jpamata

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by jpamata 1y ago
Strategy is far from the bulk of their work Most of their job is about people, leverage, and execution. It's not a sit and think job, it's mostly 1:1s and coalition-building Theyre also utilizing LLMs to augment themselves. And ar
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by jpamata 2y ago
Could be, or the Ukraine war, the pandemic, or some other policy It's nonfalsifiable. People will settle on the simplest observation: it happened under Biden
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by jpamata 2y ago
yes, the quote is what I'm referring to, directing the AI is part of it, people use these to quickly brainstorm and refine ideas. I'd be more charitable and wouldn't hastily assume it was some skill issue, especially them bei
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by jpamata 2y ago
they said 90% of it was spent on ideation and exploration they didnt specifically mean they built a wordle clone, just a game like it. if they wanted just a wordle clone, they wouldve gotten one within a few minutes of using codegen tools.
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by jpamata 2y ago
Is there any source for first-hand specifics of what she does? I used to argue in reddit (same username as my HN) basically calling Musk a fraud and Gwynne Shotwell being all the brains 6 years ago, but I've since changed my position
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by jpamata 2y ago
Jekyll, hosted on github pages is what I use Currently using a theme from here https://jekyll-themes.com/free When I'm travelling I could just edit the markdown/upload photos on the phone browser
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by jpamata 2y ago
CP just teaches some familiarity with DSA/algorithms, and there's much more to perf than DSA. Even assessing algorithmic performance requires real benchmarks and profiling, while the complexity analysis people do in CP disregards
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by jpamata 2y ago
Author is probably young, that's how gen-z are these days, if they dont have autocorrect on, the whole text will be in lowercase. Also it looks more casual and authentic, less LLM generated
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by jpamata 3y ago
Happy New Year hackers! Here's to the crazy ones
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by jpamata 3y ago
I guess lots of people find him interesting (see HN guidelines) Charlie (and Buffett) are often recommended here for their mental models as their approach to investing and finance are very transferrable in startups/engineering. At the
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by jpamata 3y ago
This month I'm reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Used to think fiction was a waste of time a month ago. Not anymore.
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by jpamata 3y ago
I wouldnt say so. I think it's the same HN. Although when it gets political, I've noticed that the discourse does degrade a bit faster than it used to be for such topics, for there's a bigger pool of users who'll get pro
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by jpamata 3y ago
A book that has a similar style to this one (teaching algorithm design) and my personal favourite is Algorithmic Problem Solving by Roland Backhouse. It just teaches algorithmic problem solving via math, but unlike mathy algorithmic books l
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by jpamata 3y ago
That's why I said karmic justice. I think it's a close book. The book details the decision process from both sides. Japan's plans to continue the war. The way the high command coped with the first atomic bomb, etc. It does no
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by jpamata 3y ago
I was born in Southeast Asia, lived in China for a while, everyone I've met views it as some kind of karmic justice. It's the idea you get from school (we were living peacefully, then we got attacked and they did all these brutal
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by jpamata 3y ago
Making them compulsory would be good, but replacing the "intro" courses with a paradigm-survey course would probably be too much for students to handle. Students would also likely not be technically mature enough to be able to app
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by jpamata 3y ago
"How Query Engines Work" by Andy Grove, you build one in Kotlin: https://leanpub.com/how-query-engines-work The author also made it available for free at https://howqueryengineswork.com/00-introduc
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by jpamata 3y ago
With rockets, he is deeply involved in the area and his proficiency have been confirmed by top engineers, a few quotes from them here: https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden... I&#x
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by jpamata 3y ago
This post quotes top SpaceX engineers like Tom Mueller, Kevin Watson, Garrett Reisman, Josh Boehm, and others like John Carmack about Musk's involvement in engineering: https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/co
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by jpamata 3y ago
A series of distributed systems courses from UIUC at coursera where you learn about systems design, distributed algorithms, and has you build projects like a distributed DB, implementing algorithms like gossip protocols, etc. in C++: https
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by jpamata 4y ago
Always loved reading about adventures in Antarctica. It feels like the closest thing we can get to going to an exoplanet.
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by jpamata 4y ago
Nostalgia. CS 1.2 with our family's bad windows 98 PC in the early-2000s was how I got into computers as an 8 year old kid. It was so laggy on our low end PC, it took about 5 seconds to shoot. It was like watching a slideshow presentat
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by jpamata 4y ago
None. The era of 1-1 social media is gone, it's now 1-many. Especially for the younger generations, they dont tend to stay and invest their time building profiles in just one or two social media, they use it all. There's no such d
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by jpamata 4y ago
ISLR for foundation and passing interviews. It also has lectures in youtube, just type ISLR lectures.
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by jpamata 4y ago
Unless geohot ticked the record option during his twitter space, it wont have the replay button. Quite a shame, it was the most candid tech talk I've seen Musk was in, and Hotz was challenging him his points about twitter engineering a
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by jpamata 4y ago
Looks like you're right. He kept pushing for a dedicated refactoring effort throughout his live Q&A with Musk here, pointing out several services: https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1605424686946430
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by jpamata 4y ago
Probably just that he doesnt want to waste time on it. He's been shown to be a powerhouse problem solver. Since we're posting tweets: SpaceX Dragon: https://twitter.com/ashleevance/status/1593133313484787
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by jpamata 4y ago
Not me. Logging in and writing child-comments (top level comments seem to work for both old and new) does not work for me when I'm using old reddit. But if I visit new reddit, the child comments appear and it also says that I am logged
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by jpamata 5y ago
I hope they implement it as a user option that you can turn on/off anytime. Dark mode hurts my eyes. Every time I read large blocks of white text over a dark background, I usually end up having a double vision of the text and later a h
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by jpamata 5y ago
Perhaps it plays a part on conditioning folks through generations on what is viewed as livestock. Dogs for a long time are not, except perhaps in China, which has only started looking into reclassifying dogs from "livestock" to &q

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