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by nimonian 7mo ago
This seems crazy to me. I am a PM and I am busier than ever. People are waking up to the idea that code is cheap and things can change faster now, so deciding _what_ to make and prioritise in the deluge of ideas coming to prod is becoming c
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by nimonian 7mo ago
> I asked his thoughts on the matter because I assumed Kindly, I think this is where you went wrong
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by nimonian 7mo ago
I've been on hn for years and I see this kind of sentiment raised all the time. It is not my understanding of the guidelines. Politics and ideology are not off topic, provided the subject matter is of interest, or "gratifying&quot
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by nimonian 7mo ago
> 40% More to your point, to get from 6,000 back up to 10,000 requires a 67% increase in productivity on the remaining 6,000!
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by nimonian 7mo ago
I completely agree with you. There's something conspicuous about this particular use of the "group of three" device. It's trying but it's goofy and conspicuous. I think it's not human, it's 52 trillion par
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by nimonian 7mo ago
I really liked biome but it kept murdering my .vue files
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by nimonian 7mo ago
Moore's law lives on!
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by nimonian 7mo ago
It's like those sequences of images where we ask the LLM to reproduce the same image exactly, and we just get some kind of grotesque collapse after a few dozen iterations. The same happens with text and code. I call this "semantic
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by nimonian 7mo ago
Hey I wouldn't argue with this guy maybe he has a degree in Physic
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by nimonian 7mo ago
For speakers of the King's English, we wouldn't say "econ 101" either. We would say economics. 101 is an interesting number! Winston was taken there in 1984 by a fascist group whose tactics included the rigorous standard
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by nimonian 7mo ago
I think it was. It's a wall of information, lots of summary tables, fake warmth, and has that LLM smell to it. I'd be very surprised if this wasn't generated text. Whether it's GPT or not, it needs rewriting.
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by nimonian 8mo ago
They have no evidence of such contamination, not evidence of no such contamination
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by nimonian 8mo ago
> this post could have been written by me (if I could write) This post was written by AI
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by nimonian 8mo ago
Wittgenstein famously said "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." Alan Watts suggests people like Wittgenstein should occasionally try to let go of this way of thinking. Apologies if it is sentimental but I hope
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by nimonian 8mo ago
Next time I get sunburn I'm calling it a vitamin D overdose
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by nimonian 8mo ago
From Hacker News guidelines: > That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. There is a long history of major world ev
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by nimonian 9mo ago
Mathematics is concerned with a lot more than arithmetic and computation. Beyond the most basic levels, a mathematician will profit greatly from being aware of this type of epistemological vocabulary and a strong sense of their underlying m
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by nimonian 1y ago
There's a typo in the final line of math. I think 1/7C2 should be positive rather than negative.
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by nimonian 1y ago
I like the argument that every number in the row below is formed by summing two numbers from above. So each number above appears twice below. Hence the sum doubles.
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by nimonian 1y ago
Thicker walked ceramic mugs are definitely common in the UK, and probably more common now than anything else, but me and my gran both agree that a proper cup of tea needs serving in a thin-walled, fine-china cup, like this: https:/&#x
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by nimonian 2y ago
Fantastic. I used to set a competition in my school maths dept to compute as many digits of pi as possible in under one minute. Was always a highlight of the year, a kind of mathematical drag race. The five coins problem is enticing...
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by nimonian 2y ago
You could probably dockerize it and stick it on render.com
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by nimonian 3y ago
I get where you're coming from with that last sentence - people do sometimes go against the grain because it's not cool to follow the crowd. But I am one of those people who have felt a definite shift in their relationship to musi
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by nimonian 3y ago
> “I want to learn something just to learn something” isn’t the best reason, Why?
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by nimonian 3y ago
OC's point is that the chain rule for partial derivatives shouldn't be assumed because the ordinary chain rule holds, there's more depth to it than that, and the proof is harder than you might instinctively expect based on th
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by nimonian 3y ago
The reply you replied to was a parody of how Chat GPT responds when you correct it. They were alluding that its grandparent could be AI generated, explaining its slight vapidness.
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by nimonian 3y ago
Long addition is similar to calligraphy in the sense that its deprecation would have little effect on our civilisation's ability to continue functioning as is. They also both require patience to learn. The analogy is tempting. However,
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by nimonian 4y ago
Ideally, we would prove the theorem that any proof the software produces must be correct.
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by nimonian 4y ago
I found the sideswiping way too sensitive on mobile: when I just want to swipe right once I go through two maybe three pages. To scroll right just once I need to make a concerted effort to swipe just the right amount.
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by nimonian 4y ago
That may be a difference but it is not the point. The semantics of the headlines are being discussed, not the particulars.

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