zenogantner

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by zenogantner 4mo ago
So maybe we need programming languages that are really good/supportive at handling errors (while not introducing more of them)?
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by zenogantner 1y ago
Well, good management/tech leadership is about making sure that the risks coming from individual failure points (10 people in your example) are recognized and mitigated, and that the individuals involved can flag risks and conflicts ea
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by zenogantner 1y ago
The problem with collapsed repeated chords comes not only from the data processing -- most Ultimate Guitar songs are written down entirely ignoring how often a chord is repeated -- the classic "lyrics plus chords" format is incomp
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by zenogantner 1y ago
Typically, chord progressions are described independently of the key they are in. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2750s_progression
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by zenogantner 2y ago
While this is from ByteDance, who also are behind TikTok, this algorithm is likely not the one behind TikTok. Instead, it is likely a component that powers ByteDance's commercial recommender system solution, which they market to e-comm
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by zenogantner 2y ago
Most of these sound like team/people problems, not technology problems. Like most problems in IT in general :-)
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by zenogantner 2y ago
... and the compound interest of being consistently slightly better makes these people much better than others in the long run.
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by zenogantner 2y ago
People here in the comments seem to focus on whether it is possible to predict an artist's success based on secondary "civic" virtues, and criticize the author for having subjective criteria for what "success" means
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by zenogantner 2y ago
"The people" are the president's superior.
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by zenogantner 2y ago
IM software can be closed, too, and in a healthy company the expectations around IMs should not be that they are "instant", but more of an async medium like email.
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by zenogantner 2y ago
Next step: The Onion buys X.
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by zenogantner 2y ago
Really interesting story. Different from a standard VC biography. Thank you for sharing it, Adam!
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by zenogantner 2y ago
I do not think that guy was only caught by accident. More red flags would have been raised if there had been further interviews.
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by zenogantner 2y ago
At least there were tests ;-). I am somewhat surprised that a programmer who was unaware of arrays in Perl managed to have tests. But then again, he managed to implement their own version of arrays, maybe he came up with the concept of soft
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by zenogantner 2y ago
It's cheaper for a (large enough) state to just damages/settlements, rather than paying insurance contributions. Many countries manage to have (mostly) courteous and effective professional police forces without using an insurance&
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by zenogantner 2y ago
And Perl 5.
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by zenogantner 2y ago
> once you make it to adulthood - your body is strong enough, or can be made strong enough, to get you most of the way to your expiration date. Yes, if you are male. Different story for women who give birth.
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by zenogantner 2y ago
"Fifty Sounds" by Polly Barton is a book-length essay about this. Very entertaining read. Plus some Wittgenstein thrown in ...
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by zenogantner 3y ago
I'd say making adding new features that deliver value safer is an even bigger benefit of having tests.
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by zenogantner 3y ago
Why is this post flagged? In which way is it against the guidelines?
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by zenogantner 3y ago
> 40-90%: Amount saved by appending “Be Concise” to your prompt Looks to me like "numbers every LLM user needs to know".
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by zenogantner 3y ago
Maybe try Debian stable? Ubuntu is based on Debian, and the releases receive mostly security updates ... so this might be really something for you. Also, no snaps as far as I know.
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by zenogantner 4y ago
> wonder why we don't have external "neural processing" devices like we once had soundcards. Some video cards/GPUs have become just that, becoming more and more geared towards non-graphics workloads ...
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by zenogantner 4y ago
This blog post is unlikely to contain TikTok's secret sauce, or even anything that is actually used by TikTok. ByteDance runs TikTok, but they also sell recommendations as a service. The paper that this blog post is based on explicitly
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by zenogantner 4y ago
Name and shame, please! ... so that others do not have to go through this experience ...
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by zenogantner 4y ago
Yes, pretzels are sold in bakeries all over Germany, but there are huge quality differences. As a Bavarian living in Berlin, I am shocked both about the (lack of) quality and the (high) prices of pretzels.
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by zenogantner 4y ago
Why even "the left"? When Marco from the article was put into foster care, both West Berlin and West Germany had conservative governments.
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by zenogantner 4y ago
Being able to undo an action is is actually a general usability principle that has been around at least since the 1980s :-).
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by zenogantner 4y ago
As a former Nokia/HERE employee, I agree. A really interesting read! It is a book originally written in Finnish by two journalists who start out with the question of whether Elop was placed at Nokia with the goal of "handing over&
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by zenogantner 4y ago
Literature if you want to get better at using the language and gain a deeper understanding of it: "Effective Python" and "Serious Python". Also have a look at the Python standard library documentation and e.g. the data m

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