nmfisher

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by nmfisher 4y ago
What does that have to do with the competence of the civil service?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Singapore does, which is why the government is so efficient and effective at almost everything it does.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Are you just padding input windows to 30 seconds, or have you come up with a smarter way to handle "streaming"?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
My wife and I live in an entirely different country from both our parents. Our first was born early last year, and my mother-in-law only just got a chance to come and help out for a few weeks. Having family around to help take care of the k
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I've been doing the same thing in VS Code for Julia/Python, but the experience is much worse than LightTable [0]. It's slow, the interface is clunky/janky, and noone has invested effort in designing the UI to make naviga
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by nmfisher 4y ago
That's cool, I knew about Cider but not Cursive/Calva (I haven't used Clojure in years). I would love for this to be more common for other languages (F# in particular would really benefit, IMO).
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by nmfisher 4y ago
The most enjoyable programming experience I've ever had, hands-down, was writing Clojure in LightTable, an IDE that allowed line-by-line inspection/execution, which sounds like what you're talking about. The project looks lik
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I'm just one person, but some feedback - the first sentence in your comment ("a self-hosted alternative to Gitpod and Github Codespaces") was far clearer than the main text on your landing page ("Stop waiting for code to
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Presumably the lure of all that hardware was too much to resist!
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I have 100+ games sitting in my library that were either free, or purchased for less than $20. When you think of all the effort and man-hours that went into making them, and the number of hours of entertainment they'll provide, that pr
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by nmfisher 4y ago
What if there was some truth to that, and YouTube was 10x worse?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
As a new(ish) parent, I'm astonished at how readily most parents hand off their kids over to YouTube/tablet/phone. I even saw a stroller the other day with a permanent mount for the phone. I haven't banned YouTube (yet),
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by nmfisher 4y ago
It's easy to look like you're "ahead" by constantly releasing shiny new things that aren't actually profitable. Until OpenAI is generating billions in profit, I wouldn't be so quick to criticize the other big c
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Just did a bit of Googling and it seems a few people did "confirm" the $42/month price, e.g. https://twitter.com/chillzaza_/status/1616927021472354304?s=... Could still be fake/hoax, but altern
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Didn't they release a $42 plan a couple of weeks ago? What's the difference here - or did it just flop so they dropped the price and rebranded?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Ironically that is very close to his philosophy of antifragility - it doesn’t matter if you’re “right” nine times out of ten, if the tenth is the one that wipes you out.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
You don’t, and this is why “build an MVP to validate demand” is only directly applicable to B2B SaaS. Some of the concepts are still relevant though - focus on the core gameplay loop before spending big on artwork, continual private playtes
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Are there any competitions/leaderboards for training X dataset to Y accuracy on Z hardware? Kind of like code golf for ML, but probably delivers quite practical benefits at the same time. It's a cool idea.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
It took me a long time to wrap my head around the whole "key/query/value" explanation (and to be honest I regularly forget which vector is which). I find the "weighted sum of vectors" explanation much simpler&
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I (non-American) haven't been to Las Vegas, but what you described is very similar to my impression of the USA on the whole.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I gave up on ChatGPT for code generation because I ended up spending more time tweaking prompts/fixing outputs than if I had just written it myself in the first place. I think this is probably the future of "coding" but it&#x
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by nmfisher 4y ago
In my experience, Sydney is on par with California, but the rest of Australia is more expensive than most of the USA.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
The second link seems to be down (when I googled, seems the HTTP version works fine, the HTTPS one is broken).
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I'm intrigued to see if anyone can squeeze out similar quality with a smaller dataset (Microsoft's implementation was trained on 60,000 hours apparently). Not that that's impossible to get your hands on nowadays, but it still
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by nmfisher 4y ago
A couple of years ago I came across a paper on Gaussian Mixture Models. Googled the author, downloaded their MATLAB code from their University homepage (with a timestamp more than 25 years ago), and installed the most recent version of GNU
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Isn't the USA (including California) entirely at-will employment, so it's not hard to fire anybody at all?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I don't have this exact model, but I did have two earlier iterations of the Walkman which I liked for three reasons: 1) it's a lot lighter than a phone, so convenient to take running 2) the battery lasts days (if not weeks) rather
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I don't consider this: guard let foo = bar else { ... } to be any better than this: if bar().is_none() { ... } For the record, I find the guard keyword totally unnecessary and I still have NFI what's wrong with this in Swift: if
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by nmfisher 4y ago
It's difficult to gauge from the photos but I was thinking that the phone is seated too far from the mouth for reliable audio input (it certainly feels like I have to raise my voice, if not shout, whenever I'm talking to someone w
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by nmfisher 4y ago
"It's not Objective-C" is pretty much the only advantage it has. You're not missing anything, it's basically a superfluous language that only exists in its current form because Objective C needed replacing and Apple

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