jmpeax

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by jmpeax 16d ago
> A prompt complex enough where it won't get any wrong ideas has to contain as much information as the output would have.. so just write it. This is only if the output is fully compressed. Writing is not just about encoding the writ
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by jmpeax 24d ago
What a peculiar title. The title suggest parallel dev without using worktrees, but the article is about using worktrees.
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by jmpeax 27d ago
> LLMs are also terrible at these new standards. Skill issue? I mean, I wonder if adding a skill to use these newer standards can push it over the edge from the crappy JS it was trained on.
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by jmpeax 1mo ago
The types of skills from FPS games and real fighting are much further apart than gaming and ATC. A closer analogy would be a coworker who knows Judo is needed for Greco-Roman wrestling. Very different sports with different rules, but the sk
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by jmpeax 3mo ago
This whole fiasco could have been prevented had the operator included "Make no mistakes" in the prompt.
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by jmpeax 4mo ago
> nowhere in the announcement is coding mentioned It's right there in the middle benchmark bar "LiveCode Bench" 72%.
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by jmpeax 4mo ago
All unit tests can pass if you don't assert anything. Just have to make sure to read through all 130k lines of code to check.
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by jmpeax 4mo ago
This post misses that the people selling their "I built" SaaS advertised as a hobby/passion-project are just marketing something as indie that they fully intended to get rich from the beginning. It was never even a hobby wort
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by jmpeax 8mo ago
it's probably been thrown out the window compared to office and chatgpt
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by jmpeax 8mo ago
"If you refuse to estimate, you’re forcing someone less technical to estimate for you." This is the perfect approach, given that estimates are top down and work to fill the estimate is bottom up. "When I estimate, I extract t
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by jmpeax 8mo ago
Future icon will just be this: ∠
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by jmpeax 8mo ago
I like the surface dots like it is. It gives me two points of reference at the poles, and adds intuition for how long it takes to go around the sphere.
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by jmpeax 9mo ago
From that wikipedia article, delta is the ratio of y variance to x variance. If x variance is tiny compared to y variance (often the case in practice) then will we not get an ill-conditioned model due to the large delta?
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by jmpeax 9mo ago
Actual architects design buildings.
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by jmpeax 9mo ago
Don't get me started on "software architect".
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by jmpeax 9mo ago
How is blocking ad blockers going to make them $150m?
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by jmpeax 9mo ago
> They typically need to compare many or all points to each other, leading to O(N²) complexity. UMAP is not O(n^2) it is O(n log n).
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
Polars made the mistake of not maintaining row order for all operations, via the False-by-default argument of maintain_order. This is basically the billion-dollar null mistake for data frames.
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
> always respect human dignity even when nasty players try to make a dirty move against you What a gem of a quote. A great way to avoid becoming a bitter person.
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
> does not provide any concrete proof, but it confirms many people's suspicions Without proof there is no confirmation.
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
The pro version comes with "Professional-grade creative suite", but they don't tell you what you're actually getting. It's just opaque corporate-speak one-liners "Make real progress toward your goals".
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
Except on figure 1 they're all at 0, making it look like the authors didn't know how to use the models or deliberately made them do nothing.
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
Google is still looking for investors?
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
Middle Aged Man Language - too many braces.
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
That was released as a joke. Twenty years later and no longer released as a joke, Apple is showing they are still in touch with the sensibilities of the modern Apple customer.
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
"up to 1 TB capacity... starting launch price is $15.99" I have adblock, how did this SanDisk commercial make it through?
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
Correctness with respect to the benchmark. A slow reference renderer could produce the target image, and renderers need to achieve either exact or close reproduction to the reference. Otherwise, you could just make substantial approximation
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by jmpeax 10mo ago
There has to be a better way to view this than the tangled web of overlapping lines, like that at lower left of the "services" rectangle on the right, even with the selection highlighting. Perhaps there is not, and it is fertile g
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by jmpeax 11mo ago
I can't view the site on my mobile without accepting cookies.
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by jmpeax 11mo ago
Your customers don't have any handwritten text?

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