coolThingsFirst

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by coolThingsFirst 10d ago
why is this write-up so long? Need 5 days just to go through it.
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by coolThingsFirst 12d ago
I'm working through: https://modernaicourse.org/ . I appreciate that it makes me revisit some math which i've forgotten like directional derivative and why gradient points to highest ascent. Interesting but hard as
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by coolThingsFirst 13d ago
how hysterical would it be if the Sun decided to pull the earth into it. Discussions on X, Reddit and HN titled "Is this it" or "Heat death is medically comfortable". Crazy stuff.
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by coolThingsFirst 15d ago
Shame for what? OF prostitutes and iShowSpeed make more money than neuroscientists. There are more incentives to be a bozo than an educated “pillar of the community”.
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by coolThingsFirst 16d ago
Lemire back again with CS101 insights. Next, he will teach us doubles have finite precision.
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by coolThingsFirst 20d ago
Sure. Let's assume the claims are true. AI already has access to agents and can control computers. Finding backdoors to banking and compute resources would be fairly trivial. But you ask how can AI do things in the physical world witho
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by coolThingsFirst 27d ago
Yeah ditching cars is very hard in some places where public transport is not good. (US) But I am seeing that it's not that hopeless by 2030 43% of energy would come from renewable sources like solar. Maybe there's still hope. It w
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by coolThingsFirst 27d ago
why is it that for the ozone layer we got together and undid the damage but for climate change we don't? is it too politicized, are the required changes too damaging to the economy to start agressively implementing them?
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by coolThingsFirst 29d ago
It’s only fair when the big guy steals intellectual property from the small guy.
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by coolThingsFirst 1mo ago
taking shots against the King? better not miss!
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by coolThingsFirst 1mo ago
That's applicable only if you live in the US. if i were 17, i'd do these things: 1) LC until mediums 2) Calculus & linear algebra even if i understood nothing i'd just stare at vectors and derivatives.
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by coolThingsFirst 1mo ago
why would anyone care if 1cm is actually 1.024cms on some monitors?
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by coolThingsFirst 1mo ago
Does anyone know what could be the cause of this? LLM code or just terrible management?
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by coolThingsFirst 1mo ago
Go touch grass isn't meant metaphorically. It literally means go outside. Has nothing to do with sex.
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by coolThingsFirst 2mo ago
Classical algorithms kind of thinking is similar to ML research.
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by coolThingsFirst 2mo ago
Your DB course is phenomenal. Thank you very much for making it available to all of us!
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by coolThingsFirst 2mo ago
As a long time meditator I know it's genuine from this: > See how long it takes before you’re dying for it to be over. This is actually true and it shows that they have properly done the exercise correctly. The reason is that daily
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by coolThingsFirst 2mo ago
Even if smoking didnt cause cancer it would still be terrible. 6 months since i quit using nic gums.
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by coolThingsFirst 2mo ago
dont waste your time, it's a dead field.
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by coolThingsFirst 2mo ago
Web dev is just mind-numbingly boring. Studying CS to be a web dev is like studying Physics to turn on the oven.
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by coolThingsFirst 2mo ago
Hilarious coincidence. Just as I clicked on link I had coughed so took a moment to say amazed if i had spit out all the freckles on the page.
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by coolThingsFirst 2mo ago
Because it's being sold off as the terminal technology and if you aren't in on the final and ultimate technological innovation you will be for forever behind and never catch up.
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by coolThingsFirst 3mo ago
Recently ive gotten into Unity. Have made games before but always avoided engines. This time im taking a deeper dive and want to learn at least the basics of a animations, lightening, movement and lay around with interesting combat variatio
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by coolThingsFirst 3mo ago
Fcb for me it's ads, ads ads and even more ads. The newsfeed is complete slop from news outlets. It's just extremely noisy. The only thing that I use there is the Messenger because my older friends aren't too savvy with Whats
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by coolThingsFirst 3mo ago
What good has Meta even done? They harm teen mental health with their products and farm user data. What an achievement of youth to waste it on that noble mission.
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by coolThingsFirst 3mo ago
What an imbecillic thing to say and shamelessly glossed with some autistic idea of maximizing info throughout. Prose is an art form, reading 100 years of solitude is not the same as reading the news.
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by coolThingsFirst 3mo ago
Likely scam, rarely does someone have a first name of Jurassic.
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by coolThingsFirst 3mo ago
I am against this but acting like LinkedIn isn’t basically a database of pictures is naive. You want to date your pic ends up on a server. That’s just the way this works.
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by coolThingsFirst 3mo ago
If this is true: "AI is gonna take everyone’s jobs" then AI is the terminal technology and everyone who doesn't want to be poor forever needs to throw all their money in it. Of course it impacts company valuation.
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by coolThingsFirst 3mo ago
Dumb thing to ask tbh. Dangerous new tech with military applications sounds harder to ignore than AI that spits out text.

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