lopatin

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by lopatin 9mo ago
At work, I have the same difficulty using AI as you. When working on deep Jiras that require a lot of domain knowledge, bespoke testing tools, but maybe just a few lines of actual code changes across a vast codebase, I have not been able to
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by lopatin 10mo ago
> All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle. :)
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by lopatin 10mo ago
> Hey, I'm not the OG commentator, why do I have to explain myself! :) The issue is that you're not acknowledging or replying to people's explanations for _why_ they see this as exponential growth. It's almost as if y
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by lopatin 10mo ago
The "pelicans on a bike" challenge is pretty wide spread now. Are we sure it's still not being trained on?
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by lopatin 10mo ago
It's not that wild. I like building things. I like programming too, but less than building things.
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by lopatin 10mo ago
To be fair, for my coding at work, AI is “only” like a 2x booster because stuff at work is a lot less greenfield.
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by lopatin 10mo ago
It’s immeasurable. I use AI for powering through personal projects, which would not have gotten done without AI because I also have a job and a life. It allows me to focus on the product and requirements rather than the code. It’s hard to m
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by lopatin 10mo ago
1. Inside the Black Box Introduction to quantitative finance and to learn what strategies are used by firms who are supposed to beat the market. 2. Advances in Financial Machine Learning Deep dive into ML techniques if you want to start mak
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by lopatin 10mo ago
Can you talk a bit more about the incentives to trade latency sensitive strategies on IEX in the first place? Is it still lucrative for its liquidity despite them artificially slowing down orders? Does a meta game evolve with HFTs all worki
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by lopatin 10mo ago
Oh no! Anyway ...
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by lopatin 11mo ago
I think it's down though
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by lopatin 11mo ago
I assume I'll get much less of everything if I switch to codeberg?
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by lopatin 11mo ago
You’re telling me all I have to do to stop all the noob questions is to switch off of GitHub?
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by lopatin 11mo ago
I agree that it's all money. That's why it's always DNS right? > No one wants to pay for resilience/redundancy These companies do take it seriously, on the software side, but when it comes to configurations, what are
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by lopatin 11mo ago
The issue is that GitHub is down, not that git is down.
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by lopatin 11mo ago
Can you create a branch through GitHub UI?
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by lopatin 11mo ago
Same here. I like the end result of having a gaming/ML PC with all the specs that I chose out but assembling PCs is not a hobby that I enjoy, and gaming seems to be partying ways with ML anyways. The new world might well end up being D
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by lopatin 11mo ago
Rocket league is an example. The pros play on pcs but hook a controller into it
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by lopatin 1y ago
A lot of the time the code that needs to be written isn't something that requires an extremely powerful model.
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by lopatin 1y ago
CC has better agent tools and is faster. The ability to switch from plan mode to execution mode and back is huge. Toggling thinking also. And of course they are innovating all of these agentic features like MCP, sub-agents, skills, etc... C
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by lopatin 1y ago
> a) not very clear, b) not greatly supported and c) a little unfocused. Incidentally this was why I could never get into LessWrong.
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by lopatin 1y ago
How fast this got to the top, you would think John Carmack just invented nuclear fusion.
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by lopatin 1y ago
Huh yeah looks like I was totally wrong about what online meant. So yeah DuckDB is OLAP. Not that anyone was asking me in the first place. Carry on :)
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by lopatin 1y ago
DuckDB is great but it’s barely OLAP right? A key part of OLAP is “online”. Since the writer process blocks any other processes from doing reads, calling it OLAP is a stretch I think.
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by lopatin 1y ago
It’s a great business model with epic lock in. Bored front end devs keep indulging / enabling it so why stop?
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by lopatin 1y ago
Yes they do they just don't blog about it.
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by lopatin 1y ago
Yeah, memeing on HN makes about as little sense as trying to have a frank conversation or indulging in a contrarian view on a hive mind subreddit. Not that it can’t be done, but requires so many defensive qualifiers that it takes all the fu
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by lopatin 1y ago
grug say ok to react
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by lopatin 1y ago
It's just a browser based multi-player game with a .io TLD. Hope to make a Show HN soon :)
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by lopatin 1y ago
Here's a recent Raft story from when I was trying to learn how to use it. I'm working on coding a multiplayer io game for fun. One key part was that it needs replication of game state so that live games can fail over if one of the

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