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by piinbinary 1y ago
AI training is currently a process of making the AI remember the dataset. It doesn't involve the AI thinking about the dataset and drawing (and remembering) conclusions. It can probably remember more facts about a topic than a PhD in t
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by piinbinary 1y ago
Kudos to the author for making this very clear and easy to understand. More technical writing should be like this. On another note, it's mind-blowing that a single string can parse as XML, JSON, and YAML.
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by piinbinary 1y ago
> At the other extreme, writing merely puts into words something readers were already thinking — or thought they were. I actually really like this end of the essay spectrum. Reading (and writing!) this kind of essay can tie together ment
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Monads to Machine Code(stephendiehl.com)
3 points by piinbinary 1y ago|1 comments
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by piinbinary 1y ago
Prior discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14177503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10842988
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by piinbinary 1y ago
With a sample size of 1, Gemini 2.5 Pro (Experimental) did a great job of this (and was considerably faster than O3)
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A UI might not make it easier(jeremymikkola.com)
25 points by piinbinary 1y ago|5 comments
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by piinbinary 2y ago
It would be cool to see examples of what it can accomplish
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Software Shouldn't Flow Away (2020)(jeremymikkola.com)
2 points by piinbinary 2y ago|0 comments
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by piinbinary 2y ago
Why don't any of the trains go into New Jersey? That seems like a big wasted opportunity for adding more space that can easily commute into the city.
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So I rolled my own static site generator(pointersgonewild.com)
2 points by piinbinary 2y ago|0 comments
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by piinbinary 2y ago
I like debuggers and use them when I can, but folks who say you should only use debuggers tend to not realize: * Not all languages have good debuggers. * It's not always possible to connect a debugger in the environment where the code
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by piinbinary 2y ago
It's frustrating how disposable these are designed to be edit: e.g. screen replacements cost nearly as much as the entire computer
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by piinbinary 2y ago
Ignoring the butterfly effect issue, I would have said just pick the title of a given newspaper on a given date as the password.
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by piinbinary 2y ago
The same applies to tech debt: https://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2022_01_29_tech_debt_gets_wo... (Yes there's a typo in the url. It bugs me, too) prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by piinbinary 2y ago
It's somewhat amusing to look back on my Computer Science education, where they taught us that database transactions are used to ensure bank balances are moved atomically between accounts
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by piinbinary 3y ago
That's how you can identify a 24-ohm snake https://xkcd.com/1604/
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by piinbinary 3y ago
It seems that surely there are lessons a hacker could learn from NATO's success (to the degree that you agree that it has been a success), but I am not a sufficient student of history to know what those lessons might be.
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by piinbinary 3y ago
Lambdas / functions are another common basis type
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by piinbinary 3y ago
"Bees get jet lag" That seems like a much simpler experiment than the previous ones!
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The almost impossible chessboard puzzle(youtube.com)
2 points by piinbinary 3y ago|0 comments
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by piinbinary 3y ago
True, I should have said "low-end gaming PCs"
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by piinbinary 3y ago
The press release has a strange title for new chips targeted at lower-end PCs (those without a dedicated GPU).
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by piinbinary 3y ago
I bet it's big enough that it could also contain an SD card reader, which could be really useful
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Moving Git commits between repos (2017)(jeremymikkola.com)
41 points by piinbinary 3y ago|10 comments
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by piinbinary 3y ago
Another rule that git branches do not have: they don't have to have originally come from the same repo. You can pull a branch from a different project if you want to. (This is useful if you are trying to combine two repos while preserv
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by piinbinary 3y ago
I'm still sad that --sort-files makes ripgrep run in single-core mode. (I know you can't make --sort-files _free_ in multi-core mode, but it would still be faster than single-core) https://github.com/BurntSushi&#x2
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by piinbinary 3y ago
I agree: https://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2021_10_11_weather_and_estim...
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by piinbinary 3y ago
I see this as well edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37821821
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by piinbinary 3y ago
That gives some hope that Moore's law isn't quite dead yet. That said, the score came from Geekbench, which I believe isn't considered to be very representative of real application performance.

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