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by hirvi74 8mo ago
Everything about that makes me feel very uncomfortable. Google made and spent a fortune on getting people's data, and now people are just handing it out for free by the GBs.
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
> the father was an established chess player Where did you find this information? I haven't been able to find any source that states he was above an amateur level.
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
> absolutely zero chance of the 50th percentile IQ becoming a world class mathematician. Good, we don't need billions of them anyway. I wish modern society would quit focusing on individual intelligence over collective intelligence
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
So, what do you tell children that do well/poorly?
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
> All the former G&T kids on here talking about whether they could have been this or that are likely discounting their own contributions that they made and make every day to their own trajectory. I completely agree. I commonly see
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
I have watched some interviews with Tao as the guest. I must say, despite his insane abilities, he also seems like a down to Earth individual. I never have gotten the impression that he is arrogant or thinks he is truly better than anyone e
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
Again, thank you for the recommendation. I think I want a mix of both options you listed. Though, I suppose techniques of usage could perhaps be derived if one's understanding is sufficient. > most people's phobia of mathemati
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
> Genuinely, what is it that you get from studying mathematics? GP here, I would say that I gain understanding. I know that might seem vague, but that is the truth. For example, while not technically traditional math, I have been tryin
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
I don’t know anyone in my life who, given enough time, could recite entire epics like Homer’s The Odyssey the way some of the Ancient Greeks could. But I wouldn’t say modern people are cognitively “less capable” than those Ancient Greeks.
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
Could a clever idiot understand such books? If so, I might be willing to check them out. Thank you for the recommendations either way.
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
> this sounds to be quite basic. It should be according to Tao's own comment at the bottom of the blog: "This book is for a general audience, without necessarily having a college-level math education. It is aimed more at adult
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
How exciting! I am atrocious at mathematics and held much contempt for the field until I was in college and 'saw the light,' if you will. Since college, I have absolutely fallen in love with mathematics. I learned it was not mathe
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by hirvi74 8mo ago
No one, if you don't get caught.
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
It'd probably be cold day in Hell before AI replaces veterinary services, for example. Perhaps for mild conditions, but I cannot imagine an AI robot trying to restrain an animal.
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
I appreciate that Finland considers Internet access of a minimum of 1 Mb to be a basic human right. I am not sure if other countries follow, but I wish the USA did.
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
In my time, I have potentially written code that some legal jurisdictions might classify as a "crime against humanity" due to the quality.
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
I firmly agree with your first sentence. I can just think about the various modders that have created patches and performance enhancing mods for games with budgets of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. But to give other devs and mysel
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
> choosing to use AI isn't all or nothing. That's how I have been using AI the entire time. I do not use Claude Code or Codex. I just use AI to ask questions instead of parsing the increasingly poor Google search results. I j
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
> Because EF's default behavior implements Unit of Work, a LOT of the complex transactional spaghetti ended up disappearing when we switched. I have never felt more understood by a fellow HN user. I think I know the exact spaghett
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
> nullable reference types. What would you suggest instead? I quite like the nullable reference types, but I do know many get annoyed. My brain is often a scurry of squirrels, so I grew to become thankful for the nullable refs overtime
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
It's true. You will incur the wrath of C#'ers if your simple ToDo list app doesn't have a ToDoListItemRepositoryServiceFactory.cs and a minimum of 4 separate layers in which one must update 20 files because you added a proper
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
Blazor is pretty cool if you are into that kind of stuff. Mind you, you still might need the slightest tiny dash of JS, but depending on your needs, you might be able to get away from JS entirely.
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
> the "default" ORM is far more flexible and powerful I have never used any ORM that is as capable. Entity Framework Core with Linq is what keeps me on .NET.
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
Discriminated Unions is one thing I would like.
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
> If that's the case, we should question whether different homogeneous population groups respond differently to the substance under test. In terms of psychological treatments, I am honestly in support of this. Many mental illnesse
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
Just my hypothesis, but I wonder if larger sample sizes provide a more diverse population. A study with 1000 individuals is likely a poor representation of a species of 8.2 billion. I understand that studies try to their best to use a diver
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
I started back on Vitamin-D and Omega-3 (with extra EPA & DHA) about 2 months ago or so. Sadly, I don't feel much of a difference, but I believe the potential harms are quite minimal, so I am going to maintain supplementation for t
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
"A man cannot step into the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not same man." - Heraclitus
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
> assignment to rewarding work, get paid top dollar, not be bored, get recognition for success, coaching on career growth, given leeway to make mistakes, not overlooked for promotion, etc. How likely is one to find all of the above in a
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by hirvi74 9mo ago
My favorite quote about XML was something along the lines of: "XML is a lot like violence. If it's not getting the job done, then you aren't using enough of it."

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