psyklic

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by psyklic 4d ago
This is what happened with me and BASIC. I had to upgrade to C when my programs became limited by complexity, speed, and difficulties robustly integrating audio.
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by psyklic 10d ago
Yes, likely because people have stopped caring about privacy, or perhaps given up. To gain a bit of convenience, they are voluntarily sending their emails, credit card statements, calendars, location history, etc. to third parties and givin
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by psyklic 2mo ago
The goal of PhD programs has never been to have every student become a professor. Also, strong STEM PhD students generally don't need much help finding jobs after they graduate. Claiming that PhD students "aren't prepared&quo
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by psyklic 2mo ago
This is happening with many popular YouTube creators as well, pivoting from tech tutorials to AI. Kyle Cook made a video showing how engagement has cratered for non-AI stuff, making AI content extremely lucrative [1]. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by psyklic 3mo ago
I guess they updated the way it connects to the remote machine. Perhaps something about my setup wasn't one of their test cases?
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by psyklic 3mo ago
I am stuck using an older VSCode. A few versions ago, it stopped connecting to my remote machine.
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by psyklic 3mo ago
and 2tb -> 8tb storage is +$3k!
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by psyklic 4mo ago
The most important part of math is advancing human understanding. A correct answer by itself is not as important as understanding why it is correct.
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by psyklic 5mo ago
I'm constantly surprised how many people are critical of research to understand neural nets, immediately telling me they are black boxes and hopeless to understand. I believe it's a consequence of being portrayed as the opposite o
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by psyklic 6mo ago
> Was software made before 2000 better? At the time of release, yes. They had to ensure the software worked before printing CDs and floppies. Nowadays they release buggy versions that users essentially test for them.
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by psyklic 6mo ago
Everyone dislikes pedantically verifying references. However, if you cut corners here then will you also cut corners pedantically verifying research results? Beyond references, the point of the literature review is to ensure you have read t
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by psyklic 6mo ago
Before LLMs, I've watched in horror as colleagues immediately copy-paste-ran Stack Overflow solutions in terminal, without even reading them. LLM agents are basically the same, except now everyone is doing it. They copy-paste-run lot
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by psyklic 6mo ago
Elon at some point threatened to have an LLM rewrite all of the training data to remove woke. I assume Grokipedia is his experiment at doing this (and perhaps hoping it will infect other training sets too?) ...
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by psyklic 6mo ago
I highly doubt collaborators are thinking less of you for not having more publications! After all, if they are collaborators they've already decided to work with you. My understanding is you were awarded a PhD but with the minimum numb
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by psyklic 7mo ago
Recently about half of the items sold to me as "New" have arrived used or counterfeit. The sellers have 5-star ratings, despite numerous reviews about receiving used or fake products. Unfortunately, Amazon crosses out these negati
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by psyklic 7mo ago
The hypothetical you state only matters once you have a game! The biggest risk by far is not AI assets -- it's finishing the game. So if AI increases your odds of finishing, go for it. Then once you have a game, more people will care a
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by psyklic 7mo ago
A notepad "welcome experience"? How is notepad turning into bloatware?
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by psyklic 7mo ago
This happens with every new tech. When websites first appeared, many businesses trusted kids to build their website. The key in applied work is to build a portfolio that shows off your abilities. The reality is that most people who need ser
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by psyklic 7mo ago
True, I accidentally posted the date of the comment (1) not the commit. The only thing strange seems to be he used a smiley in the referenced commit message which doesn't seem to be his style. (1) https://github.com/Hop
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by psyklic 7mo ago
Have you tried emailing him? He likely also owns hopding.com, and both domains consistently seem to be at Squarespace. The last commit on his GitHub (Feb 2025) someone commented "Good to see you're still with us :-)", so he m
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by psyklic 7mo ago
It's very possibly moreso a cultural issue. COVID caused continuing low attendance, there is currently an anti-education political trend, and AI advancements allow students to be lazy. If parents and peers don't value education, t
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by psyklic 7mo ago
What is this then: https://web.archive.org/web/20260203163430/https://www.cia.g... It clearly states on the page that the Factbook was continuously updated, with "new data uploaded this week".
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by psyklic 8mo ago
> Why would someone with GE expect to keep it? Peaceful protest is protected from retaliation by the First Amendment ...
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by psyklic 8mo ago
> This is the actual challenge: the medical recommendation might be solid, but a public policy doesn’t work unless people follow it. ... presumably due to misinformation, members of the public have opinions that are too strongly held for
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by psyklic 8mo ago
So you're suggesting that in response to misinformation about provably beneficial safety standards, we should erode the standards. That encourages even more misinformation, and further erosion of public safety.
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by psyklic 8mo ago
Huh? As I mentioned, it has always been a requirement for students to get vaccinated to attend school. My point still holds that if not for this requirement then we'd be below the critical threshold, whether it's 95% or slightly l
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by psyklic 8mo ago
How many deaths are acceptable to say we can "handle" an illness? Public health requires over 95% vaccination. There has never been a realistic path to that other than requiring students to be vaccinated to attend school. Without
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by psyklic 8mo ago
Infants have rights too. It's against the law for a "seatbelt skeptic" not to put their kid in a safety seat.
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by psyklic 9mo ago
Mentorships are simply how most junior scientists get started. Even in grad school, most students initially take on projects their advisors have pre-qualified as interesting. To make high school-level competitions more fair, we should likel
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by psyklic 11mo ago
RAM too. They want +$1K to go from 64GB to 128GB, with no other spec changes. It's a way of segmenting the market -- those who actually need it are willing to pay a lot more (e.g. for AI / 4K videos).

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