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by cabacon 1y ago
I have a kid in high school who uses LLMs to get feedback on essays he has written. It will come back with responses like "you failed to give good evidence to support your point that [X]", or "most readers prefer you to inclu
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by cabacon 1y ago
I guess my point is that the argument being made is "if you lift dumbbells with a forklift, you aren't getting strong by exercising". And that's correct. But that doesn't mean that the existence of forklifts makes u
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by cabacon 1y ago
Plato's _Phaedrus_ features Socrates arguing against writing; "They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external
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by cabacon 4y ago
I worked at a supercomputing facility for a few years. The codes are typically decades old, maintained by hundreds of people over the years. By and large, they understand their performance profiles, and are working to squeeze as much out of
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by cabacon 5y ago
The story I read ( https://andrewdamitio-92271.medium.com/the-decline-of-the-am... ) says that there was a shift post-WWII that encouraged building real estate, the accelerated depreciation from the article. Then as things sh
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by cabacon 7y ago
Yup. I have an Erdős number, but despite being a Bacon, no Bacon number to my great dismay.
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by cabacon 9y ago
You might enjoy http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/02/when-the-yogurt-took-o... as a hypothetical walkthrough of your scenario.
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by cabacon 10y ago
You might enjoy http://www.iquilezles.org/live/ where he live codes some ray-marching using some kind of opengl editor. It's not quite what you're talking about, since it's just running the opengl code,
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by cabacon 10y ago
Yes, absolutely. They did something like this at the Sun Microsystems field office outside of Chicago while I worked there. You would log into a sunray with your smartcard and pick up whatever you had left behind in your session, with no pe
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by cabacon 10y ago
Truth be told, I don't think I'm calibrated on the question yet; I've only used it twice. In one org, there was a shining star who attracted all the answers. In the other org, someone laughed because of the number of good ans
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by cabacon 10y ago
My favorite interviewing question as an IC was "Tell me about someone on your team you admire". It let me learn about what people valued based on why people were admired, and gave some depth-of-bench sense whether there were lots
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by cabacon 10y ago
Regarding "theoretical best", I think that is "in the absence of mitigations". I think you can build a service with a higher SLA than one of its dependencies, but only if you recognize that impedance mismatch and build i
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The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (2013)(engineering.linkedin.com)
5 points by cabacon 11y ago|1 comments
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by cabacon 11y ago
See also a very nice video from ClojureWest about queues in system architectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bNOO3xxMc0 The queue are everywhere - your messaging queue, the threadpool, the hardware threads, and other
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by cabacon 12y ago
Fortress ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language) ) and X10 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(programming_language) ) were the other two languages that came out of the DOE HPCS
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by cabacon 12y ago
I clicked on this topic in order to make this suggestion. To expand on it a little bit, I was a math major and read Spivak's 'Calculus' after I had already taken real analysis. I found it delightful - it really approaches t
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Make: Article on Novena(bunniestudios.com)
8 points by cabacon 13y ago|0 comments
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by cabacon 13y ago
I can't leave that hanging - what is the _least_ sexy part of enterprise security?
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by cabacon 13y ago
The Graded Go Problems for Beginners ( http://www.amazon.com/Graded-Problems-Beginners-Beginner-Ele... ) has four volumes of increasingly difficult tactical problems. For the strategic side of things, I enjoyed Janice Kim&#x
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by cabacon 13y ago
You might also enjoy http://www.youtube.com/user/kingscrusher He comments on professional matches, but the part of his feed that I enjoy are the 1/3/5 minute time control games he plays. He is very good at a
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by cabacon 13y ago
See also the economist at Valve, who had an article about the Team Fortress 2 online economy: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/arbitrage-and-equil...
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by cabacon 13y ago
I mean, the J Software app is basically that, although J instead of APL. The terseness makes for a pretty good programming environment despite the slow input speed of the virtual keyboard. You don't get the unicode APL customisation
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by cabacon 13y ago
The esotropia was diagnosed when I was a kid. In fact, the "visual specialist" I visited as an adult was actually a pediatric doctor, because they're the ones who have the most experience with esotropias. I don't have
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by cabacon 13y ago
That lines up with my experience. The alternating esotropia means that at any time one of my eyes acts as dominant, but it will change based on which direction I look and is also under voluntary control. I have played ultimate frisbee for
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by cabacon 13y ago
Super fun stuff. I have alternating esotropia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esotropia ) and also cannot see in stereo in normal life. 3D movies that rely on filters or polarisation also do not work for me. I went to
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by cabacon 13y ago
If you're going to take that point of view, I guess I'd like to hear more about why you think Janus is a piece of crap. I understand the POV of people who say that learning fundamentals is the place to start, rather than starting
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by cabacon 13y ago
I don't know, even the non-HFT side of computers in trading is interesting. I looked at http://raudys.com/kursas/2002%20Trading%20and%20exchanges.pd... the other day, which is a set of chapter-excerpts from &quot
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by cabacon 13y ago
vimtutor is pretty good, actually. Outside of that, http://yanpritzker.com/2011/12/16/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-n... has a nice explanation of the editing worldview, which ties in with Steve's quote in h
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by cabacon 13y ago
This seems to be the perpetual back-and-forth that shows up; I searched "site:ycombinator.com janus" before I posted the link, and you'll find this exact same line in history. For myself, I knew core-vim pretty well, and was
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by cabacon 13y ago
That reminds me of using Docbook to write the book, then using the various transformation engines to turn the docbook into PDF. I setup some docbook documentation that just used xsltproc to generate HTML and PDF from the same source. htt

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