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by carlmr 2y ago
I'd venture to guess that many native speakers neither know what a kumquat or loquat is. Being born somewhere usually confers a decent vocabulary, but rare things are rare in any case.
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by carlmr 2y ago
Ancient problems require ancient solutions.
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The problem with this approach is that even if you say that our thinking is non-deterministic because of true random effects on the quantum level, you still have to explain how deterministic calculations on random values make for free will.
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by carlmr 2y ago
We've had great success in using Bazel for a large mixed C++/Python and some other languages monorepo. The initial setup cost is somewhat high, but the caching aspects and configurability make it a real game changer in this space.
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by carlmr 2y ago
I was going to suggest libCST, it works really well and is much less of a hassle to set up than this. https://github.com/Instagram/LibCST
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by carlmr 2y ago
The more important consideration is we're wasting the waste. It still contains 90% of the fissile energy and we're calling it waste: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-... .
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>Maybe it's overfitting or maybe just the way models work under the hood It feels more like averaging or finding the median to me. The writing style is just very unobtrusive. Like the average TOEFL/GRE/SAT essay style. May
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>In other words the limitation you talk about is not inherent in the technology, but in their choices. I think it's somewhat inherent in the technology. At its core you're still trying to guess the next word / sentence &#x
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>In fact, if it was actually aliens, why would they not just burn the images into the soil from orbit with a laser instead of laboriously piling up rocks? They may have tried and accidentally destroyed all the other test planets with the
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Cavemen would really hate our quintuple pluralization.
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A friend of mine liked to say she doesn't understand why companies pay for ads, she doesn't buy stuff because of ads. Needless to say she liked branded bags and stuff. The more you think you're immune, the easier it is to inf
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by carlmr 2y ago
Delicatessen itself is a French loanword (délicatesse) in German that's wrongly pluralized, it should be délicatesses not delicatessen. So it's like doubly wrong.
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>can pass any variation of a Turing test you can come up with. Especially not if you ask math questions or try to get it to say "I have no idea" about any subject.
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>You should also do the "ring" test before mounting a disc. https://youtu.be/QSQiLxDBpu8 Oh, wow that's amazing.
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>according to the Japanese government, Okinawans eat the least vegetables and sweet potatoes in Japan and have the highest body mass index. My first thought was, that must be because of the big American presence on Okinawa. But it seems
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by carlmr 2y ago
>while their whole expensive engineering team was not Question is maybe not if they could, but if they were allowed to. If the project is already out of development and a bug is detected, sometimes there's only a barebones team left
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by carlmr 2y ago
I've been meaning to try out eBPF. I read a tutorial on writing a simple perf application in Rust, but I kind of lack the intuition to know what it's good for. Do you know a good overview of what can be done with eBPF?
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The time, and also the cost of ordering these parts. I know each is like a few cents, but you don't know all the parts you will need beforehand. So if I counted correctly he ordered at least 3 times. It's fascinating nonetheless.
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Exactly, the first question when somebody suggests using ROS should be: Do you even need it in the first place? Your code may be much simpler if you forgo the networking communicating nodes model completely.
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>Having a big single exam that determines one's life outcome is bad on principle, but, it removes corruption, and is the most transparent method, ever. Couldn't we have multiple big exams and do some averaging? Maybe even take
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>Also, rebasing the future makes me think of time travel as git history. That's what I thought about when I picked the word rebasing ;).
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It's frat culture turned into a company. You get hazed for a year or two and then you're part of the ingroup hazing the next batch.
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>Manufacturing is the core example of path-dependent advantages, because (unlike what any econ 101 textbook teaches), marginal costs decline with increasing production quantity in the manufacturing sector. This means the more you make, t
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7. Time travel becomes possible, however traveling back in time opens a new timeline and the old timeline exists in the past of the new timeline unchanged. So we observe the old version of the timeline, wile there's an alternate realit
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Also if applied early enough may prevent diabetes in the first place.
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>two parental figures (the PO and Scrum master) Another great point. The overhead is insane. 2 people that don't directly contribute work output per team.
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>scrum then sticking with it. They believe it helped. Not necessarily. It's well known that there are many psychological biases in favor of keeping the status quo. Whether it's the sunk cost fallacy, the escalation of commitmen
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>scrum elevates them from total failure to unproductive but fumbling in a good direction. Where's the evidence for this? I kind of agree on big corporate not being able to achieve great development speed. But they had a system befor
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>So scrum as an ideology seems to be net-successful even if implemented wrong. How do you get to this conclusion? I haven't seen any implementation of scrum that didn't slow down development speed, due to unnecessary meetings a
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>My conclusion at the time was that either "spatial reasoning" doesn't work and/or planning is needed. Now I am not so sure, if they just included tic-tac-toe in the training data, or "spatial reasoning" is

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