jasebell

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by jasebell 2y ago
Done me fine for the last decade. Along with all the other languages that kept me in employment. I still use it daily.
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by jasebell 2y ago
I absolutely loved it! Gave me the old ZX Spectrum vibes when I first started, that adds to the charm. More of this please!
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by jasebell 2y ago
Does anyone remember SpikeSource?
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by jasebell 2y ago
Could the code be open sourced? I care about whiskey much more.
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by jasebell 3y ago
I can provide slap bass if anyone needs it while reading.
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by jasebell 3y ago
If you career depended on it then you'd be nowhere near a LLM. There are so many pointless waffle papers on LLMs now.
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by jasebell 3y ago
I've only seen one article predicting this. Bankruptcy means different things in different countries, so assuming a restructure of finance and payment of suppliers. Still interesting to me. Is the AI winter coming (again)?
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by jasebell 4y ago
If you had access to the suppliers then it was an easy concept to copy. Those with the marketing budget were then going to be the winners. That aside it was an interesting exercise of the combinatorial optimisation problem at scale.
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by jasebell 4y ago
Do away with cash and track everything. It's not a good look.
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by jasebell 4y ago
Nice work. Are you going to write a blog post on the process. Would love to read it.
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by jasebell 4y ago
Definitely worth looking at, the Bellman-Ford algorithm can traverse negative edges but is slower than Dijkstra's. An interesting read!
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by jasebell 4y ago
First place I heard that question was on a Jasper Carrott concert from the late 70s. :)
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by jasebell 4y ago
Not looked, can't see me looking at this rate.
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by jasebell 4y ago
Years and years ago I worked at an organisation where I was expected to role play Dungeons and Dragons (polystyrene swords and all). When I refused it got tense. The tipping point happened when I found a bug in the CTO's database code
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by jasebell 5y ago
Fortune’s Forumla by William Poundstone is an excellent book. Edward Thorpe has most of his papers published too, they’re all good for a read [though I cannot be held responsible if you’re going to beat the dealer at Blackjack, I don’t need
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by jasebell 8y ago
No I haven't but I appreciate the headsup. It's been a few years since I even looked at anything on Azure in all honesty.
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by jasebell 8y ago
<<but one disk of one machine satisfies that need>> Right now it does, later on it won't. Then it moves to Kafka.
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by jasebell 8y ago
It does ignore fault tolerance yes I agree, because right now I don't need it. When you're bootstrapping this stuff you want to be as lean as you can. The plan is to move to Kafka, which I do use a lot btw, when there's a cas