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psyklic

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I am interested in AI, mathematics, and programming languages. Co-founded Hyphos (social discovery/dating), coded numerous startup products, teach & consult in AI/ML, and am a Caltech alum.

website: https://danwil.com/

email: dan@<website>

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psyklic
·6 dagen geleden·discuss
This is happening with many popular YouTube creators as well, pivoting from tech tutorials to AI. Kyle Cook made a video showing how engagement has cratered for non-AI stuff, making AI content extremely lucrative [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFdTLLlby9E
psyklic
·15 dagen geleden·discuss
I guess they updated the way it connects to the remote machine. Perhaps something about my setup wasn't one of their test cases?
psyklic
·15 dagen geleden·discuss
I am stuck using an older VSCode. A few versions ago, it stopped connecting to my remote machine.
psyklic
·16 dagen geleden·discuss
and 2tb -> 8tb storage is +$3k!
psyklic
·vorige maand·discuss
The most important part of math is advancing human understanding. A correct answer by itself is not as important as understanding why it is correct.
psyklic
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I'm constantly surprised how many people are critical of research to understand neural nets, immediately telling me they are black boxes and hopeless to understand. I believe it's a consequence of being portrayed as the opposite of (classically interpretable) linear regression.

Many people additionally have little patience for research when the engineering is moving so quickly. Even many interpretability researchers give up far too soon if research doesn't yield immediately gratifying results.
psyklic
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
> Was software made before 2000 better?

At the time of release, yes. They had to ensure the software worked before printing CDs and floppies. Nowadays they release buggy versions that users essentially test for them.
psyklic
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Everyone dislikes pedantically verifying references. However, if you cut corners here then will you also cut corners pedantically verifying research results?

Beyond references, the point of the literature review is to ensure you have read the literature and understand it well enough to accurately summarize it. If you present a literature review, it's likely assumed you did all of this. So at the very least you should be upfront about how an LLM assisted you.
psyklic
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Before LLMs, I've watched in horror as colleagues immediately copy-paste-ran Stack Overflow solutions in terminal, without even reading them.

LLM agents are basically the same, except now everyone is doing it. They copy-paste-run lots of code without meaningfully reviewing it.

My fear is that some colleagues are getting more skilled at prompting but less skilled at coding and writing. And the prompting skills may not generalize much outside of certain LLMs.
psyklic
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Elon at some point threatened to have an LLM rewrite all of the training data to remove woke. I assume Grokipedia is his experiment at doing this (and perhaps hoping it will infect other training sets too?) ...
psyklic
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I highly doubt collaborators are thinking less of you for not having more publications! After all, if they are collaborators they've already decided to work with you.

My understanding is you were awarded a PhD but with the minimum number of papers? This sounds completely normal. If you are trying for faculty positions it may appear "thin", but in industry will make you stand out for many jobs. In AI, there are many researchers who don't have a PhD!

It does sound awkward if asked why you didn't write more papers, but you can just discuss some of the challenges you faced in your existing works rather than getting into personal details.
psyklic
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Recently about half of the items sold to me as "New" have arrived used or counterfeit. The sellers have 5-star ratings, despite numerous reviews about receiving used or fake products. Unfortunately, Amazon crosses out these negative reviews and doesn't count them toward the overall seller rating.
psyklic
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
The hypothetical you state only matters once you have a game! The biggest risk by far is not AI assets -- it's finishing the game.

So if AI increases your odds of finishing, go for it. Then once you have a game, more people will care about whether it's good than whether you used AI assets. I suspect there will be lots of interest in how you incorporated AI, maybe even moreso than otherwise. You could alternatively use the AI assets as placeholders and intend later to replace them with hand-drawn, if desired.

When I made games, I had zero interest in making assets but wanted to understand every detail about graphics engines. I just grabbed random mediocre assets from online. I would have definitely used AI to make assets but done the coding myself.
psyklic
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
A notepad "welcome experience"? How is notepad turning into bloatware?
psyklic
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
This happens with every new tech. When websites first appeared, many businesses trusted kids to build their website. The key in applied work is to build a portfolio that shows off your abilities.

The reality is that most people who need services don't know anyone who is traditionally qualified and available. So, a portfolio may convince them to take a chance on a newcomer over an overly expensive firm (that often also just hires newcomers).
psyklic
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
True, I accidentally posted the date of the comment (1) not the commit. The only thing strange seems to be he used a smiley in the referenced commit message which doesn't seem to be his style.

(1) https://github.com/Hopding/Hopding.github.io/commit/40c7e0e8...
psyklic
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Have you tried emailing him? He likely also owns hopding.com, and both domains consistently seem to be at Squarespace. The last commit on his GitHub (Feb 2025) someone commented "Good to see you're still with us :-)", so he may just not update things often.
psyklic
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
It's very possibly moreso a cultural issue. COVID caused continuing low attendance, there is currently an anti-education political trend, and AI advancements allow students to be lazy. If parents and peers don't value education, the students won't either.
psyklic
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
What is this then: https://web.archive.org/web/20260203163430/https://www.cia.g...

It clearly states on the page that the Factbook was continuously updated, with "new data uploaded this week".
psyklic
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
> Why would someone with GE expect to keep it?

Peaceful protest is protected from retaliation by the First Amendment ...