OmarShehata

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by OmarShehata 2y ago
Quanta is a great example! They don't dumb things down. It passes feymans razor because the professor can read it and know what it's talking about I think it'd be a fun follow-up and talk a quanta article, and some PhD in t
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
This is super cool, it feels like going in the direction of the "deep"/high level type of semantic searching I've been waiting for. I like their examples of basically filtering documents for the "concept" of pr
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> And then cease being a non-technical user I'm glad you said this because Feynman has a beautiful response to it: basically, there is no such thing as a "non-technical user". Almost everyone is adept at navigating _some_
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
this is the only correct answer. "a non-technical user has no idea what a server or cache is" sure, but they can learn. The average person is much smarter than you think they are (when it comes to matters that actually affect thei
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
They talk about how the difficulty in teaching is in knowing what the students know. But just asking them doesn't give us enough information: > So we have the kernel of a good idea—asking students to read back their understanding—bu
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Examplar: A better way to teach programming (make students make the examples)(blog.brownplt.org)
1 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|1 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
You might enjoy this article ( https://aisafety.dance/ ) the section: "No, AI Safety isn't a fringe concern by sci-fi weebs" > AI Safety / AI Risk used to be less mainstream, but now in 2024, the US &am
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> your network will not have a jump start on everyone else I think this is not the most useful frame. You don't necessarily need to outcompete people for limited spots (I think a lot of people's definition of success or greatne
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
Can you add more detail here? What is your prediction? That they will (1) change their mind and not be at peace, because this feeling doesn't last or (2) they will not accomplish much because ambition is not compatible with being satis
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
Are you saying it's pure chance that operations like "man - woman" = "king - queen" (and many, many other similar relationships and analogies) work? If not please explain this comment to those of us ignorant in thes
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
It's not clear but I think what it's signaling is a progressive ideal of taking ownership over the collective good / a rehabilitation mindset towards crime vs a punishment, based on the following that's meant to get the
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
absolutely, and most people do! I encourage you to go around asking your friends and family this question (without judgement, and see if you can prod them along to the right answer on their own!) i think the world is better when the average
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
Amazing! I also had exactly the same experience that led me to research this a few years ago, realizing that: - GPS works even in airplane mode (while on a literal airplane) - It works without cell service, or wifi, or anything - The United
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
At that point, is it AI generated?? That feels like an entirely different category to me (like it's sort of no difference than paying someone to voice something and share it) I think the stuff that is completely generated with no human
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
I was totally expecting it to support infinitely recursive zoom! (as seen in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39799755 )
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
I was a big believer in Haxe, it seemed perfect. The main issue I and many people had at its inception was that the ecosystem was very fragmented. The promise was "write once, run everywhere" (which is what we had with Flash), but
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
> I just can't figure out what the fixation is I see this happen over and over: there's a new system change, some things don't work as well, so people revert & try to cling to the old system. This is a bit of a fallacy
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
This has always been true of anything anyone has ever googled or looked up on stackoverflow I copy paste code from stackoverflow all the time. I used to agonize over making sure I fully understand every line it's copying. Now I have th
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
I want to second this: > Use if for things where you think "this is probably easy but I have no idea how to do it" I had exactly the same reaction as OP (LLM's suck what's with the all the hype). These people are usin
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
I very much concur that it is better NOT to introduce TS when explaining JS fundamentals. I've seen smart engineers with a C++ background get tripped up on and very confused working with TS, because it's not clear to them what con
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
The most important part is that this is the first time we're seeing the effects of a new law, (1) giving CBP officers discretion about who to deny, even if they have valid paperwork, (2) not requiring them to give a reason why they wer
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Valid U.S. visa didn't stop these Chinese graduate students from being deported(science.org)
3 points by OmarShehata 3y ago|1 comments
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
This is great! I was just talking to a coworker today about "libraries" vs "templates". You could have made this a library, but I think it's actually way nicer for it to be code I can copy/paste, so I can integ
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
The good news for everyone is, you can't just make up a good reason out of thin air! (unless you're lying). There's either a critical business need, or there isn't. This of course requires this senior engineer to be busi
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Variations on the Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm(github.com)
1 points by OmarShehata 3y ago|0 comments
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
Interestingly, one of the comments on the article makes this exact point ("Is this actually harmful to the scientific community?" "No one in the real world of scientific progress is getting fooled by a Mad Libs paper in a Mad
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
"killing each other over whose god is correct" is a profound misunderstanding of humanity. That's not why humans kill each other now, or in any time in history. It is and always has been simple & rational game theory: fea
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
I've been using twitter for 10 years, and it's generally been "OK" (but still net positive, it helped me get an internship and a job). Last year twitter became an incredibly positive thing in my life (in spite of the exo
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
They largely use semantic metadata (like alt tags on images). This is part of why the "google docs is moving to canvas rendering"[1] caused a big stir there (accessibility would need to be implemented from scratch, possibly by usi
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by OmarShehata 3y ago
The Bitcoin and Mastadon links don't seem to be working! (wiki not found) Would love to see this for Godot ( https://github.com/godotengine/godot ). Maybe Maplibre too ( https://github.com/maplibre&#x

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