jkaptur

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by jkaptur 2y ago
Nate Bargatze has a great standup routine about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5X1m16-Jvc&t=204s
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by jkaptur 2y ago
In case you're serious: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I think the article addresses your point: "The fact that some disciplines of an art form demand more precision doesn't mean the whole field shares those demands. It would be like saying best practices for photorealism should be ap
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by jkaptur 2y ago
> Early that summer, I was reading one of Knuth's recent fascicles for 4A and was swimming in combinatorial algorithms. One night it just "clicked" that... It's frankly unbelievable how frequently this happens. "
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Amazing writeup - I needed this a few months ago :) My impression after my own, shallower dive is that trainable dictionaries are an underappreciated part of the (or at least my) system design toolkit. For example, say you're serving W
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Probably "Seeing Like a State", no?
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by jkaptur 2y ago
That would really give red flag warnings more teeth. "We said no campfires " kablam Smokey would have a different tone too. "Only you, plus our array of guided missiles, can prevent forest fires."
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Knowing how things actually work in reality can help guide the imagination.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
https://wifire.ucsd.edu/firis-in-depth
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by jkaptur 2y ago
The rebuttal contains perhaps my least favorite underhanded rhetorical tactic: Alice expresses a viewpoint, Bob disagrees, and Alice replies something along the lines of "wow, it seems I've really touched a nerve! You care so much
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by jkaptur 2y ago
The story from the article matches my experience. The LLM's first answer is often a little broken, so I tweak it until it's actually correct.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
> I ride a recumbent. I camp in a hammock. Of course I use Linux. =) Beard? :)>
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Along with "make impossible states impossible to represent". If you're designing your types to make a state unrepresentable, you'd better be absolutely sure the state really is impossible for the lifetime of the design
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I'm embarrassed to say that I spent a few moments daydreaming about a robot that could wash my dishes. Then I thought about what to call it...
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Sure, there's nothing stopping any business from developing a moat. The Excel example doesn't make the case of OpenAI any clearer to me.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Can you expand on your spreadsheet analogy? I think Joel Spolsky explained the main Office moat well here: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros... > ... it might take you weeks to c
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by jkaptur 2y ago
As far as I can tell, this isn't widely known, but around a decade ago some folks deployed a version of this technology for that exact use case: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/finder-search-and-rescue-techn... The
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by jkaptur 2y ago
The end of the article notes "A liar is someone who only says false statements." I agree that this is quite different from the colloquial definition of a liar, someone who mixes truth and lies in order to mislead.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
> As a result, in order to determine if a formula is satisfiable, first convert it to conjunctive normal form, then convert the new formula into a course catalog. I know this is a consequence of NP-completeness and so on and so forth, bu
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Very fun. I wonder if a heap could improve the performance of the "loop through the skyline in order to find the best candidate location" step. (I think it would improve the asymptotic time, if I'm understanding the algorithm
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I think they meant that it's more difficult to stop before beginning to impact the tree.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
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by jkaptur 2y ago
You certainly have interpersonal relationships with the people you work with, but not the business itself.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
> Besides talking about the topic, he thinks about how he appears to others, how he may be seen more favorably, how he may win, dominate, impress or escape punishment, and/or how he may avoid or mitigate a perceived attack... Such i
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Matt Levine had an interesting point/counterpoint here: > There are a lot of ways to put your money into the stock market; some of them feel mostly like “fun gambling,” while others feel like “boring sensible investment of retiremen
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I take a different lesson from this - there are parts of software that you can change easily and parts that are 100x more difficult, and you should design your system so that you know which regime you're in at all times.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
They're probably talking about Closure Compiler type annotations [0], which never really took off outside Google, but (imo) were pretty great in the days before TypeScript. (Disclosure: Googler) 0. https://github.com/go
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Interesting! That exercise is what I expected the Angius and Primiero paper to be.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I'm reminded of the Philosophy of Computer Science entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [0], which briefly considers what it means for two programs to be identical. "... it has been argued that there are cases in whi
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I had a pretty cool experience with that the other day. I wrote some production code (LLM had no idea what was going on), then I measured the coverage and determined a test case that would increase it (again, just using my brain), BUT when

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