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by eggdaft 1y ago
I agree. I was taught Scheme and I later taught it. It was a much cleaner and suitable language for teaching computer science than Python. Students could completely understand the language and how it worked by the end of a semester. Scheme
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by eggdaft 2y ago
Browser debugging tools are very basic. Their UI is generally awful. Spend a few days debugging in PyCharm and you'll scream when you open developer tools.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
I only use print debugging when working on the web, and your mention of console.log makes me think maybe you're in the same boat. It's an absolutely damning indictment of the developer experience for the web that this is the case.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
I taught both SICP and Java, and I can confirm Java was far more confusing to students. Classes vs instances, inheritance, polymorphism. Why was everything a class? Don't I just want the computer to do something to some input?
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by eggdaft 2y ago
Yes, I agree these are two good points. I also experienced teaching SICP and would say the overall position of the GP is incorrect and results in a less profound understanding of programming.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
> Bullshit. Again, I was a TA for this course. You do not spend the rest of the semester on ideas, you spend the rest of the semester on the students being very confused. I was a TA on an SICP course at a UK university, disagree with you
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by eggdaft 2y ago
My completely unscientific analysis: aerobics gets the blood circulating more and enables the body to remove stress hormones from the blood at a faster rate.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
Hi Hacker News I’m Captain Obvious and I’m here to tell you (and myself) an uncomfortable truth that most of us kinda know but really can’t face up to. Many of us have sleep problems. We don’t have the healthiest lifestyles. Lots of screen
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by eggdaft 2y ago
My theory is this is cause by stress hormones. You can get to sleep because you’re so damn exhausted, but you wake up as soon as you’re physically able because of the hormones. The answer is exercise. Aerobic and weights. Three times a week
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by eggdaft 2y ago
A lot of people wake up at 3 or 4am. This is typically stress related. Possible solution: 1. Sit up or get up. If getting up, I usually get a mint tea. 2. Journal. Write down your thoughts. Very important: write down _what you are going to
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by eggdaft 2y ago
Problems with f/oss for business applications: 1. Great UX folks almost never work for free. So the UX of nearly all OSS is awful. 2. Great software comes from a close connection to users. When your software is an OS kernel that works
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by eggdaft 2y ago
What happened when someone from the cool club got promoted and became a boss?
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by eggdaft 2y ago
I actually think Slack is great and it has improved over the last 12 months.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
Tbf the same debate has raged over SO snippets for a long time.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
Hmm, no I think people don't get what I'm saying. Yes, you might waste five years (in your words) of income. But that is not a "risk". A "risk" for me is "this could all go badly wrong". Not having an
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by eggdaft 2y ago
I don’t think there are risky either. For me risk is “could go horribly wrong” but the worst case for most startup founders is … get a job?
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by eggdaft 2y ago
“Wasting years” is not a risk. It’s a choice. And as I pointed out it’s likely not wasted anyway.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
This is a fair point. I was talking in the context of USA UK Canada but it might not generalise.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
I disagree, but I don’t have a cogent argument yet. So I can’t really refute you. What I can say is, I think there’s a very important disagreement here and it divides nerds into two camps. The first think LLMs can reason, the second don’t.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
For folks without responsibilities like kids, aging parents, etc. I really don’t think startups are very “risky”. What’s the worst that happens? It doesn’t work out and after five years you go get a job in boring corp corp with an incredibl
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by eggdaft 2y ago
The tech wasn’t ready. Alexa is the same. No progress. Businesses have to focus and it made sense to drop this as a priority.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
What do you mean by “an LLM doesn’t reason”?
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by eggdaft 2y ago
Well yes, necessary but not sufficient, obviously.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
The context comes from the attention mechanism, not from word embeddings.
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by eggdaft 2y ago
I think what this argument is missing is the emergent properties of the LLM. In order to “predict the next word”, the LLM doesn’t just learn the most likely word from a corpus for the preceding string. If that were true, it would not genera
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by eggdaft 2y ago
This is a highly disingenuous argument, flagged by your reference to STV, which any one versed in UK politics knows was a stitch up of the Lib Dem’s by the conservatives. The UK is controlled by a powerful ruling class that maintains FPTP a
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by eggdaft 2y ago
Exactly. Just need to build a few more sewer networks so we can have competition. Many fundamental components of society aren’t amenable to market based competition. The public sector can be inefficient, but in many cases the alternative is
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by eggdaft 2y ago
Well you got me excited to check out my first homepage but I guess I predate the WM. When did it start archiving?
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by eggdaft 2y ago
Can we verify this independently? I don’t know why people trust stats from any social media company without independent verification. Stats can be massaged and there are large incentives to do it. We know that the former Twitter board certa
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by eggdaft 2y ago
I’ve applied a few times, considering stopping applying. What I’m more concerned about is (a) everyone seems to be incredibly young, I’m not, and (b) being a solo founder means you’re almost certain not to be accepted. Are these correct? Is

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