iamlucaswolf

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by iamlucaswolf 13d ago
Yes. But I think that misses the point. In 1799, Paolo Ruffini published a 500 pages long proof showing that there is no closed algebraic solution for the roots of a polynomial of degree five or higher. The proof is extremely verbose and b
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by iamlucaswolf 2y ago
What exactly is the ask here? Do you want input for a programming model? Practical advise for building a compiler? Do you want to target real hardware or a software simulator? > I'd settle for a good way to express said tree in a pl
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by iamlucaswolf 2y ago
I think this question mixes up two orthogonal dimensions: transactionality (i.e., OLTP vs. OLAP) and data model (relational, document-based, graph, vector, ...). Regarding transactionality: There is an entire area of research on "hybri
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by iamlucaswolf 2y ago
If you had <50% accuracy in expectation you could improve your analysis by inverting it, I suppose...
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Bubble.ai(profgalloway.com)
1 points by iamlucaswolf 2y ago|0 comments
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by iamlucaswolf 2y ago
My read is that investing into AI is the trendy thing to do in 2024. No CEO will have to justify pouring money into AI; they would probably be seen as negligent if they don’t. It’s just the zero-risk strategy at this point in time. That’s n
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by iamlucaswolf 2y ago
Umbra was recently spun out as CedarDB [1]. And Hyper is alive and well at Salesforce/Tableau! The team working on it is still in large parts the original Hyper team from TUM. You can actually download Hyper (as a binary with language
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by iamlucaswolf 2y ago
Thanks, that seems to be exactly what I was looking for! Any insights on the business model? Is this just to advertise the pro tier or do they monetize usage in another way (e.g. selling training data)?
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Ask HN: Cheapest way to use LLM coding assistance?
3 points by iamlucaswolf 2y ago|4 comments
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by iamlucaswolf 3y ago
I believe this is a rational assessment in general. A lot of the discussion around this topic seems to be negligent of market dynamics. However, the crux is in the details: > You can increase the % enough so that overall demand for deve
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by iamlucaswolf 3y ago
First few lines are almost verbatim ChatGPT (without knowing your exact prompt): https://chat.openai.com/share/a7a9c996-f655-427d-bc23-4e9161... Look — I appreciate that you want to help OP out here, but please keep HN
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by iamlucaswolf 3y ago
As someone who never owned cryptocurrency and frankly never cared that much: could you ELI5 the idea of a Bitcoin ETF? Is it just a vehicle to trade Bitcoin (as in a single cryptocurrency; BTC) on a normal stock exchange? Is it an index-wei
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Ask HN: Feeding Bing AI's Output to Curl?
2 points by iamlucaswolf 4y ago|1 comments
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by iamlucaswolf 4y ago
Sorta-kinda: VSCode lets you execute code from regular Python files in a Jupyter session [1] by demarcating code cells with "# %%" [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py...
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by iamlucaswolf 4y ago
15-445/15-721 got me a job. Thank you so much for making them publicly available.
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by iamlucaswolf 5y ago
David Sinclair's "Lifespan" Podcast changed my relation to food (although I can't vouch for scientific accuracy).
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Ask HN: What's your learning strategy?
115 points by iamlucaswolf 5y ago|90 comments
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by iamlucaswolf 5y ago
Absolutely. I also believe that Copilot is getting more flak than appropriate at the moment. To rephrase my comment above: I don't want to blame the team behind Copilot for not getting everything right on the first try. Neither am I in
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by iamlucaswolf 5y ago
What amazes me is how predictable(?) all of the recent issues were. Don't get me wrong, the folks behind Copilot are clearly, without any doubt smart, creative, and capable. But then... None of these issues (reproducing licensed code a
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by iamlucaswolf 6y ago
This might be a fair assumption from a birth statistics viewpoint, but completely misses immigration. I met a lot of brilliant people from all over the world during my undergrad at TU Munich; many of them stayed. Google, Apple, Microsoft ha
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by iamlucaswolf 6y ago
I use a setup like this. Essentially, I use pyenv [1] to manage Python versions and Poetry [2] [2]( https://python-poetry.org/ ) for virtualenvs/dependencies. The workflow for creating a new project looks like this: 1. C
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Ask HN: Tools/Workflows for programming with little screen estate
1 points by iamlucaswolf 7y ago|2 comments
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by iamlucaswolf 7y ago
I don't pretend to know the numbers, but my guess is that Survivorship Bias might account for that to a substantial amount. I just can't imagine that there are people with glass bowls that good to make consistent alpha over the lo
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by iamlucaswolf 8y ago
I loosely followed the work of the "Kohlekommission" (i.e. the panel that was responsible for negotiating the exit plan) through various German news outlets. The strategy agreed upon today was a revision of an earlier plan that w
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by iamlucaswolf 8y ago
They do. As an annecdote, the professor who formerly held the "Machine Learning" course at TU Munich left for VW's AI research group ( https://argmax.ai ) a few years ago. Whether that qualifies as "science&quo
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by iamlucaswolf 9y ago
Phew, you have some courage, questioning the foundations of modern Mathematics in a place like this. But I can relate to your concerns about Cantor's argument. When I first heard it, it also felt artificial and unconvincing to me. What
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by iamlucaswolf 10y ago
To iterate on what others said, but what was not emphasized enough from my point of few: AI is academic (as a synonym for 'theoretical' and 'math-intensive'). Once you look beyond purely symbolic AI, which proved to be
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by iamlucaswolf 10y ago
This. If you're also looking for a course that goes alongside the book, I highly recommend UC Berkley's CS188 (you can find it at http://ai.berkeley.edu ). The lecturer Pieter Abbeel does such a good job explaining stuf