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by RogerL 2y ago
I know you must know this, but for others reading, this also is not a static view, like in a video game, but the sights are 'swimming' around usually in a figure 8 pattern as your heart beats. It is not just a matter of getting a
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by RogerL 2y ago
This is the key takeway, not hey you know what, I'm evaluating this person or poor me my job is hard. Unless this is for astronaut training for a manned trip to Mars to build a colony that time line is insane.
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by RogerL 2y ago
it's pretty basic topology - embedding versus immersion. you cannot embed anything but the simplest software in a 2d plane. you end up having to endlessly try to structure things to minimize line crossings, make multiple diagrams of th
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by RogerL 2y ago
And it is not true (for any reasonable reading of the quote). There are very popular languages that don't get the deserved hate that C++ does. Sure, Python is slow, packaging/versioning is painful, but it is nothing like C++ compl
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by RogerL 2y ago
Lift your foot up and try to balance in your seat and see how it feels. Try using a standing desk with it. Put a pen between your toes and try to draw a square and feel major muscles in your upper thighs struggling to make these fine contro
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by RogerL 2y ago
I went to grad school with a guy w/o arms. Sure, he could write with his feet. It was extraordinarily hard and difficult. Nothing changes the physical facts - we neither have the nerves or fine control in our legs/feet that are pr
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by RogerL 2y ago
Net profit margin has been going up since 2015 or so, release year of Windows 10. Gross profit has also been increasing YoY over the same time period. I know it isn't quite that simple - 2/3 of the business is cloud and productivi
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by RogerL 2y ago
I look at is as asking an intern to do some work that I don't have time for. Do I have to check their work? Yes. Might I have to correct and guide the outcome? Again, yes. Am I going to ask them to implement something novel and groundb
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by RogerL 2y ago
Is it (I am not a worker in this space, so genuine question)? My thoughts - I teach myself all the time. Self reflection with a loss function can lead to better results. Why can't the LLMs do the same (I grasp that they may not be prog
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by RogerL 3y ago
Survivorship bias. The cheap stuff doesn't last. "Take from the dresser of deal, Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet..." - Wallace Stevens, 1922. "Deal" being cheap pine or other soft heartwood (in the poem he
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by RogerL 3y ago
LilyPond rules when you want to manipulate music algorithmically. Like make a music reading training app that creates examples based on your performance so far.
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by RogerL 3y ago
It is in the abstract, very first line. "While Transformers have enabled tremendous progress in various application settings, such architectures still lag behind traditional symbolic planners for solving complex decision making tasks.
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by RogerL 3y ago
Don't we have that? My browser offers to translate pages that aren't in English, youtube creates auto generated closed captions, which you can then have it translate to English (or whatever), we have text to speech models for the
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by RogerL 3y ago
If you ask for a story, and the person needs/wants the job, that story is not likely to be accurate. You get some version of "my greatest weakness is I just work too darn hard and give to the company", pitched to whatever the
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by RogerL 3y ago
Oh, but you just rely on your 'intuition' when interviewing. I'm sure that'll lead to no bias.
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by RogerL 3y ago
That device&company seems like a joke. Costs around $1000, multiyear payback (~3years) if you use it every day, you only get 400w from the computer(the rest just from a regular heater also built in), and the payback is "up to"
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by RogerL 3y ago
Asian countries are already struggling to keep up with energy demands of semiconductor factories. And then there are the other environmental impacts - waste chemicals, waster water, and greenhouse emissions.
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by RogerL 3y ago
I replied separately, but this is being written about because up to now, every last elite climber said 'nope, I'll 100% die on this one'. Well, perhaps there were aborted attempts (I'm not aware of any), but you abort wh
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by RogerL 3y ago
It's 100%, for everyone. This is being written about because until now, despite a community of hyper competitive individuals vying for first ascents in extreme environments, no one has done this route until now; it was unimaginable,
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by RogerL 3y ago
So what? Okay, in the case of a ramp, if you need one you probably are going to have difficulty building one. So pay employee Sally to build it instead, absolutely. But hearing loss does not impair standing up servers and software. They can
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by RogerL 3y ago
Those weren't around in 2005, the time that was written (which is not me defending the claim about OpenBSD in 2005, I have no idea).
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by RogerL 3y ago
I want to expand on this. Not only do I agree with what you wrote, but this app is trading access to millions of available sources in a very well known writing system to one more or less unique to this app. That's a terrible investme
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by RogerL 3y ago
Until you reach the B string. A shape that works on strings 4/5/6 does not work on 1/2/3. This is because G->B is 4 half steps, the rest of the strings are 5 half steps apart. So you need 2 forms for closed chords.
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by RogerL 3y ago
But what is the answer? What should I do differently? I get don't use images, but then what? I can't imagine all screen readers have the same capabilities, or that there is a base common ability, so what should we do? Googling say
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by RogerL 3y ago
http://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/02/Interactive.html
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by RogerL 3y ago
I've thought about this a fair amount. I think a big difference is psychological. I've done logging (just family gather firewood for winter stuff, not commercially). It can be scary, but the trees and machinery bare no malice towa
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by RogerL 4y ago
I can talk to my phone and tell it to call somebody, or write and send an email for me. Wouldn't it be nice if you could do that with Sydney, thinks some braniac at Microsoft. Cool. "hey sydney, write a letter to my bitch mother,
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by RogerL 4y ago
Mid 80s I flew home to visit family. Wallet was stolen while rock climbing (I foolishly left it at the base in my pack). Have to fly home, what to do?? Easy peasy. Go to the local ski mountain where I knew the employees, had them make me a
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by RogerL 4y ago
Not only that, but why does having lower cognitive ability suddenly mean that others have free rein to mock you, make your workplace unpleasant, and so on? People are just trying to do their job and aren't necessarily educated on the i
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by RogerL 4y ago
I don't think it can reason at all. I think it spits out language that probabilistically matches stuff that sounds like reasoning. I was curious about how many ancient texts it had injested, along with modern scholarship of the same, a

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