gjulianm

12 ms·

61.
by gjulianm 11mo ago
I wonder why so many people are under the impression that the notation is what is keeping them away and if only the notation was easier then the underlying concepts would be clear. For example, if you don't know what the pullback of a
62.
by gjulianm 11mo ago
I'm not sure that symbols are the thing actually keeping you away. Clear text functions might not be as clear, as it will be harder to scan and it will still contain names that you might not be familiar with. Those "weird symbols&
63.
by gjulianm 11mo ago
> I suspect they do so as a means of gatekeeping I'm surprised at how could you get at this conclusion. Formalisms, esoteric language and syntax are hard for everyone. Why would people invest in them if their only usefulness was ga
64.
by gjulianm 11mo ago
3blue1brown, while they create great content, they do not go as deep into the mathematics, they avoid some of the harder to understand complexities and abstractions. Don't take me wrong, it's not a criticism of their content, it&#
65.
by gjulianm 2y ago
The interview works as intended because the main priority is to avoid hiring people who will be a negative for the company. Discarding a small number of good candidates is an acceptable tradeoff.
66.
by gjulianm 2y ago
> So what are we afraid of? That people are going to copy paste from AI outputs and we won't notice the difference with someone that really knows their stuff inside out? I don't think that's realistic. Candidates could als
67.
by gjulianm 2y ago
Which capabilities are being shown off here? The ability to take an already existing world-model and take lots of compute to have a worse, less correct model?
68.
by gjulianm 2y ago
Generalisable how? The model completely hallucinates invalid input, it's not even high quality and required CSGO to work. What's the output you expect from this and what alternatives are there?
69.
by gjulianm 2y ago
What exactly would be the benefit of that? We already have Counter Strike working far more smooth than this, without wasting tons of compute.
70.
by gjulianm 2y ago
OpenCL was released in 2009. AMD has had plenty of time to push and drive that standard. But OpenCL had a worse experience than CUDA, and AMD wasn't up to the task in terms of hardware, so it made no real sense to go for OpenCL.
71.
by gjulianm 2y ago
With volume-based fees you only have one type of user. Costs and benefits are predictable, and it's clear who you're providing the service to (the writers) so the company's goals are better aligned with those of their clients
72.
by gjulianm 3y ago
It definitely is easier without AI. Before, if you saw a photo you could be fairly confident that most of it was real (yes, photo manipulation exists but you can't really create a photo out of nothing). Videos, far more trustworthy (an
73.
by gjulianm 3y ago
I feel like this analogy is not very appropriate. The main problem with AI generated images and videos is that, with every improvement, it becomes more and more difficult to distinguish what's real and what's not. That's not
74.
by gjulianm 3y ago
To be honest, I don't know if I would have said that. I think that employees in "creative" positions (e.g., you're not serving customers at a bar and need to keep the shop open and working) are paid based on the output t
75.
by gjulianm 3y ago
q
76.
by gjulianm 3y ago
One time I tried to gain weight just to check if I was able to, as I have been unable to gain any significant weight in a variety of situation (sport, not sport; young, not that young, better/worse diet). I ate a calorie surplus diet (
77.
by gjulianm 3y ago
> I wonder what the biggest hindrances are for software development to become this way. Context and complexity. Jumping into a codebase and suggesting changes that add value to the company usually require having context of what the compa
78.
by gjulianm 3y ago
Not really, I don't distinguish between the different ways to solve it. I wish that was the discussion, but I feel like any solution that has any costs of any kind is just ignored because a lot of people don't feel like this is se
79.
by gjulianm 3y ago
> There are such obvious first steps we could take without a complete understanding of cause if we really cared. That's the issue, a lot of people just don't care or refuse to believe it. Questions like the one in the parent co
80.
by gjulianm 3y ago
> But when it comes to the very things that keep us alive, we are not so eager to play with computer code. That, I think, has less to do with the complexity of the subject and more with a certain moral disposition...which is the thing I
81.
by gjulianm 3y ago
I don't think it's as easy as "simulating cellular processes". I feel like sometimes HN tends to severely underestimate the difficulty of problems in other fields. Just off the top of my head I can see several hard probl
82.
by gjulianm 3y ago
I honestly don't get the criticisms of the Prometheus + Grafana stack. > A full-blown time-series database (with gigabytes of rolling on-disk data). Prometheus has a setting that allows you to limit the space used by the database. I
83.
by gjulianm 3y ago
This is great, not just the parameters themselves but all the steps that a packet follows from the point it enters the NIC until it gets to userspace. Just one thing to add regarding network performance: if you're working in a system w
84.
by gjulianm 3y ago
I use it (sparingly) for tracking which books I've read/want to read, getting recommendations and seeing what people say about certain books as (partial) information to check if they're worth the time
85.
by gjulianm 3y ago
> preferably one that doesn't feel they got into their position out of mostly luck. This part stood out to me. I think it's important to see that almost all successful CEOs (or founders, as it seems closer to what you wanted) h
86.
by gjulianm 3y ago
> while putting a substantial portion of GDP into building nuclear reactors and removing carbon from the atmosphere. The first thing takes years and we still don’t have feasible technology for the second. Not to mention that we would sti
87.
by gjulianm 3y ago
Of course a lot of libraries are not thread safe. However, that's not at all rare, lots of libraries for other programming languages aren't thread safe either. My point is that those libraries won't start magically crashing w
88.
by gjulianm 3y ago
Short answer: Prometheus + Grafana + Alertmanager. prometheus_node_exporter has an option to export SystemD service status and you can alert on failed services, and you can use Alertmanager to configure multiple types of alarms, including r
89.
by gjulianm 3y ago
Woops, yeah, you're right. I thought the default executor was a threadpool, my mistake. However, in that case, I assume that the default executor will not change to multithreaded when no-gil comes.
90.
by gjulianm 3y ago
async/await code already runs in threads, so that's not really a change.

More ›