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by lanstin 10mo ago
This thinking pattern exactly illustrates how a group of very intelligent people can make disasterously bad decisions without anyone challenging them. Don't look for holes in the the arguments of people saying you are making a bad deci
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by lanstin 10mo ago
In general there are so many different sub-fields of knowledge that it's extremely confining to stay in one area of expertise; the slow uneducated person that has been working to keep some giant build farm running and migrating project
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by lanstin 10mo ago
I have worked at a place where people were routinely criticized for asking basic questions on a big all-dev DL (which was archived and searchable, so they actually added to a growing record). The preferred solution was to ask a co-worker on
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by lanstin 10mo ago
And the tail latencies are wildly improved with each addition dup. Has to be idempotent of course.
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by lanstin 10mo ago
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by lanstin 10mo ago
libeay
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by lanstin 10mo ago
Yeah if the person doing it is smart I would trust they had the reasonable prompt and ruled out flagrant BS answers. Sometimes the key thing is just to know the name of the thing for the answer. It's equally as good/annoying as re
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by lanstin 11mo ago
Wow, that was a good article. So much detail from financial to optical linking to build various data flow topologies. Makes me less aghast at the $10M salaries for the masters of these techniques.
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by lanstin 11mo ago
Replying to myself in sibling: except maybe people paying for ads, which is more of a faith based action; it's well known a lot of ad traffic is fraudulent, but not which traffic. So if you pay for ads, who can tell what happened.
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by lanstin 11mo ago
Yeah, people get real upset about even 1 messed up money transaction.
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by lanstin 11mo ago
I think the logic is that good code is code which is maintainable and modifyable; bad code is difficult to change safely. Over time, all code is changed until it is bad code and cannot be changed more. So overtime most code is bad code wh
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by lanstin 11mo ago
In 1997 I was working on an integration between AOL and Circuit City (ha I outlived them both) to enable free AOL accounts for people buying PCs or some such; about a week before launch I changed the data returned from encoding spaces as &q
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by lanstin 11mo ago
As for collaboration I meant: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2024/09/25/a-pilot-project-in... The issue with horizontal scaling of maths research is trust: if you don't know the author, it is more work
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by lanstin 11mo ago
I don't think they are unifiable, the aims and methods one needs to learn are just too different. Limits of covering boxes and scaling your epsilons and so on, stuff from Tao's class on analysis is far away from being able to deal
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by lanstin 11mo ago
Because he is smart enough to use the existing (frontier) tools to get good results and create a sort of collaborative environment that is novel for research maths.
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by lanstin 11mo ago
Reading all these debates about document structure and formatting and so on is so wearying. I predict as long as we have text written by people the debates will continue. Truly a case of the taste of the writers and producers being a key va
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by lanstin 11mo ago
Wow that is cool. Pass by name. I always wanted to try it.
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by lanstin 11mo ago
And it is an important correction because Fourier was immediately able to use his technique to solve partial differential equations, but it was many decades later before it was shown how it all works with the rigorous foundation of measure
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by lanstin 11mo ago
Yeah if I find some (small) unmaintained code I need, I will just copy it (then add in my metrics and logging standards :) It shouldn't be a radical idea, it is how science overall works. Also, as per the educational side, I find in mo
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by lanstin 11mo ago
I think the coherence behind prompt engineering is not in the literal meanings of the words but finding the vocabulary used by the sources that have your solution. Ask questions like a high school math student and you get elementary words b
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by lanstin 11mo ago
With black ink on paper, quite a few. With oil, less. It is part of the medium: how much is a flash of intuitive certainty and how much is slower planning and execution.
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by lanstin 11mo ago
My wife is an oil painter, abstract expressionism, and she will constantly worry if something is done. And there have been glorious paintings ruined by one last thing.
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by lanstin 11mo ago
A old Twitter thread: “what’s one thing you wish you didn’t know about cloud providers? Answer: eventual consistency means it just sleeps and retries all the way down.”
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by lanstin 11mo ago
Offshoring is valuable not to save money but to increase the development and operational bandwidth of the organization. This truth may not be known to the decision makers, but it is clear to the workers over time. It does increase the cost
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by lanstin 11mo ago
If you do work with folks in India a lot, it is a really good boost to your group productivity to go visit them in India, as an IC programmer. It is a safe place, people are very good at hospitality, and you can forge much stronger bonds of
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by lanstin 11mo ago
An inconvenient truth. It can even become fun, but no guarantee. (I just gave an hour long presentation to a couple dozen people, and was looking forward to it, which was what would have happened ten years ago).
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by lanstin 1y ago
It is more software ish. You don't just have a citation to earlier results, you can import the library. And you don't have to trust collaborators as much, the proof engine validates. And you can use github to coordinate large proj
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by lanstin 1y ago
Lawyers (here on HN) have said that contracts that specify everything are too expensive to come up with. Better to cover the most common cases and have enough ambiguity so that weird eventuality end up litigated.
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by lanstin 1y ago
To emacs user, not knowing that magit is emacs is worth a down vote prima facie :) I share your horror for GUIs ineffectively hiding the version control reality; but then, despite being an emacs and casual magit user, I still mostly git add
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by lanstin 1y ago
Scale is a feature. 500M per second in practice is impressive.

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