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by jebarker 3y ago
Not if you're using it to still read Sports Illustrated.
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by jebarker 3y ago
> I feel that universities should alloc some of their funding to many of these open source projects Can you expand on this? Why would universities fund these projects?
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by jebarker 3y ago
I don’t really understand the appeal of this. Is it just to flash your cash by telling people you’ve paid for it while you’re still alive?
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by jebarker 3y ago
Ah yes, that's the basis for my claim that I do intermittent fasting too
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by jebarker 3y ago
I agree and have a somewhat similar diversity of interests. I've found that a source of dissatisfaction for me is spreading myself thin in a way that means I'm not truly present when doing any of these things. So I find it's
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by jebarker 3y ago
Not for me. I do strength work because it enables me to keep running/hiking in the mountains and that's good for my mental health. Last year I had to have knee surgery due to a running injury, it's plausible that would have b
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by jebarker 3y ago
Yep, I got 30 EDIT: 450 :)
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by jebarker 3y ago
This has always been the case since the printing press practically. There's always been way too much quality 'content' to manage and you have to sift your way through it. What has changed is that everything is now at our fing
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by jebarker 3y ago
That's great - thank-you. Assuming I work through this quickly, what resources would you recommend as a follow-on?
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by jebarker 3y ago
I'm interested in what people think of the approach to teaching C++ used here. Any particular drawbacks? I'm a very experienced Python programmer with some C, C++ and CUDA doing application level research in HPC environments (ML&#
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by jebarker 3y ago
There are herds of sheep roaming on public land in southwest Colorado protected by Great Pyrenees. I assume that it's protection against mountain lions mostly. Those dogs are probably the most threatening thing to humans out hiking in
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by jebarker 3y ago
Does continual exposure to bad things people do really help in your admirable desire to improve the world? I'd think that reading a couple of history books would suffice and then just getting on with making the world better.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Why would they do that?
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by jebarker 3y ago
I would imagine retail workers are discouraged from using PTO over the holiday season
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by jebarker 3y ago
I don't think he's just saying follow your passion. He's saying be true to your values (and figure out what those are). If your values are that hardwork is important or providing well for your family is the priority then you
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by jebarker 3y ago
I disagree about Watterson's speech. It seems very actionable to me for the common man: define meaning in life for yourself, don't get stuck on the hedonic treadmill, think about what your values are and shape your life around the
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by jebarker 3y ago
Yeah, it's ridiculous that 4K blu-ray and 4K Netflix etc are both advertised as UHD. The difference is huge.
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by jebarker 3y ago
We're approaching the end of physical media too, meaning that these effects will be exacerbated by compression for online streaming plus possibly more client side processing to compensate. The video that most people see on their TV wil
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by jebarker 3y ago
Humans I can see benefitting from more/greater intelligence for sure. It could help mitigate existential threats of all kinds. I agree it depends who wields the power. My point was that I think it's hard to argue that the world, a
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by jebarker 3y ago
The world or humans?
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by jebarker 3y ago
I was obviously being obtuse. But I honestly feel like the attitude that work has to be exciting or meaningful for you to be productive is a bourgeoisie luxury. I get paid well by my employer and therefore I feel a responsibility to be prod
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by jebarker 3y ago
Does "pay mortgage and feed family" qualify as a terminal goal that is exciting and beneficial?
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by jebarker 3y ago
I have Delta Dental through employer and I'm pretty sure I've never had to give them any CC info. Any copays go directly to the dentist.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Perhaps, but reviewing code for memory safety issues is a more well defined task than general code generation so LLMs can be more easily trained to get better at it.
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by jebarker 3y ago
> I agree that I don't see people "wanting to be independent ... in order to maintain wealth" One way in which I see this is that people move away from parents/relatives or outsource their care so that they can focus
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by jebarker 3y ago
Reviewing C/C++ code for memory safety is probably a good use case for LLMs actually. Writing memory safe code from scratch is a much bigger ask.
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Nice work. How likely is it that spiking neurons in wet brains use a gradient based update like this?
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Is physics finally going to explain the plot of Tenet for us?
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by jebarker 3y ago
It could be longer, but for example Best Buy is stopping stocking bluray in the US. I believe manufacturers are stopping making players too. If streaming can further close the quality gap then it's hard to imagine it'll last a dec
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by jebarker 3y ago
Right now there's bluray still, but my understanding is that that's likely to go away too in a few years.

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