td-andrew
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:53AM (#49429601)
Whether it's useful or not isn't the point. Chinese Room was a consideration as to what counts as knowledge. Chinese Room / LLM is not knowledge, it's pattern matching.
Having a dude doing translations has always been useful even if they didn't understand the subject matter. Happened all the time pre LLMs
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:41AM (#49421364)
It reminds me of the seo antics out there. The search results page is the engine, much like how distilling is the "intelligence" for your chinese room machine
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:16AM (#49332438)
Hooks directly into drone.io using SSO.
Self host both of them on my internal network. Technically old version of gitea which is forgejo pre-fork