chadcmulligan

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by chadcmulligan 6mo ago
"why do neural networks work better than other models?" That sounds really interesting - any references (for a non specialist)?
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by chadcmulligan 6mo ago
If you dive into Analysis (the underlying theory behind calculus) this book - "How to Think About Analysis" by Lara Alcock is the book I wish I had when I studied it. Calculus by Spivak is the book I learnt from but it is probably
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by chadcmulligan 6mo ago
with vampires!
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by chadcmulligan 6mo ago
+1 for Stross, Egan and the Bobiverse - I haven't read the others so will have a look, just wanted to add Stand on Zanzibar by Brunner, if the Bobiverse is there then MurderBot should be to.
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by chadcmulligan 7mo ago
I find myself worrying the AI bubble will pop and we'll lose this aspect of AI's without it ever being properly explored. Instead of doomscrolling now I find myself firing up claude and saying 'explain ... to me' and it
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by chadcmulligan 7mo ago
Maybe OT - I find Claude Code hit or miss, I spend a lot of time removing dumb code or asking Claude to remove it eg "why do you have a separate..." Claude: "Good catch — there's no real reason...." and so on. Where
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by chadcmulligan 7mo ago
Recently started making a Flutter app and it is fantastic to use, cross platform to everywhere, dart is a very nice language to.
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by chadcmulligan 7mo ago
They could wash it down with some Brawndo I suppose
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by chadcmulligan 7mo ago
Haven't these guys been to a Taiwanese restaurant, they have great mock meats, and of course vegetarians have great mock meats too, love a good black bean pattie. The hubris this company shows is amazing.
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
They used to be more common in the pre power board age (piggy backs, and screw terminal - they were very common back in the day), I can't see a date anywhere on the page. 5-8 are more specialist.
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
Even horse racing, it's a solved problem, and if you start winning they'll just cancel your a/c (happened to a friend of mine)
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
Yeah, thanks, I only play live games. I'm in australia so online poker is illegal here. I was thinking of getting a vpn and having a play online, then I saw this recently https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresti
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
As a fellow chad I concur. Though I am improving my poker skills - games of chance will still be around
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
misogynistic behaviors were cultural at the time, I agree they're abhorrent but people are embedded in their culture. The same is said of Hitchcock, (as an example) and his behaviour was unacceptable by todays standards. We've com
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
If you give it a test harness then you're doing TDD? That will only work if you know what you're building, which is seldom the case.
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction". This probably has so
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
If you look at military spending US is exceptional
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
not sure I agree, the transport layer sure - which can be automated without LLM's anyway, it's the business logic which differs every time, and is the hard part.
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
"autonomously" I couldn't agree with, I use it regularly for 100-200 loc size stuff, I can't recall it ever being right the first time.
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
yeah its pretty amazing it can do this. The problem is the gaslighting by the companies making this - "see we can create compilers, we won't need programmers", programmers - "this is crap, are you insane?", classic
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
> Someone got it working on Compiler Explorer and remarked that the assembly output “reminds me of the quality of an undergraduate’s compiler assignment”. Which, to be fair, is both harsh and not entirely wrong when you look at the regis
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by chadcmulligan 8mo ago
That is a very good analogy - sliced shop bread is tasteless and not that good for you compared to sourdough. Likewise awful store bought tomatoes taste like nothing compared to heirloom tomatoes and arguably have different nutritional cont
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by chadcmulligan 9mo ago
Greg Egan? His stuff is way out there, some may do the we're the baddies trope but most doesn't.
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by chadcmulligan 9mo ago
Still do
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by chadcmulligan 9mo ago
I have been through this before (wherever/whenever the money seems to flow) - databases are bad, you should use couchbase etc, I was a db expert, the people advocating weren't, but they were very loud. The many, many evangelistic
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by chadcmulligan 9mo ago
I'm using a MacBook Pro 2016 for dev still works great, and its still better than every windows laptop available now. The touchpad itself is still superior - its crazy when you think about it. I know people on their 3rd or 4th windows
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by chadcmulligan 9mo ago
The part of Delphi that is interesting, and isn't really mentioned much for some reason, is the component library - VCL (windows only) and Firemonkey (Cross platform). Like the language does what's needed, garbage collection would
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by chadcmulligan 9mo ago
Isn't that interesting, I do vaguely recall this from many years ago. These complaints have mostly been addressed a long time ago, the solutions were mostly stolen from C where applicable, I refer to Delphi, but I think Lazarus is the
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by chadcmulligan 10mo ago
It's funny seeing the problems with C Niklaus Wirth pointed out originally still trying to be solved. He solved them with pascal and its OO successors, though for some reason it's not cool still. I suppose it has less of the abili
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by chadcmulligan 10mo ago
I read a book that discusses this - "The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous" by Joseph Henrich. I found it interesting though I've heard some criticisms of i

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