g9yuayon

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by g9yuayon 2mo ago
> I suspect that a lot about what we call being very intelligent is ultimately out-remembering people around us. I wonder practically how useful it is. It should be very useful, right? Say you're a hiring manager, and now you can hi
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by g9yuayon 5mo ago
And in developing countries too. People may not realize that when there's no industrialization, people still need fuel. So they cut down tree that they could walk to. Just look at the pictures missionaries and travelers took in China a
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by g9yuayon 6mo ago
> How much of the job is a structured set of tasks vs. taking accountability? More accurately, how many jobs are probabilistically mechanical. That is, how many jobs are really the execution of a serious Bayesian decisions with a strong
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by g9yuayon 6mo ago
> Lattner found nothing innovative in the code generated by AI I don't think the replacement is binary. Instead, it’s a spectrum. The real concern for many software engineers is whether AI reduces demand enough to leave the field ov
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by g9yuayon 7mo ago
I like the Chinese alternative better: 古法编程. It feels like playful self-deprecation, suggesting old-school, handcrafted coding with a wink. Ape coding sounds harsher and more insulting, implying mindless or sloppy work rather than humor.
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by g9yuayon 8mo ago
Honest question: why are we so afraid of population decline? For people on the left, it means less consumption, less environment impact, less carbon footprint, and in general fewer damn evil people who are destroying the mother earth. For t
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by g9yuayon 10mo ago
https://stanfordreview.org/jo-boaler-and-the-woke-math-death... , and wikipedia on Math Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_wars Personally, I find Boaler's advocacy extreme. Her famous quote:
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by g9yuayon 10mo ago
> so we have been unwilling to invest in our own children. The school districts like SFUSD are actually sabotaging the growth of our kids in the name of equity. They're committed to ideas from people like Jo Boaler, and they tried v
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by g9yuayon 11mo ago
I'm curious why Lisp didn't gain mass popularity despite its advantages. In fact, I was wondering if it's popularity has event decreased in the past decade or so. I remember in the 2000s and even early 2010s, there were activ
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
I think both can true. I learned a lot in my university, and my learning has been carrying me ever since. Case in point, it was never a problem for me to pick up functional programming or programming-language concepts in general because the
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
My own experience: https://www.quora.com/Could-online-coding-programs-and-codin... And my wife's experience: https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-learn-computer-scie... In short, the training that
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
I guess I have a different philosophy: whoever owns the problem should learn everything necessary to solve the problem. In my case, the engineers showed no interests in learning the algorithm and the math behind it. For instance, when they
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
I can attest how useful Bayesian analysis is. My team recently needed to sample from many millions of items to test their qualities. The question is that given a certain budget and expectation, what's the minimum or maximum number of i
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
And the competition from Airbus may not make Boeing better either. On the contrary, Boeing may well get into a death spiral and a slow but painful death. What competition really means is that incumbents can die without impacting customers a
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
The example in the article does not look like LLM Inflation, but that LLM can't reduce the waste in a bureaucratic process.
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
I used to try services like Blinkist. Did anyone have similar experience as I had: I simply couldn't remember what I read, let alone what I listened to. The summaries, despite being reasonably detailed and having key points and represe
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
That’s why Patrick said it helps to have a strong reputation going in. Still, you can absolutely negotiate—just make sure you have real leverage. That usually means a competing offer from another solid company (ideally a competitor). Keep t
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
Thanks! I used to use the same pattern library hosted in either CMU or PSU, IIRC. Glad that it has a new home.
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
Specifying a system correctly can be hard with the previous generation of tools. For instance, using LTL to describe system properties is not necessarily easy. I remember there used to be pattern library for model checking or for temporal l
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
> Do "AI Startups" even make sense? I'm doubtful. Remember when Google said their strategy was AI First? Baidu too? I'm old enough to remember that the criticism then was along the line "AI is technology. What pr
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
> how Duolingo started using streaks and other gamification techniques to optimize their numbers These two tactics per se are alright, right? If anything, I'd appreciate that Duolingo tries to keep me engaged. Besides, the more one
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
I often read that EU is incredibly bureaucratic and risk averse. On the other hand, I also read stories how startups can successfully bootstrap themselves via generous support of the government, like tax deduction for small companies, unemp
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
I'm more curious about how much cost of customer service can Klarna cut by using AI , and how much marginal improvement to their customer service can Klarna achieve. Customer service should be an amazing application to AI: AI solves X%
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by g9yuayon 1y ago
I actually think the intention of the tariff here is to bring jobs back to the American filming industry - not that I agree with this approach. Just an assessment of mine. But speaking of cultural influence, I think something interesting ha
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> It will be incredibly lucrative to be one of the "ones who knows" in the relatively near future. I'm not so optimistic on this if AI prevails. Think about the chip industry. It's an incredibly challenging field for
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> My thesis is that AI will fragment the role of software engineering. It will become a role with a large pool of low-skilled coders who move forward with AI and a few specialists that will unblock those coders when stuck as well as addr
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
H3's algorithms involve some intricate maths, but the library itself is conceptually simple. Check this page out for some really fun and neat ideas: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ . Uber internal
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
When I was in Uber back in 2015, my org was trying to convert zip-code-based geo partitioning with a hexagon-based scheme. Instead of partitioning a city into on average tens of zip codes, we may partition the city into potentially hundreds
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> Once it has finally released, it usually remains stagnant in terms of having its knowledge updated....meaning that models will not be able to service users requesting assistance with new technologies, thus disincentivising their use. I
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> Solve all the problems at the end of the chapters in the textbook It really depends on the textbook, isn't it? I find it impossible to solve all the problems in CLRS, for example. Our professor assigned one of the problems about u

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