Hackernews posts about Gwern

  1. Why to Not Write a Book (gwern.net)
    247 points by telotortium 4 days ago | 207 comments
  2. Truesight (gwern.net)
    3 points by kvee 29 days ago | discuss
  3. Deliberate practice is NOT all it takes to become an expert [pdf] (gwern.net)
    2 points by JustinSkycak 20 days ago | discuss
  4. The Scaling Hypothesis (2020) (gwern.net)
    1 points by tamarisk_row 20 days ago | discuss
  5. Origami-inspired robot folds into more than 1000 shapes (pubs.aip.org)
    3 points by gwerbret 26 days ago | discuss
  6. Steve Jobs agenda for a secret meeting (2010) (www.alexanderjarvis.com)
    2 points by gwerbret 19 days ago | 1 comments
  7. Werner's Nomenclature of Colours – A recreation of the original (www.c82.net)
    2 points by simonsarris 16 days ago | discuss
  8. The Git Parable (2009) (tom.preston-werner.com)
    3 points by leonry 23 days ago | discuss
  9. Microsoft and Quantinuum create 12 logical qubits (azure.microsoft.com)
    6 points by swernli 10 days ago | discuss
  10. DEF Con Quantum CTF 2024: Walkthrough (charonv.net)
    3 points by swernli 17 days ago | discuss
  11. Gwern comments on Ilya Sutskever depature from OpenAI, among other topics (old.reddit.com)
    34 points by jseliger 3 months ago | 5 comments
  12. Gwern – How Sydney can be so different from ChatGPT (www.lesswrong.com)
    14 points by walterbell over 1 year ago | 3 comments
  13. Gwern's comment under “US restricts GPU sales to China” (www.lesswrong.com)
    4 points by mihau almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
  14. Gwern on the quality of new epidemiology/nutrition findings in academia (old.reddit.com)
    3 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 months ago | discuss
  15. Gwern on the China (and Therefore Taiwan) (www.lesswrong.com)
    2 points by signa11 almost 2 years ago | 2 comments
  16. Gwern.net – Design of This Website (gwern.net)
    1 points by Ivoah 11 months ago | discuss
  17. Gwern Is a Racist (imgur.com)
    1 points by gwern_is_racist 12 months ago | discuss
  18. Gwern's `resorter`, repackaged – stack rank any list of things from the CLI (github.com)
    1 points by siilikuin about 1 year ago | discuss
  19. Ask HN: How do you feel about the term “Prompt Engineering?”
    4 points by 58x14 over 1 year ago | 4 comments
  20. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf] (gwern.net)
    425 points by hardmaru 3 months ago | 391 comments
  21. Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym (gwern.net)
    248 points by telotortium 10 months ago | 112 comments
  22. Internet search tips (gwern.net)
    226 points by herbertl about 1 year ago | 83 comments
  23. Feynman’s Maze-Running Story (gwern.net)
    210 points by telotortium over 1 year ago | 46 comments
  24. How many computers are in your computer? (2021) (www.gwern.net)
    162 points by peter_d_sherman almost 2 years ago | 44 comments
  25. A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy [pdf] (2005) (gwern.net)
    148 points by mooreds over 1 year ago | 54 comments
  26. Nicotine (2016) (gwern.net)
    142 points by blitz_skull 10 months ago | 260 comments
  27. Sidenotes in Web Design (gwern.net)
    120 points by 12_throw_away 12 months ago | 26 comments
  28. Open Questions (gwern.net)
    114 points by ianyanusko over 1 year ago | 59 comments
  29. Surprisingly Turing-Complete (2021) (www.gwern.net)
    108 points by GarethX almost 2 years ago | 49 comments
  30. The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend (gwern.net)
    105 points by belter about 1 year ago | 48 comments
  31. It Looks Like You’re Trying to Take over the World (gwern.net)
    94 points by ruuda over 1 year ago | 27 comments
  32. Epigrams in Programming (1982) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    92 points by ustad 9 months ago | 41 comments
  33. Predicting Google Closures (2013) (www.gwern.net)
    85 points by wskinner almost 2 years ago | 32 comments
  34. GPT-3 Creative Fiction (2020) (gwern.net)
    83 points by ijidak over 1 year ago | 44 comments
  35. My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (2019) (gwern.net)
    82 points by csdvrx 9 months ago | 61 comments
  36. Technology holy wars are coordination problems (2020) (gwern.net)
    81 points by yamrzou 11 months ago | 71 comments
  37. On Having Enough Socks (2019) (gwern.net)
    67 points by hacb over 1 year ago | 175 comments
  38. A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity (1995) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    63 points by ftxbro over 1 year ago | 3 comments
  39. Fermi Calculation Examples (www.gwern.net)
    60 points by sieste almost 2 years ago | 11 comments
  40. The invention of selective breeding was unbelievably late (2019) (gwern.net)
    51 points by barry-cotter over 1 year ago | 24 comments