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by moregrist 8mo ago
My guess: they keep you around on contract for 1-6 months because laying you off immediately would be very disruptive. One company I worked for did this. It felt weird to everyone. But they did give a slightly better severance to those that
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> It didn’t seem like 3D-printing ever showed sings of displacing existing ways of manufacturing at scale, did it? It didn’t and I’m not sure anyone who knew anything about at-scale manufacturing ever saw it that way. Injection molding i
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I don’t think you can take “percentage of GDP” as an indication that the US is doing less. It could be doing the same amount while the GDP grew tremendously in other areas, for example software. And if you look at the absolute contribution
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Peer review isn’t the issue here. His comments are about Arxiv, which is a preprint server. Essentially anyone can publish a preprint. There’s no peer or other review involved.
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> This approach dismisses the cases where Ai submissions generally are better. You’re perhaps missing the not so subtle subtext of Peter Woit’s post, and entire blog, which is: While AI is getting better, it’s still not _good_ by the sta
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> Humans can also reproduce copyrighted works from memory as well. Showing that machines can reproduce copyrighted material is no different than saying that a human can reproduce copyright material that the human learned from. Ultimately
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I was there in the 90s. I built a few bad static HTML pages. It wasn’t hard. There are lots of stories of non-CS / non-technical people making stuff from the dotcom era. Making a dynamic page was harder. Integrating with a payment syst
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by moregrist 8mo ago
Welcome to radio 2.0. Give it another 10-20 years and your 2 hour podcasts will be 30 minutes of morning zoo DJ banter, 10 minutes of guests, and 1.5 hours of ads. We’ll have reached peak 90s all over again. With any luck we’ll avoid recrea
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It’s not a great analogy but... “Autofishers” are large boats with nets that bring in fish in vast quantities that you then buy at a wholesale market, a supermarket a bit later, or they flash freeze and sell it to you over the next 6-9 mont
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This is written with the idea that the exponential part keeps going forever. It never does. The progress curve always looks sigmoidal. - The beginning looks like a hockey stick, and people get excited. The assumption is that the growth part
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by moregrist 8mo ago
I think what you’re saying is that every wafer is usable, but won’t have the same performance characteristics, depending on how many bits are broken. Doesn’t that just bucket wafers based on performance? Which effectively gives a yield to
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It clearly didn’t come out of game dev. Many people doing high performance work on either embedded or “big silicon” (amd64) in that era were fully aware of the importance of locality, branch prediction, etc But game dev, in particular Mike
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by moregrist 8mo ago
I use a notebook extensively for certain kinds of work and problems. I’ll point out specific ways that I use it to answer your questions. > The post here mentions hypotheses, but I don't do experiments for the most part. Debugging a
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by moregrist 8mo ago
I appreciate the reply and that it's been a while; I will give your podcast another listen. It wasn't just the Jonathon Blow episode; that was just the point where I said "this is frustrating." For what it's worth,
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I really tried to like the podcast. It’s been a few years, so maybe it’s improved. The topics were good. The guests were great. But Bryan Cantrill was just terrible at letting his guests actually talk. Bryan, if you’re listening, please let
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by moregrist 8mo ago
> There are plenty of papers out there that look at LLM productivity and every one of them seems to have glaring methodology limitations and/or reports on models that are 12+ months out of date. This is a general problem with papers
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by moregrist 8mo ago
Perhaps you're comfortable with a compiler that generates different code every time you run it on the same source with the same libraries (and versions) and the same OS. I am not. To me that describes a debugging fiasco. I don't
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> When was the last time you reviewed the machine code produced by a compiler? ... Any time I’m doing serious optimization or knee-deep in debugging something where the bug emerged at -O2 but not at -O0. Sometimes just for fun to see wha
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by moregrist 9mo ago
Even in companies that have SWE, do you really want to divert in-house SWE time to something as exciting as ... accounting rules and making sure your inventory is auditable? Or any number of the weird compliance things associated with most
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> Claude Code is churing out an order of magnitude more instructions than SM64 did, to…diff a terminal panel’s worth of text and draw it. What bothers me is that the maintainer quoted at the beginning of the piece is holding this up as a
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by moregrist 9mo ago
I think the answer is pretty simple. It's pretty clear that Microsoft had "Everything must have Copilot" dictated from the top (or pretty close). They wanted to be all-in on AI but didn't start with any actual problems
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I think the skepticism here is that without tests or a _lot_ of manual QA how would you know that it did it correctly? Maybe you did one or the other , but “nearly one-shotted” doesn’t tend to mean that. Claude Code more than occasionally l
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> I am a CS researcher at UC Berkeley. This has seriously impacted my work. I would try to get help from your department. Somewhere within CS and CS-adjacent departments at Berkeley there’s likely to be someone with an official or unoffi
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I haven’t had the need to in decades either but I can still do it. Similarly with the standard algorithms for multi-digit addition, subtraction, and multiplication. I think learning these algorithms was useful not because we use these tool
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FWIW, I’m not confused about the two; I’m quite familiar with the NYC metro region. I haven’t heard any Wegman’s fans comment on their NYC stores. I’ve heard multiple people wax poetic about Wegmans who frequented the Princeton-area store a
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by moregrist 9mo ago
I don't know the Wegman's in NY at all, but the one I used to use in the Boston area was ... okay? It was a good grocery store with decent produce, a good frozen section, some nice specialty items, and some decent prepared meals.
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> This is why COMPANIES NEED ACCURATE ESTIMATES. They are not optional to running a company. Sure, but even accurate estimates are only accurate as long as the assumptions hold. Market conditions change, emergency requests happen, people
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Sure, for roofing jobs or other large repairs, that’s true. But for remodeling it’s pretty different. When I’ve engaged with a contractor for remodeling, I usually have some vague idea like “we should do something about this porch and deck
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People who major in mathematics are really good at mathematical abstraction and are _notorious_ for their inability to do basic arithmetic. To the degree that it's a stereotype with a strong grounding it reality. In college we had a r
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You're also free to not use their free software. You're paying exactly $0 for support for this software. So any support (eg: bug fixes) you get are a gift. That means that if you (1) use their software, (2) don't provide a

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