danmaz74

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It's incredibly difficult to measure the work of a software engineer with metrics which are useful AND objective. You can have many metrics which are useful, but not objective. And you can have many metrics which are objective, but no
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It's easy to pick on banks, but I really don't see what should the bank do here.
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If you give your card and your PIN to somebody and that somebody steals from you, how can this be the bank's fault?
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We do the same in Italy in lots of supermarkets.
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I wouldn't say that it's hard to conceptualize instructions executing in parallel, but it's hard to coordinate those parallel subtasks in an efficient and correct way - except in some use cases, like eg matrix multiplication.
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There is a huge difference between your model and an LLM model in your example. Your model "knows" that China has rivers (of which you have direct experience), coastlines (same), trees, mountains etc. etc. An LLM has no tangible e
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Humans aren't optimized to be correct, but they are optimized to survive and reproduce themselves in the real world. That's why we develop an understanding of the real world, while LLM can, at most, develop an understanding of hum
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Thank you for your comment. What I don't understand is this: when the robot is in a new environment, how does it know where it's supposed to go? My understanding is that the training teaches the robot how to get to a position, but
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I scanned the paper and, if I got it right, during training the robot gets "external" information about its world position and speed compared to pre-set waypoints, something that an animal or person wouldn't have access to. W
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The main way to improve at solving tactical puzzles - and at seeing tactical opportunities/threats in games - is to develop pattern recognition for the many tactical themes there are. Training on specific themes for some time is a very
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If you watch the video, you'll at least see the proportions (even if it's CGI).
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If you want to improve on specific tactical themes, including forks, you can use this for free: https://chess.braimax.com/play/focused_puzzle_rush Disclaimer: I'm the creator of BraiMax Chess. Any feedback is welc
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My understanding is that this system is meant to be used at a small and distributed scale, not at an industrial scale like city-level desalination plants. In that case, it shouldn't be a big issue.
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In my experience, a mediocre engineer can build a decent monolith, especially if they're using an opinionated framework (like Ruby on Rails). On the other hand, building microservices is much more complex as there are more moving parts
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Having 13,000 feature flags is just insane. I'm so happy that at my previous job I insisted that we use "release" flags for every new feature were there wasn't an explicit requirement to be able to enable it for some cus
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I remember reading in a psychology manual years ago about an experiment where they gave people a drug which would induce a physical feeling, and verified how this "made" those people feel the corresponding emotion. Personally I wo
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Roman naming conventions were very different from current Italian ones, and Caesar's full name was Gaius Julius Caesar, where Gaius is the closest thing to what we would call a first name. If he had some brothers, they would all have b
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But the only reason to pay for Premium is not to see ads, so that wouldn't work.
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This might surprise you, but as a parent, I can tell you that seeing my daughter happy makes me happy. Yes, sometimes you do things out of guilt, but that's not the prime mover most of the time.
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Only if there weren't rush hours.
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If you capture the CO2 produced when burning the propane, you can get more than double duty. If you used this process to store energy into propane when electricity is cheap, and then produce electricity by burning propane when electricity i
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It actually is worded differently: > A portable battery shall be considered readily removable by the end-user where it can be removed from a product with the use of commercially available tools, without requiring the use of specialised
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"A security guard at an airport can be a a machine gun on wheels" - are you serious? That is a job which is 99.99% about understanding human intentions in confusing and ambiguous situations, and where making a mistake will literal
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You can mock the "moving fast" trope, but the truth is that moving fast has actually been very important for most web-related software development since the beginning. The reason is that the web is a super-competitive environment
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The competitive pressures described in the article aren't specific to AI: any technology which can give wealth or power will be used in risky or unethical ways by companies, countries, organisations in general. For a specific example,
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I was looking for an animation library some time ago, and theatrejs looks incredible. Anybody has any experience with it? In the end I used blender for what I needed, but I got very curious about it.
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Fitting a chess game state in 128 bytes is for sure doable; what is really impressive is being able to use the same memory not just for the current position, but also to compute the next moves in a decent way.
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Thank you for your feedback! By the way, you can disable sound from the little cog icon just above the chessboard.
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> Looks neat. Thank you. > Better call the puzzle training something else than Puzzle Rush though. Why? I think it's the most recognised name for the sequence of puzzles becoming harder and harder, even if I removed the time limi
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By the way: right now I'm working on a chess training project(1), and I'm thinking that a marketing cofounder could really help. If anybody is interested, my contact info is in my profile. (1) https://chess.braimax.com

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