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by ndand 1y ago
There is a way to watch the video anyways, on YT with just 2 clicks.
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by ndand 1y ago
> Valued = useful + hard to find. I agree, but I think it slightly differently, Valued = useful + hard to replace. How difficult is to be replaced by some other human or a machine.
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by ndand 1y ago
I understand it differently, LLMs predict distributions, not specific tokens. Then an algorithm, like beam search, is used to select the tokens. So, the LLM predicts somethings like, 1. ["a", "an", ...] 2. ["astrono
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by ndand 2y ago
You can capitalize a string in Python using functional style ' '.join(map(str.capitalize, string.split(' '))) which is similar to the example in Ruby, except the operations are written in reverse order.
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by ndand 2y ago
Google has a few courses about technical writing for engineers: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
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by ndand 3y ago
Steve Yegge mentions the book in the "Compilers, why learn them?" episode, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o87pOVK8khc&t=1939s "you're not done actually when you learn how compilers work you also nee
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by ndand 4y ago
> I believe there's now also a VS code plugin for the same behavior, but I don't know what it's called. It's called "sticky scroll". It's a relatively new feature of VS Code.
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by ndand 4y ago
Not for the rest of their lives. 50 people can live on $100k/year for 20 years.
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by ndand 4y ago
"Roberta and I will be on Twitch tomorrow to talk about a new game we're working on. Our interview will be at 3pm Pacific time." https://twitter.com/caboken/status/1506390567197896705
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by ndand 5y ago
My attempt to make a practical keyboard-driven cursor app for Windows: https://github.com/ndandoulakis/SlickCursor
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by ndand 5y ago
I used to think commits as snapshots, but it was confusing. Then I read "Git Internals". A commit contain the "whole" content of each file that we've commited. But since a commit has a pointer to a root commit, it a
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by ndand 6y ago
The "indirect" variable does not point to a list entry directly, like what "head" and "next" variables do, that's why it's named "indirect".
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by ndand 6y ago
The comment is correct. The "thing" is the variable that holds the "entry". The entry is removed by updating the "thing".
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by ndand 6y ago
This can't be a satire. It's a guide on how to interview engineers when you're looking for extraordinary engineers, not good or great ones.
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by ndand 6y ago
Location: Athens, Greece Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, C#, C++, Delphi, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Google App Engine, Android SDK Résumé/CV: n/a Email: ndandoulakis hotmail com https://github.com
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by ndand 6y ago
Yes, that's what I meant.
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by ndand 6y ago
It's the same thing. I just used a different word.
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by ndand 6y ago
> that took Rubik himself an entire month to solve I'm not sure you what you mean by this, but Rubik discovered an algorithm to solve the cube, he didn't follow instructions like what the 1 out 20 of cube owners do. It'd b
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by ndand 6y ago
Writing good code is hard. In general, you should be looking to learn programming practices, principles, and patterns. The main aspects of coding: * Make it work (programming paradigms) * Make it right (code structure/design fundamenta
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by ndand 6y ago
Stockfish evaluates the position of the entire board, e.g. mobility of pieces, how much opposing space they control, etc. But still, the evaluation function is hardcoded and weaker than AlphaZero. Recently Stockfish introduced neural networ
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by ndand 6y ago
It took about a year without mouse use for my wrist to heal. Now I use a mouse but I'm very careful with posture and mouse positioning. How long did it take to familiarize yourself with the trackball? I didn't really try other poi
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by ndand 6y ago
Very handy! My right wrist used to pain a lot because of excessive mouse usage. I had tried out various keyboard-driven apps but I didn't find any app practical enough for my needs, so I made one. I'd like to share here my "g
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by ndand 6y ago
Location: Athens, Greece Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Java, C#, C++, Delphi, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Google App Engine, Android SDK Resume/CV: Available upon request Email: ndandoulakis hotmail com https:&#x2F