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by mlazos 7y ago
The margins on taxi services are so incredibly thin I find it difficult to believe there is any value in autonomous taxis. Especially when you take into account all the edge cases that will have to be accounted for, and the traffic that wil
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by mlazos 7y ago
I actually thought this was about learning verilog or another hdl. I was a little disappointed, maybe I should write a blog about my experience learning an hdl as a software engineer. Nonetheless them learning embedded systems programming i
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by mlazos 7y ago
We are at the top of the hype curve for AI. It’s very good at specific tasks, ie speech to text, object recognition, but cannot reason at a high level. Although advances in RL are showing some promise with planning, I don’t think we’re near
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by mlazos 7y ago
I remember elsewhere on HN I got totally shat on for this analogy. The main case where this doesn’t apply is that monads can decide whether or not to execute later computations and that’s why it’s actually more general than a programmable
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by mlazos 7y ago
This is a little off topic but is the performance mainly coming from the computation being distributed? I wrote this text parser in python a few years ago, rewrote the same thing in Java and got like a 10x speedup. It’s possible I’m a bad p
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by mlazos 7y ago
I don’t think anyone is saying Java is the only one they’re saying because it has good IDE support it is better than many other languages, e.g. python. I tend to agree. Once a python program gets over 20k lines (I touched a program like
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by mlazos 7y ago
I agree but at the same time I feel like companies are bolting “as a service” onto literally everything . Take Rosetta Stone for instance. There’s zero need or benefit from that to being subscription but there it is. Games as a subscriptio
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by mlazos 7y ago
This seems a little cold to me. The fact that there’s an environment at amazon that leads someone to kill themself by jumping off a building doesn’t lead me to think “oh a more reasonable person would’ve left the company.” There’s plenty of
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by mlazos 7y ago
I think for the larger models now it's more likely people are remotely logging into GPU clusters at this point. I don't think it will be that big of a change.
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by mlazos 7y ago
I don’t think it was a deliberate agreement per se, I feel like it was just the natural outcome after the US helped rebuild a lot of Europe. The previous world order had been ripped apart by the war, and the US was the world’s largest econo
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by mlazos 7y ago
Yes this makes sense to me. The way I thought about it is if you win if he picks the door with the car, then you’re in essence getting two choices. So the total probability of winning is 1/3 (probability of Monty picking car) + 2/
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by mlazos 7y ago
The swap doesn’t change your chances, it’s the host opening one of two other doors that changes your chances. Because the host can open one of two other doors, there are two configurations in which swapping will result in a win but one wher
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by mlazos 7y ago
I remember when one of my professors told me how AVL trees were invented by mathematicians in the Soviet Union. It was in a paper titled “An algorithm for organizing information”. It was a side project for them, and it’s humbling to hear ho
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by mlazos 7y ago
I agree that there are cultural differences, but culture definitely varies from team to team in any large tech company. I think a job at any of the big tech companies is interchangeable. I hear stories about learning from code reviews, main
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by mlazos 7y ago
Most Americans are in debt and have no stored wealth. I know that intuitively it seems like stored wealth should be good for an economy but it’s not the case. Spending more money than you have (debt) is actually better for the economy becau
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by mlazos 7y ago
I think there is always something new to learn. People spend their lives finding optimal solutions to problems at every level of the stack. Even just in computer architecture people are experts in developing specific modules like a cache, a
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by mlazos 7y ago
My point was that you still call functions and return from them, you have conditionals, and you still have a call stack with lexical scoping (and Main). You have a very similar control flow model compared to any other language. The other co
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by mlazos 7y ago
The control flow section perplexed me a bit, just because you can embed a DSL in Haskell with monads doesn’t mean that “control flow isn’t embedded in the language”. You still have a main entry point and all functions are executed top to bo
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by mlazos 7y ago
This got me thinking, this is kind of encouraged from an engineering perspective. It's a lot easier to not have to maintain all these different versions, and just have one. Not necessarily the reason they're doing it because googl
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by mlazos 7y ago
It’s pretty obvious who decides who is the jerk, the drivers. If you have an average of like 1 Star, is every single driver you’ve ever ridden with wrong? I think this is fine, they’re not drawing an arbitrary line, they’re saying wow if th
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by mlazos 7y ago
I find it interesting that you use the word terrorists to describe the rebels in Syria. One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter. The fact that this government is fine with the killing of its own people en masse with conventional we
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by mlazos 7y ago
I honestly don’t think any of the social issues you mention are accepted wholeheartedly by society. And I also don’t think the regulations you talk about are generally rejected by society. Just here on HN you can see how heated the discussi
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by mlazos 7y ago
I didn't go to grad school so I'm not super privy to this, but a bunch of my coworkers have and they even contrarily joked that once you start "managing up" and don't just blindly do what your advisor says it's
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by mlazos 8y ago
Ok, but like what if your metadata is even more complicated than just a single field, it’s ridiculous to have to include even more opening and closing tags. <map> <kvp> <key>k</key> <value>v<&#
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by mlazos 8y ago
The nuance that differentiates my example is I’m not picking some random web page (where html might actually make sense to use) and trying to apply json to a domain it most certainly is not optimized for. I’m taking an extremely common case
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by mlazos 8y ago
This is such a contrived example, they take html and show the equivalent conversion in json with the same schema. The point is in a configuration file you can remove nearly all the cruft of xml, instead of having <input “key”=key “value”
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by mlazos 8y ago
Thanks for the post, I didn't even realize how large the design space for something like this is. I enjoyed the level of detail and the explanations of the design tradeoffs.
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by mlazos 8y ago
I think the reason that none exist is that they are incredibly difficult to implement. My armchair observation is that tracing the entire history of the virtual machine is probably slow/memory intense/complex when the model of com
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by mlazos 8y ago
Tbh their greatest product in my opinion was their marketing in hiding that fact for as long as they did. It’s so effective that even after all of this the vast majority of its users still view google favorably.
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by mlazos 8y ago
There could also be other reasons for this, like rent being so high that trades people can't afford to live in the area. One of the other comments even points out that trade schools are closing in CA left and right.

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