juancn

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by juancn 4d ago
Learning from stats (AI) has two big problems: it's non deterministic and much more expensive to compute than the deterministic alternative (when available). The strength is dealing with ill-defined problems. This last point is what ma
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by juancn 5d ago
Any hot beverages: tea, coffee, mate, cocoa, etc.
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by juancn 5d ago
Logo in Spanish in a C128 when I was in third grade started my journey in software. After a while I was running laps around my teachers and I knew computers were for me.
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by juancn 5d ago
Anything shitty that enters the context window shifts the entire thing to shittiness. So far this has been my experience on pretty much any model. Context feeds on its output. Once you it goes that road, unless you stop it and give it enoug
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by juancn 6d ago
That's usually true of all common hash table implementations (when objects don't have a defined order, if they have you can get O(1) average and O(log N) worst case), regardless of language. The O(1) is the expected average case,
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by juancn 7d ago
I wish they would make one without all the health crap. Drop the sensors and add more battery. I only really care about a few things (besides telling the time): - notifications - unlocking a Mac on proximity - Apple Pay -
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by juancn 9d ago
Voters are mostly emotional, not rational. The people that actually sway the elections vote by feel. You have to always remember that about half the population has an IQ under 100.
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by juancn 9d ago
It's a financial strategy, like DeRentas or Autonomy that lease cars to Uber drivers in Latam. Essentially shift maintenance cost to the investors (all of it since in this case there are no drivers to share part of the cost).
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by juancn 15d ago
It may be like what happened in ResNets using blank space in the image as working memory (because they didn't have any), so they would use non-important parts as a scratchpad.
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by juancn 16d ago
I think his anger was just a wounded ego. He reduces his argument to an ad-hominem and sleight of hand mostly. His basic concepts are almost supernatural in nature and require a subjective feeling to get it and his reaction is probably more
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by juancn 16d ago
I kinda am for shorter, shallower content that I'll likely skim over, but this article is a properly written essay and the contrast is just jarring.
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by juancn 16d ago
Kind of off topic, but anyone finds the "Subscribe to the newsletter" jarring? You're in the middle of a read and suddenly you get this annoying interruption. It makes me feel like the article is no longer worth it. You'
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by juancn 22d ago
20% tips assumed in the price? What if service sucks, can I get a discount?
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by juancn 22d ago
It was amazing, I was doing my first year in software engineering at the time and it felt like the future, the multimedia was impressive. At the same time Linux was really getting off the ground (RedHat released about then) and if your hard
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by juancn 22d ago
Yeah, second that. I made my office separated from the main house and it's incredible. We bought an old house and did a full remodel and planned for an office and a work kitchen (my wife is a chef) separated from the main house (and ea
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by juancn 23d ago
Nice, but the camera system is hard to grasp. I cannot turn the camera for the life of me. The camera is always facing north! Edit: I feel dumb now, I needed to click the trackpad to rotate, somehow I expected a two finger drag to move the
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by juancn 26d ago
I don't get the legal contradiction. The search is supposed to be lawful without a warrant because you're not really in the US yet per-se, hence if you're not there, how deleting the data can be a felony?
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by juancn 27d ago
Just set the following incantation: You must use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) when it doesn't detract from meaning.
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by juancn 27d ago
Didn't OpenAI bought it?
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by juancn 27d ago
Won't this end up with news orgs that don't have deals just being delisted? It's probably great for the 3 or 4 largest ones, but the rest?
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by juancn 28d ago
It's freaking fun! That's basically it. What's common and everyday in one place is exotic in another. It lets you get something that's just plain fun, for little money and it feels like a shared experience with the local
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by juancn 28d ago
As usual, it depends on the scale, but it's a sane default for 99% of use cases. Different use cases have different scalability limits in PG, when you get to them you need to deal with them. It would be perfect if it had somewhat trans
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by juancn 29d ago
There are some nooks I still enjoy. Hacker News is one, I like Reddit, there's still some fun discussion going on. What I dislike is all the posturing and all the low effort crap.
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by juancn 29d ago
One HUGE issue is that datacenters don't have an afterlife in the communities where they're located. They add to the Rust Belt once their lifetimes end, contrast this with old brick warehouses which were eventually repurposed as h
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by juancn 29d ago
This is not new at all: https://www.cookingforengineers.com/ Look at the site design! It went viral on Digg! That's how old this is.
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by juancn 1mo ago
I would love to have some benchmarks for this on some reasonably practical scenario. In many common cases shift and masking can replace integer division (i.e. hash tables) and you avoid division altogether, and that probably has about the c
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by juancn 1mo ago
And if the problem is really really hard, you can throw an AI at it and hopefully get a probabilistic solution. (not necessarily an LLM, AI is a huge field)
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by juancn 1mo ago
Nobody owns Claude's output (nor that of any AI), they're in the public domain, they cannot be copyrighted. The author must be human, at least for now, in the US this precedent holds as far as I can tell: https://law.ju
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by juancn 1mo ago
Makes sense, there's some precedent that AI generated code is not copyrightable, it's essentially in the public domain for now. Oracle likes its licenses.
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by juancn 1mo ago
How does it smell though?

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