cosmicradiance

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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
The article in context is not just about Chrome, but the various avatars it has manifested into.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
So no. Same menu/web-pages; but served differently as per individual needs.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
Who's taking the baton?
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
System Design Interview I and II - Alex Xu. Take one of the topics and do it practically.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
The same though goes into working with languages. I was a fan of Python’s list compressions, C#’s LINQ expressions, ORMs and functional/object-oriented abstractions. Now, I have started appreciating simple procedural languages like Gol
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
China didn't look like a competitor until they were miles ahead. "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" - Sun Tzu
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
They are definitely not on the cloud.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
People who crave karma points will continue do so. The game isn't for the faint hearted. SO still has the best gamification model and there isn't any competitor.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
Why will SO be gone? They are now partners with OpenAI - https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partne...
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
Wrong. As per the article - a part of our brain is a prediction machine. A human body is more than the sum of its parts.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
On the current state of AI - do you believe it has "intelligence" or is the underlying system a "prediction machine"? What signs do you see that make you believe that the next level (biological intelligence) is on the ho
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
Not really, you first have to catch up the vehicle ahead, before you start overtaking. At present, they are miles behind.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
1. With the recent developments at CockroachDB one may like to bundle it along with MSSQL and Oracle. 2. Like the author, I will like to understand "Why not MariaDB? (a free variant of MySql)".
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
Back to simplicity - your contact list is your filter. If the phone doesn't identify the caller - send to voicemail.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
Google settled for the status quo. After covid, like many other organizations, they went too lean, concentrating on sustainable operations, expecting a tough market. WFH was an effect of their adopted work-culture and not a phenomenon in it
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
I mean AI transformers. I understand we have pre-embedded STT, though I will like the option to include my own - say an English grammar GPT and expose it by an API for progressive enhancement of content.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
If anyone is willing to put an effort in building a new browser, I have just one wish - allow embedding open-source transformers in the browser; available for both the user and websites/extensions.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
It would have been better if the term used was Prediction Machine, rather than Artificial Intelligence. One may argue, what's in the name? AI is a catchier term and covers the umbrella under which terms like - statistics & predicti
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
No doubt the tools are here to stay and I am not opposed to that. My only advice for young programmers is - when something just works like magic, dig deeper until it becomes science.
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
How we live is so different from how we ought to live ... - Machiavelli
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
Anyone who started programming in the early 2000s would know that intrinsically. Now there are so many tools and frameworks which abstract SQL. It's no surprise that the newer generation has eureka moments discovering structured-query-
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
Doing whatever is necessary to get money from VC's
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
I feel that a specialized AI becomes too niche to be useful for the common folks. A general LLM model, that is "jack of all and master of none" may remain the go-to choice for the masses. These systems leave the last bits of intel
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
> Yes, the VC funding will dry up, but hardware and algorithmic advances will decrease running costs by equal amounts. The author said the same - "The current reliance on expensive GPU clusters may give way to more specialized, effi
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
I agree. Python also satisfies the principle of lease power. Adapting Atwood's Law[1], for ML projects - "Any ML project that can be written in Python, will eventually be written in Python." [1] https://blog.coding
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
It would still be SEQUEL if not for the trademark dispute - "SEQUEL was later changed to SQL because "SEQUEL" was a trademark of the UK-based Hawker Siddeley aircraft company."
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by cosmicradiance 2y ago
Further reading - https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/03...
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by cosmicradiance 3y ago
Open source; Closed contribution
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by cosmicradiance 3y ago
No, there is no visible sign for AI to replace coders beyond interview assignments. And that holds true across domains other than programming - various university and institutional exams. I won't be sure as to where you are geographica
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by cosmicradiance 3y ago
Here's another - https://zerodha.tech/blog/working-with-postgresql/

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