hsm3

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by hsm3 5mo ago
How much of this is at all related to newer Gen AI abilities and LLMs, vs just more/better "traditional" ML?
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by hsm3 3y ago
Do have have any links handy to those test results?
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by hsm3 3y ago
Honest question: Does the kid really want learn via dealing with a book? Programming has such a wonderful virtuous feelback look built in, seems a shame to get in the way of that. My son learned a ton of programming mainly by building big
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by hsm3 3y ago
You might enjoy this documentary from Telluride Film Festival last year https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21956346/
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by hsm3 3y ago
NeXT wasn't bought until late 1996. That didnt kill the RISC project, what happened is the company dropped all hardware and became software-only (primarily on top of x86 boxes, but some lower-level pieces ran on HP and SPARC).
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by hsm3 3y ago
The original OS absolutely had shared libraries - the whole environment was so RAM-constrained that it was essential. (source - I was part of the early SW eng team). In fact, my memory is that they worked much better than competing system
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by hsm3 4y ago
I feel like the Isaacson bio is fairly accurate factually on that time, from what I knew as a senior SW Eng at NeXT/Apple. It was a huge course change, eventually pushed through the entire software org by Steve, the NeXT leadership an
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by hsm3 4y ago
I strongly disagree. Amelio's Macworld 1997 keynote was a legendary failure, just a shocking public show of incompetence. He built zero confidence in anyone joining from NeXT. His book shows a poor understanding of what happened at
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by hsm3 4y ago
Gifted kids are all really different in their specific strengths. That said, for one with a well-expressed nerd gene, we started at age 6. I would start with an iPad app (slightly simpler container than a browser), maybe that gamifies the
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by hsm3 4y ago
My son and I got a lot out of a similar iPad app called Tynker, which we both ended up liking better than Scratch, which he used at school. Tynker has a physics engine, which opens up all sort of great game possibilities (we made a cheapo
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by hsm3 4y ago
We've not had a big problem getting candidate streams of people who want to work with Ruby. In a way I don't mind having an implicit filter against people who only want to work with shiny new things, as we don't really want
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by hsm3 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction gives the exact time as 21 December 2020, 13:22:00 UTC, or 5:22 AM PST. In SF, the planets will set around 7:10 PM, the sun sets about 5pm. So if my best observation ti
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by hsm3 7y ago
This might work for some people, but for me it would have been a worthless and tragically misleading signal. I got modest-at-best enjoyment from being around kids before I had one, but the past 10 years with our son has held many of the be
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by hsm3 7y ago
Aren't most of those shenanigans done early in the VM's lifespan (as Rails boots, actions are called the first time,...), after which the world would be stable, and JIT-related caches wouldn't have to be lost?
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by hsm3 9y ago
I was leading the AppKit group at NeXT at the time, and "NS" definitely came before the Sun relationship, referring to NextStep (or NeXTSTEP, the spelling changed every release). I distinctly remember our team expecting we'd