nottathrowaway3

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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
It evokes a larger brand of similar wordplay which is basically the professional equivalent of "it's not you, it's me". The reason people don't like it is that it essentially tries to trick applicants into misunders
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> I have the conclusion opt-in async/await is a mistake. I think high level language/runtime like c# should handle it automatically... This is not a good idea unless you like having to make all your code thread-safe (well, asyn
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
tl;dr > language and compiler capable of rewriting normal control flow into a state machine implementation of coroutines
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
The median chess player is usually described as mediocre (if you ask chess players). They suck as badly as the median clarinet player in your high school band/orchestra.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> me: You are a chess grandmaster playing as black... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Ingmar_Bergma... The KNIGHT holds out his two fists to CHATGPT, who smiles at him suddenly. CHATGP
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> "and no one will ever help you in life" ... strange thing to say in a hospital bed? It's strange until you get the hospital bill in the mail.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> I try to click less on negative stories and more on positive stories. An alternative approach is to consume news from multiple countries (including your own). It's so interesting to see how all the fnords are different and just ho
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
The answer will either be some socialist rationing policy, or genocide. Current "work for a living" systems only sustained the population because a human could be the most cost-effective way to get something done. Unless there are
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> then it's in the best interest of ... the applicant that they not be hired This kind of wordplay makes sense from HR's perspective. Ex: it "wouldn't be a fit for you anyway", there are "other jobs where yo
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Depends if it was a standard project format like npm or setup.py. The risk is, by asking, you indicate you don't know how to use standard industry tooling. "hey, your starter code is not running in my environment, have any documen
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> We call it a valid instance of an Othello game board. We. Not GPT. We. People who know the symbolic meaning of "Othello game board"... The board structure can be defined precisely using predicate logic as (X, d) , i.e., it i
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Unless the decision-maker is short or otherwise unattractive. For some managers' egos, fully remote work was the best thing to happen to them. If RTO happens, such people will go back to constantly getting mogged by their subordinates
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> Human: ...but the intention is to have a "model" rather than the full thing Rat: easy for you to say. Also, this was the plot of Shinsekai Yori .
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> There is no way to represent the state of the game without some kind of board model. I agree with the conclusion but not the premise. The question under debate is about not just a stateful ternary board X but a board endowed with a
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> And there is no ceiling yet in sight We are approaching the time when we find out if the human brain uses language encoding as its core mechanism of thought, or if it has any tricks left up its damp, fleshy sleeve.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Then there becomes a "material" difference between Othello and those LL(1) grammars as grandparent comment suggested there wasn't. I would argue the optimal compression for such a table is a representation of the geometric al
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> It doesn't seem materially different than knowing that U always follows Q, and that J is always followed by a vowel in "legal" English language words. The material difference is one of scale, not complexity. Your rules
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> As someone who is occasionally challenged by finding the right balance between assertiveness and diplomacy, I can see how this AI would be a game-changer for professionals like myself. Your keen understanding of the nuances of workplac
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> Unfortunately it will also mean a lot of junior folks may never get back into software jobs. Why do you suppose this age-based partitioning is going to happen? There are a lot of senior people who are less effective than bright juniors
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Me too. (1) U.S. total wages were $9.7 trillion in 2021 [1]. (2) Most Americans are not inherent masochists and have too much self-esteem to be effective at sucking up. (3) The average white-collar office worker would be willing to give up
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
That would actually be an interesting product: spell-check but it edits your email or slack message to be more sycophantic. I'd use it.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> is phenomenal at Code Can it - attend bullshit meetings - lick my manager's boot - tell them that their ideas are good but in the masochistic, self-deprecating way they like to hear it from me in Not yet? Darn it, guess my job i
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Utility (= (pleasure minus pain) x time) is the essential good when we're talking about animal and human welfare. Good actions increase expected utility; bad actions decrease expected utility. Machines experience no pleasure or pain an
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
(1) The "Linkedin style" is certainly not unique to males. (2) It was a good story and a relevant comment. No reason to bring gender into this discussion, why not criticize/discuss the comment itself.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Also (for those like me who didn't know the rules) generating legal Othello moves requires understanding board geometry; there is no hack to avoid an internal geometric representation: > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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The emotional toll of caring for research animals(science.org)
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Good people remember though and hold a grudge if you insult them on the way out the door. People you want to hire in the future are watching as well. There's incentive to be classy (ex: Microsoft's https://blogs.microso
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
If they don't create value, why do people pay for it? And by your logic, isn't Google doing the same thing for website owners. There's more nuance to these issues that you suggest. The U.S. government is investing in tech for
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
That is literally every business in history. The innovation is how they choose to get that dollar.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> I'd be curious how you justify this when the U.S. (largely agreed-upon to be the most corporate-friendly first-world country over the past 50 years or so) has the largest police-state, prison population, military, etc etc etc The

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