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by jebarker 1y ago
Sometimes when I'm struggling with the day to day mundane aspects of early years parenting I reframe it as the work of continuing the human race. Somehow makes it easier to keep pushing on as something so significant _should_ be challe
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I question whether the author's story about their mother's farm stand is really about unled lives in the past sense. They seem to be telling a cautionary tale about it but his mother was trying to change her future life in the pre
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by jebarker 1y ago
I think that sort of ratio is the sweet spot for learning. I've been writing an 8086 simulator in C++ and using an LLM for answering specific technical questions I come up with has drastically sped up my progress without it actually do
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by jebarker 1y ago
One of the best features Amazon added in recent years was the delivery day option where they group things together. I assume the fact that they give 6% cash back when you choose that means they do indeed benefit from aggregation
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by jebarker 1y ago
In my 20s and early 30s I was very frugal. I had a relatively low income as a civil servant, was paying down student debt and spent any spare cash on backpacking. Fast-forward 15 years and I lucked into a high income about 10 years ago, am
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Snake on a _local_ plane
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I think we're talking past each other. I'm not suggesting that most users should be writing individual computational ops themselves in C. They'll certainly be unlikely to match the perf of expert written C that has had time i
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by jebarker 1y ago
It's not empirical fact, if you look at the code for AI frameworks you will see that this isn't true in practice when you go beyond a single isolated matrix multiplication
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Yeah, that's not reality. You often hear people say that neural nets are just linear algebra. That isn't really true anymore if you're going for peak performance, there's also a lot of data handling (i.e. tensor movement
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Yep, this is one issue. There are lots of limitations to what you can compile in this way though and your python code rapidly resembles a lower level language and not just scripting. There are also overheads associated with handling distrib
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I feel like you're re-stating the same claim that crote made that there's a clean cut between python and lower level libraries meaning that the user doesn't need to know what is happening at the lower level to achieve good pe
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The problem is that python allows people to be lazy and ignore subtle performance issues. That's much harder in a lower level language. Obviously the tradeoff is that it'd slow down (or completely stop) some developers. I'm r
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The problem I see (day to day working on ML framework optimization) is that it's not just a case of python calling lower level compiled code. Pytorch, for example, has a much closer integration of python and the low level functions tha
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by jebarker 1y ago
Ergonomics isn't the point, performance is.
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Lots of people argue that AI R&D is currently done in Python because of the benefits of the rich library ecosystem. This makes me realize that's actually a poor reason for everything to be in Python since the actually useful librar
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by jebarker 1y ago
How much does this kind of Time Value of Money effect and other similar effects determine trading in the stock market? i.e. just trading based on predictions about what other traders will do rather than just beliefs about the value of the u
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by jebarker 1y ago
I never said it's not difficult. Please see my response to the other commenter.
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My phrasing was weird but I'm actually speaking from personal experience here. I haven't climbed Everest but I've pursued other activities to extreme limits, e.g. running 100 mile high mountain races. These activities are all
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by jebarker 1y ago
Climbing Everest these days just seems to be the quintessential activity for people that have lost site of what really matters in life. It's where you end up if you never grow out of the idea that life is a competition you can win.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I think/hope my feelings will change as my kids are a bit older. Right now they're both under 5 and other kids just seem like terrorists. I actually worry though that I'm teaching my kids to be too timid and should encourage
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by jebarker 1y ago
I love my own children but very much don't enjoy other people's children. I'm sure it's my deficiency but I'd probably murder someone in a community house.
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by jebarker 1y ago
Not asking for your secrets, but is your success a product of intimate knowledge of the game/team/players with you making individually chosen bets or some kind of automated system?
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I guess my question was really one of definitions. I assumed the upper class are a subset of the top 1-2%, but maybe they're in a league of their own?
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Is it really the case that primary residence is the largest asset of most of the upper class? My impression is that many upper class people have far more money invested in stocks and businesses than in their house.
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by jebarker 1y ago
> Old school Deep Sky is losing its appeal due to a) pictures being available online, meaning that you've already seen the better version of the same photo I find deep sky astrophotography compelling because there's still a hug
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by jebarker 1y ago
> "As far as I can tell, I’m the only person who is actually interested in this problem" I think this is a really interesting problem but I have to admit that if I'd heard it stated I would have guessed the answer was alre
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by jebarker 1y ago
> At the end of it, most people don’t want to live this way. That’s OK — I’m not here to judge them. What would you judge them for even if you were here for that?
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> is this about technology, or civilization? Or man's relationship to nature?
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Navigating by Aliveness(ckarchive.com)
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by jebarker 1y ago
Beautiful work and nice write-up. Profiling and optimization is absolutely my favorite part of software development.

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