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I'm going to call it; A lot of stuff is going to break on this mission(twitter.com)
4 points by Maro 1y ago|1 comments
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by Maro 2y ago
A good model for understanding what happens to people as they delegate tasks to AI is to think about what happens to managers who delegate tasks to their subordinates. Sure, there are some managers who can remain sharp, hands-on and relevan
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by Maro 2y ago
I hate CSV (but not as much as XML). Most reasonably large CSV files will have issues parsing on another system.
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by Maro 2y ago
I've left Hungary ~10 years ago, partially because of the politics. Hungary is essentially a failed state, people just don't know yet. Like ~100 years ago, poor hungarian leadership managed to position itself on the wrong side of
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by Maro 2y ago
Hi, it depends on what you mean by "first principles". If you don't have a solid background in math, then that's what you should improve upon (calculus, linear algebra, discrete math, probability theory, information theo
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by Maro 2y ago
Sign up for a $25/mo dedicated server on OVHCloud, you can use it as a cloud devbox, host your blog, ssh-tunnel for VPN, run projects like this on it, etc. You can still call AWS APIs if you want.
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by Maro 2y ago
I've been using OVHCloud for 8 years for running a dedicated server for personal use, for about $30/mo. Had zero issues, it just works for me, can highly recommend.
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by Maro 2y ago
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ui4h0J1mIQ
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The Saga of Elon Musk's Path of Exile Account(old.reddit.com)
25 points by Maro 2y ago|6 comments
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by Maro 2y ago
I personally have been using LLMs as coding aids for 1-2 years for my personal fun/toy projects (at work I'm a pure manager these days), and there's just no question that they make me way more effective at churning out higher
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by Maro 2y ago
I think some jobs will definitely disappear / change due to LLMs. It's already happening, I can tell how I personally effectively elimitated 1-2 jobs around me in 2024 thanks to my $10/mo ChatGPT subscription. I work at a lar
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by Maro 2y ago
I was doing an astrophsyics Phd 15 years ago, and one of the many reasons I abandoned it is exactly this. To get published, I would have had to start all my papers introducing and assuming the ΛCDM model, even though it just didn't see
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by Maro 2y ago
Python source: https://github.com/antosft/SNe-PantheonPlus-Analysis Input data: https://zenodo.org/records/12729746
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by Maro 2y ago
Clearly this is a joke, and you're all missing the point! He decided to fill in the void left after HBO's Silicon Valley and take up startup stand-up comedy, and this essay is his entry into the space :)
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by Maro 2y ago
Thanks for your reply! Hope my comment wasn't offensive. I definitely think components, unit testing, regression testing are good things and are done at good software houses. In my experience however, most of these things are mostly ca
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by Maro 2y ago
The perspective of the article seems to be of a person who has not worked in cookie-cutter software engineering environments, which is what 99% of software engineering is. Here formal methods and verification are irrelevant, nobody has hear
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by Maro 2y ago
Very cool! Add a "similar papers" link to each paper, that will make this the obvious way to discover topics by clicking along the similar papers.
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by Maro 2y ago
I don't work in the gaming industry, but it feels to me that engineering a bot like this is a dead art going forward, and that makes me sad. Looking forward (today?) I assume this will be solved by training a black box neural network.
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by Maro 2y ago
Some ideas: 1. Buy O'reilly (and other tech) books as they come out. This will have a lag, but essentially somebody did this research & summarization work, and wrote it up for you in chapters. Note that you don't have to read
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by Maro 2y ago
I don't think it's a good idea to kepp up to date at a daily/weekly cadence, unless you somehow directly get paid for it. It's like checking stocks daily, it doesn't lead to good investment decisions. It's bett
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Monte Carlo Simulations in A/B Testing(arxiv.org)
1 points by Maro 2y ago|1 comments
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by Maro 2y ago
In Physics, the log part comes in when you use the Stirling approximation for large N. Ideal gas: https://bytepawn.com/entropy-of-an-ideal-gas-with-coarse-gra... Physical gas: https://bytepawn.com/the-physic
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by Maro 2y ago
So they will not use Linux (or any other popular *NIX), nor Windows, by 2026?
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by Maro 2y ago
There are millions of lines of shell scripts relying on those flags.
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by Maro 2y ago
I looked at the wc implementation, there's no way it's compatible with the GNU tools, how it handles wide characters, which is heavily ties to the idiosyncratic C implementation. I know because I once wrote a wc implementation in
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by Maro 2y ago
Re peer review: nobody has proof-read what I wrote or checked the code for bugs. Re standard textbook: I've never seen a physics textbook define spin glasses using just probabilities, without the energy picture.
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by Maro 2y ago
Hi, I'm the author of these articles. I'm a physicist, and it always bugged me that we use Hamiltonians/energy/interactions to define spin glasses. I wondered if it'd be possible to just use raw probabilities on a g
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Monte Carlo Simulations in A/B Testing(bytepawn.com)
1 points by Maro 2y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 2y ago
I've written a few articles about Entropy (I'm a physicist working in DS). Almost all of them have Python code to illustrate concepts. - 1. Entropy of a fair coin toss - https://bytepawn.com/what-is-the-entropy-of-
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by Maro 2y ago
As a teenager I read 'Catch 22' over and over. I read Feynman's 'Surely You're Joking', and that led to me becoming a physicist. For software engineering, all the essays in Fred Brooks' 'Mythical Man

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