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by pzs 6mo ago
While I agree with you, I also find that an LLM can help organize my thoughts and come to realizations that I just didn't get to, because I hadn't explained verbally what I am thinking and feeling. Definitely not a substitute for
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by pzs 6mo ago
First of all, don't give up. What you are going through is not what you deserve, but a transition to the next stage in your life. Just because a relationship with someone didn't work out as you had hoped for does not mean you can&
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by pzs 7mo ago
Related question: how do we resolve the problem that we sign a blank cheque for the autonomous agents to use however many tokens they deem necessary to respond to your request? The analogy from team management: you don't just ask someo
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by pzs 10mo ago
Just experienced this and came here to check, because even their website is down. The referenced link also returns with 500.
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by pzs 10mo ago
Hmm, (whatever is in execs' head about) AI appears to amplify the same kind of thinking fallacies that are discussed in the eternal Mythical Manmonth essay, which was written like half a century ago. Funny how some things don't ch
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by pzs 1y ago
This trend of overengineering is apparent now in cars, too. An innocent failure, like a headlight going out can turn into a major systemic issue, like the engine refusing to start through a chain reaction inside an inadequately tested softw
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by pzs 1y ago
They call the cherries cascara, and I have come across them in some specialty coffee shops packaged just like the beans. You can pour hot (not boiling) water over them and prepare a tea-like infusion. It tastes sweet-ish without adding anyt
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by pzs 2y ago
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t." - without trying to defend such business practice, it appears very difficult to define what are necessary and sufficient prop
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by pzs 2y ago
To update this excellent quote to 2025, change minutes to seconds and you just described TikTok.
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by pzs 2y ago
"The real problem is the ROI on AI spending is.. pretty much zero. The commonly asserted use cases are the following: Chatbots Developer tools RAG/search" I agree with you that ROI on _most_ AI spending is indeed poor, but AI
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by pzs 2y ago
There is a video on the page in which Bret Victor explains what it is all about. I find it very difficult to summarize, but my best attemp would be something like transforming computation into an activity that a community of people performs
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by pzs 2y ago
This reminds me of what I learned about myself during my years spent at the university. I observed that in the morning my brain is better at understanding new concepts. Mornings were the best time for me to practice and improve problem solv
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by pzs 2y ago
> an attacker passively eavesdropping a GSM communication between a target and a base station can decrypt any 2-hour call with probability 0.43, in 14 min The authors give the above example in the abstract. It does not look like the typi
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by pzs 2y ago
I read his book on relativity theory, which I would characterize as one written for popular consumption [1]. I recommend reading it if you have not done so yet. I found the explanation of the special theory in the book easily accessible and
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by pzs 2y ago
"As the article states, no sensible application does 1-byte network write() syscalls." - the problem that this flag was meant to solve was that when a user was typing at a remote terminal, which used to be a pretty common use case
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by pzs 2y ago
Not a physicist, so I am asking out of curiosity and to learn: have the limitations to the precision of current atomic clocks posed any problems?
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by pzs 2y ago
On your point about tech not solving social problems: I fully agree. Moreover, I think that tech _aggravates_ some of these problems. Case in point: why do some people think they can run around and interrupt others at any time for any reaso
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by pzs 3y ago
When we had our home reconstructed three years ago, the architect exported the plans in BIM format from the software he used. I used Blender with BlenderBIM to arrange virtual tours with my wife to get a better (immersive?) view of how the
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Q-Learning(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pzs 3y ago|0 comments
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by pzs 3y ago
I agree with you power game view. The cooperation can even extend beyond the current job. That is, when managers move to another company, they attract some key people from their team to the new place. (There are other incentives for manager
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by pzs 3y ago
And what was the rest of your response? How could you get effective change based on this understanding?
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One-Shot Learning(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pzs 3y ago|0 comments
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by pzs 3y ago
Just a few thoughts... You may read some messages you exchanged with Fred. You may be able to save Fred's picture from the directory, if there is one one. Do you remember anything he used to say/write? Anything he talked about tha
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by pzs 3y ago
Yes, sorry for messing up the URL. I can't edit the submission's URL anymore.
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Agile Has Failed. Officially(medium.com)
9 points by pzs 3y ago|16 comments
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by pzs 3y ago
Indeed there is an XKCD on this: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by pzs 3y ago
It took the diamond industry several decades (and huge investments) to build their carefully crafted public image that translates into diamond purchases nowadays. These efforts are still in progress today. I am not sure if there are similar
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by pzs 3y ago
"the latter is not so different from eigenvector centrality, with the added spice of directed random walk" - I think the parent's point was the impact not that the algorithm itself is unprecedented. You could argue in the sam
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by pzs 3y ago
Consider the thought experiment that you give your postal address to some business, because you want to subscribe to regular grocery deliveries. Then you notice that each delivered package contains a small transparent bag with some with pow
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by pzs 3y ago
Doors can be built to open in four ways: inwards or outwards, hinge on the left or right. (Sorry if the language is wrong, non-native speaker here.) Considering that I am not sure I can follow why the door would make one direction more natu

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