wanderingmind

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by wanderingmind 5d ago
Newsflash. Most graduate research is worth nothing. If this helps graduate students to re-evaluate and start doing things that can generate income while being intellectually stimulating, it's a net win for the person and the economy
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by wanderingmind 23d ago
I like the hacking spirit suggestion. But my disagreement is the specificity of it. The suggestion here seems more inline with not tinkering and hacking but first principles learning typical of science and math curriculum. What made hacking
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by wanderingmind 28d ago
This is excellent. Would love to see the rest of the principles of AI usage.
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by wanderingmind 1mo ago
Good to know other people who get migrane reading LLMs dense prose. I started reading books again recently, since everything online is polluted by LLM prose. What i realise, is that a human author, especially a teacher understands the learn
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by wanderingmind 1mo ago
A slight tangent here is a technical deep dive on Voyager 1 fixing a memory corruption error in 2023 by hand 15 billion miles away. Blows my mind of the reverse engineering done to achieve this https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by wanderingmind 2mo ago
100 percent can relate on the relentless curiosity of a child. I was dumbfounded yesterday by this question -> if cars go at high speed, and breaks stop it suddenly, how come the friction doesn't generate enough heat to start a spa
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by wanderingmind 2mo ago
This is supercool. But I have a tangential question. I see projects like this built on top of OSM for different use cases. Does this data gets contributed back to OSM. A lot of them seems hobby projects, so it's hard to maintain long t
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by wanderingmind 3mo ago
Looks like my approach is as old school as it gets. For complex piece of work, the only way to be in flow for me is when I'm driving the engagement. I start with a high level requirement and a high level design plan to achieve it. I al
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by wanderingmind 3mo ago
Assuming you live in a crazy big house (1000 m2), it cleaned your house 74000 times. Given S5 was released 8 years ago, even approximating it to 10, that's 20 times a day. I can imagine it taking about an hour to do one clean run. Jesu
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by wanderingmind 3mo ago
My sense is you only submit if you are in the business of selling supercomputing cluster (IBM, Cray). If you are a consumer or build to consume internally, you would care less.
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by wanderingmind 4mo ago
The default must be pull, unless opt in for push. At the moment I would like notifications once a day or once a week for most apps. But instead I ha e turned it off completely, because of the push abuse. If I can configure to pull all the n
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by wanderingmind 4mo ago
The actual paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mec...
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The Human Body's Hidden Pathways(nytimes.com)
4 points by wanderingmind 4mo ago|0 comments
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by wanderingmind 5mo ago
This, we learn natural language like English first before we can use it to express ideas, argue for or against those ideas with evidence. The problem is not teaching a programming language, the problem is stopping there and not teaching how
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by wanderingmind 5mo ago
Humanity has been using steel for over a millenia, however it's only in the past 100 years or so we have a good understanding of how carbon interacts with iron at an atomic level to create the strength characteristics that makes it use
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by wanderingmind 5mo ago
To add salt to the wound: https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by wanderingmind 5mo ago
No disrespect to the person, but this seems to be written by someone who has spent their life in academic bubble, without having to deal with people and entities with diverging interests and the impact of time on any decisions. I'm sur
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by wanderingmind 5mo ago
Technical feedback yes, but always reject any career feedback from your advisor since the data shows it's unlikely a good model for future career success
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by wanderingmind 5mo ago
No, it doesn't the easiest way is to always use it in Firefox and use the following uBlock filters https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
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by wanderingmind 5mo ago
Its not, if you dont trust Anthropic, I hope you trust Daniel Steinberg of curl, who has said AI has gotten really good at detecting bugs and vulnerabilities. Here is his LinkedIN post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dan
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by wanderingmind 5mo ago
So Mozilla is not part of this consortium, i'm guessing for deliberate reasons to make safari and chrome the default browsers. I don't think Firefox can survive the upcoming attacks, without robust support from foundational AI pro
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by wanderingmind 6mo ago
@dang maybe a candidate for reposting as the original posting did not get much traction
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by wanderingmind 7mo ago
Best way to deal with this is take them to small claims court. If enough people do this, They have to send representations that will cost them enough to stop such nonsense.
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by wanderingmind 7mo ago
Micropayments gives me flexibility that subscription doesn't. I'm happy to pay $5 a month just to read Matt Levin. I'm not paying $40 for Bloomberg subscription. It also gives publishers signal on what really users care about
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by wanderingmind 7mo ago
Whenever technically more capable folks diss the growth of a non technical person into bigger roles, I'm obligated to post this Steve Jobs video being asked about Java. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o&t=
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First Proof(1stproof.org)
1 points by wanderingmind 7mo ago|1 comments
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by wanderingmind 8mo ago
I think you should merge it, dang, just for future reference. All the comments will be in a single thread.
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by wanderingmind 8mo ago
My nitpick is that thinking and dreaming about solving the problem is part of doing. Its the planning phase. Skipping This planning phase in Software engineering is the root cause of most Day 2 operations issues. However I agree that thinki
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by wanderingmind 8mo ago
Sounds interesting I would love to use it if you get a chance to push to github
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by wanderingmind 8mo ago
Hasn't this always been the case, what is different right now is that the tech enables to do this at scale, at much higher frequency that makes them more audacious, since no regular person can keep up with it. The over saturation of li

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