vroomik

Re:How do you backup your Android? on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:15AM (#42653100)

Could you elaborate on that? Do you mean bigger possibility of apps containg malware or what?

Re:Solar energy breakthrough could reduce need for solar farms on Saturday August 10, 2024 @02:34AM (#41207738)

Just yday learned something about microwaves (kitchen appliance). First produced by Raythreon in 1947 were big and expensive ($68,000 in 2023 dollars). By 1986, roughly 25% of households in the U.S. owned a microwave oven, up from only about 1% in 1971. Same goes with solar - it's so cheap now everybody can get small installation. So it's breaktroughs, then incremental improvements in efficiency and production cost. Commercial availability allows scaling and further fall in production cost. It takes time...

Re:Before the Soul Dawn – Helen Keller on Her Life Before Self-Conscio... on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:46AM (#40500718)

Memory is sometimes considered as a network where "pieces of memories' are pulled together to create a memory for "present you". Traumatic memories from the past aren't that traumatic after many years after, and are being changed every time when being recalled (that's one of the theories). You can lisen to recent Lex podcast with Charan Ranganath, i got it timestamped when talking about child memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuepdI3wCU&t=885s

Re:Before the Soul Dawn – Helen Keller on Her Life Before Self-Conscio... on Sunday May 26, 2024 @08:31AM (#40481661)

a bit of sidetrack, but i think interesting; there are some people with aphantasia (which is lack of mental imagery), and they seem to be doing fine (Craig Venter is one of those people). On this distinction, what exactly is abstract shape? I can imagine cube quite easily, but tesseract is a lot harder. Would it be helpful not to have this visual preconceptions in the mind?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

Tell us about the project you would like to make

Posted by vroomik on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:45PM
from the self-post dept.

It's on the back of the post "Tell us about your project that's not done yet.." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156101It made me happy and hopeful about those sometimes wacky projects, and peoples support. We want it, we can do it! So don't be afraid of corpos stealing your ideas ;) I'll start. I was trying to search for an particular artist (painter), I saw the art quite vividly in my...

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Science? on Thursday January 12, 2023 @02:01AM (#34350143)

I'd really like to see more eye pleasing version of this, but those symmetries are wild - Quasi-periodicity 17 fold symmetry - https://www.goldennumber.net/quasi-crystals/#jp-carousel-988...

Re:Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:43PM (#32228094)

One of the channels I check frequently is Closer to Truth. ~10min interviews with scientists about physics, neurobiology and religion. Quite stimulating if you ask me...

Re:Ask HN: How worried are you about the upcoming recession? on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:53AM (#31501371)

I recommend watching videos from juice media, funny and informative, showing corruption and shitfuckery in Australia - https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia/videos

Re:Ask HN: What technology is “cutting edge” in 2022? on Monday January 24, 2022 @01:06PM (#30061414)

Photonic processor is coming out this year, claiming to be up to 10x faster than nvidia A100 in BERT and using 90% less energy - https://lightmatter.co/products/envise/

Re:Ask HN: How do you RSS? on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:04PM (#23577813)

Moved to inoreader - free tier for up to 150 feeds, works on mobile too

Ask HN: What is the % of bots on social media now?

Posted by vroomik on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:57PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've read about numbers from 10% up to 40, few years ago (then it was "a purge" on FB and Twitter). I wonder how ML helped it or make it harder to spread. Some of it are for nefarious purposes and I think the threat is being overlooked. I couldn't find recent data.

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Re:Ask HN: Is RSS dead? on Friday March 06, 2020 @03:30AM (#22501895)

I use Inoreader too, care to explain how do you use it for ebay? I've tried to add sub from ebay url to no avail..

Re:Ask HN: What, if anything, do you listen to while coding? on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @03:40AM (#17124299)

I found plenty of nice background music in here(50 playlists) http://musicforprogramming.net/