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McNamara Fallacy(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by piinbinary 3d ago|0 comments
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Simple Answers (Xkcd)(xkcd.com)
2 points by piinbinary 9d ago|1 comments
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by piinbinary 11d ago
It's more productive to explain why the idea doesn't work, since people can learn from that.
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by piinbinary 15d ago
A bit off topic, but I think I'm starting to get model fatigue. These come out 10x faster than new Javascript frameworks were coming out 10 years ago (at least new models are far easier to adopt).
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by piinbinary 29d ago
This makes me want to find a side project for an excuse to give Go another try (I last used it professionally pre-generics). I do still wish it had discriminated unions (algebraic data types) and some better error handling ergonomics.
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by piinbinary 1mo ago
Definitely. But I might not read it super carefully when recipe planning at the start of the week, which can result in scheduling mistakes.
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by piinbinary 1mo ago
Another pet peeve (which this doesn't solve): Recipes that include "marinate overnight" or some such in the middle (which can be easy to miss), instead of telling you up front that you have to start the day before.
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by piinbinary 1mo ago
Some of my pet peeves about regular cookbooks are: - Steps that actually include many different steps. - Steps that don't repeat the quantities, making me scroll back and forth between the step and the quantity list. The diagrams in th
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by piinbinary 1mo ago
This has some lessons that apply much more broadly than to just airports (e.g. apps that make you jump through hoops and expect you to know what 2fa or SSO mean)
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by piinbinary 2mo ago
> Most generative AI tools, however, are trained on copyrighted and licensed content, and their output can include content that infringes those copyrights and licenses To some extent, it feels like the genie is out of the bottle on this.
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by piinbinary 2mo ago
The part of this that's the most interesting to me is the fact that it is worthwhile for the compiler to expend the effort looking for this optimization opportunity. I would expect (x << 2) & -4 to be a fairly rare pattern, a
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by piinbinary 2mo ago
ChatGPT tells me that it would take a very large array to detect distance with any accuracy
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by piinbinary 2mo ago
One day I want to build something like this, except for sound. It would be great to get a heading and distance for where a sound is coming from. This could be both for small scale things (e.g. which part of this is squeaking?) or large scal
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by piinbinary 2mo ago
I wonder if it would ever start to make sense to burn an AI model into ROM, replacing a large portion of an inference machine's RAM with ROM. (Probably not, since I'm sure those machines do dual-duty and run training when the infe
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by piinbinary 2mo ago
Is there a URL for that language? It is unfortunately a bit un-googleable!
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by piinbinary 3mo ago
I have this book and like it. I also wish there was a book that guided you through the process of implementing a language with accurate garbage collection, similar to how Crafting Interpreters teaches you to implement a language. Perhaps it
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by piinbinary 3mo ago
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104047
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by piinbinary 3mo ago
I have a suspicion these new prices will stick around, even after the RAM shortage ends. Speaking of which, what's the timeline of the RAM shortage ending? I have no sense for whether it is going to be (for example) 6 months or 3 years
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by piinbinary 3mo ago
Only as > the act of writing out a problem to a model still forces the same sentence-level precision described earlier (model referring to LLM here) but not as writing for writing's sake
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by piinbinary 3mo ago
Writing is as good, or even better https://www.paulgraham.com/words.html
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by piinbinary 3mo ago
How do the linear types here relate (or not relate) to the Borrow Checker in Rust?
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by piinbinary 3mo ago
This 404s for me
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by piinbinary 3mo ago
The README references Electroboom's implementation
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by piinbinary 3mo ago
It would also be fun to have a full computer algebra system (like maxima) on a phone
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by piinbinary 3mo ago
I bet if you took one of Taalas' cards which consumes 200 watts for 14,000 tokens/second [0] and slowed it down by a factor of 10, it would actually be quite reasonable to power by bicycle. [0]: https://www.sdxcentral.c
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Deep Habits: WorkingMemory.txt(calnewport.com)
1 points by piinbinary 4mo ago|0 comments
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by piinbinary 4mo ago
I've been going through Nora Sandler's Writing a C Compiler book and writing a compiler in Python. I'm excited to start the chapters on optimization - those seem like the most fun algorithm problems. I recommend the book. It
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by piinbinary 6mo ago
I'd be very curious to know what class of vulnerability these tend to be (buffer overrun, use after free, misset execute permissions?), and if, armed with that knowledge, a deterministic tool could reliably find or prevent all such vul
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Stripe Projects: Provision and manage services from the CLI(projects.dev)
137 points by piinbinary 6mo ago|31 comments
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by piinbinary 6mo ago
How does the benchmark tell how many branches were mispredicted? Is that something the processor exposes?

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