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by acscott 4mo ago
Maybe we will all be CEOs or Board chairs of our own corporations employing agents. And we work to find the best agents to increase efficiencies, improve effectiveness, etc.
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by acscott 11mo ago
Exactly. The parameters you can configure are there due to a lack of automating those since what you want to optimize for might be different than an automaton would.
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by acscott 11mo ago
A little context may be of help. Maybe a better headline for the article would have been, "How Can You Determine if your PostgreSQL Instance's Workload is Read-Heavy or Write-Heavy?" It's useful to know to help optimize
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by acscott 1y ago
Chess Master at Any Age talks about this on page 55: https://archive.org/details/Chess_Master_at_Any_Age/page/n65...
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by acscott 1y ago
I took an IQ exam in grade school. Went fine until I encountered a number sequence, what is the next number kind of thing. I found a pattern, and it's predicted number was not listed as possible choices. That was total crap. I got vexe
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by acscott 2y ago
e^(iπ) +1 = 0 e, i, π, 1, 0 Beauty
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by acscott 2y ago
The equation to rank links is a poor substitute for an editor. Editors used to be the gateway of information that was disbursed via newspaper, radio, and TV. They were not without fault. So what is the least faulty filter? (Even your own br
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by acscott 3y ago
Agreed; after > 20 years of coding successfully, got hit by a storm of subjective feedback; it totally ruined any joy in development
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by acscott 3y ago
If a developer making $1/hour produces $10 output (of something people buy), then if you add another developer making $1/hour produces $10 of output, you have $20 total product. Developer A and B can compete on their rate down to
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by acscott 3y ago
Title does not approximate well the article. Ad probandum: "Computing is not yet overcome. GPT-4 is impressive, but a layperson can’t wield it the way a programmer can. I still feel secure in my profession."
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by acscott 3y ago
A little bird told me that it was easier to break up big projects into classes and farm them out than in other languages at the time. The `protected` keyword for example prevented the other developer(s) from modifying that part of the objec
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by acscott 3y ago
When writing to a log file, isn't that sequential write?
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by acscott 4y ago
Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind has transformed biology by predicting the structure of nearly all proteins known to science in just 18 months, a breakthrough that will speed drug development and revolutionise basic science
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Protein Folding Breakthough(newscientist.com)
2 points by acscott 4y ago|1 comments
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by acscott 5y ago
Sorry for the vagueness and your burnout. I'd look for a professional that specializes in burnout, barring that, a good physician would be the first place to start. There could be underlying health conditions you want to eliminate suc
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by acscott 5y ago
High performance requires high maintenance. If you are burnt out or have symptoms or even suspect, I strongly urge to get a team together to help. It's something you have to actively watch out for (at least for some people) and activ
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by acscott 5y ago
I do not know your situation, but my observation is high-performance requires high-maintenance. Also, see this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32056943/ Anything else I might suggest might sound like an advert
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by acscott 6y ago
Do you mean AP is the choice of losing consistency given a partition?
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by acscott 6y ago
"Taken together we therefore have determinism with the occasional, random quantum jump, and no combination of these two types of laws allows for anything resembling this intuitive idea that we can somehow choose which possible future b
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by acscott 7y ago
Sampling the set of Mensa members is not the same as sampling "superior IQs". digression: My personal preference is to call IQ a testing quotient and not intelligence quotient--it's more specific and less qualitative, for &qu
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by acscott 8y ago
Saw this last night: http://www.anotesark.com/ Had never heard of Kiribati (pronounced roughly Kiribahs). That country could be the canary in the coal mine for the rest of us. Glad there are people such as Gates who are n
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by acscott 8y ago
Outstanding work. Will the VIM plugin come out soon? But this really improves productivity already. I have setup several hot keys to shortcuts to MS Paint IDE that save me from having to use the mouse and keep my hands on the keyboard. G
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by acscott 9y ago
There's a legend, Gauss came up with that while an elementary student: http://www.nctm.org/Publications/Teaching-Children-Mathemati...
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by acscott 9y ago
In general, if one has a serious decision to make, it's probably wise to seek out expert counsel (not that you should blindly follow that counsel either). Same goes with your health. [Avoiding getting into some kind of discussion abou
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by acscott 9y ago
That might move the needle forward a bit. But if the lawsuit for the fine can be tied up in court, delaying penalty long enough for the executive bonuses to hit, it would not be very effective, I think.
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by acscott 9y ago
Risk v. reward I'm afraid. The Sarbanes-Oxley legislation attempted to put skin in the game for the C execs in public companies; so, I cannot help but notice how many public companies delisted, went private after that. The whole of t
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by acscott 9y ago
If everything is always changing, then the perfect happens only one moment in time and the next moment the perfect is gone. Secondly, you can only influence things to perfection and when they hit perfect, you got lucky. You cannot make it
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by acscott 9y ago
It is a good question. Locking in gains means selling. But you do not know the right time to do that unless you know something no one else does. Sell if you want less volatile returns to get a monthly income during retirement for example.
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by acscott 9y ago
No. :) You are asking about timing the market. No one can do it, it is said. (I think it can be done, but it would be through illegal means, i.e. insider trading, which I believe happens all of the time since it's too easy to do and t
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by acscott 9y ago
"While originality increases buzz, it might lead to negative..." word-of-mouth if "...the usefulness of the product is perceived to be low."

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