tonygrue

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by tonygrue 7d ago
(Ex-Waymo) Waymo tries really hard to compare apples to apple miles, considering a number of dimensions (weather, speed limits of the roads the miles are on, the specific cities, and more). This is one of the things that they feel distingui
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by tonygrue 7mo ago
You could make a list of all the metadata and pass it through a LLM to determine the quantity. You’ll need some sanity checking but if you prompt it with some examples it will do well. (Done something very similar myself.)
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by tonygrue 8mo ago
You’re likely thinking of the Veritasium episode https://youtu.be/gMlf1ELvRzc?si=Qwevl2GwHCzSFcsQ
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by tonygrue 2y ago
I share all your concerns. I considered mentioning them but figured I should keep my reply focused on idea of freeing people up isn’t inherently bad. In particular zero sum resources like land ownership will be an increased challenge. And o
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by tonygrue 2y ago
My thoughts are a few: There is a lot of undone labor in the world. In developing countries the middle class has drivers, cooks, housekeepers. That’s only possible due to inequality. With automation we can all get that. These people with to
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by tonygrue 2y ago
There is an argument that if you need in process multithreading you should use a different language. But a lot of people need to use python because everything else they’re doing is in python. There are quite a few common cases where in proc
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by tonygrue 2y ago
For me the point of thinking like this is to remain centered and not freak out. I see some people who feel like ‘everything is going downhill and this is the worse time ever’ and that’s just not very grounded. The benefit is that you can be
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by tonygrue 3y ago
I’ve used ImGui with success. I specially was also using webgpu so I used the glfw+webgpu backends. I had to fix a few issues in both halfs of the backend and there remain some little interaction bugs (mostly because browsers capture some k
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by tonygrue 4y ago
https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us/about-wiz and https://www.signify.com/en-us Wiz joined Signify in 2019. Signify is the new name for Philips Lighting (post spin out from Philips).
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Why some tech companies and billionaires are leaving California [video](cnbc.com)
1 points by tonygrue 6y ago|1 comments
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by tonygrue 6y ago
In my first job, management purposely prohibited developers from using really powerful machines because we needed to make the software faster. The problem was it was hard to make the software faster because it was so slow to run, measure,
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by tonygrue 6y ago
As an engineer who loves the moonshots it breaks my heart. The core problem however is that from a dispassionate investor viewpoint, the uber for Y companies are more understandable and are perceived to deliver larger results more quickly i
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by tonygrue 6y ago
As the article alludes, lack of a build your own, flexible yet affordable desktop option seems to be a pretty deadly aspect. Pretty much Mac owners are on laptops. Even in the PC world few laptops can power VR. Those that do tend to be bulk
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by tonygrue 6y ago
It has to survive the trip there, be mostly autonomous, and most importantly operate in the low atmosphere and harsh environment of Mars. All things no off the shelf design will get you. Here are some highlights: https://solarsys
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by tonygrue 7y ago
Not an expert, but some digging in on this indicates there is one species folks advice against (topical milkweed); otherwise the advice is a species native to your region. Some sites out there can help you pick a milkweed for your region. [
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by tonygrue 7y ago
In January I built a personal project on the web with Rust and had the positive experience I was hoping for. The efficiency of execution plus the cleanliness and memory safety of a modern language was the draw. It took me a week of battling
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by tonygrue 7y ago
I've built plugins with VSTO (for Outlook) when I was at MS, but my memory is that it’s dependent on a plugin being distributed and not available for native use embedded into the excel workbooks. You have to install Visual Studio, comp
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by tonygrue 7y ago
I'd be over the moon to see one change to Excel. Native support for a language other than VBA. Perhaps the CLR. Perhaps Java/Typescript. Just something (optional) for programmers who want to use Excel and not want to deal with the
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by tonygrue 7y ago
Have you tried Alpaca ( https://alpaca.markets/ )? As I understand their pitch they're an API based brokerage with free trades similar to Robinhood. Not my space / haven't tried them, be interesting to see if t
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by tonygrue 7y ago
> More than one square mile, in Silicon Valley. I was momentarily outraged, until I found it on a map. The San Andreas fault runs _right_ through the center of the property. Makes me glad it's basically a garden now and not a housi
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by tonygrue 8y ago
Paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.07291.pdf Page 14 and beyond show a number of examples vs previous methods. IIUC, their contribution is a masking normalization layer (the 'SPADE' layer [see pg 4]) that
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by tonygrue 8y ago
For me depends on what the knowledge is. About Code: The only way I've found that works is comments in the code itself (or docs generated from code annotations). Processes: Playbooks and Automation. Playbooks - DropboxPaper/Google
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by tonygrue 8y ago
Wunderlist is where I landed 5 years ago after many failed alternatives. I like that it’s primary interface is a simple entry box with an add button. I can review my ideas periodically and add more detail. It’s very cross platform and very
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by tonygrue 8y ago
afaict, this study looked at only two instances of fortune 500 companies who moved some people to open office plans and compared them to those who were not moved. Additionally, they measured 'interactions', which was a self
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by tonygrue 9y ago
My guess is that the more detailed, dense map allows the car to precisely localize itself by using its view of the world to match against the map, yielding a location more precise than GPS (and for when gps doesn’t work); eg ICP point cloud
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by tonygrue 9y ago
As you speculate, some lines of research address aging by keeping you young. Your DNA is kept young, and as a side effect your muscles are kept young and the ability to quickly recover from injury is restored, like a 20 year old, instead o
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by tonygrue 9y ago
Something I’ve learned recently is that Target price matches amazon (and a number of other sites). It’s basically turned Target into a same day pickup Amazon warehouse for me. Yes, I’ve got to get to Target; but sometimes I want something t
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by tonygrue 9y ago
(I worked on an early version of PyAnnotate.) The main difference is that pytype is a static analyzer (i.e. it inspects the code and tries to figure out what types various things are), whereas PyAnnotate is a profiler hook, so you have to r
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by tonygrue 10y ago
I had to do a double take on the third letter after reading the return address of Microsoft Way. At first I thought Microsoft was issuing NSLs. Turns out the FBI and Microsoft happen to be next door neighbors in Charlotte. I feel like Mic
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by tonygrue 12y ago
The short answer is yes, we use a fair amount of C++, and yes, we've eliminated writing the JNI code for developers on the team. We're planning on writing more about both of these topics in a future blog post and we're intere

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