ssalazar

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Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients(blog.spencersalazar.com)
2 points by ssalazar 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ssalazar 8mo ago
It looks most similar to a Rhodes piano-type electromechanical keyboard, where tuned metal elements are somehow actuated and then sonified with a guitar pickup. Unlikely theres any FM which would require independently digitizing each of th
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by ssalazar 8mo ago
Many people who get into software development before 2010 or so have easily spent hundreds of dollars on dev tools of a similar nature.
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by ssalazar 8mo ago
Sharing my experience if it helps. I graduated in 2006 from Princeton CS, cum laude, with no job offers from any tech company. This was even before the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, so I didn't really have an excuse. I was l
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by ssalazar 1y ago
This blog post (and blog in general) has some detailed descriptions of different control laws, how they are activated, and how they contributed to the conditions of this particular crash: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com&#x2F
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by ssalazar 1y ago
Lmao no, what Ive described is a reasonably competent junior engineer.
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by ssalazar 1y ago
> very fancy search engines This is a common misunderstanding of LLMs. The major, qualitative difference is that LLMs represent their knowledge in a latent space that is composable and can be interpolated. For a significant class of pro
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by ssalazar 1y ago
I didnt make it past the long list of id() misuses, but its a rookie mistake to confuse referential equality with value equality, and when doing so youre in for a bad time.
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by ssalazar 1y ago
For those who aren't already familiar, James Burke in Connections has a great summary/rundown of this technological progression from Jacquard loom to census tabulator to computer punchcard, starting around the 36 minute mark here
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by ssalazar 1y ago
The Agency on Showtime also prominently features the Barbican as the protagonist's residence with a number of great exterior shots.
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by ssalazar 1y ago
Im saying, lets see some actual reasoning behind the extrapolation rather than "just trust me bro" or "sama said this in a TED talk". Many of the comments here and elsewhere have been in the latter categories.
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by ssalazar 1y ago
Thanks -- this is what I mean by evidence, someone with actual experience and skin in the game weighing in rather than blustering proclamations based on vibes. I agree they improve productivity to where you need fewer developers for a simil
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by ssalazar 1y ago
Im using them fine. Im refuting the grandparent's point that they will replace basically all programming activities (including architecture) in 5 years.
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by ssalazar 1y ago
Thanks -- this is much more thoughtful than the persistent chorus of "just trust me, bro".
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by ssalazar 1y ago
I code with multiple LLMs every day and build products that use LLM tech under the hood. I dont think we're anywhere near LLMs being good at code design. Existing models make _tons_ of basic mistakes and require supervision even for
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by ssalazar 1y ago
This author presumably understands but buries the lede that for an endowment of $15 billion a university would typically only spend 5%, or $750 million, annually. So "a mere $400m" is over half of the annual funds from the endowm
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by ssalazar 1y ago
Some of this is probably driven by mobile usage and unifying the experience between mobile <> desktop. But the truth is a team almost certainly tested this and measured an improvement of some topline performance metric. (Hacker News
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by ssalazar 1y ago
Its not offset, its amortized. Your effective flour / pizza is (300 + 300) / num_pizzas. The total marginal flour expended will go up as you make more pizzas, but the effective cost will actually go down as the upfront cost is am
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by ssalazar 2y ago
I'm ambivalent about Severance, though folks here may appreciate that it has many excellent establishing shots of the magnificent Bell Labs Holmdel Complex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex
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by ssalazar 2y ago
Counterpoint: I don't want a boss who is so detached from the rest of life & society that they have copious free time on nights and weekends to practice coding.
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by ssalazar 2y ago
Double digits, in binary, at least
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by ssalazar 2y ago
You dont have to imagine! Thats less than a sixth of a percent of the entire US federal budget :)
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by ssalazar 2y ago
I have no specific insider knowledge, but a decade+ ago they bought a company called the Echo Nest that was developing some of the best audio signal analysis algorithms around, I assume much of that influenced their recommender system. Nowa
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Herb Sutter's Cpp2 Announcement (CppCon)(twitter.com)
11 points by ssalazar 4y ago|0 comments
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by ssalazar 4y ago
> This means there might be something universal about octave and fifth There is! At least for the kinds of instruments that are conventionally used in Western music. The harmonic series arises naturally from the physical properties of a
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by ssalazar 4y ago
> By this definition, the end of the line is a totally passive consumption of endorphin-inducing pablum that blots out the real world. Doesn't seem all that different from 99% of media consumption thats existed in my lifetime.
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by ssalazar 4y ago
Copyleft / GPL licenses require copyright law to have any threat of enforcement. Otherwise anyone could just ignore the terms of a copyleft license and use open source under any terms they wish.
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by ssalazar 4y ago
Fair point. Even with the valuations exactly the same, Snap's case demonstrates resilience to "American tech giants making life tough for statups."
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by ssalazar 4y ago
In the specific case of Stripe, Ill gladly take a larger bureaucratic moat in exchange for PCI compliance. The cryptocurrency world is rediscovering this tradeoff all over again.
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by ssalazar 4y ago
That doesnt materially change anything I said. They made it to IPO without getting swallowed or beat by a tech giant, they won.

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