colincooke

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by colincooke 28d ago
My take is that the friction is the point, and I'd much rather have a colleague communicate poorly to me than have them give the LLM response. The reason being I view my relationships at work as investments, and working together (commu
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by colincooke 8mo ago
Oh man, this reminds me of my "party trick" back in the day of saying I could tell what OS a computer was running by listening to the HDD seeking. The good old days
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Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance(science.org)
147 points by colincooke 8mo ago|76 comments
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All Hype, No Bite: The "Your Brain on ChatGPT.." Preprint(residualinsights.com)
1 points by colincooke 1y ago|0 comments
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by colincooke 1y ago
It was a bluesky thread I've since lost (lame I know). This article summarizes the issues well: https://residualinsights.com/all-hype-no-bite-your-brain-on-... Comes down to: - Self selection bias - Trial design - Dubi
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by colincooke 1y ago
It is worth noting that this study was tbh pretty poorly performed from a psychology/neuroscience perspective and the neuro community was kind of roasting their results as uninterpretable. Their trial design and interpretation of resul
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by colincooke 1y ago
Nice work! Would totally have used this when I was freelancing. Honestly love the serif'd fonts, would love to see everything serif'd tbh. Also back when I had to do these (I used Wave) having a notes section was very useful to in
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by colincooke 2y ago
Again please read my post carefully. There is a valid critique of overhead rates, but simply doing it suddenly in this manner has little added economic benefit in the long run, while ruining lives and creating waste/chaos in the short
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by colincooke 2y ago
1. Why should the public believe that they can fix it. Perhaps they can't, that's not entirely my point. My point is that if the government firmly believes that a change is necessary there are _simple_ ways of acheiving such a cha
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by colincooke 2y ago
The entire academic industry is in turmoil, the uncertainty on how bad things could get is probably the worst of it as Universities are having to plan for some pretty extreme outcomes even if unlikely. For those who are questioning the vali
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by colincooke 2y ago
There is also a good case to be made that the prices being bandied around are actually much too high [1] TL;DR is three major factors: 1. The agencies that are doing the estimates are _very_ bad at exponential development curves (cough coug
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by colincooke 2y ago
Quite a fun paper, but very difficult to draw conclusions from. Their headline finding is that they created a map between resting state and "watching a movie". This is, for better or worse, the kind of research you can only do at
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by colincooke 2y ago
To me the issue with AI generated code, and what is different than prior innovations in software development, is that it is the the wrong abstraction (or one could argue not even an abstraction anymore). Most of SWE (and much of engineering
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Upregulating VTA Activity Increases Vaccination Efficiency in Humans(medrxiv.org)
1 points by colincooke 2y ago|0 comments
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by colincooke 3y ago
Seeing as you're here, the reason the price is too high for us is that "SCALE" plan is too much for us and the "PRODUCTION" plan is too little. I'd happily pay $200/month for two servers, but can't ju
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by colincooke 3y ago
My wife studys people for living (experimental cognitive psychologist), the quality of MTurk is laughable, if that's our standard for higher level cognition then the bar is low. You'll see the most basic "attention check&quot
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by colincooke 3y ago
I had no idea what was going on under the hood but used PGAnalyze for about 6 months after launching a new product. It was excellent at suggesting indexes and monitoring unused ones. However, after a few months the ROI crept down until it w
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by colincooke 3y ago
My favorite thing about this report is on energy modelers (section 2.5). They show the (now famous) graph where large institutions (like the IEA) regularly predict that solar will start to have linear growth rather than exponential due to c
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X-Change: Electricity – On track for disruption(rmi.org)
2 points by colincooke 3y ago|1 comments
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Radical Incrementalism(saylordotorg.github.io)
1 points by colincooke 3y ago|0 comments
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by colincooke 3y ago
This along with pydantic [0] means that 2/3 of my favorite python open source projects are now commercially backed. I wonder how long FastAPI will last? As an aside, what is the issue with versioning these days? Ruff and FastAPI both h
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by colincooke 4y ago
I should have been more nuanced I suppose. There is a time and place for these kinds of image "enhancements", they just don't belong in ESRI's scientific GIS platform. Folks don't view these images for pleasure (or
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by colincooke 4y ago
This whole concept is so reckless in realms where the image content actually matters and people keep doing it anyways. You cannot CREATE information. You can infer it in certain situations, but if you infer the information and then analyze
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by colincooke 4y ago
While I agree that these theory based papers are useful, and are often the precursor to experiments, I believe the general understanding of "study has found X" in pop culture is that there is "hard evidence" of the findi
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by colincooke 4y ago
We have Hasura on top of our postgres DBs
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by colincooke 4y ago
We can likely take US candidates as well. We may be open to other candidates from the North American time zones on a case-by-case basis
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by colincooke 4y ago
Heliolytics | Backend or Full-Stack Developer | Remote First (Canada), office in Toronto | https://jobs.lever.co/heliolytics Heliolytics is the leading provider in Aerial Inspection service for Solar Power Plants. Over the
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by colincooke 4y ago
Things that look "good" aren't necessarily ideal for coding. My favorite "bad looking" but very functional theme is the IntelliJ IDEA high contrast theme [0]. Everyone who looks at my screen says it's ugly, but
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by colincooke 4y ago
I love the idea, and would consider paying for this after a nice trial period. I love my kindle and it has radically changed how much I read, I used to read maybe 2-3 books a year, now it's more like 2-3 books a month. I find the E-ink
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by colincooke 4y ago
Less doing well because of the downturn, more doing well despite of it, but many players in climate tech are doing really really well lately (for example [1]). Longer term, with IRA [2] now law, the industry is poised to continue to grow fa

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