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by lanstin 2y ago
clear thinking; his deep ideas he returned to again and again - history of deep time, punctuated evolution, the implications of human evolution not being a climb towards some teleological end but of complexity gradually increasing with time
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by lanstin 2y ago
Stephen Jay Gould was one of the writers I read as a teenager that changed my world view and way of thinking for the rest of the life. And I don't even like baseball, even now :) Such a clear thinker.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Ironically one of the reasons markdown (and other text based file formats) were popular because you could use regular find/grep to analyze it, and version control to manage it.
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by lanstin 2y ago
For me, the functionally useful bit of these ideas are that pushing pushing pushing your mind on one problem is not an effective use of resources. Alternating pushing with not pushing often finds good solutions faster.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Well all good stats are made up. My point was more that its doesn't take a large chunk of a population to mistreat others to make mistreatment almost inescapable. For child sexual abuse, which is studied more than "anti-nerd bully
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by lanstin 2y ago
I want to hire people who can be given some problem and will go off and work on it and come to me with questions when specs are unclear or there's some weird thing that cropped up. AI is 100% not that. You have to watch it like a 15 y
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by lanstin 2y ago
For junior roles, you want to interview for intelligence and shall we say an interest in learning rather than specific skills. Even for senior roles, that's what I want to interview for, although it is true at times a business case can
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by lanstin 2y ago
Or a "just start typing" person is with a "mull it over first" person. By the time I am typing code, I want to have 90% of it already completely worked out (at least till I type a "c.Lock()" and suddenly reali
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by lanstin 2y ago
Probably enough for 90% of such folks to be tormented quite effectively during childhood.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Also looking at threads view first before actual news helps with that.
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by lanstin 2y ago
That is not how science works best.
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by lanstin 2y ago
I mostly read HN news for the laughs, although the odd technical insights posted by those that know is fun too. I don't know why I post, somethings just to dissipate negative emotions, sometimes to share a favorite anecdote. Sometimes
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by lanstin 2y ago
That sounds kind of similar to Dedikin cuts but crossed with ordered sequence < and > the real? Cool web site.
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by lanstin 2y ago
I have inherited projects where I just could never understand what they were thinking well enough to make the service good (not running out of memory and crashing). It was very humbling; I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night
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by lanstin 2y ago
In practice, that makes the entire network vulnerable.
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by lanstin 2y ago
I grew up in the US and considered myself relatively worldly and educated, and when I started visiting Sri Lanka and India and reading papers published there and so on, when I heard US press discuss news from India or Sri Lanka, I was reall
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by lanstin 2y ago
A sick burn.
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by lanstin 2y ago
If you like numeral systems, you might be interested in packages that let one do arithmetic using continued fractions: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6158099
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by lanstin 2y ago
And I can assure you when I start to talk about these topics with the average human person that doesn't know the material, they just laugh at me. Even my wife who has a PhD in physics. Here's some cool math I learned from a regul
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by lanstin 2y ago
Well I am studying mathematics, and I use the LLM to help me learn. They aren't terrible, and they have all of arXiv to train on. Terrence Tao is doing some cool stuff with it - the idea will be an LLM to generate Lean proofs. https:
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by lanstin 2y ago
I believe in a true moral field that pervades reality, but I don't believe that "good" or "not good" can be expresssed in a finite sentence in some human understandable language. I believe the complexities require o
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by lanstin 2y ago
If the ends don’t justify the means, what else would?
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by lanstin 2y ago
That would be a novel failure mode: the GPU scheduler had an unbalanced work load across the cores and tripped a breaker. The OS can reset? Kill the offending process "out of power"?
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by lanstin 2y ago
I joined a company a few years ago, and there was a long term dev that had been there forever and was now a manager and did live trainings on webex with Lucid chart, where there was no prepared docs or whatever, but he drew the architecture
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by lanstin 2y ago
Code architecture, component architecture, physical architecture as fully deployed. Data architecture. The design of adding ljkely new features. So many things to decide and communicate. So many presentations with at best one thing explaine
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by lanstin 2y ago
I am getting two contradictory but plausible seeming replies when I ask about a certain set being the same when adding 1 to every value in the set, asked on how I ask the question. Correct answer: https://chatgpt.com/share&
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by lanstin 2y ago
I doubt people are very accurate at knowing why they made the choices they did. If you want them to recite a chain of reasoning they can but that is kind of far from most decision making most people do.
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by lanstin 2y ago
All my old assembly games would be 14x too fast. I'd have to adjust the between loop sleep constant?
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by lanstin 2y ago
But I can't look at the design from my desk-mate and hope to understand it quickly. We wall love to invent as much as possible ourselves, and we lack a common design language for the spaces we are problem solving in. Personally I don
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Not as much as having insufficient resources dedicated to the education of the young hurts economic growth (long term). I agree not using the world proven efficient healthcare strategy of universal coverage is pretty stupid economically, as

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