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by jebarker 1y ago
Transformers (with self-attention being the key operation) are kernel smoothers which fits easily into this view of the world. See here: http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...
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by jebarker 1y ago
Just to clarify, are you saying that if you've never shipped any games then you should start with an established engine and only go artisanal once you have that experience?
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by jebarker 1y ago
There are strong incentives to leave theory as technical debt and keep charging forward. I don't think it's resentment of theory, everyone would love a theory if one were available but very few are willing to forgoe the near term
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by jebarker 1y ago
I don't know the answer to the question in this case, but this quote from [1] has been stuck in my mind for a while and feels relevant: "I wish my high school biology teacher had asked the class how an embryo could possibly differ
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by jebarker 1y ago
Were those imposed as artistic choices rather than due to hardware limitations etc? I just asked because it shipped on PC and the major consoles, so any limitations seem like they were by choice.
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by jebarker 1y ago
This does seem like one math domain where there's some potential for program synthesis approaches like the recent AlphaEvolve and others. I say that because some of these problems you could feasibly write automatic evaluation code and
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by jebarker 1y ago
What were the limitations for Animal Well?
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by jebarker 1y ago
> nothing I make organically can compete with what AI already produces—or soon will. No LLM can ever express your unique human experience (or even speak from experience), so on that axis of competition you win by default. Regurgitating f
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by jebarker 1y ago
That place looks great - they appear to also have an SR-71. I wish I'd known about it last time I did the long drive through KS...
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by jebarker 1y ago
I wasn't even really thinking of the actual sausage stuffing process so much as how the meat gets to the butcher (which is really a meat grinding factory in most cases) in the first place.
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by jebarker 1y ago
> “If you’re going to use generative tools powered by large language models, don’t pretend you don’t know how your sausage is made.” This isn't a very hopeful quote given how many people continue to eat sausages even though we all k
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by jebarker 1y ago
You can't have it both ways, i.e. deploy the technology as rapidly and widely as possible but then say you have to wait to do any accounting of the pros/cons.
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by jebarker 1y ago
That's going to vary person to person I bet. Even if I had the time there's no way I could work out in my 40s now as much as I did and with the same intensity as my 20s, my body just won't take it and I need more recovery.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I didn't really notice much decline in my 30s versus 20s. I was at my peak fitness around 41 (not as powerful or fast as my 20s, but way more endurance and strength). But my early 40s were a pretty rapid decline as I had a bad knee inj
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by jebarker 1y ago
Also do this while you can if it makes you happy/fulfilled. I've found that having kids and just getting older means I have almost no spare time or energy outside of my 40ish hours per week for technical work. I wish I understood
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by jebarker 1y ago
So is there any hope for improvement? Personally I've decided to just vote with my feet and avoid using poor performing software as much as possibl, but that's frequently impractical or not worth the cost of missing out. I also do
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by jebarker 1y ago
I have a top end Pixel phone running stock Android and encounter latency all the time. All first start time is usually a couple of seconds. Switching back to an open app is fast in many cases but some still have to do a refresh (which I sus
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by jebarker 1y ago
You can serve web pages and render them in browsers all written in C. I'll concede that that's a useful level of abstraction over assembly.
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by jebarker 1y ago
Yep. Or writing video codecs or other performance critical software. It's amazing that people make blanket statements like this when really they're just not familiar with what other SWEs are doing
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by jebarker 1y ago
"While CS undergrads are still required to take classes on assembly, most productive SWEs never interact with assembly. Moving up the ladder of abstraction has consistently been good." Gotta disagree. Adding abstraction has yielde
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by jebarker 1y ago
The article made me think of Feynman's classic letter to his old student too: https://fs.blog/richard-feynman-what-problems-to-solve/
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by jebarker 1y ago
I assume they're hoping to nerd snipe someone
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by jebarker 1y ago
I'd love it if someone started Kaggle for software optimization
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by jebarker 1y ago
It's also interesting that everyone is convinced the same capabilities can't be realized with drastically less compute.
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by jebarker 1y ago
Also where I live in the US mountain west I appreciate any additional range on the vehicle I use for loaded up camping trips in the summer. Fast and reliable charging options are still somewhat sparse so any extra range helps keep you movin
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by jebarker 1y ago
I often wonder if there's any real benefit in reading things like this. Philosophising (and meditating) without putting it into practice in your life is largely worthless, but I tend to think with ideas like this you only learn them th
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by jebarker 1y ago
Yeah, Einstein, what an idiot for not building a near light speed spaceship.
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by jebarker 1y ago
A more accurate title would be "Trump Administration considering suspending habeas corpus". As much as they'd like to be they don't encompass the whole US government and, as the article says, the ability to suspend habea
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by jebarker 1y ago
I love these reverse engineering game posts. Seems like a fun hobby.
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by jebarker 1y ago
> Ultimately most developers don't care, they want to collect a paycheck and go home. LLMs don't change this; the dev who randomly adds StackOverflow snippets to "fix" a crash without understanding the root cause was

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