Tomis02

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by Tomis02 4y ago
What does freedom of speech mean, in your mind? Is it ok to shout "fire" in a crowded theatre?
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by Tomis02 4y ago
OP's question seems to be in the context of computers, not the semantics of the word "data" in the broader anthropological and socio-cultural context.
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> But what is "data"? It's a sequence of bits. You take reality (or whatever you want) and represent it as bits. That sequence of bits is called "data".
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It's the "king is naked" effect. Everyone can see it's bullshit but most people refuse to believe it. It's been decades since this crap started and people are still religious about it.
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> birds Birds you're about to hit with your car? That sounds like a great feature.
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Useful on the job? Absolutely. They give me hope that when my life is over I'll have done something more significant than pushing bits between API calls. Disclaimer: I'm nowhere close to finishing any of the books.
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You guys check the license?
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I've been saying this for years. Current "AI" algorithm are fundamentally flawed because they rely on a statistical approach. This works moderately well for some use cases but it will rarely give you 100% confidence. Good luc
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That's actually a great example and it illustrates OP's point. If prescription drugs were given names based on their perceived meaning or target, things could get extremely confusing and/or misleading later when the meaning o
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by Tomis02 4y ago
People think CS is unimportant, which is why we have crap software left, right and centre. But I don't want to get into that, so let's suppose you're right. What OP needs to figure out is if a job where CS is considered unimp
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by Tomis02 4y ago
It just means you've been doing jobs where CS is (apparently) unimportant. If you're ok with that type of job then by all means, continue, it pays the bills. The downside is that it might get mind-numbingly boring in the future. P
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by Tomis02 4y ago
It sure looks to me like this new development is hailed as a leap, rather than incremental improvement. Although I'm judging just by reading the comments in the HN bubble. Either way, I think the current "AI" is fundamentally
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> even Trump can figure it out You really think Trump actually figured something out, and not just parroting (without understanding) what others in Europe had been saying for decades? Really?
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> US policymakers repeatedly warning Europe That's very patronising. All these "warnings" were distant echoes of internal debates Europe has been having for decades. They're nothing that Europe didn't know about
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> They are the most impressive software achievements in decades and anyone who has a “meh” reaction will absolutely end up looking silly. With the risk of looking silly, I declare "meh" once more, just as I "meh"-eh w
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I suspect your point and my point did not intersect. He's advocating for high throughput ingestion of books, exiting the process as early as possible. My point is that you should select a small number of books that are fundamental or i
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by Tomis02 4y ago
I see the article advocates for quantity over quality, superficial skimming over deep analysis, and quitting when things become uncomfortable. I strongly disagree with this stance. I believe that instead of reading many books, you should re
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by Tomis02 4y ago
It was a long time ago. It wasn't a knob, it was a handle. He would jump on it, his weight would pull down the handle, and then he would use his right leg to push against the frame and open the door. Not very graceful but it got the jo
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:) Yes, I haven't defined "creativity" and I haven't quantified anything. My assertion was empirical, based on the observation that what society usually considers creative comes into being due to a logical train of thoug
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> For the longest time it was assumed that creativity was an almost magically human trait. The fact that somebody can, with a straight face, say "I don't get why it is impressive, I could draw these images too" is actually
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by Tomis02 4y ago
Indeed. The guy in Hawaiian shirt writes simple, fast code with the minimum amount of abstractions, and therefore can afford to finish work early and go to the beach. Everyone else is working overtimes untangling a mess of objects, principl
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by Tomis02 4y ago
> AI systems produce smart replies, autocompletes, and translations Replace "produce" with "guess". That's what current AI does, it makes a guess without any reasoning capabilities. Google Translate is atrocious
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> The prime consideration is not execution speed but maintainability. Why? And how did you measure this drop in maintainability? I'm asking because I see developers prioritize _perceived_ maintainability over _measurable_ things tha
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by Tomis02 4y ago
Just based on memory, Visual C++ 6 was written using the good old Win32 API, which is just plain C code. Without access to the source code, I can assume that the object-oriented craze and XML fad had not corrupted that codebase. Superb soft
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Sadly, people get rewarded for what they built (even if makes everyone's lives harder in the long run) than for exercising restraint and saying "no".
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> Don't blame the users, blame the tooling, editor and language developers that never cared for delivering a good debugging experience. Do blame the users. If they would've said "nah, I'm not using your programming la
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by Tomis02 4y ago
Not an expert but have a strong opinion. Many developers reject DOD because "performance isn't that important in [some software type]". However, using DOD can have other benefits unrelated to performance, IMO. From the articl
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It's a bit sucky but you can use the standard library function "utf8.DecodeRuneInString(a)".
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A lot of unnecessary complexity comes from the use of library-like objects instead of plain functions + data. A recurring theme is "refactoring" specific functionality away into a generic object, and the consequence is a disconnec
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- What if it changes? - What if it doesn't?

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