Olreich

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by Olreich 3y ago
The “secret sauce” is Word2Vec. Take a snapshot of all the text you can find on the internet, then with a sliding context window, vectorize each word based on what words are around it. The core assumption is that words with similar context
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by Olreich 3y ago
VC money going up in flames has a tendency to kill their other invested-in companies through increased pressure to become the unicorn that digs them out of the hole. Hopefully this VC doesn’t invest heavily in anything actually good.
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by Olreich 3y ago
Most likely, your framework Is productive for you not because it’s the best framework available, but because you wrote it and know the ins and outs of it and it matches up to how you think. This isn’t too day it’s not likely better than oth
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by Olreich 3y ago
Grocery needs a little more tech to be perfectly convenient. Best I've seen are handheld scanners with electronic scales in the produce area to let you get barcodes for all your produce. The handheld scanner to let you scan and pack aw
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by Olreich 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the various managers can play with that experience. I've had Walmart self-checkout complain if I moved too quickly or removed items from the scale after scanning them. They've also complained when I had a seco
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by Olreich 3y ago
Lambda is the most expensive thing you can do if you have more than 25% utilization. Fargate is extremely close to modern on-demand EC2 pricing (m7a family).
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by Olreich 3y ago
Postgres. NoSQL databases are specialized databases. They are best-in-class at some things, but generally that specialization came at great cost to their other options. DynamoDB is an amazing key-value store, but is severely limited at ever
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by Olreich 3y ago
Do everything the in-person one does, and ensure there’s a team meet up sometime in their first month, with a cultural emphasis on getting to know the new folks. It’s fundamentally difficult to onboard. What makes “remote” onboarding hard i
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by Olreich 3y ago
Ah, that article... Here's the paper: https://amj.kma.re.kr/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1597&conte... With a sample size of 29 women and 0 men, they presented 100 tinder profiles and asked them if they would s
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by Olreich 3y ago
They don't even have to sell the data, just get the model to manipulate the user into buying things for their AI companion. Virtual clothes, virtual locations, upgrades for their personality, etc.
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by Olreich 3y ago
And for UUIDs, Base58 and Base64 both require 22 characters, so no density loss! Even Base32 only takes you up to 26 characters.
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by Olreich 3y ago
> Compilers involve giant tree structures, with lots of allocations, pointer chasing, and data-dependent multi-way branches. Tree structures and data-dependent multi-way branches do seem inevitable to me, but pointer chasing and allocati
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by Olreich 3y ago
Factorio inspired a lot of factory games you're seeing: Mindustry, Shapez.io, Satisfactory, Techtonica, Dyson Sphere Program, etc. One of the devs have stated that they were inspired to create Factorio by the IndustrialCraft and BuildC
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by Olreich 3y ago
If the only ICE vehicles left are in the outback, we're doing okay.
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by Olreich 3y ago
The vast majority of the time the reason your ideas are dismissed are because people don't see the value in them. Oftentimes, the easiest way to show the value is to build a vertical slice of that idea and show it to folks. In highly-r
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by Olreich 3y ago
SQL selection works perfectly on tables in poor normal forms. If you have the columns you need to query pre-joined into the table you’re querying, you just skip the joins. Updates are what gets fun if you don’t have normal form.
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by Olreich 3y ago
`3w` is a command all its own. There’s an implicit move command baked in. Moving gets pretty clunky if you don’t have first order movement (adding a specifier or something to clear selection). You can mimic this by mapping a single button t
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by Olreich 3y ago
I kinda prefer controllers. Tapping my fingers together and waving them around with even less feedback will mean the gesture recognition needs to be extremely far beyond anything we’ve had before, or is going to feel awful to use. Any time
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by Olreich 3y ago
Unless there’s some radio wave danger, I don’t see how headsets could be harmful. Your eyes are not actually focusing on a close screen, they’re focused however far away the objects appear to be. Is there a danger to letting your eyes be un
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by Olreich 3y ago
Unfortunately, unless the frustrated driver is allowed to drive unimpeded at 100mph+, they will continue to be unsafe and make others unsafe. If there is enough traffic for you to be the slow car on the road, then that unsafe driver will be
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by Olreich 3y ago
They also already have that computer and most of them have the sensors too. The reason so many cars come with lots of these features is that the base electronic package that the maker uses just comes with it, so the R&D is already paid
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by Olreich 3y ago
Those would be good stats to mandate sharing with the proposed rules. Would likely cause them to rework the system if they started losing sales over it.
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by Olreich 3y ago
Rc<T> is a chunk of memory you can only access through special versions of malloc and free. These don’t actually allocate new memory with the OS though, they just give you pointers to the memory and tell the memory management system t
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by Olreich 3y ago
Can you provide a concrete example of an algorithm that’s easier to express with recursion?
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by Olreich 3y ago
I’ve hit the cliff once. That’s why it’s last on the list. It’s not very often, but it is possible to hit and with the other reasons and the ease of avoiding it make it easy to justify the very small (if any) amount of work to avoid recursi
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by Olreich 3y ago
The reasons I avoid recursion don’t align with saving memory. I avoid recursion primarily to make it easier to read the code. Recursion requires you to keep track of the implicit stack, an explicit stack makes that easier for me. Secondaril
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by Olreich 3y ago
Even in the cities that are touted as most walkable, cars have access to almost all destinations. It may be more expensive to own a vehicle, but it’s not impossible. Feel free to keep driving, but you can reduce congestion for yourself by s
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by Olreich 3y ago
This system change improves accuracy without increasing cost or complexity. They already are doing these measurements, just adjusting the threshold based on height. The previous system made it so very short people could be very fat so long
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by Olreich 4y ago
It only feels homogenous. The algorithm is just giving you the same stuff you’re willing to interact with because it’s working. If you interact or look for different things, the recommendation algorithm will give you that instead.
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by Olreich 4y ago
The author’s culture may be stuck, but that’s a them problem, not an algorithm or consolidation problem. You can get to more culture than ever, but if you’re content with previous cultural content, they will happily keep selling it to you.

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