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   by fritzo 3y ago

   You can't eradicate malaria without breaking a few eggs.
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   by fritzo 3y ago

   Is there a similar project for javascript? That is, de-obfuscating large javascript codebases?
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   by fritzo 3y ago

   managing time, and ensuring every bit of work is showcased on a single platform, rather than scattered across many public and proprietary venues
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   by fritzo 3y ago

   > more humans than wild mammals by biomass, but even just rats + mice outnumber humans
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   by fritzo 3y ago

   Let's charitably interpret 'business' here as "a sustainable funding model that can support maintenance, support, and future development". Without a business model, even great user-pleasing, deployable, maintainable
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   by fritzo 3y ago

   Here's an audio impression of the chord those planets are playing: https://fritzo.org/live#a=dmFyIHJhdGlvcyA9IFsyLzMsIDIvMywgMi...
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   by fritzo 3y ago

   I used to work in a rural manufacturing plant. I once totaled my car on the way to town. Our shop foreman was also a volunteer firefighter and was the first one on the scene. I survived with a bloody nose and shattered confidence. The next
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   by fritzo 3y ago

   Yes, Dear app developers, different users want different things. The primary uses of my phone are (1) multi-factor authentication, and (2) as a GPS beacon whereby family can locate me if I'm injured in the wilderness. I definitely valu
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   by fritzo 3y ago

   Years from now AI will have lost the limelight to some other trend and this episode will be just another coup in humanity's hundred thousand year history
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    It's a play to warm the public up to the idea of a more algorithmically managed organization. In Act I, the board jesters stumble around making bad decisions and wavering. In Act II, the embarrassed board welcomes the first AI oversigh
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    I don't think accelerationism is about increasingly reckless decisions made by humans in increasingly powerful positions. Or anyway I hadn't yet been thinking
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    Andrew's distinction between associative vs logical thinking reminds me of two kinds of programming thinking. Half of my time while programming is spent churning out glue code, satisfying a type checker and test suite, and implementing
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    or "Wonderfully Welcoming" award
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    Honest question: are the authors tactically baiting the masses and thereby diverting attention from more difficult to answer questions like budget (at the expense of gender equality), or are they really this crude, nothing deeper? EDIT I me
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    oh, I didn't realize non-delivery was implied
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    and: Does your project even need a front end? I just scrapped my front end in favor of integration with other platforms: they handle front end, I can focus on orchestrating API calls.
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    Right, the article reads like "this one weird trick", but in fact any trick will work as long as it's weird.
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    > 2016: Whoa, deep learning actually works? The deep learning wave began before 2010 when this analysis starts. When I was looking for a job in 2009, there was already a big deep learning hype wave, and my new employer sent me around to
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    > manipulating bereaved people into buying sympathy gifts like candles or flowers and pocketing the money. That's a lot of melodrama to say 'selling'.
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    The SEC and IRS have penalized this sort of IP gerrymandering, e.g. Microsoft's $28Billion fine https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/12/microsoft-faces-28-9-billi...
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    I guess you could say this new tax treatment incentivizes writing more stable, longer-lasting software artifacts?
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    I hear you that it's important for a more diverse set of people to contribute to computing as an increasingly impactful field. The way I read keyle's point is that computing is also a home for many sentient humans who feel awkward
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    Great point. Every one of us now has the opportunity to be open source.
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    Is that true that aerospace engineers are not expected to act as sales people? I've certainly found that in software, engineers who don't sell their work get reassigned or laid off.
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    What is it that makes "giving people money to donate their time " so much less repugnant? Is it that time is finely divisible, whereas kidneys come in twos?
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    I find stereo pair aerial imagery hugely helpful in understanding terrain. While Google Earth is great to get a gross overview, our eyes are much better at inferring sub-meter detail from pairs of stereo photos, e.g. from a single airplane
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    'priding' is idiomatic English
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    In defense of the authors, I find it helpful to explore analogies between the nascent paradigm of LLM programming and other much older conceptual frames. This paper isn't just tiered memory, but also the analogy between an LLM and a CP
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    PhD students get a limited number of innovation tokens to spend. One of the many ways to spend them is on the form of the dissertation.
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    by fritzo 3y ago

    No reference I know of. I'm just struggling to balance on the one hand each field's demand to be taken seriously (and since the public doesn't take them seriously, experts appeal to legislators for validation), and on the oth