hibernator149

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by hibernator149 3mo ago
All intuitions are wrong, but some are usefull. You have to do the experiment, discover the formula, and then adapt your intuitions accordingly.
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by hibernator149 2y ago
That was my favorite one too. Probably because it is basically Outer Wilds in real life.
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by hibernator149 2y ago
Wait, isn't that just Doublethink from 1984? Holding two opposing thoughts is a sign that your mental model of the world is wrong and that it needs to be fixed. Where have you heard that maxim?
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by hibernator149 2y ago
"Leaders" have to stop pretending that they know better than the developers who are actually doing the work. Let the developers decide how their "Developer Experience" should look like instead of deciding it top down. Sh
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by hibernator149 2y ago
Your intuition is correct. I think you accidentally swapped %s and %d in one of your previous posts, leading to the confusion. The "backwards" in the article is referring to the way the list is processed by the recursive function.
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by hibernator149 2y ago
Thank you for being such a great example of the exact behavior the article is talking about.
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by hibernator149 2y ago
LLMs are really good at system 1 thinking (fast, intuitive) but can't do system 2 (planning, calculating) at all. Just like in Go/Baduk, neural net based AIs were good at tactical play but fell apart against pro players with good
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Ask HN: Is Your Company Turning GenAI Usage into a KPI?
6 points by hibernator149 2y ago|4 comments
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by hibernator149 2y ago
> The blame squarely falls at the IA's feet; being an idealist doesn't give you the rights to delve into illegal behavior This way of thinking is the reason why we are losing so many great things. Laws are created by people to
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by hibernator149 2y ago
Upper management are just average people with better networking and less empathy. They fall for fads and FOMO just like everyone else.
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by hibernator149 2y ago
Why not both? Pharma and Social Media profit from depressed people. Nothing ever has a single root cause. There are always multiple causes often working together in a vicious cycle. Also, what's wrong with vibrators?
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by hibernator149 3y ago
Honest question because I'm curious. What is your definition of an introvert and how do you know you are one?
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by hibernator149 3y ago
What useful thing could the AI do that it can't do any longer?
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by hibernator149 3y ago
Interesting take. But why not skip the ChatGPT middleman with its fake positivity and just send the unedited info from the prompt? It contains the same info and is even more concise. But that's probably just my INTJ with ascendent Pisc
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by hibernator149 3y ago
I found that it is really hard to go against the mainstream of the bubble you live in for two reasons: Let's take issue X as an example. One side says X is always true, the other that it is always false. But you think that actually &qu
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by hibernator149 3y ago
Your responsibility as a professional is towards the customer and company. Not towards incompetent individuals. Don't call yourself a professional when you are reday to do unprofesssional work at the first sign of resistance.
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by hibernator149 3y ago
You assume that they value longterm profits over shortterm ones.
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by hibernator149 3y ago
This is not strictly (purely?) category theory, but two fun little projects that will teach you a lot (or reinforce what you already know) are writing your own parser combinator library ( https://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh&#x2
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by hibernator149 3y ago
Agreed, I would not be surprised if adblocking were treated like piracy in the near future: "You wouldn't download a car without watching the ads first" ;)
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by hibernator149 3y ago
This is called capitalism. Everyone tries to get as much for themselves as possible. No morals needed. Greed is good ;). Why should only Big Cos play that game? AdBlockers aren't breaking any laws yet (might change soon).
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by hibernator149 3y ago
I think that was the point of the person you're replying to. Either Jesus performed actual miracles, but then the Judas story doesn't make sense; or Jesus was an ordinary mortal, but then Christianity doesn't make sense. I ha
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by hibernator149 3y ago
If you're poor then climate change will affect you first. If you're a software dev or similar then AI will hit you first and make you poor. If you're rich and your assets aren't negatively affected by both you'll pr
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Rules for Rulers (2016) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by hibernator149 3y ago|0 comments
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by hibernator149 3y ago
I thought so too at first. But there is no liquid water on Venus. So it is possible for all life on earth to just get boiled off.
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by hibernator149 3y ago
In the last couple of years I've been thinking more often about a Venus scenario where life does not survive. We are just hoping that life will find a new equilibrium in the next couple million years like it has in the past. But if tem
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by hibernator149 3y ago
If they violate their own terms they will lose customers and money. If they violate OSS nothing happens.
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by hibernator149 3y ago
Thinking in extremes helped me to understand the Monty Hall problem. Imagine there are a hundred doors instead of three and 98 wrong ones are eliminated. Should you switch?
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by hibernator149 3y ago
Please be cautious with this approach. Good juniors will benefit from this. But the bad devs and students I worked with just copied code from others without understanding or learning from it. You might just introduce an unreliable middleman
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by hibernator149 3y ago
Thats like a shepherd shooting his own sheep but leaving the wolves alive. Here is what the Illuminati would actually do: Get all the obedient sheep to take the vaccine and then release the actual killer virus that wipes out the troublemake
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by hibernator149 4y ago
Reminds me of the railroad tunnel accident in Atlas Srugged by Ayn Rand. That happened for exactly the same reason. Only that the greedy railroad boss Dagny Taggart took the accident seriously and tried to fix it. We live in a world where h

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