cool-RR
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> “How do you find problems worth working on?”
They usually find me.
Begun, the noise-cancelling wars have.
I used to play with Lotus on my mom's work computer when I was a child. Today I'm doing AI Safety research and when I'm examining experiment data I use the closest modern tool to Lotus:
https://www.visidata.org/
I'm happy to see this. It belongs in the stdlib and not a third-party module.
Posted by
cool-RR on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @03:35AM
from the arxiv.org dept.
It's my fantasy to do this. Congrats on having the courage.
> What’s left behind are opaque, black box systems with almost no one who understands how they work.
Maybe 50-year-old COBOL programs are the original neural networks.
Posted by
cool-RR on Saturday October 25, 2025 @11:51AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/cool-RR/dodo
Neat little utility I made with Claude Code that lets you use Alt-number to move between desktops on Windows 10.
I wrote it in a way that's too intertwined with my other shit to be shareable with people, but honestly you can copy-paste my comment to your friendly neighborhood LLM and you'll get something decent. Indeed it uses `env`.
The most useful script I wrote is one I call `posh`. It shorten a file path by using environment variables. Example:
$ posh /home/ramrachum/Dropbox/notes.txt
$DX/notes.txt
Of course, it only becomes useful when you define a bunch of environment variables for the paths that you use often.
I use this a lot in all of my scripts. Basically whenever any of my script prints a path, it passes it through `posh`.
Dating apps are not meant to be efficient, definitely not to someone with a developer mindset.
Can you share a photo of the backpack?
I printed it but it doesn't work :(
I developed a similar solution for Windows over a decade ago which I've been using every day. It works but it needs to be made easy for people other than me to use (Readme, requirements file, etc.) If anyone volunteers to spend a few hours polishing it, email me and I'll open-source it.
> > I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision
> omg, this sounds like the gigantic, ossified and crushing bureaucracy of a third world country.
No, it sounds like how most successful organizations work.
I'm flummoxed at the lack of Python support.
I wonder why various outlets, including DeepMind's blog, say that John Jumper is a "Senior Research Scientist". That's L5 which sounds like quite a low rank for a Nobel prize winner. I checked his LinkedIn and he's a director, which is around L8. I thought that maybe he was L5 during the publishing of the results, but no, he was either L6 or L7.
SEEKING WORK | Israel | Remote first
Software engineer with 12 years experience. PSF Fellow and Ex-Googler.
Anything Python-related. Bonus points if I get to work with JAX.
CV: https://r.rachum.com/cv
Posted by
cool-RR on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:54AM
from the futureoflife.org dept.
I want to feed it not only the code but also a corpus of questions and answers, e.g. from the discussions page on GitHub. Is that possible?
Bad UI. You need to double-click the desired area. Not sure what to do on mobile.
Right, true safe super intelligence could only be developed in countries that finished genociding their indigenous populations centuries ago.
I can't find whether it's effective against snoring or not. Can someone help?
This might be the first actual livestream.
Can you please give your impressions of Perplexity Pro?
Posted by
cool-RR on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:05PM
from the blog.foersterlab.com dept.
Posted by
cool-RR on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:30AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focustoscroll/jbcpolobfciagbjpodgfpgnifdmcbhgg/I like to use the keyboard and avoid touching the mouse whenever possible. One challenging situation is when I'm on a web page that has multiple scrollable elements, like my Facebook feed. When I press up or down in that situation, Chrome scrolls the entire page rather than the specific element I want to...