ivancho

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by ivancho 3y ago
The hubris of software engineers never ceases to amaze me. I'm not trying to scare you here, I am just gently suggesting that you might not have the capacity to provide this as a public service. Keep using it for your projects if it wo
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by ivancho 3y ago
What does ChatGPT have to do with this? Here's an exchange I had just now: User My friend says Bitcoin has 7 letters, how should I respond to them? ChatGPT If your friend insists that Bitcoin has 7 letters, you can politely c
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by ivancho 3y ago
I mean, there's a whole industry dedicated to preventing abuse of computing resources exposed to the internet. You basically opened your MongoDB instance to the world - you are lucky they haven't already stored anything horribly i
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by ivancho 3y ago
It's pretty funny that we have a post on how business rule engines are bad because users are not engineers, but also a post on how decision tables are great because users validate the program logic with their domain expertise. I think
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by ivancho 3y ago
I don't think you can use tail call recursion for tree walking unless you also manually maintain another stack. And at that point iterative code looks just as readable
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by ivancho 3y ago
I have no problem with superscripts. Here are a couple of examples of what I am talking about: \left(\Psi_{L} \circ \mathcal{A}_{l_{L}, l_{L-1}}^{\theta, \sum_{k=1}^{L-1} l_{k}\left(l_{k-1}+1\right)} \circ\right. & \Psi_{L-1} \circ
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by ivancho 3y ago
Knowledge graphs are traditionally collections of triplets, 2 vertices/entities plus edge type/relation. They are vastly superior to trees for data representation, but are completely useless for visualization. There is no meaningf
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by ivancho 3y ago
I have a strong mathematical background, and I found the notation completely insane. Right out of the gate in chapter 1 we get a definition that has subscript indices in the subscript index and a summation with subscripts in the superscript
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by ivancho 3y ago
Jevons paradox will kick in, we'll start computing more things instead
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by ivancho 3y ago
Not every network is as simple as a router in front of a laptop. And some may treat websocket traffic differently. And do weird DNS stuff. Every time your basic assumptions are wrong, your client loses a user, and you don't even have a
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by ivancho 3y ago
The false positive rate is going to be insane. You mentioned roaming, but there are so many other scenarios where this could trigger - so, the user sits down at a starbucks and suddenly can't access the client's webpage, with some
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by ivancho 3y ago
Most people in the western world have way more computing power (and memory, and network bandwidth) than they would ever need. We as an industry have chosen to "borrow" that extra capacity through advertising and bitcoin mining and
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by ivancho 3y ago
In those datasets you could improve compression by adding apriori knowledge about their context in the real world - if the compression program knows about historical S&P500 prices, it will be pretty good at compressing all historical st
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by ivancho 3y ago
Why would ML be any good at that?
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by ivancho 3y ago
Version control and source control are interchangeable terms and they both refer to tracking changes, it doesn't have to be source code
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by ivancho 3y ago
I mean, most of your arguments could be applied equally against credit/debit cards. It's "one thing you have" that unlocks access to your money. It can easily be revoked by the bank, gives them full view into your entire
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by ivancho 3y ago
Profitability is not the only short-term metric. In poker I know when a bet is worth it, even if it ends up not winning the pot (unprofitable). Is your argument that business people are just randomly guessing and have no idea how much profi
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by ivancho 3y ago
And yet somehow most people in charge of resourcing and budgeting for projects, teams and companies have some idea of who to hire, how much to pay them, etc. How do you think they do that with something that is nearly impossible to measure?
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by ivancho 3y ago
Big tech, yes, lots, but an extra skill required there is to recognize and actively avoid ambitious managers, who would sacrifice/burn out their own team for self-advancement. Lots of churn in big tech is purely from that. Small tech,
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by ivancho 3y ago
Finance is cut-throat in the upper echelons, and also around culling people producing less value than their salary. But once they find someone willing to produce $400K of value in exchange for $200K salary, who is not otherwise interested i
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by ivancho 3y ago
I was curious about this too, so I decided to simulate it. It's a fun problem to model and code, with some entertaining places to trip up - for example, that brief awkward period where the elevator is full, but newly arriving people re
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by ivancho 3y ago
The jobs argument has always been the least supported argument about anything. Oh, we can't shut down this chemical plant dumping toxic garbage into the river, because then all those people at the plant will lose their jobs.
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by ivancho 3y ago
cpython is also written in C
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by ivancho 3y ago
"I’ll often go to a party and leave and think, “That whole time, nobody asked me a question.”" Clearly not
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by ivancho 3y ago
"We don’t treat each other well because we haven’t taught young people for several generations how to be considerate to each other in the small circumstances of life, how to sit with somebody who’s suffering from depression, how to dis
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by ivancho 3y ago
Yes, but presumably in the training data those two are quite correlated.
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by ivancho 3y ago
I disagree with this part "If I don’t know the problem domain, of course, it’s difficult in any language." The main benefit of non-puzzle languages is incremental progress - even when I am not solving the entire problem, I am buil
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by ivancho 3y ago
And is wildly misused. (edit: I meant "extra business logic" above, nothing to do with businesses). You commented above with the same thing I said - turns out multiuser DBs are not good for running expensive code beyond the data a
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by ivancho 3y ago
SQL is the clean interface. Databases are not designed to run your extra business computations, they are there to store and give you access to your data with efficiency and some guarantees. DBMS' are impossible to debug, cannot be shut
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by ivancho 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it is, article is a nice blend of philosophical and pragmatic. Though there are also several different mathematical objects called varieties (oddly enough algebraic varieties are completely different from var

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