adrianbd

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by adrianbd 1y ago
Brilliant use case - to what degree is the agent being guided? Is it mostly a pairing exercise or agent exploration followed by human validation?
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by adrianbd 4y ago
Just to be clear, my comment is talking about toxic positivity in the workplace (I intended to anchor my reply to another related comment) - I agree that toxic positivity regarding other people's more general problems will just minimiz
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by adrianbd 4y ago
As some other comments touch on, what this could be framed as is "Ruinous Empathy", which is what Kim Scott calls it in Radical Candor: https://www.radicalcandor.com/radical-candor-not-brutal-hone... . The crux of
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by adrianbd 10y ago
I often use mps-youtube, which I believe is based on youtube-dl and works great to listen to music off youtube from the terminal. https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube
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by adrianbd 11y ago
Completely agree with your point. But the value here is brought by the reviewing process, which is (at least for CS as far as my knowledge goes) done voluntarily by other researchers, not by the journal itself. So the prestige of particular
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by adrianbd 11y ago
What exactly is the valuable service they provide as intermediaries? Why couldn't all taxpayer-funded scientists just publish their (anyway voluntarily peer-reviewed) research on whatever free online platform?
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by adrianbd 11y ago
This. Journals made a lot of sense before the age of the internet, when they actually did have to do a lot of work to coordinate the activity of physically collecting research papers, mailing them for reviews, paying dedicated people for ty
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by adrianbd 11y ago
I had actually never checked out any YC demo day presentations, so this post pushed me to do so. I watched about a dozen of them from the latest batches and I must say I did feel that they were very underwhelming. Sure, I understand that
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by adrianbd 11y ago
Completely agree - Gource is also mentioned here and does something similar. Probably more useful tools are CodeCity and JSCity, that go beyond the layout of the repo and get to the function level, so they are able to give potentially usefu