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Ask HN: Do you have more or less than 1Mb text of your own writing?

4 points·by cwmoore·3 ngày trước·31 comments

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cwmoore
·12 giờ trước·discuss
¿porque no los dos?
cwmoore
·13 giờ trước·discuss
Poor goats
cwmoore
·13 giờ trước·discuss
Which is the less intelligent? Strong works when dumb.

I know people like to talk about “how smart” the butterfly or whatever is for “adapting itself” to whatever environment, and it is cute, but there is a practical engineering choice between delicate design and brute force.
cwmoore
·15 giờ trước·discuss
"Signs point to yes" Good luck!
cwmoore
·17 giờ trước·discuss
Sure, and thanks for the ranking context also. I think 1Mb is an interesting ballpark figure.
cwmoore
·17 giờ trước·discuss
That's the kind of info I am interested in, thanks.
cwmoore
·17 giờ trước·discuss
Thanks for the info. Wow, 9000 words per workday seems extraordinary.
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
You could compare performance on a timed exam between access to YouTube or to an open textbook. It really isn’t a generational vibe thing. They are different mediums.
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
It seems all three are equally obscure. Mine at least is a heart shape :)
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
Could look up convictions and see how any county courthouse delivers sentences, Bendord’s Law isn’t just for accounting, it’s for anything numeric.
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
The text content of my iOS Notes, when zipped, is about 500Kb. Some small fraction of that was copy-pasted from someone else’s writing.

I probably have an order of magnitude more than that.

Bigger than a context window, smaller than a useful model, and fits in L2 cache.
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
I don’t think harm is a legal standard.
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
I was musing earlier today that in US culture you must have a liquor license to sell alcohol, but a drivers license to purchase it.
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
Thanks for the feedback! Sounds like you are prolific and consistent!

Do you write outside of journaling? Same amount?
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
Exactly right—interesting times. I’m curious whether you could estimate what percentage of the 6Gb sessions were your own writing? Of course you guide the ideas, but this word count is a different question from “how many words have you read?” (or generated, or conpiled from source :)
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
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cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
50 years of one 50 word grocery list per week (if you keep them) is 130,000 words, but not everyone writes that much, or that consistently, or for that long, or keeps complete digital copies.
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
Hah! Good advice!

What I was asking was for anyone, prolific at writing or or not, to understand their own output in relation to…L1 cache or a context window.

But thanks! I guess my issue with writing, as a complete amateur, is the later stages, and followup, compiling or reviewing. Reading is not the only reason to write, but it is an important one.

I think it is a relevant human-scale question, relating to and understanding a paltry personal megabyte (or less) on a forum where gigabyte models are half the conversation. Its the wrong metric in a way like LoC, to compare to your comment.
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
Are you referring to the concept of “prayer?”
cwmoore
·3 ngày trước·discuss
Interesting that it was first discovered with noticing the “garden path” in the front pages of a book of logarithm tables (in 1881).