caditinpiscinam

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   by caditinpiscinam 5y ago

   3M isn't all that respectable: > A lawsuit filed by Minnesota against 3M, the company that first developed and sold PFOS and PFOA, the two best-known PFAS compounds, has revealed that the company knew that these chemicals were accum
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   by caditinpiscinam 5y ago

   Software aside, I just checked out Larry Haun's videos -- very cool!
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   by caditinpiscinam 5y ago

   I used to take a peter pan bus in and out of Boston frequently. Riding on those buses you get a good view of other cars. Any given day at rush-hour, on the highway, at least 25% of drivers had a phone in their hand, glancing back and forth
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   by caditinpiscinam 5y ago

   I released the rough-draft of a programming language last year that I'd been working on for fun: https://ptls.dev . I'm building a second version now that's a lot more practical than the original. Once it's re
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   by caditinpiscinam 5y ago

   I'm an aimless 24 year old as well. I often feel sad that the friends I have aren't very interested in the programming / tech things I like to think about. I'm hoping to find some meetups or other communities where I can
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   by caditinpiscinam 5y ago

   > Why is Carlsen so relatively bad at chess with his understanding of the why? I think you have it backwards. Stockfish probably could tell you which specific 30-depth line changed its evaluation, while a human player is much more likely
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   by caditinpiscinam 5y ago

   I could see videos being effective. When I was younger I watched a lot of those "near miss" / "driving fails" youtube compilations, and I think they gave me a better intuition for how things tend to go wrong on the
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   by caditinpiscinam 5y ago

   Even if our ML systems were meaningfully intelligent, there's still the issue of proper training. You can't teach humans to be a safe drivers by showing them a huge slideshow of dash-cam images. Why do we expect ML to do any bette
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   by caditinpiscinam 5y ago

   I'm interested to see rust so highly regarded year after year. Is this mostly due to self-selection (the people using rust are mainly those who choose to), or due to the language and ecosystem themselves?
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    Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 Results(insights.stackoverflow.com)

    4 points by caditinpiscinam 5y ago|1 comments
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    Sentient looks neat! Does it use the same strategies as Prolog under the hood?
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    Any tips on implementing tail-call optimization when compiling to C? (or llvm)?
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    > AI with good enough training This is the crux of the issue. If we had AI that could outperform human drivers and make our roads safer then I'd agree that we should use it. But I see no indication that this is the case, or that it&
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    To be a safe driver you have to be able to predict what the people around you are going to do. Simply reacting is not enough. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the guy selling self-driving cars is the same guy who goes ar
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    A perfect static type checker would distinguish between valid and invalid programs in all cases. In practice, static type checkers are conservative and occasionally reject valid programs. Gradual typing gives you a way out in these situatio
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    Mine too. It does gradual typing better than any other language I've tried.
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    I say learn Rust and C in parallel. I'm learning Rust now after several false starts. Here's what I find challenging and interesting about Rust: most languages exist on a spectrum between faithfulness and abstraction, where they e
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    When I see programmers talk about Go's simplicity, I think about the different things that simplicity can mean. For example: seqA = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20] seqB = [2, 4, 6, 7, 11
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    > Birds have perfect pitch, and can fail to recognize a song if it's pitch-shifted by even a small amount I have a pet parrot who seems to always sing in the same key. Now I feel bad for whistling off-key to him all these years! Ass
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    > You can't teach this Well, we don't actually know this do we? We know that it's very hard, and that it's never been done before, but so was running a sub-4 mile for most of human history. If we knew the mechanism th
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    Two studies supporting the claim of harmlessness are cited: the first analyzes a single subject; the second analyzes 28 subjects with no control group (it's looking at correlation). Doesn't seem very rigorous to me.
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    升级 / Tractor / 找朋友 / Finding Friends(robertying.com)

    1 points by caditinpiscinam 6y ago|0 comments
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    Creating the NFL Schedule(operations.nfl.com)

    2 points by caditinpiscinam 6y ago|0 comments
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    Thanks for the info. Those numbers are more impressive than I would have guessed.
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    Learn Morse Code(genemecija.github.io)

    1 points by caditinpiscinam 6y ago|0 comments
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    > Safety is no longer the reason Nuclear is not worth it Why "no longer"? I did some reading on Fukushima the other week (I think it was an anniversary of the accident?) and was surprised to learn that multiple studies predicte
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    Tweakable – Visual Programming Environment(tweakable.org)

    3 points by caditinpiscinam 6y ago|0 comments
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    by caditinpiscinam 6y ago

    I wrote the original version of this software while working on a FEN-rendering tutorial for Pointless. It ended up working pretty well so I decided to build it into a full product. I figure that anyone who's sunk as many hours into pla
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    Show HN: Checkmate Posters – Custom chess posters from PGN files(checkmateposters.com)

    1 points by caditinpiscinam 6y ago|2 comments
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    Sergey.cool(sergey.cool)

    1 points by caditinpiscinam 6y ago|0 comments