doc_manhat

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by doc_manhat 11mo ago
I'm not sure about this - for quicksort the usual answer for myself is o(nlogn) average case and o(n^2) worst, and for hash maps it's o(1) amortized complexity. Conversely for merge sort it's simply o(nlogn) flat. These are w
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by doc_manhat 11mo ago
Yes I saw the AIisms and immediately went to the comments lol. It's interesting I still don't think that it's worth reading stuff that seems so obviously AI generated! If you can't be bothered to write or at least edit i
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by doc_manhat 11mo ago
No I'm with him it still makes no sense to me. There's a massive assumption that because you fit the profile you'd have heard of the service if there wasn't advertising. A major part of advertising is to find people who
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by doc_manhat 11mo ago
This is technically correct I'm sure but people usually use it w.r.t. f being simply the runtime of the function, in which case the common usage converges. I think the original comment may have a point here as I'm not sure the art
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by doc_manhat 1y ago
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology Seems to be the referenced paper? If so previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43697717
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by doc_manhat 1y ago
Yeah fair points particularly for larger codebases I could see this being a huge time saver.
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by doc_manhat 1y ago
I directionally disagree with this: ``` It's common for engineers to end up working on projects which they don't have an accurate mental model of. Projects built by people who have long since left the company for pastures new. It&
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by doc_manhat 1y ago
Got up to the TL;DR paragraph. This was a major red flag given the initial presentation of the discovery of a bottleneck: ''' When a NOTIFY query is issued during a transaction, it acquires a global lock on the entire databas
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by doc_manhat 1y ago
Conversely this is exactly why I believe LLMs are sentient (or conscious or what have you). I basically don't believe there's anything more to sentience than a set of capabilities, or at the very least there's nothing that I
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by doc_manhat 1y ago
I think there is right? It's been a long time but I seem to remember it following from the time hierarchy theorem
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by doc_manhat 1y ago
Question - why would you do this in current year ? Is it that much more performant? I might be ignorant but frameworks seem to be the lingua franca for a reason - they make your life much easier to manage once set up!
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by doc_manhat 1y ago
Yeah I'm firmly on the LLMs are actually sentient train so this was a bit of a distressing read
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by doc_manhat 2y ago
ITT: panicked Google employees try to convince you this is a very bad thing