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by jlebar 7y ago
TIL the C variable declaration syntax is meant to evoke how you would use the variable. For instance, int *x[3] means that to get an int, I type *x[3] (well ok, 3 would be a poor choice). Whereas if I have int (*x)[3]
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by jlebar 7y ago
I just came here to say that > Every person in the town of Springfield loves Susan. Peter lives in Springfield. Therefore he obviously has no love for that bitch. is an awesome completion. I would read that short story.
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by jlebar 7y ago
If you look at the scatterplot excluding the four countries at the bottom right (Algeria, Turkey, Tunisia, UAE), you get basically a circle and (to my eye anyway) the trendline is horizontal, meaning, no correlation. Moreover, there are tw
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by jlebar 7y ago
Sure, but OP's point is that TensorFlow's built-in libraries suck and you're forced to use them . They are confusing, change all the time, etc etc. Since JAX's API is lower-level, you can choose a neural network API th
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by jlebar 7y ago
I really like the UX of JAX, https://github.com/google/jax The API is numpy plus like four functions. That's the beginning and end. It does JIT compilation under the hood, so can run quite fast.
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by jlebar 7y ago
Indeed there is a large amount of ambiguity in my statement. The aforelinked spreadsheet answers them.
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by jlebar 7y ago
It costs about $2500 to save a life by donating to GiveWell's top charities. And yes, they publish an absurd amount of data to back this claim up, including a carefully-annotated spreadsheet which you can plug your own assumptions into
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by jlebar 7y ago
I don't think GiveWell would rule out a charity because it considers the human element in a way that makes it less economically efficient. The question is just, is it overall more efficient at broadly "bettering people's li
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by jlebar 7y ago
> What are your thoughts on https://www.charitynavigator.org/ ? Not really the same thing as GiveWell's analysis. To use the first example I checked, compare https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cf
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by jlebar 7y ago
Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Yes, and I have 3yr experience working remotely. Willing to relocate: Unlikely, but possibly Technologies: I am a systems programmer, Google L6 tech lead and recently manager. Most recently I worked on compile
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by jlebar 7y ago
Imagine the outcry if Google were to label an ad for Fox/Breitbart/Daily Caller/Trump as "misleading" or "factually incorrect". (Indeed I might get called out even here on HN for my "bias" given
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by jlebar 7y ago
> One potential issue with having this on your phone is that you are unlocking your phone and handing it to the police FWIW Android has a (somewhat hidden) "pin app" function that prevents users from switching to a different ap
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by jlebar 7y ago
> Most corporations have no mechanism for this leading to impromptu employee protests over the issue of the day. Climate change is the issue of our generation . I agree that companies don't have a mechanism for dealing with it. Is
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by jlebar 7y ago
More discussion of the relationship of the Space Shuttle to Braun here: https://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
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by jlebar 7y ago
> Why this infrastructure is so tightly coupled with CUDA? It's not. It uses LLVM, which can easily target AMD GPUs. (Whether the Julia folks have invested in making this work, I dunno, but it's not Extremely Hard.) Understan
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by jlebar 7y ago
I am very much enjoying Evan Chen's "An Infinitely Large Napkin". https://venhance.github.io/napkin/Napkin.pdf I think this is in the spirit of Feynman's lectures inasmuch as it's not going to
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by jlebar 7y ago
> Arrow's IIA is nonsense - intensity matters! Independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) says that adding another option shouldn't change a voter's (or the election result's) relative preferences among all other o
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by jlebar 7y ago
"Hey bro, I just noticed that the food I'd been saving for dinner in the fridge wasn't there. It's kind of stressing me the fuck out, I'm not good at planning when I'm hangry..." "Oh yeah dude I ate
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by jlebar 7y ago
Yes, mb!
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by jlebar 7y ago
> At first glance, it seems to be a GPU/TPU based NumPy? Yes, with a compiler to make this fast. > The thing is, TF has more than tensor ops. It has pre-defined NN layers, data loading/serialization, distributed training, me
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by jlebar 7y ago
> If you need to transition from TF1 to TF2, consider doing the TF1 to pytorch transition instead. Or consider https://github.com/google/jax !
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by jlebar 7y ago
> I’d prefer more stable, less CPU and battery hungry browser than one that shovels to my desktop the newly decided features from the marketing as soon as possible. But it’s just me. Patches welcome.
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by jlebar 7y ago
> Does adding the 3D parallax not make it the Ken Burns effect anymore? Yes. Specifically, the Ken Burns effect describes taking a still, 2D image and panning and zooming on the 2D image in a motion picture. Adding 3D parallax makes
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by jlebar 7y ago
You're saying that the system we have for oil would work but for the fact that governments don't attach a price to oil's negative externalities? This does not seem like much of an argument against a capitalist system! I woul
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by jlebar 7y ago
I wrote Yet food is governed by ruthless capitalism, no? Surely we wouldn't argue that farm subsidies are all that's standing in the way between people getting a decent meal and chaos? Are you in fact arguing that US farm subsid
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by jlebar 7y ago
To refresh the point that I am making: OP said "Ruthless capitalism and fundamental human needs do not mix well." The implication being, housing should not be subject to ruthless capitalism. And I use the ready and cheap availab
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by jlebar 7y ago
Ruthless capitalism and fundamental human needs do not mix well. I dunno. I don't have much trouble finding reasonably priced, nutritious, and tasty food (cooked or as ingredients) anywhere I've visited in the world. Yet food
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by jlebar 7y ago
Iirc none of us had any ML experience. :)
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by jlebar 7y ago
Maybe you're different than me, but I have a tough time really learning something without a concrete task at hand. I also find that I have a tough time learning if I don't have someone to ask questions of. And I find that online
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by jlebar 7y ago
> 5- I don't know what to do with LLVM and other larger codebases. Learning how to deal with large, gnarly codebases is one of the most important software engineering skills I know of. To the parent question, I would say, learn thi

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