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by atomicnature 8mo ago
Go concrete. In FAANG engineering jobs now what % is this factory designer category vs what % is writing some mundane glue code, moving data around in CRUD calls, or putting in a monitoring metric etc? Once you look at the present engineeri
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by atomicnature 8mo ago
I don't agree with the limited point about fast fashion/enthittification, etc. Quick check: Do you want to go back to pre-industrial era then - when according to you, you had better options for clothing? Personally, I wouldn'
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by atomicnature 8mo ago
Where have I said engineers/architects aren't necessary? My point is that it is easier to get AI to get better than try to improve a million developers. Isn't that a straightforward point? What the role of an engineer in the
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by atomicnature 8mo ago
This is the "artisanal clothing argument". I'd think there'll be a dip in code quality (compared to human) initially due to "AI machinery" due to its immaturity. But over-time on a mass-scale - we are going to
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A Brief History of Solving Simultaneous Equations via Matrices(learningloom.substack.com)
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Isaac Newton on Learning Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning(learningloom.substack.com)
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INSV Kaundinya – Indian wooden sailing ship built using traditional stitching(bairdmaritime.com)
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by atomicnature 10mo ago
It was available earlier. Here's the HN history: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Chomsky%20and%20the%20Two%20Cu... The oldest submission is from 15 y.o ago - that is 2010. I resubmitted it - thinking - with the success o
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by atomicnature 10mo ago
You can look into Judea Pearl's definitions of causality for more information. Pearl defines a ladder of causation: 1. Seeing (association) 2. Doing (intervention) 3. Imagining (counterfactuals) In his view - most ML algos are at level
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Reimplementing Unix Correct: The Lost Bayesian Spelling Corrector(learningloom.substack.com)
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by atomicnature 10mo ago
Only one thing comes to mind: The species as a whole will evolve inevitably; the individual animal may not.
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Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011)(norvig.com)
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by atomicnature 10mo ago
Leslie Lamport built latex, most of distributed systems such as AWS services depend on formal verification. The job of Science here is to help Engineering with managing complexity and scale. The researchers are doing their jobs
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Who Wins CS Best Paper Awards?(jeffhuang.com)
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Thoughts on Team Metrics(adrianhesketh.com)
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AI Assist is now available on Stack Overflow(meta.stackexchange.com)
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Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)(web.stanford.edu)
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Building a Bayesian Spam Classifier from First Principles(journal.hexmos.com)
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What happens when you type a SQL in the database(blog.xiangpeng.systems)
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by atomicnature 10mo ago
Why do you think developer enjoyment is orthogonal to productivity and delivery?
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TinyML(github.com)
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by atomicnature 11mo ago
Willful ignorance is a different process. Consider a food analogy. Of the food we take - cells accept a % of it as nutrients and such, rest is discarded as waste. The cells know how to get this job done - it's a very complex process fo
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The Paradox of Memory: Why Forgetting Makes Learning Possible(carlhendrick.substack.com)
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About PyHtmlGui – A Python library for building user interfaces (2023)(github.com)
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The Experience of Living in Cities [pdf] (1970)(psiambiental.wordpress.com)
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by atomicnature 11mo ago
1. The survey seems limited to UK or so. Not sure - it doesn't look like a global report. 2. Don't confuse "enjoyment" with "number of readers". The previous generation may have enjoyed it more - because there
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Royal Society Science Book Prize(en.wikipedia.org)
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by atomicnature 11mo ago
Book sales in general (across all formats) are up I think - so there are still many, many readers around. We just have many new formats (EPUB, audiobooks, reader devices, etc.) and of course population is increasing over the globe. I'm
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A Reading Hack: Study Non-Physics Books by Physicists (50-Book List)(learningloom.substack.com)
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by atomicnature 11mo ago
Will this be open source?

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