RugnirViking

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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
is that really true? I struggle to imagine it.
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
not op but - well yeah - unfamilliarity, to a certain degree. But its more than that. It's the slow process of gaining expertise. There are of course many transferable skills from one company to another. and there are some that are not
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
its not all that strange tbh - im learning danish which is adjacent enough to swedish that I can understand most of the names - sometimes they aren't relevant to the product function, sometimes they are, but they're just names. Is
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
have you never encountered the plague of apps saying "don't screenshot, our content looks so much better when you share it, see:" and then displaying a picture of the stupidest looking thing youve ever seen in your life as th
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
I totally disagree - the few times I accidentally use a share button, or are forced to use one, the experience is so desperately miserable I am forcibly reminded why I never use them. It's always several clicks, choosing the social pla
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
It's really quite good! I was amazed recently by its utter inability to read some faded handwritten cyrillic on the back of a wood carving - 3 or 4 words only, reasonably clear letter forms I found recently, and then stepped back a bit
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
Basically every complaint about GIMP is also valid for photoshop. People claiming PS is "intuitive" or "easy to use" literally just means they already know the keybindings/icons/quirks of photoshop specifically
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
but its difficult to use more electricity directly to get more utility. There are some rare ways - things like PtX systems - but even those are linear at best. AI is concentrating power in the sense that nobody wants to use the twentieth sm
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
> Oversell and call it a long term vision when probed & you'll get enough funding to make at least something, even if you have to hire or contract everything out Yeah. I was an engineer in a startup for a good bit and after a ce
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
yeah. To some extent hackathons always were this - ideas and frontend only. It's up to you to decide whether to play the game or make something actually worth making, for your own pride. This is also true to a lesser extent of the wide
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
> a motor and a battery can't be so expensive In my experience with electric motors, yeah I can absolutely believe it. Electric motors aren't cheap!
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
I agree - I think one of the biggest reasons memory systems fail in LLMs is that they have poor theory of mind - they're terrible at considering how others will react. Both humans yes, but also future versions of itself. When asked to
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
I see so much of this these days. "Six months ago it couldn't X. Now it can X. Just imagine what it can do in 2 years!!!"
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
Interesting! It's definitely not complete, quite a few reasonably common passenger routes in Europe I know are missing. But a fun idea, one I would love to play around with more were it more complete
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
I studied my masters in Denmark 5 years ago, before AI. This was absolutely the case - first oral exams in my batchelors many of my fellow students were incredibly nervous. By the end the exam atmosphere was very chill. I definitely improve
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
> the models will find every possible algorithmic/design improvement it's so hard to square such totalizing statements with my day to day experience with fable and sol, (every possible , improvement, really?? they are NOT omni
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
fable or sol w/ very high both planning and execution, yeah. I feel the "push back" part is a big part of my job now (on every step, planning, execution, and review) yeah, but that feels pretty incompatible with the sorts of
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
Do you have issues with performance at the moment? Right now I tend to find that it produces absolutely terrible design patterns and especially performance. I mean maybe I don't know exactly what area you're looking at but yeah fo
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
isn't this clearly a misunderstanding between you and hypothetical AI art approver? They're talking about the result , one must think. The idea that people who could not have approximate pictures of ideas that lived in their head
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
if your sole goal in life is the relentless pursuit of as much cash as you can possibly grab a hold of on your short time on this planet, then you are right. If you have a soul and aren't an awful creature that sees the world as a seri
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
> That means we will able to assume that nearly all the remaining conjectures are either true or undecidable I mean, we could. But it doesn't really make sense to think that AIs are perfect at finding counterexamples, just because t
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
"there's currently no mechanism for producing an orthogonal directional change in the path" idk the harnesses adding in "but wait -- " or some variation every few lines in the thinking trace seems to do great at thi
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
https://www.retroreversing.com/playstation-2-development-har...
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
there are a bunch of ways to look at this (dynamite as a specific kind of explosive, dynamite as a stand in for explosives in general, dynamite in the context of what else we would use for similar purposes if dynamite specifically wasn&#x27
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
> pretty consistently improved I can accept the premise that condiitions have improved, but not that it was consistent. It seems to me that it was anything but; more like extremely spiky. great depression, postwar economic miracle. Massi
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
> distinction between natural systems and simply dominating them with technology No? There's a rhetorical distinction, there isn't a physical distinction. It's like holistic medicine vs modern medicine, or wellness vs hea
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
They're a trading firm that hires really clever people to use math to trade. Their strategies are, presumably, very complicated and ever changing, and secrecy about them is the point - you get bigger margins for longer if people don&#x
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
this - most of the internal software at my job that's actually important is very dense, with keyboard navigation and shortcuts. The ones that somebody makes to sell themselves to upper management while angling for a promotion look very
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
> I still don't know how or why to take proper notes I find that there is some element of ritual to "proper" notes. Its personal, and everyone differs. Any given system may sound logcal and sensible, but its most important
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by RugnirViking 2mo ago
from his dev blog: "All map math happens in a single fixed ... plane... The intended effect was a classic Sim City view of the city. "

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