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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Computer scientists currently have a lot of prestige. [...] Now I’d say that computer science today is like economics at the beginning of the century or Freudian psychiatry in the 1950s in being at apex academic and social prestige and
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> I wish school curriculum included things like "how printing actually worked through ages". [...] Everyone is taught the Gutenberg press was a big deal -- but how did it actually work? Just go to technological museums in citie
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Is there a way in Wolfram to check whether all function names exist ? There is a way to check whether a symbol has been defined: ValueQ[FunctionName, Method -> "SymbolDefinitionsPresent"] See https://refe
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
USD 1,000 is just play money for Zuck, so I guess Zuck will pay this little bill for his captain.
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> I think it is able to work well with it because: > - It is a rather simple language - It has a lot of very useful libraries already built in. > With just a single main.odin file you can do a heck of a lot stuff, which LLMs seem t
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> No need to hack the law. Our FOSS code is constitutionally protected free speech and I would defend on those grounds. "Der Proceß" [The Trial] by Franz Kafka is just a realistic description of the court system (Franz Kafka st
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Dynamically typed languages generally have a lower LLM token cost than traditional statically typed languages because omitting explicit type declarations makes the code more compact. If this was true, the programming languages that are
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> A question on terminology, I come from bsd world so prefer i386, amd64, ia64(the itanium) whereas the linux side appears to prefer x86 x86-64 Nothing wrong with it(it describes the architecture fine) but I assume that x86-64 is intel f
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> This is what happens when you have VCs putting on hackathons at NorCal universities and scooping people off the campuses before they ever get their degrees. > If you take a guy under the age of 25, give him millions of dollars, and
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
This is a really cool fact. :-)
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Say you have two assistant employees. One that reads the reports and one that uses AI to summarize the content. You are sitting in a high value meeting. You only can have one assistant with you in the meeting. Which one would you pick,
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Navigating customer requirements and building something that satisfies both market's needs and company strategy can be an incredibly difficult and frustrating problem to solve. Especially if you need to also oversee the execution
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> The Bipartite graph class is also a bit silly in this case, since it's by definition the 2-colorable graphs Be a little bit careful here: another common textbook definitions of bipartite graphs are: - a graph is bipartite iff it h
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Forests, trees, and bipartite graphs are 2-colorable. More precise: a graph is bipartite if and only if it is 2-colorable (this can actually be used as a definition). Since forests are bipartite, and trees are forests, the other two st
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> I guarantee you're a lot easier to manipulate than you think. I can imagine some hypothetical scenarios, but I do believe that I have strong evidence that this is mostly not the case. For example, I think I have already told the s
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> People tell these models everything . You don't think a pretty unethical company can figure out a way to monetize that? I assume research-level questions about scientific topics (with a focus on math and computer science) are not
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> 90+% of queries are probably so common/evergreen that, if a cheaper model made all the different language vari[a]nts and ways of asking the question into one query, they could be cached quite effectively. As I wrote in some parall
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Email is a good window but lots of people talk in more depth with a chat bot. > Search is a good “purchase intent moment” but people are telling a chat bot exactly what they care about in a purchase, rather than making indirect sear
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Yes, but I think there's really two different definitions of point 1. It's "figure out what non-software problem you can solve with software" vs "figure out what technical problem to solve". In my opinion
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> If you're a tinkerer, you don't care much for 1 and 5, and you see 2-4 as the whole point of programming. I'm a tinkerer. I'd be happy to just write code and throw it away. Coding is like solving sudokus. I could sk
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> That's another problem Google have: they won't stand behind their products until they are outdated. > That can work in the B2C space but it's horrible in B2B. My experience differs: (conservative) companies like stabi
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> I have a friend at Google DeepMind who tells me that Google believes in AGI/superintelligence just as much as HN does, which is probably why no one with conviction wants to work there. With "believes in AGI/superintellig
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Losing Ive was probably a good thing for Apple. The position that I have rather often read on the internet is: Jonathan Ive did very good work at Apple as long as there was a counterpart who could steer his creative vision. This count
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Just take an immigrant in front of you next time and see him make two mistakes in a row in one sentence while casually talking to him (maybe he's tired, maybe he's lazy but who's to judge). You'd inherently think le
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> At that point a GPU was at best just the rasterizer and ROP phases from an acceleration perspective. For those who are not so deep into GPU architecture: ROP: Raster Operation Pipeline > https://en.wikipedia.org/w&#x
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> As an immigrant to Germany, I wish the authorities would think more about the chilling effect every new rule has on activity (add another item to your to-do checklist, and less people are likely to even start). A prime example is tryi
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> but the chat absolutely needs to happen in German. Why? Work culture. Rather: because a lot of less formal thoughts (including jokes) are difficult to express in English since they often rely on structures that the English language doe
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Curious to get some perspective: How viable would starting a career in IT/Technology in Germany be as a mildly autistic American with an inability to learn foreign languages? In my observation, in Germany the tolerance for the sym
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> But it also seems very inefficient because of the need to keep rolling stock in reserve, ready to go just in case. That’s a lot of maintenance, staff, and machine time to burn. Considering how often the Deutsche Bahn isn't on tim
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> considering how excited many Germans were about being able to deploy the Army for non defensive reasons in the Balkans, Afghanistan, etc. Having lived at that time in Germany, I can tell you how excited many Germans rather were to open

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