mo_42

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by mo_42 9mo ago
Did the invention of the steam engine and all other heavy machines make us physically weaker? I guess so. People working on (literal) heavy stuff don't need the strength they used to. But now they move around even more heavy stuff with
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by mo_42 10mo ago
I spent 15 minutes looking at the diagram in the article and tried to figure out how I can conclude whether it's a bubble. I couldn't conclude it. It's just a diagram that shows the economic relationship between companies. If
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by mo_42 1y ago
> Back to the dashboard experiment: after you applied the Bonferroni correction you got... nothing. I guess you got something: Users are not sensitive to these changes, or that any effect is too small to detect with your current sample s
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by mo_42 1y ago
I agree. Hamburger menus aren't any better than menu bars. It seems like an example where design has more importance than function. My alternative to the menu bar would be a search bar that allowed me to search in a Google style everyt
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by mo_42 2y ago
Yes, this was also a concern when I started this approach. However, restricted time can also be a yard stick for accomplishing something in a short amount of time. But there are, of course, other factors that influence the success of such a
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by mo_42 2y ago
For some reason I tend to forget about task management apps. So whenever I got back to them, it was depressing to see all the unfinished tasks that I haven't touched. My solution is extreme time boxing. Every Sunday, I sit down and tim
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by mo_42 2y ago
I wouldn't say that I was a very chaotic person but after moving several times it felt like it takes longer to find some special tool than buy it new. So I created a little program to keep track of all my stuff [1]. It took quite a whi
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by mo_42 2y ago
I don't think one would put only the specification in Git. LLMs are not a reliable compiler. Actual code is still the important part of a business. However, how this code is developed will drastically change (some people actually work
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by mo_42 2y ago
You implicitly assume that a good's price should be based on the amount of effort that was put in. My impression is rather that the price of goods is based on how much people appreciate it. To me it better explains reality with the abs
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by mo_42 2y ago
Lately, I've been thinking that LLMs will lift programming anyways to another level: the level of specification in natural language and some formal descriptions mixed in. LLMs will take care of transforming this into actual code. So no
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by mo_42 2y ago
I guess the standard answer would be a foundation. In some countries, there are minimum capital requirements for foundations but I don't think it's the case for the US. So some thousands of dollars should be enough to keep a websi
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The Science Behind Why People Are Unkind to Those They Love(theswaddle.com)
3 points by mo_42 2y ago|0 comments
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by mo_42 2y ago
The Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans
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by mo_42 2y ago
Humanity has bootstrapped itself out of a lot of BS over the centuries. There's a mechanism for discarding bad ideas. For example: Badly-designed boats just don't return. Ill-designed protection of cities means they'll be con
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by mo_42 2y ago
An implementation of the game engine in the model itself is theoretically the most accurate solution for predicting the next frame. I'm wondering when people will apply this to other areas like the real world. Would it learn the game e
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by mo_42 2y ago
A compiler from SQL to type-checked C++ to speed-up an ML pipeline.
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by mo_42 2y ago
For technical writing, journalism, etc., one can follow the simple rule no adjectives . For prose, replace all common adjectives by more specific or descriptive one, or even remove them too and describe properties. For example: The F-35 pa
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by mo_42 2y ago
I came across this blog as well because I got interested in writing a compiler that converts SQL into source code of a type-checked language. Are there any blog series about the details of query planning, optimization etc?
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by mo_42 2y ago
One reason I can think of is the amount of capital required. So basically when Microsoft or Apple started out, you didn't need a lot of capital to build a minimum viable product. There were not many tech products. Nowadays, it's i
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by mo_42 2y ago
To be correct, he maybe didn't coin the term. At least I didn't find it on quick search in his book Cybernetics. Seems like the term ultrastable actually comes from Ashby [1]. [1] https://users.sussex.ac.uk/~ezequi
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by mo_42 2y ago
I'd like to point out that Norbert Wiener was the first to discover the concept of antifragility (under a different term though). It's also worth checking out more of his works as he initiated the field of cybernetics.
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by mo_42 2y ago
There's JavaScript The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford. I've read the book and watched a similar series on YouTube.
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Christofides Algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mo_42 2y ago|1 comments
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by mo_42 2y ago
As a computer scientist who got in touch with quite some theoretical computer science, I find Wolfram's approach appealing. I suppose this approach resonates quite well in CS departments as our minds already know about things like frac
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by mo_42 2y ago
> Will the future of the internet be entirely dynamically generated AI blogs in response to user queries? I still enjoy commenting on HN and writing some thoughts on my blog. I'm pretty sure that there are many other people too. At
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by mo_42 2y ago
> My best plan at the moment is to work on my skill set, get a few certifications, and create an impressive project or two to showcase my new skills. I suppose certificates aren't worth a lot in most software engineering roles. This
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by mo_42 2y ago
Except for products where the price is itself a feature. For example a Luis Vuitton hand bag. They show round prices like 2k or 3k.
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by mo_42 2y ago
Very nice. Printed it will be a gift for (your) children. I wish I had gotten something like this.
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by mo_42 2y ago
> I recently embarked on a journey to make myself a "dumbphone". I started with an iPhone 12 mini, removed every app possible and kept Phone, Contacts, Messages, Camera, Photos, and Safari with a 15 minute daily limit. My main
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by mo_42 2y ago
I graduated in CS and in economics. I don't see much of a difference in work performance compared to my co-workers. I think it's because positions nowadays are very much created for predefined combinations of personality and educa

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