awongh

20 ms·

331.
by awongh 2y ago
I was more thinking about the blocked progress of true innovation in the way programming languages are made and used. This is the talk I referenced above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4 I agree with his main th
332.
by awongh 2y ago
Doesn't the AI do that pretty well already? Not sure what other language features you would need to improve on the way the AI writes code.
333.
by awongh 2y ago
One other connection between these two is the fact that for AI assisted coding you can only get the AI to write you code that has broad adoption on the internet. Otherwise the AI doesn’t know the standard libraries and conventions. I worr
334.
by awongh 2y ago
I just learned from this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HSYTIEXa5w that google localizes it's driving directions to be landmark-based in certain countries. In this video it mentions India specifically.
335.
by awongh 2y ago
After skimming through the paper I can’t immediately pick out the data that says how much more certainty there is for a given text to detect a watermark, and the graph of that certainty as the text size grows. (They seem to assert that the
336.
by awongh 2y ago
Afaik the main differences seem to be that the price of finished chips is much more volatile and that the R&D costs of continually creating faster processes and chips are way higher than either electric cars or rockets. That is, while o
337.
by awongh 2y ago
I like the rails dev experience, but it feels like they haven’t come up with nice new front end solutions that an integrated framework like nextjs has done. One specific example is images and srcset. If you are doing a react front end anywh
338.
by awongh 2y ago
I looked on Zillow and there are indeed some places at that price. I looked here to find other places I'm familiar with: https://gist.github.com/Miserlou/11500b2345d3fe850c92 and found that Ames is somewhere near
339.
by awongh 2y ago
Can you get a 500 sq ft apartment for $700 in the USA? My impression was that it’s gotten more expensive than that. Definitely for a 2nd tier city. Maybe not for an n tier city….
340.
by awongh 2y ago
I use LLMs as a kind of search that is slightly less structured. There are two broad cases: 1) I know a little bit about something, but I need to be able to look up the knowledge tree for more context: `What are the opposing viewpoints to
341.
by awongh 2y ago
Also force other auto makers to be liable when their over-tall SUVs cause more deaths than sedan type cars.
342.
by awongh 2y ago
One reason might that LLMs are successful because of the architecture, but also, just as importantly because they can be trained over a volume and diversity of human thought that’s encapsulated in language (that is on the internet). Where a
343.
by awongh 2y ago
It definitely is also that. The whole Starliner thing is afaict totally ridiculous. Crazy how much money is being wasted, and how much would be wasted even if everything was working on schedule when compared to spacex.
344.
by awongh 2y ago
I thought it was an interesting way to put it that: the JPL produces things at $1,000,000/kg, and that inside the engineering organization it'll be hard to reconfigure everyone's mindsets and practices to create stuff that
345.
by awongh 2y ago
What the article doesn’t explicitly state is that it’s talking about some kind of undefined sweet spot of growth and business size. It seems intuitively true that businesses that are too small and too local stagnate the economy. But they av
346.
by awongh 2y ago
I think the obvious next feature for this specific thing is to be able to click to begin asking questions in the context of the audio you just listened to. You can basically become one of the hosts- “You mentioned before about RNNs, tell me
347.
by awongh 2y ago
I think it depends on some technical specifics, like which meta data was associated with that content, and the degree to which that content was surfaced to users that fit the demographic profile of a ten year old child. If your algorithm de
348.
by awongh 2y ago
Maybe it’s just a marketing problem then and it should be called asset collateral tax rather than unrealized gain tax, which on the face of it sounds kind of stupid.
349.
by awongh 2y ago
I feel like using this extension is a little buggy. Especially around undo / redo actions being captured in “format on save” type actions that happen thanks to jslint or other tools.
350.
by awongh 2y ago
I think it wasn't just the schema structure, it was the API abstractions implemented in the schema. If I remember correctly it was something about Shopify discounts, which can be applied multiple times and across different modalities-
351.
by awongh 2y ago
I’ve only been a consumer of a GraphQL API, so I don’t know what it’s like to maintain, but I mostly enjoyed using it. Of course the documentation on some kinds of query syntax was too sparse, (this is for Shopify) but I could see how it mi
352.
by awongh 2y ago
If you look at the arguments for/against resource consumption for bitcoin, a lot of the same arguments hold true- that actually we don’t necessarily have a deficit of power production. We have an energy capacity problem and distributio
353.
by awongh 3y ago
From what I can figure out this is the longest one that: is on land. In/on a first world country (with a good level of logistical infrastructure) for the next 30-50 years. There are other ones but the path of totality doesn’t pass comp
354.
by awongh 3y ago
It’s crazy to think about how little we actually know about how the human body functions- not even to say what an “optimal” sleep position might be, but even a high quality study on how different sleep positions might affect the physiology
355.
by awongh 3y ago
I feel like it must be true that there are many others out there that were able to hang on and now we merely know about them as a wealthy person, rather than as a criminal. The question is what the ratio is: one caught for every ten not c
356.
by awongh 3y ago
I think you have to conceptualize how diffusion models work, which is that once the green triangle has been put into the image in the early steps, the later generations will be influenced by the presence of it, and fill in fine details like
357.
by awongh 3y ago
What’s funny to me is the degree to which i perceive people’s denial that caffeine and coffee get you incredibly high. I’m not sure if this is what you exactly meant by euphoric, but I sometimes experience similar things, and I find it fu
358.
by awongh 3y ago
I think almost everyone except the most poisonous libertarians agree that there is some point at which thing tip into the realm of public health. Look at cigarette companies denying for so long that their product caused cancer (or at one po
359.
by awongh 3y ago
Also coming from Rails, besides the way pip, etc. works, I was also surprised at just how fragmented the landscape is. And with a lot of strong opinions on how that person’s viewpoint is correct. When I was figuring this stuff out it was ve
360.
by awongh 3y ago
Wow, developing an airplane, when there were already other airplanes cost twice as much as creating a bomb that hadn’t existed before. What comes to mind is that it’s pretty important to keep an airplane in the air, which must require a lot

More ›