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by jinpan 3mo ago
claude code and friends will make it much easier to rewrite python/js/$memory-hungry code in rust.
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by jinpan 4mo ago
not too far from an onion video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkDKmSMvfmk
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by jinpan 2y ago
> Most of their tech is stolen or trickles down from innovation elsewhere Overheard at a battery conference: western battery suppliers are actually copying (or in your words, stealing) the Chinese electrolyte formulas and other designs.
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by jinpan 3y ago
Pretty good guess but not quite. Email me if you want to chat more!
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by jinpan 3y ago
Wilkie Way Research | Infrastructure Engineer | Remote (US Only) + Peninsula We're a small (<5 person) quantitative prop trading shop looking for a midcareer engineer to take ownership of core infrastructure. We place a premium on
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by jinpan 4y ago
> It vastly increased the number of end users (20M+) using apps built on our SDK. This gave us significant leverage with Google. They are super supportive of the SDK and give us early access to several builds to ensure the SDK doesn’t br
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by jinpan 4y ago
One of my favorite essays on "vs effective altruism" - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/effective-altruism-as-...
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by jinpan 5y ago
I jot down my notes in a google doc and paste links that I want to save. If I really like an idea, I'll use these notes to write out a larger form memo that touches on GTM, product strategies, tech stacks, competition, etc.
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Tell HN: Disable adblocker when researching startup ideas
21 points by jinpan 5y ago|8 comments
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by jinpan 6y ago
At the risk of defending a faceless megacorporation, I'm curious what injuries per package look like at Amazon vs "Industry Average". According to the article, productivity expectations per worker doubled with robotics, and A
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by jinpan 6y ago
Have you heard of this thing called quantum computing?
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by jinpan 6y ago
The article did say that the motivation for doing so was because AWS credits were running out .. why prematurely optimize a free resource? :)
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Show HN: Coronavirus Mask Usage Simulations(coronavirus.simrnd.com)
4 points by jinpan 6y ago|1 comments
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by jinpan 6y ago
I built some coronavirus simulations to explore the impacts of our actions in a virtual environment - let me know what you think! Goals of this project are to spread high quality information around and use some basic monte carlo / baye
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by jinpan 6y ago
Yeah that would be incredibly useful for testing policy in a simulated environment before releasing into the wild :) One of the hardest challenges is "How do we choose realistic parameters for how the virus spreads? Infection duration?
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by jinpan 6y ago
Semi-related: I'm working on agent-based simulations for coronavirus, exploring our individual actions affect outcomes. In the first simulation, I take a look at single/dual shopper households and explore how choice affects viral
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by jinpan 6y ago
> Legendary investors Stan Druckenmiller and David Tepper were the latest to weigh in after a historic market rebound, saying the risk-reward of holding shares is the worst they’ve encountered in years. True, but what are they going to d
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by jinpan 6y ago
I've been working on a coronavirus simulator in rust/wasm. https://coronavirus.simrnd.com/about/ is a draft of the intentions of the project, and the source code is at https://github.com/jinpa
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by jinpan 7y ago
I gradually graduate a notebook by extracting what I can into libraries, and importing those utilities into the notebook. Eventually the logic in the notebook becomes trivial enough to easily convert into a production program.
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by jinpan 7y ago
> "And the next thing you know, you’re at the zoo, shaving a yak, all so you can wax your car." I'm interpreting this as (maybe unintentionally) creating new forms of debt - next time you want to visit the zoo, you may nee
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by jinpan 7y ago
To blend in with humans, these fake profiles could take advantages of AI progress on the Turing test to converse with real people, ultimately befriending (some high fraction of) us. The persuasive effects of these fake friends on (political
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by jinpan 7y ago
Another fun surprising result from queuing theory is that if you have a buffer of pending RPC's that have some deadline, it is better to service them in a "unfair" LIFO order, as opposed to a fairer FIFO order. [0] goes into
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by jinpan 8y ago
Given that the A12X runs at < 10% of the TDP of an Intel i7 chip, would it be feasible to utilize many of these A12X's in a 10+ socket motherboard to significantly increase NUMA-compatible workloads?
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by jinpan 8y ago
IMHO, it is too soon for Python 4.
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by jinpan 9y ago
It would be interesting to augment an image recognition dataset with additional inputs generated by minor transformations under these scripts.
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by jinpan 9y ago
Rivest invented the 3-ballot voting protocol (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot ) The trick to the 3-ballot voting protocol is that not everyone can validate their vote. However, when a group of voters band
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Ask HN: What is Onrv..xweb.nz?
4 points by jinpan 9y ago|3 comments
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An A-Z Index of the Bash command line for Linux(ss64.com)
2 points by jinpan 10y ago|1 comments
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by jinpan 14y ago
Yes, I agree this is a terrible idea in some respects, and we're not certain if we're set on actually donating the jackets. One route we're actively considering is contacting the donors and asking them if they're open to the possibility of
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by jinpan 14y ago
Yes, this does represent a certain level of immaturity. The idea behind this originated as a prank, but it was meant to be a harmless one. We didn't want to dance around being politically correct so we broke some social norms. However, we a

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