egl2020

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by egl2020 8mo ago
The surge in laptops contributed, too. The opportunity or need for expansion cards, additional memory or storage upgrades, and peripherals disappeared or shrank. I used to think of the sales staff as the United Nations of Fry's. It w
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by egl2020 8mo ago
Why can't a parser be written? Is there a halting problem or a grammar conflict? Or is "can't" short-hand for "too much trouble"?
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by egl2020 8mo ago
I was at G when "mobile first" was the slogan, and it led to "odd" choices such as designing and leading with a travel app rather than the web site. Perhaps locally suboptimal, but in the long run brutal forcing functio
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by egl2020 8mo ago
yes, that's my question: am I compromised? What should I do?
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by egl2020 8mo ago
This all fascinating, but in the end: I have notepad++; what should I do?
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by egl2020 8mo ago
Is Marshall McLuhan in the house? Calling Marshall McLuhan.
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by egl2020 9mo ago
Maybe coverage, too?
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by egl2020 9mo ago
Does anyone know what the "30,000 star trackers" are? There are about that many satellites in orbit, so does this mean almost everyone is contributing data?
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by egl2020 9mo ago
Regardless of Cryptonomicon's utility in understanding Japan, the statement that "none of that book takes place in Japan" is not true.
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by egl2020 9mo ago
Well, her three children might care.
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by egl2020 9mo ago
Mercator projection aside, Greenland is not tiny. The ice-free area is about as big as California. If you include the icy areas, it's bigger than any U.S. state.
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by egl2020 9mo ago
This is looking at the wrong end of the telescope. The arc has been to move computing closer to more and more end users. In the 1960's, FORTRAN enabled scientists and engineers to implement solutions without knowing much about the un
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by egl2020 9mo ago
Maybe it's just me, but my gripe is that it looks declarative, but you have to read the code in execution order.
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by egl2020 9mo ago
When Jeff Dean gets stuck, he asks Bellard for help...
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by egl2020 10mo ago
I once had an 1.75 hour commute each way, 3.5 hours daily. I had to program during the commute---otherwise there weren't enough hours in the day to get my work done. There were periods of laptop-closed thinking, but no daydreaming or
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by egl2020 10mo ago
Can anyone provide some color around this: "I started porting esbuild's JSX & TypeScript transpiler from Go to Zig"? Hypothetical benefits include monolanguage for development, better interoperability with C and C++, no
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by egl2020 11mo ago
Karpathy colorfully described RL as "sucking supervision bits through a straw".
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by egl2020 11mo ago
The AlphaGo paper might be what you need. It requires some work to understand, but is clearly written. I read it when it came out and was confident enough to give a talk on it. (I don't have the slides any more; I did this when I wa
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by egl2020 11mo ago
Three considerations that come into play in deciding about using RL: 1) how informative is the loss on each example, 2) can you see how to adjust the model based on the loss signal, and 3) how complex is the feature space? For the house va
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by egl2020 11mo ago
Based on my experience, I would expect that the LLM was wrong about some of those details. Of course, your mileage (see what I did there?) may vary.
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by egl2020 11mo ago
I still have the wooden 10" Keuffel and Esser that I inherited from my father and that I used in college. These days I use my HP15C unless I want to provoke glee and amusement in my younger colleagues by sporting my Pickett slide rule
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by egl2020 11mo ago
How does this compare to something that might be offered in a strong computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering program in the U.S. or Europe?
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by egl2020 11mo ago
From the title, I thought he was going to explain "eigenvalue".
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by egl2020 11mo ago
I've been writing go professionally for about ten years, and with go I regularly find myself saying "this is pretty boring", followed by "but that's a good thing" because I'm pretty sure that I won't
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by egl2020 11mo ago
What do you put on the cleaned phone?
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by egl2020 1y ago
"SAT solvers only really seem to be good at Sudoku": if you use conda or uv, you've used an SAT solver.
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by egl2020 1y ago
"No one cared who your parents were." Did it never matter if my dad was a pfc and yours was the base commander? Ideally it shouldn't matter,but in practice? Genuinely curious.
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by egl2020 1y ago
For K-12, it's not complicated: every student and parent knows that a student f-up will have consequences for the service member.
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by egl2020 1y ago
Write for your median reader, and the bottom half will stop reading you. Problem solved.
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by egl2020 1y ago
AFAIK the mine is less of a problem than the refinery and its waste.

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