thornkin

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by thornkin 3y ago
How would an LLM do prompt engineering for you? At some level, as others have stated, prompt engineering is about specifying the important details so the LLM can do the job. If you don't specify those details, how would the LLM know
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Windows is now one of the biggest Git repos in the world(arstechnica.com)
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by thornkin 10y ago
Self was definitely an influence. It's where the prototype inheritance came from. Not sure that's a good thing. Smalltalk was more traditional in its inheritance model even if it was all duck typing.
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by thornkin 10y ago
That was my frustration. I made a game in SmallTalk at one point but there was no way to distribute it to people without giving them my whole image. I just wanted a simple .exe to hand out.
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by thornkin 11y ago
Boyd's ideas are laid out really well by his acolyte Chet Richards in his book Certain to Win which applies the military theories to business. If interested at all in this space, check it out.
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by thornkin 11y ago
As a teenager in the early 90s, this show was gold. Before the internet, getting information like this was hard and the show did a good job keeping things interesting.
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by thornkin 12y ago
That doesn't help if (as stated above) there are a lot of duplicate issues. You still have to figure out which test case applies to each report.
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by thornkin 13y ago
Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan.
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by thornkin 13y ago
What this means is that kids' tastes change and as they grow up, so will their tastes. Being popular with kids does not the next Facebook make. Instead, you are more likely to be ChatRoulette, MySpace, LiveJournal, etc.
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by thornkin 13y ago
They had two CEOs. Let each take one platform.
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by thornkin 13y ago
Blackberry went with the "future OS" and now has cratering market share (under 3%). HTC went with Android, and had a head start over Nokia, and it too has less than 3% market share. Motorola is owned by Google and has virtually
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by thornkin 13y ago
What's the old saying? You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time?
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by thornkin 13y ago
How, after 2 summers as an intern, do you know how many times people were promoted? Microsoft doesn't let people sit around for 12-18 years.
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by thornkin 13y ago
This is what I did. I have a BS in Politics and a MS in CS. Before taking the MS degree, I read a lot of the books one would read for a BS in CS and did a lot of programming. This prepared me well. I met others in the program who didn't
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by thornkin 13y ago
What do you think is the moat that will keep Intel from doing to Arm what they did to the RISC chips? Intel has better process and very capable designers. They are quickly moving down-market. Why assume that Arm moves into Intel's territ
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by thornkin 13y ago
Why couldn't loans be made which devalue at a rate pegged to a basket of goods? We track the rate of inflation today, we could just as easily track deflation and loans could be pegged to that. Doesn't that solve the loan problem?
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by thornkin 13y ago
That is only true if the loss is actually permanent. If the system comes to assume that there are only 10,000,000 coins in circulation, what happens if a substantial portion of the "lost" 11,000,000 shows back up? Now you just had a 50% i
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by thornkin 13y ago
The analogy to gold isn't gold that was once possessed that has been lost, it is gold that is newly discovered. A new find of a big gold vein, gold on an asteroid, etc. would be a similar shock to the system.
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by thornkin 14y ago
Site seems down now.
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by thornkin 14y ago
That's the 16 GB model. The surface has 32 GB. The version of the iPad with 32GB and 3G is $729.
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by thornkin 14y ago
The Office apps that come with the Surface are the real deal. It's the Home and Student version according to the web site.
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by thornkin 14y ago
You actually do have a choice. If you buy an OEM copy from, say, Newegg, there is no support included. That's part of the reason it is so much cheaper than the retail version.
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by thornkin 14y ago
This question demonstrates what I think has gone wrong with StackOverflow. They have such a narrow view of what constitutes their code mission that they are killing off useful posts like this one.
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by thornkin 15y ago
They were replacing things like Symbian, Palm, and Windows Mobile. They required a very different way of thinking than the previous generation of Phone OS's.
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by thornkin 15y ago
A company like Apple does not start using a large set of data without management and legal asking where it came from. It may be that no one completed the circle and added the attribute they were told to by legal or that legal somehow thoug
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by thornkin 15y ago
Sounds like what he really wants is Windows 8.
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by thornkin 15y ago
That is only true if web authors use that feature. If they do not, there is no penalty for failing to support it.
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by thornkin 15y ago
All the time: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+one+trick+pony
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by thornkin 15y ago
Project Aardvark: http://www.projectaardvark.com/
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by thornkin 15y ago
Pirates of Silicon Valley is a great movie. Noah Wyle makes a great Steve Jobs.

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