MillenialMan

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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Neural nets generalise because they have to approximate the data at a lower resolution, it's not that they're constrained to only learn what is useful. They're lossy compressors, but they have a unique property that most loss
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
How viable is it to replace CUDA with compute shaders?
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Just reply, "this is covered in the documentation." If they say, "I can't find where," find the broad section it's in and send them that. Then, the subsection. Then the page. Gradually get more and more spe
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
This is a great little story. Got a chuckle out of it, thanks for sharing.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Knowing what I know about Steve Jobs, I have to wonder whether the whole thing was a bait to get you (and everyone else he mentioned it to) into proving the concept before they signed a contract. What do you think? You reckon he was baiting
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
You can identify some places changes are possible, but the problem is fundamentally unprovable, because of the Halting problem. You can't just hand-wave that away by saying, "we can use tricks to get 95% coverage." Ok, but
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
This hasn't been my experience at all. Plumber-developers are generally terrible at architecting systems, whereas confident low-level/algorithms programmers tend to also be very good at designing architectures. Personally, I think
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
That's an interesting case and I think those jobs are likely to be legitimately bullshit.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
And that's a bullshit definition - because everyone reads it as "a job that is bullshit ", not "a job that the worker believes is not 100% necessary". The whole thing is wordplay. I don't respect the methodolo
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Provided you don't circumvent strict typing, no, Haskell does not have typing bugs. Or rather, it has so few that you can functionally behave as if the type checking is flawless. One of the main benefits of strict typing is that confid
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I think those employees are: A) Switching between the two definitions (is their job useless to their employer, or "the world"?) B) Usually wrong - the company knows why they were hired much better than they do (and the company gua
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
You have people who's entire role, not just part of it, is to be a fall guy? They do nothing but pretend to work and act as a scapegoat when you fail? Or do you have people who are still productive, but you keep around as insurance
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I think they make mistakes, and as with your example, those mistakes tend to get fixed. Net negative jobs are the exception, not the rule, and completely useless jobs are the vast exception.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Python types are unprovable, since the type of a variable can change at runtime. It's the Halting problem. All you can do is enforce types on static function boundaries - but that doesn't prove you won't send a different type
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I was careful with my words. "Completely useless" is not the same as "a net loss".
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
This strikes me as a narrative that's much easier to state and nod along to, than to demonstrate. Companies are ruthless about cutting fat. They have departments dedicated to isolating unnecessary employees and firing them. Beurocracy
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
The trick "bullshit jobs" uses is to switch between two definitions of bullshit. One definition is " useless , of no benefit to the employer," and the other is "revolving around selling bullshit" (which is ab
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
At least in the UK, "Software Engineering" degrees are just Computer Science degrees with a different name and a restricted subset of course options. From what I can tell, they're a marketing gimmick, but even respectable uni
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
This hasn't been my experience in practice. I went to a top-5 CS university in the UK and some of my classmates graduated almost unable to program (and they still, somehow, got jobs). Seeing that first-hand was extremely jarring. It di
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Honestly, this characterisation doesn't ring true to me at all. I find long functions much easier to read, inspect and think about than dutifully decomposed lasagne that forces me to jump around the codebase. But also, like... Scanning
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I don't think that's the problem. The problem is that Universities aren't punished for teaching inadequately. And when challenged, people justify it by saying, "ah, but this course that 90% of you took so that you could
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
That doesn't sound like an effective pipeline to me. That sounds like a really bad pipeline, and a lot of post-hoc justifications to minimise the issues. I'm hesitant to take Google's use of a tool as an indication that the t
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Benchmarks like that are completely artificial anyway, because the real speed difference comes when the code becomes more complex and the dynamic language can no longer be reduced to something like those simple benchmarks, because it&#x27
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Look up Nubank and Datomic. You'll have an aneurysm. (Edit: to be clear, I'm agreeing with you)
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Oooooh, good point. Yes, posts like that are great.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Oh man, is that worse than driving? I'm in London, so I don't really know what it's like in SF. What's so exhausting about it?
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Man, that sucks. I didn't realise Bart was so sparse. Are there any plans to expand it, or add something like a subway? They must have the tax revenue. It seems absurd that they'd drive everyone toward increasing traffic given how
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Why drive, at that point? Isn't it easier to use BART + a scooter?
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I don't think we're going to agree on this, so I'll just say that I do grok the approach you're advocating, I used to think like you, and I've deliberately migrated away from it. I used to chunk everything into 5ish
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I was responding to the idea that it's better than everywhere else on the internet. That hasn't really been my experience. Discord is better, StackOverflow is better, even Reddit is often better if you're looking at specialis

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