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Re:If you love a website, back it up on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:50AM (#50349609)
What are the legal implications of something like this? What if the site has copyrighted images or videos?
"Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking." - that's just the Dunning-Kruger effect
Re:The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:20AM (#50229674)
I feel like it applies to becoming an adult as well: you get less constrained, too many options in almost every decision you have to make, so it's easy to stop bothering and go with the flow
Re:Show HN: Encarta 95 Web on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:21AM (#50219520)
Oh, that's very nostalgic, even though I only got acquainted with Encarta in the 2000s
Might have a lot of potential, but you need some kind of a showcases right at the start, highlighted to show what is possible. I clicked around and first worlds I saw were very basic. Maybe if users saw something incredible right at the start, they'd be motivated to be more creative
Re:Chain of Thought for Humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:59AM (#50192513)
good thing interviews don't assess IQ :)
that is exactly what they would do, otherwise it wouldn't pass any review. Unless this was generated and reviewed by AI during their experimentation phase, but I doubt it very much.
Re:How to Train Your Robot on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:02AM (#50150073)
It's a really good article, thanks!
Re:Show HN: JSynth – Visual Programming Editor for Julia on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:16AM (#50139051)
Looks interesting! What do you see as the main use case for this editor?
The artstyle is amazing! Great job!
Have someone actually used it? Any feedback? There are a lot of alternatives at the moment, all of them break on complex excel documents
Looks good! Can it crawl dynamic web pages?
Feels really good!
Looks interesting! Any plans for quantitative comparisons to other agent memory approaches?
Re:Calculus with Julia on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:31AM (#50052656)
Anyone using Julia outside university settings? I tried to get into it around 5 years ago, and it felt good, was conceptually interesting, but haven't seen any adoption or talks anywhere outside the academia
Re:Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:28AM (#50052628)
Author's argument about lower quality of vibecoded software (the brush example) is just a matter of iteration. We can't assume they won't catch up at some point
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:22PM (#50047439)
Doesn't this assume that humans stop trying to understand problems and AI-provided solutions? Yes, the field is going to change and will require certain rethinking of mathematicians' motivation, but what stops humans from keeping to work on problems they want to solve and understand? The fun from math comes not from solving cancer, but from understanding something new with every approach you take