Timpy

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by Timpy 7mo ago
I really like Crash Course World History. I'm older than the target demographic for this resource to be sure, but it's a great high level overview and having this under my belt helped me feel a little more oriented in every other
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by Timpy 8mo ago
I discovered Anki 12 years ago while living in Japan. I was trying my hardest and absolutely failing to remember any of the Japanese I was studying. Maybe I was due for a learning-style renaissance for myself and Anki was just the catalys
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by Timpy 9mo ago
A lot of training data was curated in Kenya[0]. I would imagine if LLM data was curated in Japan our LLMs would sound a lot like the authors of their most popular English text books. Maybe other common Japanese idioms would leak in to the
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by Timpy 10mo ago
Yes but I think it's a good virtue to signal considering the circumstances. If they paid the ransom that would signal that ransoming this company works, incentivizing more ransoms. If they refuse to pay the ransom it might signal tha
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by Timpy 1y ago
This is cool, very much the hacker ethos. But I didn't see any evidence that it can make a phone call though?
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by Timpy 1y ago
I think this guide is nice, and having a variety of articles like this is great so everybody can look at the different ideas and find what's right for them. I would urge people to consider going a little bit further than this guide, co
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by Timpy 1y ago
This is something I want to see in the world. Do you have a public repo? I'm currently doing third party application development for the Yoto, and I've done a lot of hacking on MP3s. If you're open source I'd be inter
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by Timpy 1y ago
I keep feeling like there's a huge disconnect between the owners/CTOs/managers with how useful they think LLMs _are supposed to be_, vs the people working on the product and how useful they think LLMs _actually are_. The art
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by Timpy 1y ago
This is totally orthogonal to the issue but I think the best fix possible is to block the YouTube home page. I have gained value from algorithm-curated feeds in the past but it's no longer a net positive in my life. I recommend checki
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by Timpy 1y ago
The models outlined in the white paper have a training step that uses reinforcement learning _without human feedback_. They're referring to this as "outcome-based RL". These models (DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI o1/o3, etc) rely
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by Timpy 1y ago
Just a friendly heads up, for the Japanese exercises the video starts just a bit too late and the word you're listening for is cut off. This might only be pertinent for languages where vocab words are appearing at the beginning of sen
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by Timpy 1y ago
"The concept of running shoes as we understand them today, specifically designed to improve running efficiency and comfort, did not emerge until the late 19th and early 20th centuries." It's a neat idea imagining what running
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by Timpy 2y ago
I love these easy-to-illustrate examples where a request seems simple, but adds a lot of trouble for the person implementing it. "It's just adding a new skin for their footwear, how hard could that be?"
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by Timpy 2y ago
Back in the Windows 7 days I installed Skype on my parents computer before moving abroad, their user experience was basically like receiving a phone call. Even though they weren't tech savvy we never had any issues. I would call them
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by Timpy 2y ago
You're right, it's possible and common to be recorded without somebody pointing a phone camera at you. That doesn't negate my point, right now the norm is that in many situations you _can_ record to your personal device with
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by Timpy 2y ago
Right now people have to point their phone cameras at at the thing they're photographing or recording, it's a very clear visual signal to others and there are cultural norms for this behavior. If a person is doing this in a commo
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by Timpy 2y ago
I wasn't even thinking about paywalls, the first thing I did was check to see if cookie banners and "Sign in with Google" popups went away. There's so many user-unfriendly things that you constantly deal with, any amoun
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by Timpy 2y ago
> Ask any artist to explain how color works, and they’ll launch into a treatise about how the Three Primary Colors—red, blue, and yellow—form a color wheel I don't think the author asked _any_ artists how color works before writing
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by Timpy 2y ago
I didn't read that to mean a literal two minutes. Based on his style of writing that was quoted in the article and the nature of his mistake I don't think he's reporting an in-depth postmortem on the situation, although I di
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by Timpy 3y ago
When I took my graduate level operating systems class we had to do a bunch of coursework in C. Beej's Guides are the reason I passed that class. Thank's Beej!
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by Timpy 3y ago
I think there's a fair argument to be made that computing is the most complex synthetic thing humans have ever conceived all on our own. If we're talking about making systems in the broadest sense, then any category of problems t
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by Timpy 3y ago
For me bash is a weird exception to the rule "code is easier to write than it is read". I'm never doing anything crazy in a shell a script but it's easy to just ask ChatGPT to whip it up for me and I will read it to veri
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by Timpy 3y ago
I agree that there's not much point in writing actual literal semantically correct code on a piece of paper, but I don't think that's at all the point of the article. The author talks about understanding the problem space, g
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by Timpy 3y ago
I noticed that too! This could be a fantastic learning tool, my music professor described how to crescendo into the tension and decrescendo into the release but being able to experiment with this tool could help you get an idea of what you
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by Timpy 3y ago
It sounds like that's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
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by Timpy 3y ago
I really wish I could just put a native neovim or vim text editor inside VSCode and call it a day. I absolutely love the lightning fast experience of editing with vim. When I know exactly what I want to do, I feel like I just ripped a lin
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by Timpy 3y ago
My career is in full stack web development but I program in C in my master's degree coursework and as a hobby. Every time I have to peel back a decade's worth of CSS to move a button on a webapp I daydream of moving to a career i
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by Timpy 3y ago
Unfortunately I know people who drink diet coke like it's water. If somebody ate bacon at that volume they wouldn't live long enough for cancer to get them.
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by Timpy 3y ago
I remember the first time I played Minecraft and I was in awe at how expansive the play world felt. Without thinking too much about it, I had the feeling that if I set off in any direction I would discover infinitely new things. After eno
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by Timpy 3y ago
To some extent I agree. I taught guitar while I was in undergrad for my music performance degree, and having a guitar in my lap and reviewing the absolute basics with kids was way better than making pizza or pouring beers to make a paychec

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