andrewprock

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by andrewprock 3y ago
Without going into details about Vector22, it's certainly better today than it was at launch. It still has a very poor floating ToC UX.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
You're more than correct. In practice, working in small and medium organizations, I have met very few UX designers. Instead I have met plenty of graphical designers that know almost nothing about UX design. I've been at places whe
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Any discussion of cloud vs. data center vs. on premises that does not discuss employee costs, documentation, and training is not complete. One of the main reasons for using cloud infrastructure is that many people know how to use it, intern
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by andrewprock 3y ago
This advice is really good, even excellent. The first bullet is very important, and often ignored: "you can't do good work with bad tools". I might prefer to say "use low friction workflows", but it's largely a
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by andrewprock 3y ago
What do you think the appropriate way of looking at pricing is? Once you get beyond 8 cores, your ability to saturate the CPU comes down to very specific parallelized workflows that can benefit close to linearly from extra cores. If you hav
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by andrewprock 3y ago
At a highly competitive institution like Harvard, I would expect the nerd distribution between athletes and non-athletes to be much less "stereotypical" than in the broader society.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
The paper is not about nerds vs. jocks. It's about athletes vs. non-athletes. There are many athletes that are nerds, and many non-athletes that are not nerds. However, I do give NBER full credit for scoring high on the clickbait metri
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by andrewprock 3y ago
The cost of 10g is much higher than a single computer. The entire networking stack must be upgraded to 10g. At the very least the Internet device, and possibly the Internet connection as well. It will be cheaper in the cloud than on site.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
I had one Pixel 2 that lasted five years. I had another that lasted only six months before the screen just stopped working at all. We'll see how long my current Pixel 5a lasts.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
I suspect this will do a pretty good job at defeating watermarks.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
That's a billion dollar question. If you have the right answer, there is a good chance you'd win a Nobel Prize.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
The most straightforward evidence that mathematics is descriptive and not prescriptive is Einstein's General Relativity which illuminated that Newtonian mechanics was not prescriptive. Similarly General Relativity does not prescribe wh
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by andrewprock 3y ago
This is a curious statement. Mathematics is a description, not a prescription. When Newton says that the path of a projectile is parabolic, he does not mean that it is in the shape of a parabola. He means that a parabola is a very good way
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Layoffs are often quick and unexpected, and the impacted employees are essentially "dead to the company".
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by andrewprock 3y ago
This year I upgraded my Pixel 2 to a Pixel 5a. Had the Pixel 2 for five years. The upgrade to platform that was four years ahead was great, and only cost $150. Patience.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Yes, this is actually quite common. As often as tech companies fail due to poor marketing or poor business, they also fail due to technical debt induced by laying off core developers.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Looks like he works for a think tank of some sort, founded by the guy behind Mt Gox. https://astera.org/about/
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by andrewprock 3y ago
I was really hoping to see a discussion of the comparative risk of alien attack included in the article.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
AI, as it exists today, is very good at interpolating lots of data. It is far less able to do a good job of extrapolating far outside the boundary of existing data. Given the cat-and-mouse nature of security, where the parties regularly mov
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by andrewprock 3y ago
This sounds like a nightmare. One that I've lived through.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
It's been around for a long time (centuries?). In most textbooks, you'll get different semantics for italic and bold faces. Modern textbooks with color printing often use color in semantic ways.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
This is the correct answer. But left unsaid is the fact that we don't have any objective definition of consciousness yet. I posit that until we do, artificial consciousness if by definition impossible.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Peer review raises the bar, but that bar is quite low, and not high enough to ensure anything like scientific truth.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | San Mateo, CA | REMOTE I am a staff level engineer focusing on machine learning applications and machine learning operations (MLOps), in support of business systems like search and security. I have a proven track record of ar
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Your prompt (the input) should be copyrightable. The output should not.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
A couple of observations. It's odd that the article doesn't spell out Zermelo–Fraenkel, and instead uses the shorthand ZFC axioms. At a fundamental level, axioms are simultaneously solid and slippery. The entire purpose of a set o
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Agree. It's not at all obvious the world is in need of saving. That said, software of all kinds (including machine learning) does make the world more interesting and exciting, so happy to see more investment.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
The other strong contender at the time was Tcl, especially when combined with the graphical library as tcl/tk. Python implemented tk as well given it's popularity. Tcl's extensibility led to expect, which was very useful for
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by andrewprock 3y ago
This has been touched on in other comments, but I think it bears highlighting. The ability of python to integrate with C/C++ code went a long way to making it a long term viable platform. If you needed scripting you could code in regul
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Do you have any sources which discuss this? From what I can tell the Babylonians were really good at mapping the night sky and tracking the positions of the planets and when they reached various waypoints. I hadn't heard of them trying

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