EvanWard97

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by EvanWard97 2y ago
Good points. Somehow typing latency might actually be better, lol. V8 might just invent like 3 more execution engines though, 1 of which uses an external TPU (open source though!) to run code JITed to HVM (Higher Order Virtual Machine) that
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by EvanWard97 2y ago
20x more compute isn't much in terms of cryptographic security concerns, no? Ah but triple-DES was recently depreciated. Definitely sounds right that we'd get an earlier, heavier emphasis on parallelism and hardware acceleration.
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by EvanWard97 2y ago
Sounds right to me. Without being able to rely on flashy visuals and low-latency so much, games would've had to be somewhat more strategic and intellectual to sell (although I imagine graphics would eventually catch up due to its fitne
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How might software development have unfolded if CPU speeds were 20x slower?
118 points by EvanWard97 2y ago|154 comments
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
Regardless of where anyone thinks the maximas are in software trade-off space, developers are going to experiment shipping software at new points anyway, as markets at known points become saturated and exploration again becomes worthwhile
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Letter from Utopia – Nick Bostrom(nickbostrom.com)
2 points by EvanWard97 6y ago|0 comments
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
I didn't realize this was Nature, my bad. And of course I am the one who decides for myself if anything is worth thinking about more. I was simply trying to elicit the sort of information which would be relevant to this decision such
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
I am not really interested in having people switch who don't want to and are perfectly happy with their language. I am proposing the r&d of a way to coordinate people switching who would like to switch languages, but only under cer
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
Many programming languages would fit a project\team better if they had more community support. It's often worth putting up with worse-designed languages due to the existing libraries and documentation. Also, the whole 'subjective
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Ask HN: Should we coordinate to switch to more productive languages?
1 points by EvanWard97 6y ago|8 comments
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
Congrats! There's been a lot of solid object level advice here...I'll just repeat some basic & meta advice in case anything resonates: - you can't lose it if you don't spend it (aside from the real small negative yie
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Ask HN: How do you do probabilistic cost-benefit analysis?
1 points by EvanWard97 6y ago|0 comments
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
`But those animals that do live at depth will clearly need some special adaptations, says Dr Jamieson. "They'd have to do something clever inside their cells. If you imagine a cell is like a balloon - it's going to want to co
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
- Far UVC lights (200 to ~222nm) such as Ushio's Care222 tech. This light destroys pathogens quickly while not seeming to damage human skin or eyes. - FPGAs. I'm no computer engineer, but it seems like this tech is going to soon
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
I haven't looked into it much, but it looks at least better than base 10.
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
I think so. As of 2019, 4 of the 7 SI base units were redefined by setting exact numerical values for several of the units ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba... ), so scientists must be confi
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
Took a break and have been thinking and researching idealized/better/pure ways of doing things. E.g. exploring alternative: - number systems. Base 12 would be nice. - systems of measurement. Adjusting the SI base unit to be even
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
Non-exhaustively, I would look into fasting and fasting-mimicking diets ( https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-growing-science-... ).
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by EvanWard97 6y ago
80,000 Hours.
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by EvanWard97 7y ago
If just a 2 terabyte cloud service faster than Dropbox would be enough, pCloud is nice.
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Show HN: Quickly generate and use the probability distribution you have in mind(probability.dev)
3 points by EvanWard97 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Random Variable Generator(probability.dev)
4 points by EvanWard97 7y ago|0 comments
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by EvanWard97 7y ago
Who says paying below our minimum wage is exploitative? Au Pairs' income is almost entirely discretionary. Who else from say, South Africa, can stably earn $800+/month of purely discretionary income by watching a couple kids for 3
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by EvanWard97 7y ago
Expected value != expected utility. Just taking this seriously pretty much resolves all these problems. It makes sense to take high cost/reward, low probability events seriously if the expected utility works out. Examples include red
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by EvanWard97 7y ago
Thanks for doing this!
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Tool that allows you to draw and then download a dataset(drawdata.xyz)
2 points by EvanWard97 7y ago|0 comments
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Syllabus for Long Term Thinking(twitter.com)
2 points by EvanWard97 7y ago|0 comments
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Acts Need Not Be Universalizable(medium.com)
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by EvanWard97 7y ago
I updated the code to highlight the principle a bit better.
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by EvanWard97 7y ago
I did not assume they chose A or B from a specific distribution, especially one centered around zero. It's just how I decided to finish coding it. You'll get >50% as long as C can fall between A and B. I guess I should have sel

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