bawis's comments

On: Domain expertise has always been the real moat

[bawis]

Expertise is largely tacit knowledge, reading AI slop isn't expertise.

[dfunckt → bawis]

You can quickly get the "lay of the land" and discover primary sources which you can study. Learning from the AI, I agree, is rife with landmines.

On: Can we have the day off?

[bawis]

Is there any English source for more information about the years of strikes you mentioned?

On: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

[bawis]

You need sources for this one, specifically the killing and raping claims.

[gamblor956 → bawis]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/middleeast/report-sexual-viol...

The report notes that both Hamas fighters and regular Gazan males participated in the rape and mutilation of Israeli hostages.

[bawis → gamblor956]

The report is done by an Israeli organization, find another neutral, credible source for these claims.

On: Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?

[bawis]

I love the typical family-owned small businesses, their runners are the ones that aspired entrepreneurs should listen to their advices instead of bestsellers books of ghouls preaching their bullshit.

On: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

[bawis]

What do you mean by "YT is not optimized for recipes"?

On: Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age

[bawis]

Can you elaborate please?

On: Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules

[bawis]

>> but many other popular "classical" ML algorithms are not

Examples ?

On: 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)

[bawis]

This is a bad case of whataboutism (I hate this word but it describes the answer you gave), what do you mean by accelerating understanding? Maybe they are good as suggestion engines, but it is very early to state what you did.

[andoando → bawis]

I use them every day to learn things.

Theyre alot more than "suggestion engines". They can reason with you, show you examples, tell you how to dig deeper and verify what theyre saying, etc.

On: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

[bawis]

I am eagerly waiting for the afterlife.

On: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

[bawis]

That has been the war politics of the western in the last century or so, nothing new.