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by tehnub 7d ago
>Also a phone already starts with very deep depth of field because again smaller sensor size thus smaller focal length etc. Most images at their lower f stop is already in focus. So the ability to reduce aperture or simulate shallow DOF
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by tehnub 23d ago
Neither this post nor the Sean Goedecke one gives an example of what being angry at work looks like. Anger is a pretty broad emotion. Without examples to base the discussion, it all seems kind of meaningless to me. I see a lot of frustratio
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by tehnub 1mo ago
If you're excited about AI, doesn't that mean you're actually less AI-pilled? You don't believe it will replace you fully.
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by tehnub 1mo ago
That pic of the team... no swag to speak of
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by tehnub 2mo ago
Another film she did the colors on is Whisper of the Heart. It's a Ghibli film that was written by Miyazaki, but directed by Yoshifumi Kondō. The colors are truly outstanding. Scenes at dawn, lamplit rooms, overcast school days, and fa
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by tehnub 2mo ago
Such excellent writing. I also read the linked post from 2018 near the bottom. When every other thing you see on here is Claude-inflected if not Claude-written, encountering a blog like this is an occasion to cherish.
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Scaling Laws, Carefully(lilianweng.github.io)
88 points by tehnub 3mo ago|20 comments
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by tehnub 3mo ago
Indeed. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic)
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Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard and Future of Gaming [video](youtube.com)
2 points by tehnub 3mo ago|0 comments
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by tehnub 3mo ago
Reminds me of the extended description of what it might be like to drown in an ice lake in the book Stella Maris — it wouldn't be quick.
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by tehnub 4mo ago
Opus 4.7 did this in my code and I had never seen it before
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by tehnub 4mo ago
It's a common rhetorical technique that never convinces me. I'm not convinced this guy's anecdote is an exception to some rule.
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by tehnub 4mo ago
>If the models are good enough, you will simply get outcompeted by engineers willing to trade their long-term cognitive ability for a short-term lucrative career > (2) AI-users thus become less effective engineers over time, as their
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by tehnub 5mo ago
Interesting, enjoyable post. Like the bit about data modeling. I've been dabbling in some OCaml and that kind of modeling is the best part. Also interesting to learn of CAMLBOY. Feedback to the author: Skip the AI edit step. I'd h
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How to Build an Agent Or: The Emperor Has No Clothes (2025)(ampcode.com)
2 points by tehnub 5mo ago|0 comments
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Books I Like: SICP(users.cms.caltech.edu)
3 points by tehnub 5mo ago|0 comments
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by tehnub 6mo ago
I just read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cajamarca It seems like the Incans were overconfident and didn't expect a surprise attack (didn't have their weapons, only a small retinue around the r
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by tehnub 6mo ago
Brilliant >Sure, if you mess up and one of the houses collapses then that'll manifest as an outcome that impacts the home owner negatively. lol
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by tehnub 6mo ago
There are plenty of furniture makers that use all hardwood construction. It's just that they charge like $10K USD for a cabinet
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by tehnub 6mo ago
This incident was from 2014. I wonder how many OKCupid employees and shareholders from then are still at/invested in the company. What do corporate punishments do if the people who made the mistake aren't even there to receive the
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by tehnub 6mo ago
I've been using jj, which apparently is also faster than jq https://github.com/tidwall/jj
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by tehnub 6mo ago
There's probably tons of stuff people use that is way slower than it needs to be but speed isn't one of their self-reported burning problems because they don't even realize it could be faster. pip vs uv?
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by tehnub 6mo ago
Nah we're not doing prequel hate in 2026
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by tehnub 7mo ago
Why Article By AI?
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by tehnub 7mo ago
I wouldn’t because idiomatic Haskell is way slower than idiomatic Rust.
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by tehnub 7mo ago
They’re using big things to do experiments. Maybe they discover some new physical effect. How do you know that that effect couldn’t be demonstrated in some smaller scale experiment after it’s understood better?
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by tehnub 7mo ago
I don't think that argument holds up. See quantum mechanics.
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by tehnub 7mo ago
How can people still make such mistaken analogies when ChatGPT was released over three years ago?
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by tehnub 7mo ago
Totally on point, except I'm pretty sure Jobs was not like that. From what I've read he'd be more of a hands on "agentic engineer". Baby-sitting his engineers and designers and steering them.
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by tehnub 7mo ago
I think Asimov is right that 1984 was not intended as a forecast but rather a depiction of Stalinism with British characteristics, so to speak. >In short, if 1984 must be considered science fiction, then it is very bad science fiction. B

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