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by bambataa 2mo ago
I did cover it and had a toggle for it in the visualisations but decided to cut it out because the article was long enough already. There's maybe still a reference to the "vrio system" lurking in it. My understanding -- corre
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My two year old taught me constraint solving(thecomputersciencebook.com)
115 points by bambataa 2mo ago|37 comments
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PagedAttention is more than virtual memory(thecomputersciencebook.com)
4 points by bambataa 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bambataa 5mo ago
Extremely well-written and honest post. The struggle with being self-taught is that you don’t know what you don’t know. This is probably even worse in areas like Unity, where the coding part is sort of a sideshow to the main event. Nowadays
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by bambataa 5mo ago
I have a rough list of companies here https://tmjohnson.co.uk/posts/every-tech-it-company-sheffiel... but missed Amodo so need to add. Super interesting company and I like the ambition. Sheffield does have a growing nu
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by bambataa 2y ago
I’ve heard this a few times. Could you elaborate why? Surely at that point, less you are hired to a very senior role, you are going to get a very small equity % and a lot of the capitalisation growth has already been priced in? In exchange
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by bambataa 3y ago
Perrin the guy on YouTube? What’s wrong with him?
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by bambataa 3y ago
I kinda feel sorry for Gary Marcus. He’s carved this niche as an LLM critic and must have been delighted to have this bug to post about. I stopped reading his Substack because he was always trying to find a negative. Meanwhile I use LLMs mo
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by bambataa 3y ago
That’s interesting, thank you. Does it not leave inaccessible vast swathes of philosophy where, almost by definition, science cannot contribute answers? Such as the nature of numbers and other metaphysical things. I haven’t heard of the are
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by bambataa 3y ago
I’ve read the book under review and would recommend it. Philosophy has always appealed to me but disappointed because it never seems to settle on answers. There’s a bit in the book where Kleene (I think?) is advising young academic philosop
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by bambataa 3y ago
I have been doing the Math for ML course and would recommend. I have UK A level math but not Further Math, so up to basic calculus. But I forgot most of it and so Math Academy has me going through a lot of the Math Foundation units along th
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by bambataa 3y ago
Peak HN. Where do you find this shared view of what is considered the least valuable part of the curriculum?
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by bambataa 3y ago
Aren’t dress shoes without socks very sweaty and painful to wear?
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by bambataa 3y ago
“Defund the police” is a terrible slogan. “Oh what we mean by that is actually the opposite where we want to redistribute funding in different ways blah blah blah”. And all a critic has to do is “left wing radicals say they want to defund t
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by bambataa 3y ago
If you are concerned by the ethics of Amazon I don’t see how Argos is a step up: https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/news/argos-buzz-bingo-a... https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/business&
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by bambataa 3y ago
To account for people who die before reproducing.
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by bambataa 3y ago
That’s $5m/y. Nick Clegg makes not much more for being Facebook’s global punching bag. Not doubting your sources but why are they so generous?
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by bambataa 3y ago
I do French conversation practice with ChatGPT and just tell it to correct my messages. What does this offer over that?
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by bambataa 3y ago
Why are you amazed? There are many complex front ends out there.
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by bambataa 3y ago
Why should I pay to maintain a road I’m not using now, or a fire service I haven’t used yet?
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by bambataa 3y ago
When I studied Russian we were taught (by native speakers) that щ was pronounced “shch”. But then when we went to Russia literally everyone pronounced it like a longer and softer ш. I still don’t really understand what happened there.
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by bambataa 3y ago
To sort of add to this, I’ve found that meditation has had far more profound effects than psychedelics ever did. Maybe they help to kick start things or show how much of yourself you don’t know.
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by bambataa 3y ago
My favourite is that giving in and clicking the “open in app” banners on Reddit etc just take me to the App Store page for Reddit, even though I have the actual app installed already.
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by bambataa 3y ago
The best thing you can do as a British tech worker is not work for a British tech company.
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by bambataa 3y ago
Is this the same CEO who decided to double the engineering team in a single year? https://techcouver.com/2021/01/06/shopify-to-double-engineer... Aren’t CEOs paid ludicrously well to make long term decisions,
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by bambataa 3y ago
I’d go further and say that most mainstream print journalism is in a competence crisis. I simply no longer trust journalist in places like the Guardian to have sufficient background knowledge, networks or expertise to surface dramatic stori
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by bambataa 3y ago
> Besides, intelligence doesn't mean all your thoughts are automatically correct!) This is the true bitter lesson for HN.
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by bambataa 3y ago
Do you read anything by Dominic Cummings? He writes a lot (like, a lot) about this from the UK perspective.
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by bambataa 3y ago
> Why everyone isn't leaving Adobe, Meta, and Google to found their own AI / generative media startups astounds me. Mostly because I think the main value is captured by embedding these things into existing programs and workflow
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by bambataa 3y ago
> Requiring people to join your cult seems a bit much imho. Idk, GP has maybe been… over-expressive about their opportunity, but it’s still good advice that showing an interest is going to make you stand out more. Saying “do you need cod

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