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by gobdovan 6d ago
> Chess only teaches two general lessons about strategy: look more than one step ahead, and invent heuristics That is true for an engine. Meta-games around studying your opponent, specific match preparation and all those game theoretic s
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by gobdovan 1mo ago
"Can you stack your family?" - Michael Falk, The Onion
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by gobdovan 1mo ago
Dynamic programming. Although if you don't know the distribution of how the bets will look beforehand, there's no real optimal strategy. Think you see first bet has 99% chance of giving you x2. Do you bet everything and take it? I
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by gobdovan 2mo ago
We're in such a bull market, even shortages grow.
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by gobdovan 2mo ago
I'd refine it as 'If feasible, try fixing your diet before going for pills'. The body is adapted to function within a healthy nutritional range. If your diet falls outside that range, it's expected that your body won&#x2
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by gobdovan 2mo ago
Humans are very inefficient when it comes to navigating the web, but also take actions pretty fast when completing forms. You don't really need advanced ML to see bots spend two seconds to read a full page, then spend 10 seconds just t
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by gobdovan 2mo ago
You can't reasonably expect generic ASR to infer tmux from "tee-mucks". "tee-em-you-ex" works reliably if you're ok with capitalisation for your use case.
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by gobdovan 2mo ago
How is anyone making money from courses if dabeaz isn't? He's got the word of mouth going on, celebrity status in the Python world, world-class courses, it doesn't make sense to me. I'm not asking rhetorically, am truly
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by gobdovan 2mo ago
When on Speaker/hands-free mode, it just closes screen. They assume you wouldn't press lock button while against your ear, because it closes the screen automatically. The problem is that there's some bugs that keep the screen
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
Markets and evolution are both knowledge processes. I think you would enjoy Donald Campbell's essay on evolutionary epistemology from 'The Philosophy of Karl Popper'. Parent's comment is observing a prerequisite to marke
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
Were 8 billion people all working toward more detail? Isn't civilization also the process by which detail is pruned, compressed and made into abstractions small enough for one mind to use?
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
I usually view it the opposite way from the article's perspective. There's surprisingly little detail we rely on, yet things work out somehow. There's the Popper observation that any model of reality has zero chance to be tru
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
Was discussing the content, not the author. Yes, I am challenging vague discourse about echo chambers, since the mechanism behind an echo chamber is selectively listening to some opinions, while dismissing other sources of authority or corr
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
> isolating themselves & having their [...] views spread far and wide > most cancerous developments & the less contentious it becomes Your comment complains that people cannot articulate their reasons, while making a sweeping,
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
Relational algebra, EAV model, MVCC, Nix and a few principles around removing data only if you can prove it's reconstructible some other way. My email's on my profile.
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
I'm developing a similar project, I also added scripts to it so it works like an hermetic/replayable system too. Do you use yours for anything cool? Maybe a truth maintenance system of sorts? Do the queries get unwieldy at some po
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
I heard people with dogs claiming similar effects.
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
I'd like to imagine that the creator heard the 'Einstein zebra puzzle' (the puzzle about different nationalities having different pets and smoking different brands of cigarettes) and just made the pets have different national
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
Actual stealing is an even more impressive skill. Usually involves intensively trained sleight of hand, elaborate ruses, a very good understanding of theory of mind regarding the victim's attention, and planned deescalation paths in ca
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
This is a pre-AI phenomena. I observe it quite a lot with stuff I did in high school but usually with complex problems. What's generally happening is that you were working with pen and paper through a hard problem. With adult brain, yo
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
You can go down or right at any point. To go in bottom-right corner, you need n down steps and n right steps. In how many ways can you arrange n things on type A and n things of type B? In C(2n, n). The problem is about modeling, once you m
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
I'm not sure I'm following you. What does 'duplicate Google Docs' mean? We already have OSS rich text editor (ProseMirror) and CRDT implementations (yjs, automerge). Are you talking about replicating every single enterpr
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
An option won't fire you 1 day before cliff.
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
> Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. > Nowadays every business in America says how warm it is and how much it cares — loan companies, supermarkets, hamburger chains. Guess which one is AI and which one is a quote from Ma
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
was referencing Anthropic
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
Sometimes they exaggerate the things they understand.
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
Yes! First, you need to get the DOM-level behaviour right (dragging, resizing, cursor focus). That could mean you may use or build primitives like with interact.js, CodeMirror/Monaco (realistically just use, not build), Fancytree. I re
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
Yeah, it also seems it's made in React & Next. From experience, you'll have a hard time choosing a worse technology for low-level, interaction-heavy UI. You need direct control over focus, keyboard handling, scrolling and so
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
> he's smoothly aligned with the rich and powerful especially when it comes to tourism
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by gobdovan 3mo ago
I heard they had a real good employee that was the smartest programmer to ever live and built his own OS by divine command.

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