brianstrimp

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by brianstrimp 2y ago
> I imagine that there are various triggers of early mathematical derailment I have come to believe that the main trigger by far is the attitude of society. Of parents, family, friends, tv stars, heck even many (non math) teachers. &quot
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
Not for scalar, but certainly for vector multiplication which a large part of the audience certainly needs a lot.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
They are at a place in their career where it still feels relevant to mention that title.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
And how much can you trust those replies?
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
Yeah, the submission heading should indicate that there is a high risk for a sales pitch in there.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
Have you noticed any difference in picking up the language(s) yourself? As in, do you think you'd be more fluent in it by now without all the help? Or perhaps less? Genuine question.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
"as a staff engineer" Such an unnecessary flex.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
Extra bonus for just putting it out there with a Github link. Instead of landing page, login, "just $4/month or $20/year" with a "Show HN" and everybody patting them on the back for a "successful launch&qu
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
Sure, a computer nerd dad could have somehow surveilled me dialling into some BBS with my 28.8 kbps modem, but the number of people in the world that actually did this to their kids can probably be counted on one hand, and they were all psy
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
> So, for example, I could view what they googled and when, if I wanted to anyway. How old are your kids and do they know you are doing this? There surely is a difference between a 5- and a 15-year old. But if they are not at all aware t
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
Good interviews are a conversation, a dialog to uncover how the person thinks, how they listen, how they approach problems and discuss. Also a bit detail knowledge, but that's only a minor component in the end. Any interview where AI i
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
What does deepseek have to do with a comparison between o1-mini and o3-mini?
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
And the consequence is that people get banged on the head if they either use sth existing (cause they will be using it wrong) or they build sth on their own (because that's obviously bad) or they get fed up and don't use anything.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
That's the unix philosophy of using one tool for one thing, that does it well. The advantage is that it really opens a marketplace which means you are not tied to one solution if that solution turns out to suck. An alternative will qui
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
I'm a little puzzled by your response. 1. The message was net-upvoted. Whether there are downvotes in there I can't tell, but the final karma is positive. A similarly spirited message of mine in the same thread was quite well rece
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
A 12% margin is literally the opposite of a coin flip. Unless you have a really bad coin.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
That makes the result stronger though. Even though many people click randomly, there is still a 12% margin between both groups. Not the world, but still quite a lot.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
The article was for normal folks, not for techies for whom this obviously was a joke. My mom would totally believe that the traffic goes via Carribea.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
Right, why would anybody ever legitimately want to access that portal from outside switzerland? /s Geofencing is a typical techie "solution" that solves nothing and only brings headache to people.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
> There is not much time left: taxpayers will be able to complete their tax return for 2024 online as early as next week - probably with a slight detour via the Caribbean. A "detour"? It's just a lookup in a database to re
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
I work in a field with lots of cheap microchips. I can tell you that the amount of counterfeit copies flooding in from China as well as the speed in which they are copying is truly breathtaking.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
> We passed peak original content years ago. In relative terms, that's obviously and most definitely true. In absolute terms, that's obviously and most definitely false.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
Point is that not all lines are equal. The 30% that the tool didn't make are the hard stuff. Not just in line count. Once an approach or an architecture or a design are clear then implementing is merely manual labor. Progress is not li
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
> It's definitely possible for AI to do a large fraction of your coding, and for it to contribute significantly to "improving itself". As an example, aider currently writes about 70% of the new code in each of its releases
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
The exact same discussions were going on with "western" models. Don't remember the images of black nazis making the rounds because inclusion? Same thing. This HN tread is the first time I'm hearing about this anti-DeepSe
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
Don't worry, the way things are going, you'll have that in the US as well soon. Ironically supported by the folks who argue that having an assault rifle at home is an important right to prevent the government from misusing its pow
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
Only meaningful if code+data deterministically reproduce the weights. At that point, the weights are just the cached output. Which has value since it's costly to produce from code+data.
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by brianstrimp 2y ago
> Pretending you're neutral while you're dealing with all sides That's the very definition of it though.