laurent_du

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   by laurent_du 3y ago

   What kind of rates have you seen in AWS IQ?
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   by laurent_du 3y ago

   If I ask my kids or my girlfriend to review my code, nothing will be obvious to them. Doesn't mean that my code is the problem. The idea that the reviewer is always right makes no sense.
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   by laurent_du 3y ago

   Looking at the profile of your reviewer, it seems that they take pride in contributing to the deletion of several Wikipedia articles. It's possible that your article was just a collateral victim of this editor's penchant for delet
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   by laurent_du 3y ago

   I don't understand the point of asking ChatGPT to embed google search hyperlinks. If I wanted to use google, I wouldn't be talking to ChatGPT.
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   by laurent_du 3y ago

   Nothing I hate more than a useless "helper" function that wraps a built-in feature of the language and gets buried in a "common lib" package that you need to inspect when you want to understand what is going on, instead
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   by laurent_du 3y ago

   Quality is definitely way below GPT4.
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   by laurent_du 3y ago

   So you wrote a toy script 20 years ago and somehow think you were doing just the same thing as OpenAI now? And you thought writing this down was a good flex? Reminds me of the old dudes in the gym who come to you to tell you how they used t
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   by laurent_du 3y ago

   If you order randomness by entropy, the uniform distribution is indeed, in some sense, "more random" than any other probability distribution with the same support.
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   by laurent_du 3y ago

   Querying by rsid is clearly a bad idea. You want to partition by chromosome (and sample-id in this case) and sort by position. When looking for a given snp, the parquet reader will go through the metadata to only read the data page that con
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    After duckduckgo, this is the second time in a few days where I hear about some relatively big company using Perl for their backend.
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    I have read a few chapters of TAOCP for fun but I have a PhD in Mathematics, and worked in Academia, so I am an outlier. I don't think Knuth's book are a difficult read - for me. But unlike you I don't make the mistake of bel
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    I wonder if it would be possible to rate the code used during the training phase. For example the code could go through various static analysis tools and the result would be assigned as metadata to the code being used to train the model. Th
13. 163.▲
    by laurent_du 3y ago

    Go to the gym.
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    I don't think Knuth's work is canon in our specific industry, be it web dev, system dev, or whatever it is people around here are doing. Knuth belongs to Academia, not industry.
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    Could you explain how Jira gets in the way of doing productive work? I genuinely don't understand where is the issue.
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    What's wrong with JIRA? It looks good and does its job well.
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    Before type hints we had doc strings. "This function takes arguments of the following type and returns a value of this other type. Trust me bro!". Type hints and the ecosystem around them are without any doubt a net progress.
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    Thanks for sharing, this is absolutely hilarious. Nothing beats a megacorp telling me how to good-think and good-behave.
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    My grandmother dealt with bedbugs in 1950s Paris. I always thought of them as a thing of the past that couldn't possibly resurface in the present day. Clearly, I was wrong. Given that this is France, the likely solution is to commissio
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    This anecdote makes me respect RMS even more.
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    I missed this part. Where does the author mention that other medical explanations (other than SBS) are exceedingly rare compared to the baby having indeed been shaken?
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    Maternal milk is better than formula in every possible way and there is a perfect scientific consensus around this. Formula is the least worst substitute to maternal milk but going around and screaming that formula is perfectly fine, as if
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    I use logseq daily to keep track of what I do in my job as a SWE. Having this structured archive is invaluable. I don't understand why you think that note-taking is only justified if you want to create some kind of product - that'
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    Couldn't help checking it out.
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    by laurent_du 3y ago

    Did you try to cross-validate your approach?