mavidser

Joined 12 years ago

Karma
268
Submissions
95
Member since
Jun 13
https://sidverma.io

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mavidser; my proof: https://keybase.io/mavidser/sigs/SCabG8KongZrwy60lW18Rw0d0JLJst6kYDlBZFmutfo ]

contact - me [at] [my domain name above]

View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 1 year ago
Hi, OP here - your country is amazing and I'd love to visit beyond the major cities.

This was mostly a ski trip and my first time here, so I barely got a chance to get out of town - but I do intend to come back next winter and go visit some friends in the western region :)

Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, I do agree with that. Tho in my defence, I put thatbin to balance out the self-pityness of the rest of it :)
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Haha that's fair. Though I wouldn't say I need to, but I like to. These are the few times I get to work with my hands, and having some accountability of an exchange helps with consistency and discipline. But YMMV of course.
Comment · 2 years ago
Tbf that was exactly my point. An adult might use 'inference' and 'reasoning' to ask clarification, or go with an internal logic of their choosing.

ChatGPT here went with a lexigraphical order in Python for some reason, and then proceeded to make false statements from false observations, while also defying its own internal logic.

    "six" > "ten" is true because "six" comes after "ten" alphabetically.
No.

    "ten" > "seven" is false because "ten" comes before "seven" alphabetically.
No.

From what I understand of LLMs (which - I admit - is not very much), logical reasoning isn't a property of LLMs, unlike information retrieval. I'm sure this problem can be solved at some point, but a good solution would need development of many more kinds of inference and logic engines than there are today.

Comment · 2 years ago
https://chatgpt.com/share/672331d2-676c-8002-b8b3-10fc4c8d88...

In my experience, if you confuse an LLM by deviating from the the "expected", then all the shims of logic seem to disappear, and it goes into hallucination mode.

Comment · 2 years ago
http://weather.sidverma.io/

https://github.com/weather-viz/data-generator/

It started with me trying to get weather stats for my city, to give proof to the nagging thought 'Has it really gotten this hotter in the last X years?'

Now its aiming to be a project where one can visualize historical weather data for any place with a lot of stats and trendlines

Still in active development - right now the visualization only has my town in it.

Comment · 2 years ago
> if running NPM to install dependencies on pod startup is slow

Loading the AWS SDK via `require` was slow, not installing. As sibling comment says - collapsing different SDKs into one helped reduce loading times of the many SDKs.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton