paulluuk

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by paulluuk 7d ago
Don't forget about R#
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by paulluuk 1mo ago
I like this concept of "vocational awe", and I do think it's why, for example, there is so much sexual and financial abuse in the movie, music and game industry: those people are willing to be treated poorly so they can work
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by paulluuk 1mo ago
> Most of the world has solved the worst of the problem by simply not allowing caller-ID spoofing and by blocking bad actors I live in the Netherlands, and I get several spoofed crypto-scam calls every day. I have also stopped picking up
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by paulluuk 1mo ago
I had an interview with Google about 10 years ago. Everyone said "Google doesn't ask brainteasers or leetcode-challenges any more". The interview was literally nothing but back-to-back brainteasers and leetcode-challenges for
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by paulluuk 2mo ago
> yes because doing so means ignoring your manager Oh luckily I've been blessed with managers who don't code or do code reviews, so I lucked out there, haha. But I'll admit that code review is actually not the best compari
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by paulluuk 2mo ago
Your reply reads very similar to what Hart wrote: > True, some readers become indignant at their own inability to follow prose of any complexity or to recognize words any more obscure than those they are accustomed to using when talking
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by paulluuk 2mo ago
> To understand actegories, let’s start with the definition of a monoidal category Definitely not written for someone with my starting knowledge, haha.
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by paulluuk 2mo ago
It depends on so many factors. Reading a long article on your laptop is likely less efficient than letting an LLM summarize it for you and then only reading the summary, while reading the article on your phone would be even more efficient.
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by paulluuk 2mo ago
I consider myself an optimist, but given that the US has been in 229 wars over it's 249 years since founding, it seems highly unlikely that there wouldn't be a "next war".
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by paulluuk 2mo ago
Why not just only allow a single try, but accept any "real" word?
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by paulluuk 3mo ago
I assume this was at a highschool and not at university? My IT teacher in highschool was the chemistry teacher, because.. he knew how to use Word, I guess? He knew we were computer nerds so didn't really care about teaching us (we knew
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by paulluuk 3mo ago
> This year, the economist decided that both the midterm and the final exams for his course would be of the take-home, closed-book type (there is a certain tradition of this at Ivy League schools). “It’s a very nice kind of exam, because
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by paulluuk 3mo ago
I've tried it, and I find it quite terrible. I can read much faster than it can speak, it's very awkward when I take a moment mid-sentence to pause and collect my thoughts, and it already begins replying, and it's not at all
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by paulluuk 3mo ago
Can you explain what the benefits are of actually "talking" with the bot instead of typing and reading? As someone who would rather send a slack message to a coworker rather than actually walking over and talk to them, the idea of
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by paulluuk 3mo ago
That seems pretty harsh. How do new frontend frameworks, GPU shaders or another article about how great Rust is (which it is) help fight climate change or child starvation?
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by paulluuk 3mo ago
I never turned Bixby on either, but on my phone is comes pre-installed and pre-turned-on, and you can't uninstall it, only "deactivate" it.
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by paulluuk 3mo ago
> I use a lot of AI professionally, but I haven't even turned on Bixby or whatever the Samsung AI is called. I know this was just a small aside, but man do I hate Bixby and other phone AIs. They are so frustratingly difficult to tur
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by paulluuk 3mo ago
I wonder how many great engineers with stage fright you would lose this way, though.
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by paulluuk 4mo ago
> These theories are flawed in the sense that they cannot account for subjective experience and agency So, I work in AI research (as a research engineer though, not a scientist). I've also studied philosophy and I'm a vegan. Ye
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by paulluuk 4mo ago
I don't know much about the movie industry, but I think the biggest commercial successes for early CGI was possibly Jurassic Park? I don't think it would have been nearly as good if it had all just been done with puppets. Likewise
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by paulluuk 4mo ago
Twenty years ago my teachers were telling me not to use Wikipedia because you can't trust anything on the internet. You should never date someone you met through an app or website because they are 100% murderers. "The internet is
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by paulluuk 4mo ago
This is a pretty wild take. What percentage of human engineers are creating novel solutions for hard problems, you think? I work in R&D and even my work is 90% doing things that other people already solved. If you are really doing cutti
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by paulluuk 4mo ago
The book was never written for children, it was a satirist writing for adults under the guise of a children's book, just as it wrote under the guise of "travel guides". Even at the time, this work was considered weird and not
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by paulluuk 5mo ago
Sorry, I was not specific enough. I did not mean that open source itself is not enough, I meant that an open source model that can actually run locally on my machine is not enough. a 32B model can not compete with a 250B+ state of the art m
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by paulluuk 5mo ago
If open weight models are sufficient for your engineering problems, then you should absolutely use them. But I haven't seen a single open weight model that can get even close to the complexity in my projects. They sometimes work for sm
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by paulluuk 5mo ago
This sounds like it would work, but honestly if you've already read all 30 papers fully, what do you still need to llm to do for you? Just the boilerplate?
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by paulluuk 6mo ago
This is great, and it also feels like a great way to answer the question "Where should I buy a house if I want to be close to the center but not in the expensive area?". > Let’s play a guessing game. How much more valuable is l
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by paulluuk 6mo ago
I've tried, but I've been to so many thrift stores and never found anything I liked or which fit well. I'm a tall guy and the men's section of thrift stores is just filled with what I assume is the clothes that widows do
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by paulluuk 6mo ago
> One meeting did in his promo. Although true, I feel it's worth adding here that the problem is that PM. While looking stupid by asking questions can "do you in" when working with incompetent managers like that, I'd
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by paulluuk 6mo ago
I bought a 200 dollar jacket and it had holes in it within months, just from regular use. I have an old 3 dollar shirt I bought years ago and it's only now beginning to show wear. One problem this shows, is that as a consumer I have no

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