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I use the following for feeding into AI

   find . -print -exec cat {} \; -exec echo \;
Which will return for each file (and subfolders) the filename and then the content of the file.

Then `| pbcopy` to copy to clipboard and paste it into ChatGPT or similar.

> big company

Isn't it the Swiss post?

Re:Trianglify.io – Low Poly Pattern Generator on Sunday September 18, 2022 @11:07AM (#32888149)
Well, apparently there is. Just press export and you will find it costs 8$.
How does this compare to Voila from the Jupyter team? ( https://voila.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html )
A few days ago I discovered this initiative that I found very interesting and fun: during the month on November you have to develop a program to generate a novel of around 50k words. This is the 7th edition of the event.

I started reading the dev-logs (GitHub issues) of the past editions and discovered some great novels both in term of technology involved and also content.

Some gems:

* MARYSUE (https://github.com/catseye/MARYSUE), which aims to create an interesting novel with a plot and everything else (and the related write-up "A story compiler" (https://git.catseye.tc/MARYSUE/blob/master/doc/Overview%20of...)

* LIFE OF THE AZAR (https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/39), an archive/enciclopedia of some sort of an imaginary city of a couple of thousands of citizens describing the people, their relationships, events that happens in the city and much more

* THE DESERT OF THE WEST (https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/156), a generated guide of imaginary worlds together with a map generation alghoritm with rivers and erosion (http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/) and a generator for city names based on natural language theories (http://mewo2.com/notes/naming-language/)

* MEOW (https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/50) meow meow meeeooow mew

Some projects are based on Neural Networks, some on Markov Chains, some on simulations, some on Tracery grammars (https://tracery.io/), some on Prolog, some on "plain" text processing and some on a mix of all of these. (I found an overview of the approaches for the 2016 edition here https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2016/issues/154)

I find all of this very fascinating and might start my own adventure with text generation in the next days.

Re:Show HN: HN Notify.xyz – Subscribe to Your HN Replies on Sunday October 06, 2019 @11:50AM (#21172752)
Beware, since your main div has the "newsletter-subscribe" class, it gets gidden by uBlock Origin and the website is unusable.
Re:Reddit is Down on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @04:11AM (#18290522)
It's just planned maintenance.
Re:Reinforcement Learning – Bandit Problems on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:52AM (#17010814)
As someone who is doing his bachelor thesis on Reinforcement Learning this is some useful information.

OT (but not really) question: does anyone here use Reinforcement Learning techniques at work? For the thesis I am working on black-box optimization of 2 variable functions with Reinforcement Learning (and comparing it with Bayesian Optimization techniques).

As someone else suggested the Sutton & Barto book is really great knowledge but I would also like to suggest these lessons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0) by David Silver (who worked on AlphaGo)

Re:Emoji in SQL – Using Emoji as SQL Identifiers on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:46AM (#14637668)
There is not a single reason to try this in production, or even for a side project.
Re:Emoji in SQL – Using Emoji as SQL Identifiers on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:26AM (#14637526)
Hello, author here. Sorry if I am posting from a new account but I forgot the password to my old one (crisbal) and I didn't set a recovery email.

Let me know if you have any question.