kwant_kiddo

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by kwant_kiddo 1y ago
no, and there are two major features of using LLM instead of search engines. 1. No prompt about decline/accepting cookies every time I want to look something up. 2. No ads. the results are mediocre the same way using google is.
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by kwant_kiddo 2y ago
I repeatedly keep seeing praise for Ilyas achievements as a scientist and engineer, but until ChatGPT OpenAI was in the shadow of DeepMind, and to my knowledge (I might be wrong) he has not been that much involved with ChatGPT? the whole LL
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
it is a shame they don't do physical print through
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
I think it is remarkable how important ABI is to C++. I think 'making it easier to enable them' i.e. enable the sane defaults went down the drain once they locked in on not breaking ABI. I am sure that Herb wrote this with good in
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
I have not found a better 'true' IDE experience than JetBrains. Once it has done it's thing, it works pretty good. If your projects are big like a C++ codebase +2mil LOC then well the latency is going to suffer. If you count
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
this makes me believe you never were in a quant shop, sorry. At least if your goal is making money. I think it can be a fun project to make an engine, and try to make models, together with some form of ingestion pipeline and finally solve a
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
Somewhat related: In 2020 gcc bumped the requirement for bootstrapping to be a C++11 compiler [0]. Would have been fun to see the kernel finally adopt C++14 as the author suggested. I don't think that Linus will allow this since he jus
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
I don't think this is true, but I don't know this for sure. From what I have read it seems that 'only' Bloomberg, Meta and Microsoft that uses c++ with exceptions. And since both microsoft and meta are adopting rust in
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
it is easy? It is the named constructor idiom. I don't understand why jupp0r is getting downvoted? Most big public c++ projects turn off exceptions, so it seems to be the norm more than anything.
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
- Google will lose the 30% tax on their app store and so will Apple. - OpenAI is going dominate the AI-space (again). - Inflation will continue to go down, and we will see inflation at ~2 % at the end of 2024. - Trump will be favoring the a
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
yes, LTO itself does not inline but from a user point of view it does, and that is exactly my point. If you are a beginner and you do not come from C, then you might not think about these things (maybe you do I did not). I get that it is ju
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
One thing that would have helped me when I started learning C++ was learning the C++ compilation model i.e. translation units. It is surprising how many people look surprised (that also claim they know the language) when you tell them that
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
I think one clear difference is that they are just so focused on shipping compared to the others, and they gain many of the benefits that comes with that. I think it is reflected in both Greg and Sam that they really want to ship, and this
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
The premise is that exceptions should be zero cost to check, however it worries me when profiles like Tim Sweeney says that his code got 15% faster by turning off exceptions [1]. [1]: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
Okay, do you think the effort is worthwhile? Or do you think migrating to a language with a bigger runtime would have been a better choice? Because that is usually the conclusion I make. If you can afford that the compiler emits code for e
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Ask HN: Big C++ projects that uses Exceptions and RTTI?
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
compiling on mac is very easy/fluent experience for me. I guess OSX is still kinda first-class citizen for LLVM so maybe it does not count?
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
Still the aftermath leaves a bitter taste in my mouth about Sam and Greg joining MS. Regardless of whether the AI development in OpenAI was responsible, I think they succeeded in making a product and a culture I have not 'felt' si
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
What makes you think it is 'his' work and not theirs? I remember when OpenAI was just a joke compared to Deepmind. The turning point (as I remember) was when they used [1] deep reinforcement learning on dota2. clearly iyla (also o
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
we don't; and it shows :(
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
at least in HFT as I am aware, however I see that KF actually IS extensively used elsewhere.
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
edit: Extensively!! In control theory it seems :) It is just that I keep seeing KF be mentioned on Twitter and blogs etc. for using it in finance.
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
Often in textbooks and on here on HN Kalman Filters are praised, but folks from the industry often ridicule Kalman Filters. All People I have interacted with have never used/seen Kalman Filters outside Academica. Do anyone here have in
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
Silly, but getting comfortable with vim macros. Not really wow, but makes me smile when I parse +100 lines in under 10s. Coworker might be impressed if you can pull it off on the spot. Too bad some editors are not emulating it too well.
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
A bigger problem for me personally is the high cost of reducing developer productivity and increasing operational risk just for the sake of cyberponies trying to defend their job. Also I am not so sure the cost is that low. Well for phishin
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
not sure what "It's not hard to write Python code that "optimally exploits" the GPU", exactly means but Python is so far from exploiting the GPU resources even with C/C++ bindings that it's not even funny.
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
I almost wrote a non-US company. In general I must say that working for tech in European firms vs US firms is night and day, but that is another discussion :)
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
Worked in a similar organisation also. The culture in european banks is even more dull than I expected before working there. The view on technology and infrastructure is very primitive... as you can also read from just the header "IT d
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
Not a book, but learning analysis changed my view on math. In my BSc in CS I only learned discrete math and maybe some algebra also a bit of geometry, but no analysis! Analysis is in my opinion harder to start with and maybe requires some m
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by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
Sure, but not always in the way you'd presume. In many instances, management consultants are tools leadership uses to support their agendas, not necessarily to spur growth. I can speak for family-owned European companies (which there a

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