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by 0xfaded 18d ago
I still call them stochastic parrots, but believe what they are revealing is that we are all stochastic parrots to some extent. I simply don't see how biological computation (i.e. thinking) can be anything else. Similar to the reveal i
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by 0xfaded 20d ago
It exists as a concept, but there's no image of it. Funnily, I'm quite strong at maths and can easily reason about things like dependency graphs in my head, but I don't need to close my eyes to see it. So I can think and type
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by 0xfaded 1mo ago
Claude does clearly stupid things, even under auto mode, that no human would reasonably do. I had a sustained 500mb/s ingress to my machine that turned out to be a background "find /" command on a multi-petabyte NFS syst
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by 0xfaded 2mo ago
Tesla just released an infuriating update which adds an incomprehensible number of UI nags to start self driving, despite there being a hardware lever that already does so. There's even a big button that says "Start Self Driving&q
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by 0xfaded 4mo ago
In Australia (at least 15 years ago) you sit your exams and get a score. The universities then set a minimum score for each program based on expected enrollment and capacity. If your score is above the program score, you're in automati
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by 0xfaded 5mo ago
I have no problem with people driving cars. I just don't want to subsidize them. Get rid of street parking, add congestion pricing. Set road taxes such that they actually cover the costs of the roads. The reason it would be unreasonabl
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by 0xfaded 5mo ago
I work in self driving and strongly agree with this. I may have had some of the coolaid, but I genuinely believe that self driving cars are the only thing that can pry Americans from their cars. Once ownership falls, people will stop voting
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by 0xfaded 5mo ago
Yes, but something like 90% of the workforce is unionized, and 5 weeks vacation per year is by law, with a "sixth week" being a common perk.
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by 0xfaded 5mo ago
I work in the US and every year I take 17 days off over the July period which works out (with another company holiday) to be 4 continuous weeks. The first year I did it I told my manager "I'm going to take three weeks off, but wha
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by 0xfaded 5mo ago
Sorry, but I giggled at this. A well designed urban environment would have no cars.
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by 0xfaded 5mo ago
Conversely, if this is indeed true motivation and management has accepted it, kudos to them. It sounds like the engineers said that the situation is untenable and this is the cover we need to fix it, and they got what they asked for.
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by 0xfaded 5mo ago
I think LLMs are really bad at writing tests. In the good old days you invested in your test code to be structured and understandable. Now we all just say "test this thing you just generated". I shipped a really embarrassing off-b
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by 0xfaded 5mo ago
> AI statement: I didn't use AI to write this article (details). Meta, but thank you for including this and suggest even putting it at the top of your articles. I'm now off to bother to read something that someone bothered to w
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by 0xfaded 5mo ago
I work on the mapping team at Zoox (self driving) and we have c++ roles at the entry and mid levels. Requires onsite in the Bay Area though. Charles, if you're reading and would like to chat, I (Carl Chatfield) have sent you a linkedin
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by 0xfaded 6mo ago
The MacOS window manager is so bad that I've resorted to three monitors plus the built in screen. Two monitors have fullscreen terminal emulators and the last has the browser. The built-in screen handles all the distracting stuff whene
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by 0xfaded 6mo ago
I learned sed back in the day to show off. I wish I'd invested that effort in learning perl oneliners instead. For whatever reason I picked up enough awk along the way, and now that's what I tend to use if I ever need something be
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by 0xfaded 7mo ago
S2 has this property https://s2geometry.io
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by 0xfaded 7mo ago
I have HW3, but FSD reliably disengages at this time of year with sunrise and sunset during commute hours.
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by 0xfaded 8mo ago
Zoox | Full Stack Software Engineer | Bay Area | Hybrid (3 days) https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/d4a324c6-8186-435f-a102-1ac7a69ab... I'm an engineer on the HD Mapping Team at Zoox (autonomous vehicles) and we are look
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by 0xfaded 8mo ago
Disclaimer I work for Zoox, but here is us crash testing https://youtu.be/597C9OwV0o4
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by 0xfaded 8mo ago
I'll jump. I've been meaning to set up a bi-weekly dinner for hacker types who live mid peninsula, specifically near San Mateo. I have a group of 4 or so in mind and have a good place to host, but would like a slightly larger grou
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by 0xfaded 9mo ago
The world of homogeneous coordinates ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_coordinates ) is magical and extends beyond just points and lines to conics. The Multiview Geometry Book begins with a great deep dive on t
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by 0xfaded 9mo ago
Yes, people have done this
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by 0xfaded 9mo ago
Haha nice, hanging in there by a thread
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by 0xfaded 9mo ago
Thanks for pushing this, I've never gone beyond "zero" shotting the prompt (is it still called zero shot with search?) As a curiosity, it looks like r and q are only ever used as r/q, and therefore a sqrt could be saved
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by 0xfaded 9mo ago
Hahaha thanks, I never noticed that. If I ever print it out and frame it I'll be sure to fix it
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by 0xfaded 9mo ago
It's been a long time, but here is the writeup https://blog.chatfield.io/simple-method-for-distance-to-elli...
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by 0xfaded 9mo ago
I once published a method for finding the closest distance between an ellipse and a point on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22959698/distance-from-g... I consider it the most beautiful piece of code I&#x2
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by 0xfaded 9mo ago
This is how rooftop solar water heaters circulate water as well. Though these days you'd be better off with PEV plus a small electric heater.
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by 0xfaded 9mo ago
Try running ipython inside a vim terminal (:below term). Being able to yank and paste between buffers and the terminal (which is itself backed by a vim buffer), and vice versa, is a big multiplier

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