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by jkaptur 3y ago
(I'm not an expert. Take all of this with a grain of salt and just imagine I'm sticking "I think" in front of every sentence.) It's easy (O(path length)) to check if a (target, path, tuple) is valid, but the paths
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I absolutely agree, but I find the situation incredibly funny. There are three characters here: me, the LLM, and the compiler. Two of them are robots, but they refuse to talk to each other - it's up to me to tell the LLM the bad news f
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Right! Always Sunny is funny (the bells in that scene get me every time), but, in the name of comedy, it skips over the obvious: you can go to natural history museums ! They frequently have talks where you can meet people who have dug di
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by jkaptur 3y ago
They're really no better than plenty of reasonably-sized cars.
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Clippy was hated whether he was right or not. Consider the most popular catchphrase "It looks like you're writing a letter..." In my experience, Clippy was never wrong about that - precision and recall were absolutely perfect
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by jkaptur 3y ago
At the time it was recorded, that was cutting edge tech, wasn't it?
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by jkaptur 3y ago
This is not a huge surprise. They've been extremely behind schedule putting out print issues for quite some time. I hope they can turn things around soon - I'm a big fan.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
To be fair, that's basically the only way to play Diplomacy. https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-t...
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Here's a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth three and twenty years.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
For those just looking to dip a toe in different layouts: I remapped movement keys and it's awesome. I made a demo so you can see for yourself: jkaptur.com/layout/
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by jkaptur 3y ago
So the attack goes: 1) compromise some site to serve arbitrary JS 2) have it serve simple JS that requests other JS that contains the real malicious payload. And the reason for this two-step architecture is to make it convenient to change
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Hyper-pedantic note: I think "sigmoid" is the term that describes these curves in the full generality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function
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Ah, thanks for explaining.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Thanks for clarifying!
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by jkaptur 3y ago
"Microsoft.... built a custom XML tool into its word processor in 2007... this was a tool for power users, and was only used by a small percentage of its user base." I'm definitely confused by that statement and its link, bec
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I had a job building cool looking dashboards, and one day the users asked me to add a column where they could put "functions, like SUM and so on". I quit shortly thereafter and got a job on the Google Sheets team.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
So much effort for a joke - you really have to take your hat off to the team.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
My local library is already exactly this. It's great, but they get no credit for it.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
We'll just call it "NYC" ;)
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by jkaptur 3y ago
It's definitely interesting how people with the same title can have such different experiences. I'll try to give the other perspective, but please understand that it's a huge topic and this is a simplification. My experience
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I tried this. A very large company reached out and asked for a custom version of diffdiff.net. They asked what my hourly rate was, and (thinking along the lines of this article) I offered to do it for a flat rate instead. They ghosted me! I
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I served on a jury and you described it perfectly: imperfect people took the job seriously, interpreted our understanding of the law and the facts of the case, and listened to each other, both lawyers, and the judge.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I've often been tempted by the "delete your flaky tests" extremist sect of that religion :)
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by jkaptur 3y ago
> for no discernible reason at all Are you asking? Post the location and I'd be happy to weigh in from a cyclist's point of view.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Features interact combinatorially, which introduces complexity. Faxing isn't a great example, since from the perspective of most other features, it's probably just a special case of printing, but you can imagine it made it harder
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by jkaptur 3y ago
One line that demonstrates the agony and the ecstasy of simplicity: $ man ls | grep "\-\w," | wc -l On the one hand, beautiful, recursive composability of small, universal tools. On the other hand, the tool we're introspectin
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Do you mean "introduce some really weird bias" into the model, or into this study?
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Yep. Also learn like 5 data structures and 7 algorithms in case the relevant manager can't just unilaterally hire you.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
The price of Campbell's soup began its dramatic rise after Warhol's record-breaking sale of Campbell's Soup Cans in 1970. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans ) Although back then you c
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Well, it describes what it's like to be in system B. All it says about how to get in is to build something (good? great? flashy?) and hope someone notices. This clearly does work sometimes, but it's not necessarily the best advi

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