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by discmonkey 5mo ago
I got about two sentences further, it turns out another smoking gun is Mr. Back using c++ in his graduate studies, just like the original bitcoin implementation.
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by discmonkey 1y ago
You may not be able to think of a worse experience, but a lot of "newer" programmers may not even know what an LSP is. While it's true that I no longer need to rely on some of the benefits of Jetbrains, when I was getting sta
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by discmonkey 1y ago
Assuming that the plugin is enabled for the free version, CLion is also amazing for Rust. Thanks Jetbrains! Here's hoping this won't be abused by smaller companies that will no longer want to pay for the actual subscription. I als
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by discmonkey 1y ago
I love the look and the idea, but I wonder if it will go the way of the small/budget phone? Will folks revealed preference continue to be big and expensive?
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by discmonkey 1y ago
Good article. Funnily enough the throw away line "I don't see parentheses anymore". Is my greatest deterrent with lisp. It's not the parens persay, it's the fact that I'm used to reading up to down and left to
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by discmonkey 1y ago
By definition if I knew how AI would change the world, I would invest/build things to that end. The fact that we still don't have a great AI product outside of chatgpt, shows that no one knows what will happen.
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by discmonkey 2y ago
My great-grandmother and grandfather were in Leningrad during the siege. My great-grandmother continued to teach throughout. At some point she was given the option to evacuate with my (very) young grandfather over the "road of life&quo
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by discmonkey 2y ago
Required reading for this theme, and one of my personal favorite short stories: https://qntm.org/lena
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by discmonkey 2y ago
Humans tend to like to stay at there they are, in the tech context especially. It takes a long time relative to the length of a career to learn new systems, make new connections, and achieve some level of independence at a new job. There&#x
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by discmonkey 2y ago
I did a research project on this a while back - and when it comes to understanding deep network learning rate, regularization, hidden layer effects, and activations, I don't think anything is better than [this little web app]( https:&#
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by discmonkey 3y ago
Article seems to make the argument that is should happen (poorly), but doesn't provide any evidence that it will happen.
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by discmonkey 3y ago
Essentially automating project boilerplate that is custom enough to need attention, but not quite custom enough where it's interesting. Some examples include creating dockerfiles, various database models and data parsers, openapi specs
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by discmonkey 3y ago
Classic misunderstanding of programming languages. The only thing stopping cobol from being "known" is these companies paying for it.
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by discmonkey 3y ago
yeah - as seen from a few comments on my post, everyone has different opinions on non-objective stuff related to keyboard/trackpad. I feel like the keyboard is pretty responsive while the trackpad isn't, but the only way for you t
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by discmonkey 3y ago
Glad you are! I don't want to be overly negative. I am comparing my M2 work macbook trackpad with my 2 year old lemur pro trackpad - it's not really a fair comparison. The problem is that the pricing is similar enough where it&#x2
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by discmonkey 3y ago
Figure I might as well drop a quick review after 2 years with the lemur pro 11 Pros: * Most things "just work", which you only appreciate after working with other linux laptops. For example, I can seamlessly plug this laptop in pl
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by discmonkey 3y ago
Idk inventing convolutions and a bunch of other stuff we use everyday is somewhat significant. Machine learning, if we call it a field, is a whole lot newer than physics, and so a few people have contributed quite a bit in recent memory.
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by discmonkey 3y ago
I have to agree. Especially given the very real possibility that your ML project won't be cutting edge research grade. At that point someone who doesn't have bias and is willing to search for a reasonable looking approximation to
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by discmonkey 3y ago
They do have this, you can choose to bid for a target conversion cost (I want to pay at most $x per conversion). In general I find all of this pretty silly as a Google employee.. I don't think you can distill the complexity of any chan
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by discmonkey 3y ago
I agree in general, but most people that run 50 miles a weeks also eat healthy. So there's a lot of correlation there. IE show me a person that runs 50 miles a week but also eats mostly process foods and drinks lotsa soda.
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by discmonkey 3y ago
Meta is a company that makes money off of users endlessly browsing content. It would follow that making it easier/faster to generate content would benefit Meta.
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by discmonkey 3y ago
I was pretty impressed with my interaction. When I asked it to help me practice French, Claud let me ask clarifying questions about specific phrases it used, with background on specific conjugations/language constructs. I do wish that
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by discmonkey 3y ago
Oh yeah I agree that it _could_ do all those things, but it would be a bit of overkill to always send every observation an agent encounters into the API/chatbox, and ask it to spit out an evaluation or action. This paper does a nice jo
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by discmonkey 3y ago
This paper feels significant. If chatgpt was an evolutionary step on gpt3.5/gpt4, then this is bit like taking chatgpt and using it as the backbone of something that can accumulate memories, reflect on them, and make plans accordingly.
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by discmonkey 4y ago
Time for my yearly tradition of making it to day 4 in Haskell and feeling very smart before completely giving up on the first hard problem that needs regular arrays :)
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by discmonkey 4y ago
For people complaining that they can't play with the model... I work at Google and I also can't play with the model :'(
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by discmonkey 5y ago
I once saw a Trader Joe's employee cut melon for the free food sample station (pre pandemic)... She was cutting each melon in the same exact fashion, using the same set of minimal knife strokes. I walked up and asked her about it, and
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by discmonkey 5y ago
It would be great to implement some of the windowing improvements as an addition to a current linux windowing system. Pinning different applications together or being able to merge applications with tabs both sound useful... These sorts of
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by discmonkey 5y ago
I mean you can pay for billboards with positive and encouraging messages... The question is, why don't you?
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by discmonkey 5y ago
Agreed that the hour invested may not be worth it for a large percentage of people (again I got lucky, I would feel so differently if I was rejected after 7 interviews). Google's point is just that they prefer to avoid false positives

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