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Re:Whatever became of holography? (2011) on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:37PM (#50051102)
Oof, there's a pretty impressive startup in the space: https://lookingglassfactory.com/
how about Lucira?
Re:I prefer OG style websites โ€“ what are yours? on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:08PM (#47628436)
the Japanese language school I went to which is indeed still updated: https://sokogakuen.org/

check out their directions page: https://sokogakuen.org/info.html

Glad you're working on this. Duolingo is garbage and I've been hopeful that AI can help accelerate language learning in a way that is actually effective.
Re:Sycophancy in GPT-4o on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @01:30AM (#43841568)
alternate title: "The Urgency of Interpretability"
Re:A New Type of Neural Network Is More Interpretable on Monday August 05, 2024 @02:36PM (#41164026)
Naive question: what's the intuition for how this is different from increasing the number of learnable parameters on a regular MLP?
Re:Run llama3 locally with 1M token context on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @08:56PM (#40218351)
Noob here. How would I figure out whether my machine would handle a particular model?
Re:Details of the new Suzuki Omnichord OM-108 on Friday January 26, 2024 @09:50PM (#39151945)
My Morning Jacket's "Touch Me I'm Going To Scream pt 2": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3PciCWIGLE
Re:What is the Demoscene? An obscure but influential art form on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:02AM (#37929696)
Thanks for sharing. Do you have similar side projects today?
Re:A half-hour to learn Rust on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:04PM (#37238143)
The current Rust experts probably spent more than 10 years learning the concepts that made them Rust experts.
Re:Experiments in Making Cocktail Ice on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @10:47AM (#35962627)
Have a particular one to recommend?
Re:A New Doorway to the Brain on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:02PM (#33180637)
Any good publications to learn about this?
Congrats on the business, and thank you for sharing!
Re:DSLRs are dead, and lenses are never going to be the same on Saturday January 15, 2022 @11:43AM (#29947814)
What's the tech advancement/invention that pushed mirrorless cameras past DSLR?
Re:I Miss RSS on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @06:20PM (#29816646)
Seems like a good place to plug Fraidycat (not my project) https://fraidyc.at/
Re:A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:08PM (#27742686)
Had to check the year to realize this was referring to Flickr and not Slack :)
Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on on Sunday January 24, 2021 @02:30AM (#25890106)
If one had to troubleshoot a bad standup meeting, how might you turn one that feels more scripted into one that feels more natural?
Re:How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981) on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:58PM (#24742522)
interested!
Ah yup my mistake -- it's this kind of thing: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/INEO-Restaurant-Hood-...

Autoclaves are used in the food industry too, but you're right those are very different: https://www.steriflow.com/en/Autoclaves-sterilization-alimen...

Autoclaves! They're used in industrial kitchens and life science labs.
Re:Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs? on Sunday September 20, 2020 @02:46AM (#24532334)
A few years ago I visited Niigata and some surrounding semi-rural towns where people still do this. They have onsens that are designated for food, not people. :)
Re:I Want to Fix Goodreads on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:25AM (#24459084)
Many thanks.
Re:Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing? on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:04AM (#24458994)
I never knew it was different elsewhere! What country are you based in, out of curiosity?
Re:Why Privacy Matters on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:41AM (#24342270)
Nice work, this looks cool!
What does your interview process look like?
Subscriber for several months, imo one of the few newsletters that's actually insight-rich. I learn something new and fascinating in each one, thank you for working on it!
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage logs for your backend services? on Friday January 03, 2020 @05:25PM (#21951015)
We use and like https://www.scalyr.com/.
Re:Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf] on Thursday February 21, 2019 @02:45AM (#19215248)
I enjoyed this, but I'm sure the strategies have evolved a lot. Anyone know of more recent resources like this?

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