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by cashsterling 21d ago
A lot of shopify's engineering probably work on the back-end business logic for payment processing, sales tax, etc. Shopify has to comply with financial norms, rule and laws in so many different jurisdictions. I know someone who works
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by cashsterling 9mo ago
I too doubted, from the beginning, that neural networks will be the basis of AGI. As impressive and useful as LLM's are, they are still a long, long way from AGI.
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by cashsterling 11mo ago
It is not a one dimensional take... it is a stress test of qubit gate fidelity [across all qubits involved in the circuit], state prep and measurement , lifetime (coherence), memory errors, etc. Now I agree that there are other great stress
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by cashsterling 11mo ago
The better analogy here, in my opinion, is until someone builds a car that actually drives forward... A lot of these quantum computing papers are just loud engine rev'ing. But you are right... "zero attention" is hyperbole...
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by cashsterling 11mo ago
Until a company can demonstrate a quantum volume of even just 2^16... their computer is just about worthless for any sort of half-real quantum computing. I pay zero attention to any technical information and marketing speak coming from a qu
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by cashsterling 1y ago
Modern high-end fabs have extremely expensive equipment and are highly automated... like they are so automated that people don't actually handle wafers... it is almost all robotic. Thus, salaries and cost of services do not factor in a
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by cashsterling 1y ago
Atlantic Quantum has some brilliant people and I'm sure they have some great ideas. That said, I dislike the quantum computing craziness we're in where big claims are made without proof or data. "We have the fastest clock spe
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by cashsterling 1y ago
I always try to communicate a strong sense of hope to my teenage kids. Many nations have an inverted population demographic, including the US (especially without immigration). I think the US is "as little as 10 years" away from a
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by cashsterling 1y ago
I think Ada is a great language and it is completely possible that Ada will experience a resurgence in coming years.. especially as LLM's are used more and more to generate software. ADA/Spark can provide very robust guide rails
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by cashsterling 1y ago
Yeah... my intro CS class was in C and Ada95 (I'm not a CS guy btw, just took the class). I actually preferred Ada over C... but continued to program in C for other classes because of compiler availability; I had to do all my Ada prog
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by cashsterling 1y ago
I really hope the best for Oxide and applaud their compensation model. I applied to one of their roles which required me to write about 10 pages of text to answer all their questions... which I think is a big ask but I did it because "
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by cashsterling 1y ago
100% agree with you! I have worked US manufacturing and manufacturing R&D for most of my career: pharmaceutical, microelectronics, materials, aerospace, etc. The US is awesome at manufacturing when we want to be. One problem is that &qu
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by cashsterling 1y ago
I graduated in ChemE in southern California in 1999 when there was a major downturn in the job market. One or two big chemical engineering design firms closed their SoCal offices flooding the market with qualified chemE's, aerospace c
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by cashsterling 1y ago
My unpopular opinion, as someone who worked in vaccine development and biotech manufacturing for a lengthy portion of my career, is that: - vaccination should be a personal choice... no one has the right to compel anyone to get injected wit
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by cashsterling 2y ago
I work in system engineering at a quantum computing company... when I read announcements and new papers on quantum computing, qubit technologies or implementations of quantum computers, I loosely apply these thresholds. threshold one: The a
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by cashsterling 2y ago
I'd consider Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Zill, 6th Edition which is available used for as little as 25 USD. There is also a print solution manual for this book which is great for self study.
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by cashsterling 2y ago
At a startup I worked at, we had our adaptive control pilot software flying our drone designs in XPlane for testing and demo purposes.
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by cashsterling 2y ago
Rust has functionality in the std lib for saturating arithmetic (and other kinds of arithmetic via crates) so that calculations saturate rather than overflow, etc. https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/?search=satu
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by cashsterling 2y ago
If your goal is literally to get good at math through Calculus, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra... I feel like the best approach is working through good books (reading, taking notes, and doing problems out of the book then checkin
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by cashsterling 2y ago
Going away from physical book-based learning was possibly well intentioned (but I have my doubts)... but it was really dumb. There are clear studies that show reading a physical book (versus a screen) and using and physical pen or pencil on
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by cashsterling 2y ago
This is absolutely ridiculous... shame on UW. Their quid pro quo offer is ethically very wrong. My wife works at a major public university and fights with antiquated software and business systems all day long. The amount of IT system bloa
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by cashsterling 2y ago
Same... I didn't have to take Linear Algebra in ChemE undergrad. DiffEq had a little bit of LA... and ChemE had few classes where bits of pieces of LA where introduced and applied. Graduate school definitely made up for lost time... L
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by cashsterling 2y ago
The real solution to this issue is municipal broadband. If there is a municipal option for high speed internet, people who don't want deal with companies' monitoring and throttling shenanigans have a viable option from a community
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by cashsterling 2y ago
All great empires fall, often due an accumulated effect of dumb policy decisions. Ergo, Amazon's grip on market will eventually fail by dumb policy decisions... and this is almost certainly one of them.
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by cashsterling 2y ago
The work-life balance & climate in some areas of the US (and other areas of the world) does make it hard to exercise... but that's only part of the story. Eating healthier requires very little extra time: perhaps 2-3 hours a week f
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by cashsterling 2y ago
Fitness is in reach for almost everyone on Hacker News. There are folks who have serious health issues or disabilities that preclude exercise... but the rest of us [the majority?] can walk more, do body weight squats, some form of incline p
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by cashsterling 2y ago
If you are on a weight loss drug like Ozempic, make sure you are doing resistance training. Ozempic reduces your appetite and help you go into a calorie deficit. Bone mass, muscle mass, ligament and tendon mass can all suffer on a calorie
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by cashsterling 2y ago
I'd recommend getting the 9th or 10th edition of Introduction to Operations Research by Hillier and Lieberman. 9th: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0077298349 You can search for the 10th edition. Both are available use
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by cashsterling 2y ago
Also add Ada... we tend to forget Ada but it was doing what Rust is before it was cool.
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by cashsterling 2y ago
I follow the work of the ink & switch folks... they have a lot of interesting ideas around academic research management and academic publishing. I have a day job, but spend a lot of thought about ways to improve academic/technical

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