repsak's comments

On: Grok 4 Launch [video]

[repsak]

Agent that browses the web, analyzes information, and creates reports. Grok calls it DeepSearch. Similar to gemini/openai deep research.

https://x.ai/news/grok-3#grok-agents-combining-reasoning-and...

On: LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less

[repsak]

I raise you the Gemini paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11805

[guyomes → repsak]

All-in with the Foldit paper [1,2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09304

[jpgvm → repsak]

Goes to show how much money is being poured into this stuff.

On: Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)

[repsak]

Obviously self driving!

On: Tell HN: GCP Offers No Support

[repsak]

Not exactly support, but I've had some luck using their issue trackers

https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/issue-trackers

On: SpaCy v3.0 Nightly

[repsak]

Not sure what front page you are looking at. First thing it says on spacy.io is

Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing in Python

Followed by some decent descriptions and code examples.

On: From dial-up to 5G: logging on to the internet

[repsak]

Although the theoretical limit is higher I think 25 mbps ± a few is what you can expect in most of the world.

Here are some speed tests by country https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2018/02/state-of-lte

[milankragujevic → repsak]

Erm,

the average results are off for Serbia. Our regulatory body for electronic communications does mandatory speed and quality testing for 4G networks of all 3 cell providers, and the results:

http://benchmark.ratel.rs/public/lp2018/src/measurement-scop...

Show that the maximum speed is 90 Mb/s and minimum speed is ~40-50 Mb/s. This is a chart for big cities, however, here are real-life some results:

https://imgur.com/a/LUyJlME

[daurnimator → repsak]

I can easily get >100Mbps here in Melbourne, Australia.

That said, my plan has a limit of 2GB a month (which is rather low; most people have around 7-10GB), so I can use a month of usage in less than three minutes.

On: Use of drugs by people seeking to boost mental performance is rising worldwide

[repsak]

Without reading the paper this seems somewhat similar to my experience with modafinil. When fatigued or sleep deprived it can bring me back baseline but not much more.

On: Use of drugs by people seeking to boost mental performance is rising worldwide

[repsak]

Caffeine + l-theanine is the way to go if you feel "inpatient and restless" on coffee alone!

You could start with an even split then adjust the ratio depending on how you feel.

[xor1 → repsak]

I've never tried l-theanine at all, so I'll try this. Thanks!

On: A system to help you remember more of what you read

[repsak]

I don't own a kindle but it looks like it's possible to download your highlights.

You could then bulk import them, possibly after some minor formatting manually or with a script

https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#importing-text-fil...

You would still have to go trough them and add cloze delitions.

If it's possible to add notes to your highlights you might be able to specify delitions there and then parse them.

I might actually do this myself for fun :)

[danial → repsak]

That's right. Adding to Anki is more straightforward than downloading from Kindle.

There are two ways to download my Kindle highlights. Either I can scrape it from read.amazon.com, or I can mount the device as a usb disk and parse the notes file from there. Neither is ideal for set-and-forget automation.

Keep me posted on your progress if you decide to tackle this problem.

On: A system to help you remember more of what you read

[repsak]

I've heard some good things about https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

To get a quick overview try table 4 p. 45 here

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1529100612453266

I try to follow

* Distributed learning/practice

* Practice testning

* Interleaved practice