jebarker

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by jebarker 5mo ago
Retire earlier?
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I Saw the Earth Breathe(montananaturalist.org)
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by jebarker 6mo ago
I wonder how often interviewers object to the approach of solving their dynamic programming problem using a constraint solver?
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by jebarker 6mo ago
What has your career looked like? I'm interested because I've spent 20 years in applied research and I've only more recently realized the continual stress that I've felt for 20 years from trying (and mostly failing) to i
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by jebarker 6mo ago
I find it useful to have multiple monitors or a large monitor that can support multiple windows comfortably useful for development, e.g. multi-pane IDE, terminals, documentation all visible simultaneously. The distraction problem is that ev
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by jebarker 6mo ago
What do you think caused you to stop caring as much? I’ve been becoming more aware of my finitude recently for a variety of reasons relating to middle-age and having kids. A side effect of that is definitely caring less about lots of things
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by jebarker 7mo ago
I don’t see why “natural evolution of human tools” implies “such that it can replace and supersede human labor altogether”. Can you clarify?
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by jebarker 7mo ago
> Its seems the post is part of a coordinated pump on the movie here by Amazon Studios Is there any evidence for this?
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by jebarker 7mo ago
I work in an R&D team as research scientist/engineer. Cursor and Claude Code have undoubtedly accelerated certain aspects of my technical execution. In particular, root causing difficult bugs in a complicated codebase has been acce
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by jebarker 7mo ago
I agree with you. I try to remember though that this is just the same situation that artists, musicians and (more recently) writers have been in for a long time. Unless you’re one of a very lucky few you’ll only get fulfillment in those pur
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by jebarker 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by jebarker 7mo ago
You made me order The Cuckoo's Egg. Luis Alvarez is my scientific hero since I read his memoir last year. Truly underappreciated in the pop-sci community.
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by jebarker 7mo ago
I have a background in mathematics, I believe in mathematics, but I don't believe in blind faith. Physics gave us statistical mechanics precisely because it's impossible to measure, model and predict the behavior of every individu
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by jebarker 7mo ago
I’m not convinced that useful mathematical foundations will be found anytime soon. Neural nets exist because we want to make decisions in a world that is so noisy, complex and chaotic that we can’t satisfy the requirements of more rigorous
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by jebarker 7mo ago
I still rock one of these running Linux and it’s plenty capable for my hobby workloads. Just had to replace the inflating battery!
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by jebarker 7mo ago
> How will it be useful? Does it need to be?
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by jebarker 7mo ago
It’s very common phrasing in the U.K.
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by jebarker 7mo ago
That might be true for this particular thing, but there’ll still be some other perceived barrier of complexity, e.g. maybe it’s hardware, maybe it’s math, maybe it’s some higher level application like graphics. My point was that I was remi
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by jebarker 7mo ago
Reading this was a good reminder not to be intimidated by assumptions about complexity. (Without giving it much thought) I would have assumed that it would be hard to replace malloc for such fundamental applications as ls, but it's sur
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by jebarker 7mo ago
The killer feature of DTs is how fast they can be. I worked very hard on a project to try and replace DT based classifiers with small NNs in a low latency application. NNs could achieve non-trivial gains in classification accuracy but remai
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by jebarker 8mo ago
> It's always funny how many people think that the only font of altruism is taking care of children who have your DNA, like that's some kind of selfless act This is a strawman position in my opinion. I don't think there&#x
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by jebarker 8mo ago
> Everything about having a child seems burdensome and hard. I love my kids and they're pretty great (and seem easy by comparison to others), but it's definitely burdensome and hard.
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by jebarker 8mo ago
Personally I want to have my cake and eat it here. Tech has amazing potential to make the world a better place to live in and genuinely bring people together. The crowning achievement of AI so far to me is not Claude Code, it’s AlphaFold. I
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by jebarker 8mo ago
> a tool is a tool > author (pilot?) hasn't generally thought too much about the problem space I’ve stopped saying that “AI is just a tool” to justify/defend its use precisely because of this loss of thought you highlight. I
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by jebarker 8mo ago
AIUI this might not be as bigger problem as you’d imagine. Aerodynamics dominate most of the resistance at medium to highway speeds. This was discussed in the recent Rivian R1T cannonball run conversion videos where they doubled the battery
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by jebarker 8mo ago
I currently have a landscape designer planning our yard landscaping. When I see the impressive renderings they produced I immediately thought that it’s some idealized version of how it will look on a sunny day after 10 years of bedding in.
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by jebarker 9mo ago
Well that’s not what I wanted to hear! I think you’re right though, you get to choose your challenge: do you want your problem to be possibly working on things that don’t really matter or be responsible (and empowered) to figure out what re
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by jebarker 9mo ago
I get stuck on asking “why am I solving this problem” too much. I am surrounded by technical problems that it would give a dopamine hit to solve and I’d feel the pleasure of helping my fellow man, but 99% of them feel like they shouldn’t ev
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by jebarker 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing this detail. I've been interested in taking some form of flight training for a long time and finally have the financial means to do it, but I haven't decided whether to go with glider or powered flight. Your com
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by jebarker 9mo ago
I wonder how much of the activity on prediction markets these days is competing LLM scripts? I would guess the overlap in prediction market punters and AI boomers is high.

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