mattnewport

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by mattnewport 4y ago
I'm saying something different, that the most impressive examples of AI breakthroughs are doing things that humans find hard / are bad at. Meanwhile there are many things that people find easy / do without thinking / can
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by mattnewport 4y ago
AI is getting quite good at a lot of things humans consider fairly difficult (like this example) but has made less progress at things humans consider fairly easy (e.g. maintaining consistency across paragraphs of text for GPT3, navigating 3
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by mattnewport 4y ago
What is a "horizontal technology"? Is that a common term?
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Nanite is a software rasterizer running as a compute shader on the GPU though, it still requires the power of a GPU but takes advantage of the increased flexibility of modern GPUs.
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by mattnewport 4y ago
It will be interesting to see how it plays out. It seems like most of the big tech companies are having a hard time putting the genie back in the bottle with remote work as enough of their employees seem to prefer it that they can't re
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Is the issue that you want a job where everyone else is also required to be 100% on site? I'm assuming that most "2 day per week" companies would be ok with you coming in 4 or 5 days a week but because most of your coworkers
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by mattnewport 4y ago
I've been doing remote VR development since before the pandemic. Remote to me doesn't mean exactly "could be done with an internet connection and a laptop". I'm not interested in a digital nomad lifestyle but in wor
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by mattnewport 4y ago
What point is this supposed to be making about the product? I read the article and I see no insights of value produced, doesn't really seem to be a good advert for this technology. This is not a judgement on the value of Joe Rogan cont
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Options: 1) Throw them in the garbage as soon as the final session is over. 2) Prepare for your appearance on "Hoarders". 3) There is no third option.
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Have you looked at F# at all? OCaml like syntax in the .NET ecosystem with great tooling and good interoperability with C#. It's pretty easy to work in a C# /.NET environment and introduce F# for some parts of the codebase.
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by mattnewport 4y ago
I haven't yet, I've read a bit about it and it's on my list to try and learn it properly at some point but I haven't yet prioritized it as being pretty experienced with C++ (and liking it more than a lot of people seem t
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Syntax like F# but with the ability to get performance like C++. Linear types seem to offer some hope of being able to have manual / non GC memory management in a functional programming language but I haven't really seen this done
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by mattnewport 4y ago
There's a good course on Coursera on using MiniZinc to express constraints for solvers: https://www.coursera.org/learn/basic-modeling
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by mattnewport 4y ago
> and trust Western leaders a bit more. What have Western leaders done in the last 20+ years to earn such trust?
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by mattnewport 4y ago
I don't have a lot of sympathy for VISA in this case. They have taken it upon themselves to regulate non-illegal activity by pressuring sites like Patreon to ban users expressing controversial views and by dictating to sites like Only
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Contained fusion might be impossible but I don't think we have anything as suggestive that quantum computing is possible as we do for fusion.
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Thing is fusion is known to be possible - the sun and hydrogen bombs. Quantum Computing lacks equivalent existence proofs. There's a lot of abstract theory but no real indication it is possible to scale up in the real physical world to
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Yes, I had to restart my phone.
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by mattnewport 4y ago
I've completed and can recommend all of these if the topics are of interest to you: https://www.coursera.org/learn/basic-modeling https://www.coursera.org/specializations/algorithms https:&#
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by mattnewport 4y ago
It's also the case that evaluating task performance is still a largely unsolved problem in many fields (e.g. programmer job performance). We don't have good objective metrics in many fields to evaluate "success" and in m
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Do you have empirical research / data supporting data driven companies being more successful? Genuine question - I'd be interested to see it but I notice a lack of data supporting the argument that being data driven is associated
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by mattnewport 4y ago
I tried it for a couple of months last year. It worked in that I lost weight, quickly the first month, less so the second. The weight did not stay off for me. It wasn't particularly difficult but not particularly easy either compared t
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Is Maybe/Option an effectful computation? Is List? I don't think it's really accurate to say this is what monads are "for". It's one use for monads but monads aren't "for" anything and there are
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by mattnewport 4y ago
No, this was Unity. I work with Unity in my day job so easier for me to do quick experiments with it but I would like to check out Godot at some point.
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by mattnewport 4y ago
I wrote this VR toy spaceship construction thing for an F# game jam. I think it has the potential to turn into something cool if I can ever find time to turn it into something more than a proof of concept. https://youtu.be/u
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by mattnewport 4y ago
Others have covered much of this but the biggest issues I've run into with low code solutions are: - Lack of good versioning / source control - Poor support for 'schema changes' / data migrations - Running into limi
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by mattnewport 4y ago
By interface do you mean an OOP style interface as in the C# (and I think Java, been many years since I touched Java) keyword? Or do you mean some sort of intermediary 'wrapper' code rather than calling the API directly? The latte
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by mattnewport 4y ago
What kind of pre-screening would you combine with the on site programming challenge? To me this seems like much more of a time commitment and much more biased against certain types of candidates than a similarly scoped take home test. I&#x2
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by mattnewport 4y ago
https://www.shadertoy.com/ is a community / sharing model that couldn't really exist without WebGL.
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by mattnewport 4y ago
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