mirrorlake

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by mirrorlake 26d ago
LLM text and images have crept into so many places, and I've experienced quite a lot of existential dread this year from it. I've definitely felt what the author wrote about here. Another trend, starting sometime last year, has be
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by mirrorlake 2mo ago
Looking forward to reading this, I am one of the people who preordered. I've often heard people with degrees say that they regret not being better at the material in this book, so for many peope this will be a chance to practice these
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by mirrorlake 3mo ago
I always bind a side button on my gaming mice to ctrl+click so that my thumb can open links in a new tab. Slight ergonomic improvement for me.
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by mirrorlake 6mo ago
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!
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by mirrorlake 7mo ago
I feel like I'm being rickrolled over and over again by infomercial-grade slop.
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by mirrorlake 10mo ago
It's also TV in 1950.
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by mirrorlake 1y ago
Perhaps consider making some tutorials, then, and share your wealth of knowledge rather than calling people stupid.
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by mirrorlake 1y ago
It's a social-media-level of fact checking, that is to say, you feel something is right but have no clue if it actually is. If you had a better source for a fact, you'd quote that source rather than the LLM. Just do the research,
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by mirrorlake 1y ago
Yeah, the Steam HW survey shows that 16:9 resolutions form a majority (60%+) of their users with 1080p + 4K, so it makes sense as a default design choice for a company that only wants to target one ratio. As a former user of 16:10, I feel y
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by mirrorlake 1y ago
I quite like the 2x3 grid of videos. No complaints, actually.
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by mirrorlake 1y ago
I saw profiles across different searches which had no contact info listed, seems like it isn't really designed to be a hiring tool. I'm very skeptical of the claim that you'll be able to identify people by "usefulness of
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by mirrorlake 2y ago
"There are no shortcuts, you have to put in the work." Spoken like someone who doesn't use an SRS system, then. They're actually extremely hard to use, because the focus is on feeding you the toughest possible version of
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by mirrorlake 2y ago
Anecdotally, English/History/Communications professors are confirming cheaters with them because they find it easy to identify false information. The red flags are so obvious that the checker tools are just a formality: student pa
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by mirrorlake 2y ago
For longer beer drinking sessions, store in a double walled vacuum-sealed insulated bottle, of course.
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by mirrorlake 2y ago
I quite like the sociological definition for several reasons. Rather than trying to pin down precise criteria, you simple can ask people "Are you a mathematician? Are you a theoretical computer scientist?" And once someone has gon
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by mirrorlake 2y ago
I've seen math PhDs mess up addition and subtraction on a whiteboard, though. Beating the 99th percentile human at any subject should not be difficult when the LLM training is equivalent to living thousands of lifetimes spent reading a
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by mirrorlake 2y ago
Reminds me of this talk [0] led by CB Bailey, a top answerer on StackOverflow for the tag 'git' [1]. They create commits from scratch from the command line--manually creating each /.git/ file with shell commands and a te
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by mirrorlake 2y ago
In the event that this is added to the standard library, I'm going to be really curious to see what a "hello world" project/example would look like. I went so far as to find the commit where David Chase added for loopvar
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by mirrorlake 2y ago
When simulating or modeling how long something will take, (0 hours, 1 hours, 2 hours...) you never use a normal distribution because of the potential for negative values in the left tail. You would rule that out by default. The title itself
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by mirrorlake 3y ago
> exactly the opposite of what we should expect out of programmers. I mean this only jokingly: Who gets to decide what programmers are supposed to be like? You? As someone who tries on a new language every year or two, I love using langu
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by mirrorlake 3y ago
I was reading over a student's code and he couldn't tell me his own variable names, couldn't even find one when I referred to it conceptually ("Where is the variable that holds your cache?".... no answer at all, not
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by mirrorlake 3y ago
When I was first learning Go last year, Penn mentioned on his podcast that he had a friend Rob who worked at Google. I realized that he was talking about Rob Pike who helped create Go. Truly felt like a "small world" moment.
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by mirrorlake 3y ago
For existing homes, owners should pay a plumber to install a "drain water heat recovery unit", assuming the price of copper is reasonable. It's one of those low hanging fruits that will improve the energy efficiency of every
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by mirrorlake 3y ago
The best MPG you can get on the highway is just the slowest you can safely go without confusing other drivers, making people angry, or getting pulled over by the police. Drag is proportional to velocity squared, so every increase in mi&#x2F
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by mirrorlake 3y ago
I think you'd do well doing a podcast interview with some financial independence folks, if that's in your comfort zone. Understandable if it's not. Paula Pant gives a great interview, as does Brad Barrett at ChooseFI.
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by mirrorlake 3y ago
This site helps you run financial simulations, though. It's not supposed to be a product you use to track your account balances.
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by mirrorlake 3y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what did you to do reduce cost 90%?
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by mirrorlake 3y ago
A much easier solution: don't use their product. This would serve as a fantastic article about the reasons why it's worthwhile to stop giving them money. Except, it's the exact opposite of that--it teaches (or encourages?) ev
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by mirrorlake 3y ago
To get the more traditional results you have to go into filters and choose "video", but I'm sure they'll eventually remove the ability to search for only videos eventually, too (ugh). It's the "news feed-ificat
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by mirrorlake 4y ago
Should NASA's leadership be given to a monkey? Debater A While adaptability and resourcefulness are valuable traits, they are not unique to monkeys and can be found in human leaders as well. In addition, the consequences of a mistake m

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