nemesis17
Re:The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:35PM (#49557425)
I suck at prompting: Create a realistic animation of tying a Matthew Walker knot. Didn't get it right the first time and adversarial review self-corrected it.
Re:The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:09PM (#49554155)
This knot is tricky to tie, you can't just "tug" the ends. It requires patience and precision.
Re:LLMs are making me lose my savviness
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:19PM (#49493430)
I feel the same empowerment. LLMs allow me to tap into my second-order knowledge.
Re:How Complex Systems Fail
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @02:15PM (#49411093)
Worth reading Leveson’s works on safety engineering.
Re:Kelly Criterion Simulator
on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:55PM (#49160617)
Back in the day when I played HU Hyper-Turbos on Pokerstars I created one of these in Mathematica (not as fancy with Monte-Carlo)
Re:Claude Shannon: Mathematician, Engineer, Genius and Juggler?
on Friday November 08, 2024 @08:29AM (#42086688)
Our 3.5 friend was named after him.
Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike
on Monday November 04, 2024 @08:32AM (#42041360)
With the shit show that the current tech industry has turned into, unionization is crucial. US has a very low percentage of unionized workers compared to Iceland, Finland and Scandinavian countries for instance. Time to change and make our voice heard.
Re:Show HN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue Component Library for the Gov.uk Design ...
on Monday September 02, 2024 @02:18PM (#41427620)
Happy to see this! Very neat! On my last gig, I was one of the contributors for the govuk components using playframework/twirl: https://github.com/hmrc/play-frontend-hmrc.
Re:How to Build Quickly
on Monday August 05, 2024 @07:26AM (#41160168)
This is great. Top-down break down followed by bottom-up building. Resonates of the approach advocated by Paul Graham for building software in the book On Lisp.
The Forgetting Curve
Re:Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (1992) [pdf]
on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:36AM (#37841904)
This was the first Common Lisp book I studied back in the 9os. Two of my Professors had done early work in AI and started a successful company that still runs on CL: https://www.siscog.pt/en-gb/