tobiasSoftware

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by tobiasSoftware 2y ago
"I find it useful to think “what can I expect from speaking with the dataset of combined writing of people”, rather than treating a basic LLM as a mind." I've been doing this as well, mentally I think of LLMs as the librarian
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
One of the weirdest things Einstein discovered is that time is relative, but cause and effect are absolute. For example, muons should decay before they hit the ground, but they don't due to time dilation. We see the time dilation when
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
My favorite example is if I search Google for "tide me over vs tie me over" it comes up with "Tie me over is correct". Not only is this wrong, but if you click the link, the source itself says it is wrong! The source is
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
Honestly I think the root problem is that universities have a degree in computer science, whereas what most people want is to learn to build computer software. The two overlap most of the time in subtle ways where the science gives an impor
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
Perhaps you should consider wearing an N95 while visiting the hospital. You can a pack on Amazon for $15 (even in stylish black), and they really aren't that bad wearing. In my opinion, the practice of wearing N95s in medical settings
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
" I don't think there's a JRPG more accessible than this one" I'd argue there's one more, though I may be biased as it's what got me into RPGs - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. It's a relatively unknown t
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
I agree that "throw everything in a hashmap" should be straightforward and is a good interview test. However, his further steps to "optimize" it by saying "Poor candidates load the contents of both files into memory
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
I agree. I hate how these interviews always focus so much on algorithmic time at the expense of flexibility of the code. I agree with the first part about avoiding the n^2 algorithm by using hash maps. However, making your algorithm use hal
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
The SMTM theory is that obesity is not directly about counting calories, but more like a contagious disease due to a contaminant that causes people to be hungrier and eat more calories. Many people will dismiss this outright, but consider t
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
Because the story was misrepresented and it wasn't truly voted on in the normal sense. In the US Congress, how many people are present matters to the vote. So if a bunch of Congressmen take off, it would give enormous power to the few
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
The delayed choice quantum eraser is misunderstood (even by PBS Spacetime) to invoke time travel/retrocausality. The truth is that the pattern seen on the screen is the same whichever set of detectors you send it to, and as such, there
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
Looking around, it does look like she's explained things better in other videos than the one I saw, so maybe I was too harsh. The video I saw at the time is "Why is quantum mechanics weird? The bomb experiment" where she desc
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
I have substantial layman's expertise in quantum physics and while she correctly points out many mistakes that are even in textbooks, she also follows the very niche Superdeterimistic viewpoint and then presents hypotheses that follow
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
Unfortunately, her physics videos are worse than people realize too, at least the quantum physics ones. I've been learning a lot of quantum physics and she's a mixed bag. On the one hand, most people's (and even textbooks&#x2
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
The CDC was recommending against KN95 and N95 masks even after Omicron, so it was more like 2 years, not one month. I was also someone who wore proper masks against the advice of experts. I agree that going with the experts is the best cour
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
I was as shocked as you, and was absolutely infuriated over the bank telling me that they couldn't manually override whatever was going on. I can assure you it was a real thing that happened, and I did cancel my credit card and get a n
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
Fun fact. Several years ago I started getting charges from NPM, which although I am a software developer I have never used. I cancelled my credit card multiple times, but they kept appearing each month. I went to my bank, Bank of America, a
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by tobiasSoftware 3y ago
There are, and it turns out that this is a significant mathematical concept. The integers between 0 and infinity are defined as "countably infinite". Other infinities are considered countably infinite, or the "same" infi
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
"at maximum, the spectre of AI contribution might virally taint the entire film" - which would also mean that anyone who used GitHub Copilot would not be able to copyright their software code.
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
I don't see programming going away for this reason. Think about it, if you have to carefully describe what you want to do to an AI - you are just writing a program. Only a program is deterministic and will do what you tell it to, where
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
How does this affect programming? Does this mean if a program was built using GitHub Copilot, that in order to have copyright on software, you have to explain that to the copyright office?
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
I'd say it is about the accessibility of data. First, there is the issue of paid ads. An example is if I look up "How to learn C++", the top link is a paid ad for CodeAcademy, which claims to be free, but then has three tiers
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
I've never used password managers, partly because I don't trust them and partly because I've found an alternative that I feel is secure enough and more convenient. I split my passwords into two parts, one secure part that is
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
I don't know if the above commenter is talking about the same time period. However, the period around 2016 when Trump got elected revealed some odd decisions that Reddit had that it eventually needed to change. It's been a while,
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
I was thinking about this with the news about how poor our Omicron booster response has been where only a few percent of people have taken them. I think a significant part of this reaction can be traced back to a year ago when two top scien
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
Calories in calories out (CICO) is the what, not the why. If you saw someone who spent $1000 on jewelry every month and didn't pay their electricity bills, would you tell them to learn to budget? Heck no, you'd tell them they need
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
I highly recommend a recent game called Outer Wilds that in my opinion takes the adventure game genre to the next level by giving it an open world feel. It does this through three ideas. First, there are no collectible items, the game is ab
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
At 35, I have the same goal and feel that I've actually made quite a bit of progress and am working on some very interesting projects. I'll share some of my secrets with you: 1. When you find an issue in code, search the entire co
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
I was also surprised at the reaction people had. I'm even on the weak AI side and don't think machines will be able to become sentient, but I also think we know so little about sentience that I am fascinated by the topic and willi
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by tobiasSoftware 4y ago
Circular buffers (your fancy implementation) are far superior for queues. Pretty much any modern vector like data structure is already going to have grow logic so adding head and tail pointers isn't too hard. However, as this article m

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