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by jonnycat 3y ago
The US typically uses "percent" when referring to blood alcohol levels while many other countries use "per mille", sometimes leading to confusion around the rules. When somebody mentions Sweden's "zero point tw
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by jonnycat 3y ago
I think induced demand actually is a useful concept, but I've also always wondered about its absolute and uncritical application: somebody says "we should add a road here", and gets shut down with "but adding a lane only
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Zone Pricing at Grocery Stores(runningshoescore.com)
2 points by jonnycat 3y ago|2 comments
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by jonnycat 3y ago
This should be required reading for every software engineering team (and the business & product teams they interact with).
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by jonnycat 3y ago
Good point - definitely some rough edges around the search, I'll make sure that gets addressed. Thank you for the feedback!
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by jonnycat 3y ago
Thanks for spotting that - I'll make sure the disclosures get added!
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Show HN: Running Shoe Price Comparison and Alerts(runningshoescore.com)
3 points by jonnycat 3y ago|4 comments
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Candy Land: Will This Game Ever End?(blixtdev.com)
2 points by jonnycat 3y ago|0 comments
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by jonnycat 3y ago
There are a couple of options to simplify and emulate a ternary operator: if x, do: y, else: z Or, though it's not very idiomatic Elixir, this also works: x && y || z
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by jonnycat 3y ago
Their mathematical analysis is for sure beyond my understanding, but on some level, I'm surprised this is surprising. While baby steps may be the norm in gradient descent, there are plenty of there optimization techniques that embrace
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by jonnycat 3y ago
I agree with the overall assessment, but there's a catch: even "highly skilled" workers are not skilled in "all the things". I've felt that ChatGPT hasn't increased my productivity in my core languages an
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by jonnycat 3y ago
I largely agree with this. I've been coding professionally a pretty long time and have worked with a wide variety of languages (including quite a lot of Objective C back in the day), and I've just never met a language with a larg
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by jonnycat 3y ago
Oh hey, I worked on Push with Lee at Hampshire and am one of the authors on that page. I never expected to see this on HN in 2023! I haven't been involved with actual GP research for a long time, but writing a Push interpreter and GP
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by jonnycat 3y ago
The "blue checkmark" of beers. This bottle certifies that the person holding it has $30.
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by jonnycat 3y ago
I was a bit involved in more old-school AI research in grad school around ~2000, with an interest in the sadly neglected field of Artificial Life. A lot of Alife is focused on the simulation of life-like behavior and at least part of the f
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by jonnycat 3y ago
I don't know what it will look like, but remember that the job of a "coder" is not to "write code" but to solve business problems. The programming profession has always demanded that developers operate at higher and
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by jonnycat 3y ago
Forgive the plug, but I just wrote up a post[1] on simulating Hypercycles, which are a model showing how self-replication behaviors can emerge through the interactions of simple molecules. Not to say that they are the mechanism, but are
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by jonnycat 4y ago
The thing that a lot of the AI cheerleaders miss is that the mechanism through which these models "lie" is exactly the same mechanism through which they "look smart".
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Origins of Life: Building a Hypercycle Simulation with WebGL(blixtdev.com)
2 points by jonnycat 4y ago|0 comments
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by jonnycat 4y ago
A tangent from the point of the post, but Komar & Melamid did a similar "experiment" with music to produce both the most wanted and most unwanted songs, and the results are amazing/hilarious. The most unwanted song, for e
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by jonnycat 4y ago
A lot of the discussion here is about inferring the model's chess capabilities from the lack (or occasional presence) of illegal moves. But we can test it more directly by making an illegal move ourselves - what does the model say if
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by jonnycat 4y ago
This is exactly right. Actually writing the kind of code that ChatGPT produces is a vanishingly small part of my job. And there's a ton more specialized scenarios to deal with, like next week when the third-party company is breaking
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Show HN: Make sharable videos of your code(video.blixtdev.com)
1 points by jonnycat 4y ago|0 comments
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by jonnycat 4y ago
Of course, this often works the other way as well: a project is failing or stalled by the "wrong" theory being saturated through the team, and it can only be fixed by replacing individuals and developing new mental models of the p
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Study: Mealworm Pizza “Not as Terrible as Consumers Thought”(medium.com)
1 points by jonnycat 4y ago|1 comments
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Taking LiveView Native for a test-drive(blixtdev.com)
1 points by jonnycat 4y ago|0 comments
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by jonnycat 4y ago
Same here, I only learned about it as an adult.
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by jonnycat 4y ago
If you need any kind of interactivity on the frontend, but are more comfortable with the backend, I would suggest looking at Phoenix LiveView [0] or a similar server-rendered HTML technology for your language of your choice [1]. In short, t
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by jonnycat 4y ago
Nobody bothers to write about the languages and technologies that are actually dead.
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by jonnycat 4y ago
I've seen so many posts like this talking about programming language demand as a number of positions available - but I don't think I've ever seen one talking about programming language supply . JavaScript is certainly in hi

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