StableAlkyne

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by StableAlkyne 2mo ago
> If you add a score/metric this incentivizes the wrong thing, Don't we already have all of these things because academia decided to use H-index as a metric for career impact?
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by StableAlkyne 2mo ago
It's about 30 years out of date, but there used to be the Jargon File - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
I think it has more to do with the fact that there has to be some term to describe the concept of "model which has weights that are openly accessible" Like, that's just a logical thing to call it. I don't believe anyone
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
> People have tried to make businesses out of this stuff but it has rarely worked The only two startups I'm aware of who have managed to make compchem-as-a-service a viable business are Mat3ra and Materials Square. Both are a little
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
> it appears computational chemistry is stuck in batch processing era I wouldn't call it "stuck," since it's one of the few fields where batch processing makes sense. You generally run your jobs on a supercomputer tha
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
While they can, drones are still limited by physics. Sure, the aircraft can pull a ton of G's to defeat a missile or achieve a firing solution. Maybe it even succeeded at that. It still pulled 9+ Gs and has burned an incredible amount
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
> Meta didn't buy pants They also succeeded in the monumental task of making VR look boring. VR platforms are an escapist's dream: you can be anything you want doing whatever you want. And how did they show off their fantasy wo
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
Any performance gains caused by the internal bandwidth of the card will evaporate once you spill into system RAM, because now your bottleneck is probably a slow PCI lane. And if your jobs do fit onto a 24GB card, then you are not the target
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
Exapunks and TIS-100 were a huge influence on my career trajectory. I was always scared of assembly and low level stuff as a kid / college student, who mostly was trying to learn from random sites that assumed a lot of CS background. E
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
Clicking through to https://git-annex.branchable.com/no_llm_code/ It looks like git after 2.22 was dropped because it took an LLM commit. Same with ghc. If I have to choose between this or git and the latest ghc, I thi
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
UX work is often also a lot heavier and more subjective than the plumbing. I might open a pull request to support some new video code, and that might only require a few dozen lines over a few files. That's easy to review, and it either
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
> These days I like to turn my work Mac off at the end of the week just so I feel a literal sense of closure It's also just nice to start Monday with a fresh boot. If nothing else, it keeps me from getting to the point of 200 tabs o
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by StableAlkyne 3mo ago
Academics base their careers around citation numbers. You need publications and a high H-index to make it anywhere. Self-plagiarism reduces the effectiveness of that metric, which makes it harder to evaluate the actual impact of a researche
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
Not everyone has the luxury of moving off of Windows. Solidworks, for example, has no Linux or Mac port. Though I do agree, if your workflow is supported by any non-NT based OS, that's probably a better option
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
I use keepass (FOSS under GPL, fully offline). It does not detect domains.
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
> I typed the project name into Google, and my repository appeared in the results. I entered the same query into Bing, and someone else’s repository appeared in the results Side story, this kind of thing is what made me stop using Bing.
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
In interpreted languages like Python, where the source files are plaintext, you can trivially store data in a comment If scanners ignored comments, malware would just be written like this: // <Evil base64 encoded stuff here
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
> If a nuclear engineer enabled and instructed him, would there not be liability for the hazard? Should the library where he read books about physics also be liable?
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
I would argue it's not even old people. Most people do not have any understanding of what's going on when you click a button. Website either acts as expected, or it doesn't "work" If the button doesn't work,
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
You could always do this, though. Before gen code killed the freelance business model, there were hoards of people on Upwork/Fiverr willing to fuck other freelancers over and underpay themselves to make whatever barely-working slop you
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/378/
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
> you can hide and worry about protecting yourself in an ever more dangerous world This is a childish mindset. It would be worth taking a defensive driving course if you haven't done so, it may be helpful. > join people like him
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
People feel strongly about AI generated content; this is a case where false positives can destroy credibility and disrupt careers. "Works most of the time" isn't good enough here.
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
The graveyards are filled with people who had the right-of-way, who died knowing they were in the right. And even if it's a slow speed accident, who cares about being right if you get a disability in the process? It is safer to let the
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by StableAlkyne 4mo ago
Being book-smart or correct is only half of the skill in sharing knowledge. While often overlooked, the voice in which the knowledge is delivered matters. This is arguably more important than the the actual depth knowledge, given how many p
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by StableAlkyne 5mo ago
And also part of the decline from the asker side, once a less abrasive alternative became available
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by StableAlkyne 5mo ago
I can at least see where those people are coming from AI can be a phenomenal tool for development when used correctly... ... But there is also now a trend on GitHub of low to no-skill individuals going around spamming garbage work in order
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by StableAlkyne 5mo ago
That's the thing though, it was voluntary. If it isn't fun to do, and simply causes frustration, that hypothetical person constructed in the comment could just step away for the day. I get that dealing with low quality questions w
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by StableAlkyne 5mo ago
IMO it was a combination of moderators and users Sure, the mods were not always the best on SO. But even if you did ask a question, you had to deal with a userbase that was more pedantic and judgy than Reddit. Usually you would get an answe
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by StableAlkyne 5mo ago
> decades-outdated "scientific software" [still DOS prompts, in mid-2000s?!?!] to perform calculations in support of since-disproven theories (mostly: his). Most computational chemistry is still done on the command line using d

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