ajdecon

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Heritability Puzzlers(dynomight.net)
3 points by ajdecon 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 6mo ago
> The idea of the dashboard is the following: I run the Codex through a web chat to identify the relevant quotes — relevant for my dissertation topic — and how they are relevant, it combines them into a number of claims connected with ea
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by ajdecon 6mo ago
FWIW, folks on lobste.rs are (mostly) friendly and willing to extend invites if you seem like a real person. My understanding is that the invite system is primarily in use to avoid drive-by spammers and the like. Feel free to send me an ema
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New Lawsuit Against Bing Based on Allegedly AI-Hallucinated Libelous Statements(reason.com)
24 points by ajdecon 3y ago|1 comments
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by ajdecon 3y ago
How about Microsoft Tay? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot) While the underlying model is certainly different, and my understanding is that current LLMs don’t learn “live”, the principle seems worth keeping
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by ajdecon 4y ago
It’s worth noting that one of the paper’s authors is Todd Gamblin, the Spack project lead.
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by ajdecon 4y ago
“The Elements of Computing Systems”, by Nisan and Schocken, starts at logic gates and works up to a functional computer that can play Tetris. So not quite Ohm’s Law, but close. https://www.nand2tetris.org/book
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Debian's Which Hunt(lwn.net)
366 points by ajdecon 5y ago|244 comments
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by ajdecon 5y ago
I’ve seen most of these recommendations before, but the “mic-drowning case” to muffle room audio is new to me. Certainly makes sense, but are there any common commercial phone cases that advertise this feature?
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by ajdecon 6y ago
I was already remote, but I’m moving from Seattle to Denver. Combination of family and a more favorable climate. The somewhat lower cost of living doesn’t hurt, but it’s not like Denver is cheap .
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You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA(techdirt.com)
5 points by ajdecon 6y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 6y ago
Many large companies have structured mentorship programs, but this is mostly for onboarding. Your mentor will help you learn about the company itself, e.g. all the different internal practices, tooling, teams, etc. (This is nothing to sneez
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DoorDash forced workers to arbitrate, now faces millions in fees(latimes.com)
4 points by ajdecon 7y ago|1 comments
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by ajdecon 7y ago
One of my favorite recurring team conversations is the one where everyone shares stories of the outages they've caused or the systems they've broken. This conversation has happened eventually on every SRE (sysadmin/PE/de
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by ajdecon 8y ago
There are rack designs out there built on this idea, but they are usually pretty specialized. For example, the Cray XC series has racks with built in power, network, and out of band monitoring. A downside of this kind of thing is that it ma
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by ajdecon 8y ago
It doesn’t support OpenVPN, but I’ll leave a plug for the Outline VPN from Jigsaw (Alphabet). [0] It’s similar in concept to Algo, in that you deploy your own VPN server on a VPS rather than use a hosted service. However, it provides a poli
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by ajdecon 8y ago
> What's the takeaway? "Unfortunately this tool doesn't exist for blb++, but we should still improve our coding style for this application. Is there another way to improve our correctness testing? If we allocate some time
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by ajdecon 8y ago
I’ve worked in a few different settings on large-scale scientific computing. For those applications: - Not cost-efficient at large scale. When you expect and plan to run thousands of nodes at near 100% CPU and memory usage for years at a ti
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by ajdecon 9y ago
Among other reasons: there are still a fair number of non-Ethernet devices with IP addresses out there...
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by ajdecon 9y ago
For networking in particular, Andrew Tanenbaum's book "Computer Networking" [0] is quite good, and covers everything from the physical layer on up. The most recent edition is from 2010, but much of this doesn't change qu
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Should I use Chapel or Julia for my next project?(dursi.ca)
5 points by ajdecon 9y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 9y ago
Honestly, I think the most effective thing to do is find an organization doing social good, who is hiring programmers, and go work for them. There are plenty of non-profits and governments that do a ton of good, and employ developers to wor
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by ajdecon 9y ago
For sysadmin/devops stuff, I'm a fan of: - DevOps Weekly: http://www.devopsweekly.com/ - SRE Weekly: https://sreweekly.com/ - cron.weekly: https://www.cronweekly.com/ - Monitoring
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by ajdecon 10y ago
> Read all incoming emails within 4 hours max and respond after reading if possible. Oh God. I hope this is "within business hours"? Because I sleep for more than 4 hours at a stretch, thanks. (Also: occasionally a comprehensiv
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by ajdecon 10y ago
PCP is also Performance Co-Pilot, a relatively widely-used systems performance tool. :)
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On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)(kitchensoap.com)
1 points by ajdecon 10y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 10y ago
gcc also supports OpenMP 4.x and OpenACC, both of which are used extensively in the HPC world to support automated parallelization and offloading to accelerators like GPUs. clang only recently added support for OpenMP 3.1, and my understand
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Notes on Startup Engineering Management for Young Bloods(elidedbranches.com)
2 points by ajdecon 10y ago|0 comments
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Systems in production(medium.com)
8 points by ajdecon 11y ago|0 comments
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Primum Non Nocere – Ethical Obligations in Internet Operations(netmeister.org)
1 points by ajdecon 11y ago|0 comments

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