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I'm also dependent on a bunch of advanced libraries and compilers I didn't write. I could reimplement them if I took years to do it but it would be a total wast
by chpatrick 28d ago
I'm also dependent on a bunch of advanced libraries and compilers I didn't write. I could reimplement them if I took years to do it but it would be a total waste of time.
- jplusequalt 28d ago>I'm also dependent on a bunch of advanced libraries and compilers I didn't write. Two different kinds of dependence here: one is taking advantage of a pre-existing tool to perform some set of tasks. The other is there to outsource your thinking over concepts you are not able to reason about yourself.
- chpatrick 28d agoI'm also outsourcing computational geometry to CGAL and CPU optimizations to GCC, so what? I can still reason about them. For example for a problem I had recently Claude pointed out (after some prodding for me) that the determinant of the Jacobian of a function I'm interested in is a polynomial in polar coordinates, so I used a fancy root finding library (which I also didn't write) to solve it efficiently.
- jplusequalt 27d agoSorry, I just don't think you'd be qualified for the job if this was 5 years ago.
- chpatrick 27d agoI had the same job 5 years ago, but I'm sure you know better.