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by dekhn 1y ago
Noam was already one of Google's top AI researchers and a personal friend of Jeff Dean (head of Google AI, at least in title). He worked on some of the early (~2002) search systems at Google and patented some of their most powerful te
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by dekhn 1y ago
how would you know for sure? I don't have the skill to evaluate somebody who has disproved one conjecture (maybe some recent techniques made it easier?) versus somebody who had an established pattern of doing excellent work.
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by dekhn 1y ago
It's generally well documented that Kacynski was a highly talented mathematician.
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by dekhn 1y ago
The basis would be getting a dean's approval (or lack of a denial). That is the level at which "Exception Handling" is normally done at a university (above professor, below vice president), and it would normally be the dean
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by dekhn 1y ago
Huh. I would have thought (again, not an expert) that Trump would be referring to "defensive" ballistic subs (I normally think of "attack" subs as being the hunter/killers, which try to find the enemy's ballis
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by dekhn 1y ago
I would love to know (to the extent that submarine deployments are accessible to the public) what this means in terms of actual change in behavior. We have many subs deployed at all times (already quite capable of targeting multiple locati
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by dekhn 1y ago
Because in nature, one thing looking like another is not necessarily an example of shared ancestry.
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by dekhn 1y ago
the big difference being, those cultivars are (IIUC) all human created, while this was a long-time-ago evolutionary event.
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by dekhn 1y ago
We don't, because most of us aren't influencers trying to disrupt the status quo.
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by dekhn 1y ago
This really has nothing to do with Silicon Valley as a whole, just a small fraction of extremely noisy people. The vast majority of SV is based on people with university degrees who appreciate the value of federal funding and know that if
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by dekhn 1y ago
You're wrong (at least on the first half of your first sentence; I am not sure about the second half).
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by dekhn 1y ago
Your approach would work fine until you have a bigger emergency than you can afford. The entire original point of insurance was to amortize the costs of the extreme events by spreading the costs across many people. Are you paying rack rates
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by dekhn 1y ago
Interesting. I interviewed at Meta a decade ago and was put off by the process (inexperienced devs who memorized leetcode medium problems). But I still get daily requests from their recruiters to try again (I am a senior leader in ML engi
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by dekhn 1y ago
i got a slow start on using coding agents but dove into it recently and it's allowed me to make more progress on some of my longest-term projects than I have in years! I also used to work for Google and this tool would have made my li
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by dekhn 1y ago
I loved Lehrer growing up- my parents had his record "That Was the Week That Was" which I think is his finest work. Anyway, when I went to college (UCSC), I took his 'Nature of Math' course, which was quite enjoyable.
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by dekhn 1y ago
Infrastructure costs in China are not directly comparable to costs in the US.
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by dekhn 1y ago
Many herbivores don't have multiple stomachs (ruminants do, monogastrists do not). Given that, and the fact that billions of people in the world live entire lifetimes without eating meat or taking meatpills, your argument is basically
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by dekhn 1y ago
No, this is Android taking over Chrome OS (embrace and extinguish). Fuchsia is unlikely to have a big future ahead of it.
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by dekhn 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_show
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by dekhn 1y ago
This weekend I asked Gemini Pro to create a Python Qt app (a serial file sender- something you'd use to send g-code files to a CNC machine or laser cutter). I did most of the dev on Windows but the app will run exactly the same on all
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by dekhn 1y ago
I remember, as a kid, seeing the first ad for M&M in a computer journal I read. At the time I was happy playing Ultima and it looked like it was going to be a better ultima, and ordered it. Waiting for the floppy disk to arrive seemed
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by dekhn 1y ago
The way I interpret that statement, it suggests they need to improve their dry land environmental conditions, not put data centers in the ocean and then not fix machines.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I have really mixed opinions on whether I want to support the Arduino folks with my money. When I use tools like PlatformIO and the ESP32 ecosystem with FreeRTOS, I begin to wonder if we can evolve away from Arduino, or treat it as some so
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by dekhn 1y ago
I don't think there is much value in the arduino hardware and the value of the arduino software is mainly in it being a standard SDK that works across a wide range of microcontrollers.
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by dekhn 1y ago
To take the question further: do outdoor pools need to close for lightning? Note that the article mentions 5-10 people die in the US every year from lightning while close to bodies of water. I have looked into this before and struggled to
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by dekhn 1y ago
SQL was designed and created to elegantly express queries that exploit relational algebra. It's hard to express that in other ways because general programming languages have properties that get in the way of the query engine. You are
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by dekhn 1y ago
That's not a safe assumption.
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by dekhn 1y ago
Drug culture had a big influence on the creation of modern desktop computing. https://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Per... is the best-researched book I've seen on this, but after living in the bay
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by dekhn 1y ago
No.
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by dekhn 1y ago
It's unlikely you'd find it boring simply because you're an atheist. The experience is typically quite intense, although it's dose-dependent as well as setting-dependent. I'm agnostic but my own experience was a h

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