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The Demon that Wears my Face(mirawelner.com)
16 points by mirawelner 1y ago|3 comments
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Detecting Organic Contaminants with Less Data(mirawelner.com)
3 points by mirawelner 1y ago|0 comments
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If it cites em dashes as proof, it came from a tool(scottsmitelli.com)
11 points by mirawelner 1y ago|2 comments
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by mirawelner 1y ago
I’m still processing that this is the Ycombinator cofounder. It’s not a good thing or a bad thing - although tbh it’s better this person founded Ycombinator than say, a nepo baby which is always what I had kind of assumed. But the idea that
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by mirawelner 1y ago
Blogs like these remind me of the time I was riding my scooter without a helmet. A lady in a wheelchair yelled “wear a helmet it’s how I ended up in this chair” So now I wear a helmet
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by mirawelner 1y ago
It’s funny that they lead with AI tools. I love zed because it’s fast, customizable, has a clean interface and it’s easy to pair program. The LLM bit is just an annoying thing I shut off because imo I’m too junior at the moment to use LLMs
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Octopolis and Octlantis(en.m.wikipedia.org)
4 points by mirawelner 1y ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 1y ago
What the hell dude Firstly, if their site is broken on mobile they’ve fixed it because it works fine for me. Secondly, they aren’t trying to claim that Google is terrible just that everything doesn’t have to look identical. Even if Google i
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by mirawelner 1y ago
This post is what really helped me get the job https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ludics-guide-to-getting-soft...
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How I got a job in March 2025(mirawelner.com)
4 points by mirawelner 1y ago|2 comments
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List of Common Misconceptions(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 2y ago
This sort of thing is why I decided to do research so I could work at universities and small startups! I figured that way I could be away from the corruption and selfishness that exists in large tech companies. Then my whole department got
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by mirawelner 2y ago
The comparison of AI to the fey is the sort of thing I’d normally object to because I dislike mythologizing AI. But it’s REALLY apt sometimes
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by mirawelner 2y ago
As a blogger I use both feeds - it’s a pain bc I manually maintain both but it’s worth it. I use neither though to decrease my screen time. Perhaps I’m a feed grifter? I hope not.
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A Philosophy of Software Design (book) [pdf](milkov.tech)
2 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 2y ago
Sturgeons's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I worked for professors for free in undergrad, and then later for money also in undergrad. Profs are always looking for research assistants. Granted now is the wrong time to try to break into the industry given the NIH cuts. I was able to g
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by mirawelner 2y ago
Personally I've had a lot of success working in non software science/engineering labs. I'm currently applying software and AI to biotech (don't worry its not LLMs). I think that is where a lot of the utility of AI is bec
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by mirawelner 2y ago
this reminds me of the (now discontinued) lambda tensorbook that I bought a few years back. AI computers are interesting because they are extremely similar to really good gaming computers but the marketing (and some of the hardware) is diff
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by mirawelner 2y ago
This was also the average college student yesterday and it will be the average college student tomorrow.
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I am working on creating a GAN for predicting the next few heartbeats given an ECG signal and hoping that the administration does not defund this project because I am being paid by a university project funded by the NIH.
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by mirawelner 2y ago
It brings me so much happiness that there is enough overlap between software people and jazz playing people that this is on the front page
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I have also found LLMs (in my case I use deepseek) to be really good at HTML/CSS, also probably because I'm not great at it. But yeah if I'm going to search stack overflow, that is when I use LLMs because my output is going t
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I really like the comparison between talking about politics at work and talking about salaries at work. They are both things that were just 'not allowed' for vague reasons and they both turned out to be really important things to
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I have a speculation which may be hubris that cursor is such a hit because its better than a lot of programmers because a lot of programmers aren't very good. And then when an actually talented programmer tries to use cursor it is much
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I’m working at a biomedical lab at UPitt full time and another biomedical at CMU in my “free time”(lol) and it’s bizarre how it’s now totally okay to talk about politics at work. People are sharing political articles on the teams chat.
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by mirawelner 2y ago
Every week I hear about a new solution to plastic. Every week more microplastics end up in my brain. I feel like we are not solving the problem.
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Take this on-call rotation and shove it(scottsmitelli.com)
191 points by mirawelner 2y ago|148 comments
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by mirawelner 2y ago
Im definitely in the first camp which explains why im going the phd route and why I am poor :)
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by mirawelner 2y ago
The cool thing about people showing off their webdev skills is that the portfolio site itself is the demo. I know this isn't a portfolio site but it reminds me of my webdev friend's sites. I love when people push web navigation to

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