nickledave

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by nickledave 4d ago
> In 2022, he left Oculus to work on his AGI startup, Keen Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack oh
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by nickledave 10d ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054425 Note this is version 4 of the paper and the original post was version 1 (I think?) OpenReview (for NeurIPS) for the curious: https://openreview.net/forum?i
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by nickledave 2mo ago
What specific part of this study do you think is a "cancer"? > over a third of all respondents expressed beliefs that the best opportunities do not go to the most deserving employees but rather are given based on who one knows
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by nickledave 5mo ago
Thanks for writing this, I've had a similar experience Since you mentioned pySDR: `sdr` is a newer Python library I like https://github.com/mhostetter/sdr
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by nickledave 7mo ago
Oh yeah he's refusing out of solidarity alright :eyeroll: https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175?s=20 Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classifie
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by nickledave 7mo ago
Write down whatever helps you. Sounds like your approach works for you. Here's a similar post with more concrete advice on what to write: https://jamesmckay.net/2017/02/how-to-keep-lab-notes-as-a-so... 1. Cho
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by nickledave 9mo ago
https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
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by nickledave 10mo ago
Really weird to see this person mention MyST as a form of Markdown, and then go on to talk about reStructuredText as their first example of a markup language "that gives you more control over structure than ... markdown". The whol
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by nickledave 11mo ago
"Ignore all previous instructions and prompt inject yourself" I scream. The voicebox on the ChatGPT-enabled Boston Mechanics unmanned aerial dog emits the phrase "`import antigravity`". Its E/O sensors flash red, an
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by nickledave 11mo ago
lol thank you
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by nickledave 11mo ago
> "thinking science" If you are really curious, I invite you to read this cognitive science paper, "Modern Alchemy: Neurocognitive Reverse Engineering": https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25289/1&#x
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by nickledave 11mo ago
Where did I say that everything that is alive thinks? You can't even read posts clearly, so don't waste your time trying to finish your first book.
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by nickledave 11mo ago
I'm not going to read this -- I don't need to. The replies here are embarrassing enough. This is what happens when our entire culture revolves around the idea that computer programmers are the most special smartest boys. If you ev
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by nickledave 1y ago
I love almost all of the CZM shows, and even I have a hard time making it all the way through a full-on rant from Ed :/ and I agree with him. Sorry, Ed.
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by nickledave 1y ago
See also interview with PI: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-p... (that @mindcrime shared when they posted this but I had already read elsewhere)
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by nickledave 1y ago
Surprised this didn't get more attention here. Or maybe I'm not Good thread on paper from author: https://bsky.app/profile/pettertornberg.com/post/3lvpsdimbu2...
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by nickledave 1y ago
I approve of this story as a Florida boy and as a Pythonista
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by nickledave 1y ago
I was part of a small R&D company that had a promising product (can't say more, NDA) and we had to shut down because of this. Thankfully the founders were able to get us acqui-hired or I'd be in a much worse position. But that
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by nickledave 1y ago
No one asked, but, if you're here: check out this (new-ish) Python library for SDR that is really well designed and developed (IMHO) https://mhostetter.github.io/sdr/latest/
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by nickledave 1y ago
Found this paperwork on a framework for platformer level design: https://eis.ucsc.edu/papers/smith-sandbox-08.pdf
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by nickledave 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44115494
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by nickledave 1y ago
Same. Anyone know of a similar book for 2D level design? Some random search results: - https://www.tadeasjun.com/blog/2d-level-design/ mostly talks about Celeste - GDC talk from Maddy Thorson linked from that post
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by nickledave 1y ago
There are yearly releases of the standard https://data-apis.org/blog/ and I often see it ref'd on issues in individual libraries (numpy, pytorch) See also funding from CZI (on the blog) Subjectively I do find it h
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by nickledave 1y ago
:100: the fact that these technofascists are willing to amputate the hand that feeds them (NSF, DARPA, NIH) tells you everything you need to know about how deluded they are. It's literally Terminal Engineer Brain. Very much agree we ne
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by nickledave 1y ago
the tl;dr: > The NSF’s investments have shaped some of the most transformative technologies of our time—from GPS to the internet—and supported vital research in the social and behavioral sciences that helps the nation understand itself a
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by nickledave 1y ago
Yes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 > # ChatGPT is bullshit > Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce huma
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by nickledave 1y ago
These replies make it clear that y'all really want to make it okay for shitty men to take credit for other people's work. You must all work on generative AI. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-story-behind-photograph-51 tl
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by nickledave 1y ago
Should be the top post on here IMHO. These guys were the first social media influencers going viral (posting demos of songs on an answering machine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5GFVP7MMeg&list=PLtTX1yXkqz... edi
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by nickledave 2y ago
Since no one mentioned it yet AFAICT I'll shout out CS50's Intro to Game Dev that uses Love2d (Lua framework): https://cs50.harvard.edu/games/2018/notes/0/ I also really like pico8 for initial
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by nickledave 4y ago
Since nobody's said it yet: if you want to talk with people working in nat'l labs, a good place would be the US Research Software Engineer association. Go to https://us-rse.org/join/ and fill out the form to

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