spot5010

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by spot5010 20d ago
+1 you can walk through the subway turnstile and not slow down.
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by spot5010 1mo ago
In a conversation about careers, a friend of mine casually dropped a simple approach to life that has helped me a lot: you can’t have everything all the time, so make the best of what you got. Some years you will have health and knowledge b
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by spot5010 2mo ago
Wow okay I need to try this out.
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by spot5010 2mo ago
Nothing against what you are doing. That’s awesome and exactly the kind of thing I would nerd out about. I was just commenting on my current state of not having the mental bandwidth to do these things.
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by spot5010 2mo ago
As a new father, just using so many apps sounds exhausting, let alone building and maintaining them. I would have been very excited about these maybe 10-15 years ago. Now I just want the ability to do things with my phone when my hands are
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by spot5010 2mo ago
The website is martinfowler.com, but the article seems to be written by Giles Edwards-Alexander.
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by spot5010 2mo ago
The human analogy would be that I don’t remember everything in the books I have read, but I do recall reading a particular book and can always look it up. So, is there a way to train a neural network and then tune it forget a lot of the fac
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by spot5010 5mo ago
My father worked in the HPCL refinery in Chembur. I got to go visit on Republic day when I was a kid, but they stopped doing visits. He worked in the distillation tower at first, but then moved into diesel desulphurization. I wish it wasn&#
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by spot5010 6mo ago
As a young grad student, I remember going to a talk by Bennett where he explained how a Quantum Computer allows manipulation in a 2^N dimensional hilbert space, while the outputs measurements give you only N bits of information. The trick i
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by spot5010 6mo ago
I feel like there’s a lesson to be learnt by reading Lord of the Rings and seeing what happens to Saruman and Denethor.
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by spot5010 7mo ago
I don't think we get rid of the CPU. But the relationship will be inverted. Instead of the CPU calling the GPU, it might be that the GPU becomes the central controller and builds programs and calls the CPU to execute tasks.
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by spot5010 7mo ago
What if we create a situation in a lab that can be labelled as a collapse of the wave function by interaction with a macroscopic object. Except the macroscopic object is under our control and we can reverse the collapse. A quantum computer
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by spot5010 7mo ago
There’s papers that “derive” Born’s rule from the many worlds interpretations, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7907 I don’t claim to understand them though. I have tried.
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by spot5010 7mo ago
What you said here makes sense. Forgive me, but I have trouble even articulating what it is that I don’t understand correctly. Maybe what I meant was this: if I perform a quantum experiment where the spin measurement of an electron could be
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by spot5010 7mo ago
The part that I have trouble wrapping around with many worlds interpretation is how I as an observer end up in one of the many bifurcations. Any links you can share that will help me with understanding that is welcome! The Stanford Encyclop
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by spot5010 7mo ago
I agree. My suspicion is that token efficiency is what will drive more efficient tool calls, and tool building. And we want that. Agents should rely less on raw intelligence (ability to hold everyting in context), and more on building tools
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by spot5010 7mo ago
These seem ideal for robotics applications, where there is a low-latency narrow use case path that these chips can serve, maybe locally.
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by spot5010 8mo ago
I had the same question. Maybe the train is software that's built by SWEs (w/ or w/o AI help). Specifically built for going from A to B very fast. But not flexible, and takes a lot of effort to build and maintain.
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by spot5010 8mo ago
I didn’t think of that, but you are right. At some point I thought I understood templates r-value references work but now I’ve forgotten.
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by spot5010 8mo ago
Maybe a std::take to pair with it?
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by spot5010 8mo ago
Maybe a compiler error that a const object cannot be “moved”? That would force the programmer to remove the std::move, making it clear that its a copy.
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by spot5010 8mo ago
How strict was your elimination of sugar? Did you find a gradual trend of your lipid profile over the course of a year, or was it more sudden?
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by spot5010 9mo ago
Pre LLM agents, a trick that I used was to type in auto var = FunctionCall(...); Then, in the IDE, hover over auto to show what the actual type is, and then replace auto with that type. Useful when the type is complicated, or is in some nes
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by spot5010 10mo ago
"I personally don’t touch LLMs with a stick. I don’t let them near my brain. Many of my friends share that sentiment." Any software engineer who shares this sentiment is doing their career a disservice. LLMs have their pitfalls, a
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by spot5010 10mo ago
Right, but it needs to be formalized.
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by spot5010 10mo ago
The reason code can serve as the source of truth is that it’s precise enough to describe intent, since programming languages are well-specified. Compilers have freedom in how they translate code into assembly and two different compilers ( o
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by spot5010 11mo ago
Found an article which talks about the phase margin, referencing 80 degrees (pi). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_margin
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by spot5010 11mo ago
A wild guess as to what is happening. I haven’t actually tested this hypothesis so I could be completely wrong. In feedback systems, the gain is a function of frequency, and typically decreases when going from low frequency to high frequenc
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by spot5010 11mo ago
The scenario the author describes is bound to happen more and more frequently, and IMO the way to address it is by evolving the culture and best practices for code reviews. A simple solution would be to mandate that while posting coversatio
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by spot5010 1y ago
I do most of my banking and investments on my phone. I don’t think I’m in the minority here.

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