a bit befuddling, given how trite the perspectives are and how there's very little reasoning as to why a civilization so advanced that they have the tech for interstellar travel would want to come to Earth. One of the few arguments that I've heard that tends to resonate is it might be an inadvertent visit or one for pure amusement (e.g., why you'd want to wander towards the less traveled parts of a hiking trail). But perhaps this is all a bit overly critical because of the lack of progress on the topic...

Show HN: Horizon – Programmatic Prompt Generation and LLM Configurations

Posted by ahmadmk on Sunday May 21, 2023 @09:46PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.gethorizon.ai/

Hi HN. I heard you like dev tools and AI, so we wanted to share our project that we’ve been working on. We’re working on Horizon [1] - a higher level abstraction for LLMs so that developers can spend less time trying to grapple with LLMs to make them work and more time with users.This is the starting feature set which takes an auto-ML approach to identify the optimal LLM model, hyperparameters,...

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Re:If you’re so smart, how come you’re not happy? on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:26AM (#33803071)
This is surprisingly one dimensional… There are many studies that have shown higher levels of intelligence (ie, IQ or some other measurement if intellect) tends to be correlated with higher levels of self-reported “unhappiness,” due to a variety of covariates (eg, higher level of introspection, neuroticism, etc). Which is why looking at something like EQ is important. There aren’t really great measurements of these things but the mental model is what’s most useful imo—especially the notion that we need to develop intelligence of many types to lead a “happy” well-rounded life. If only it was as simple as a “culture” or IQ problem.

As a sidebar: I rarely understand the purpose of these types of blog posts. Perhaps they’re a manifestation of the SV/VC/PG culture to push out content and “get your voice heard,” which has merit but the amount of work required to provided a well rounded, incisive and pithy blog (eg, old PG blogs) is rarely done.

Re:Ask HN: How do you cope with career burnout/stagnating? on Friday October 30, 2020 @11:23AM (#24943198)
I used to do that. But it's hard to hold my self to it everyday.

Launch HN: Blossom.team -Platform for employees to give growth-oriented feedback

Posted by ahmadmk on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:53PM
from the self-post dept.

Hi HN!My name is Ahmad and I am the co-founder of Blossom.team (https://blossom.team). We empower employees to share and receive feedback with their peers and managers, anonymously.Performance reviews today are broken. Most companies lack a review process entirely, or have one that is super subjective, hierarchical, or infrequent. Today more than 70% of employees want regular and...

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