MattHeard

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by MattHeard 9mo ago
it can tell you if your spec is bad, but it can't tell you if your spec is good
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by MattHeard 2y ago
One thing I haven't seen addressed in the post or comments (sorry if it's there and I just missed it) is for apps and websites that sell non-digital goods to customers. For returning customers, a customer with an app installed is
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by MattHeard 2y ago
> It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. Karpathy clearly wrote something different that what you say he wrote.
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by MattHeard 2y ago
I use Github Copilot with PlantUML. I use PlantUML comments to describe what I want the diagram components to show and then the syntax is written for me. I can then edit it pretty easily and iteratively.
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by MattHeard 2y ago
It appeared for me about thirty minutes after I first checked.
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by MattHeard 2y ago
Hello, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. I'm currently writing a blog post where the thesis is that the root disagreement between "AI doomers" and others is actually primarily a disagreement about materialism
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by MattHeard 2y ago
I got as far as here: > If you need to introduce a new pattern, consider refactoring the entire codebase to use this new pattern, rather than creating one-off inconsistencies. Putting aside the mis-application of "pattern" (whi
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by MattHeard 2y ago
the pythagorean theorem is not named after its discoverer, unfortunately, as historians of mathematics have dated its earliest known usage to well before pythagoras
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by MattHeard 2y ago
If the quality is too low, it's not viable. This was always true.
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by MattHeard 2y ago
i was going to ask if turtlebot was too small for you, but thought i should check the price first so uh, yeah, i'm guessing you're thinking the 250 price point instead of the turtlebot's 1000+
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by MattHeard 2y ago
My working assumption has always been to check the docs of your specific regexp parser, and to write some tests (either automated or manually in a REPL) with specific patterns that you are interested in using.
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by MattHeard 3y ago
"I would like website operators to assume that I consent to being tracked, so I'm annoyed that website operators are not allowed to assume that everybody consents to being tracked."
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by MattHeard 3y ago
surprisingly common to find oneself caring strongly about bullshit
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by MattHeard 3y ago
I have/had this cat water fountain too (my cats are now happy with a normal bowl) and I believe I just threw the wall wart into a box with the rest of my unused USB A wall warts. A little bit like electrical Russian roulette now, I gue
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by MattHeard 3y ago
Barely related, but I remember the joy as a kid of putting a computer game CD-ROM in my Walkman CD player just to see what happens and discovering that I could listen to the game's soundtrack just like a normal soundtrack CD. Can'
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by MattHeard 3y ago
I was hopeful for a private-industry approach to AI safety, but it looks unlikely now, and due to the slow pace of state investment in public AI R&D, all approaches to AI safety look unlikely now. Safety research on toy models will cont
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by MattHeard 3y ago
I've heard the opposite about Brockman. What makes you so confident about this tech abilities?
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by MattHeard 3y ago
Maybe this news should challenge your priors, then?
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by MattHeard 3y ago
A lot of courts use rulings from other countries where the cases are similar. Any interpretation by the Berlin regional court that GDPR implies that DNT should be treated as a GDPR opt-out should be easily adopted by courts in other countri
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by MattHeard 3y ago
The licence is not for the user, the licence is for the publisher to do the bare minimum needed to tell their bosses that the model weights or implementation code was published ethically. As others have pointed out, these licences appear un
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by MattHeard 3y ago
"If you're physically capable of coming in 5 times over the course of two months you must therefore also be physically capable of coming in 26 times over the course of two months." (Sarcasm, of course.)
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by MattHeard 3y ago
I prefer to stop at 80%.
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by MattHeard 3y ago
some consumers will pay the premium of ownership over the licence and some won't. if either market has demand fall below a particular threshold, the market will collapse. this isn't a moral issue, this is simply an effect of a new
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by MattHeard 3y ago
When I see this criticism of mocks, it appears to me that the critic is primarily used to seeing tests that are either mocking the thing-under-test or don't understand the boundaries of the thing-under-test.
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by MattHeard 3y ago
I used to be an active user of all the old Google Labs tools but now my personal Workspace account locks me out of everything, so meh.
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by MattHeard 3y ago
Germany's electricity generation from coal has over the long run substantially decreased. The low of 2020 appears to correlate with the COVID-19 pandemic and the increase since then appears to be more of a reversion to the original tre
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by MattHeard 8y ago
Are server-side changes needed?
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by MattHeard 8y ago
GDPR fines are intended to generally be proportional to the company's revenue.
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by MattHeard 8y ago
This is exactly the kind of advice I give to people who ask me about teaching themselves to "code". 1. Find a thing you want to make. 2. Find out how to make it. 3. Try to make it. 4. Learn the skills that previously prevented you
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by MattHeard 8y ago
Both events are extreme yet possible.

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