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by nsagent 1y ago
Having worked with game designers writing code for their missions/levels in a scripting language, I'd say this has been the case for quite a long while. They start with the code from another level, then modify it until it seems to
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by nsagent 1y ago
Weird. I've lifted on and off for 25 years. For most of that time I did the stereotypical 3x8-12 and saw much slower progression. During the past couple years I switched to a 5x5 plan and saw massive gains in strength, even while I was
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by nsagent 1y ago
Just ran into the same issue. The start of the flow certainly looked interesting. Too bas I couldn't get further along. I'll try to look at it again later.
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by nsagent 1y ago
Oh wow. Good to know! Thanks for the heads up.
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by nsagent 1y ago
I used to use Signal exclusively rather than Whatsapp, but I've had lots of issues sending media. This has not been a problem with Whatsapp, so I've recently begun to use Whatsapp more. There are also issues with message history t
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by nsagent 1y ago
I have Signal on my phone and laptop. For some reason my laptop desynced from the phone, so my chat history now has a missing block of message history (that exists on the phone). I did nothing obvious to cause that desync. My guess is that
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by nsagent 1y ago
My mom was one of those lucky few doctors that was able to redo internship and residency after moving to the US. When she first arrived she cleaned houses and worked as a waitress while awaiting entrance into a program. This was the early 8
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by nsagent 1y ago
Sure, part of the issue is bad hardware support, but most recently I had a Dell laptop for work with Ubuntu on it. It was officially supported, but refused to go to sleep properly, so each morning it would be nearly drained even if it was f
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by nsagent 1y ago
It's clear that you're either one of the authors or a friend of theirs. You created this account 8 months ago to comment on another paper [1] that was released by the same authors. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by nsagent 1y ago
As someone who grew up running Microsoft OSes, starting with DOS, then Windows and who has used a Mac laptop since the Windows Vista days, my perspective on the usability of Linux Desktop is unrelated to it simply being "different from
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by nsagent 1y ago
This is a recent trend and one I wholeheartedly agree with. See these position papers (including one from David Silver from Deepmind and an interview where he discusses it): https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI-SS/a
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by nsagent 1y ago
> Meanwhile, software developers spot code fragments seemingly lifted from public repositories on Github and lose their shit. What about the licensing? If you’re a lawyer, I defer. But if you’re a software developer playing this card? Cu
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by nsagent 1y ago
I remember sitting with the faculty in charge of offering online courses when I visited as an alum back in 2014. They seemed to look at it as a cash cow in their presentation. They were eager to be at the forefront of online CS degrees at t
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by nsagent 1y ago
It really depends on the software. I have the top-of-the-line M4 Max laptop with 128GB of memory. I recently switched from Zotero [1] to using papis [2] at the command line. Zotero would take 30 seconds to a minute to start up. papis has no
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by nsagent 1y ago
Interesting. At game companies I worked at we generally used version control solutions that easily allowed storing code and assets together, such as Perforce and Alienbrain.
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by nsagent 1y ago
Good question. I started having digestive issues a year and a half ago. Went to various doctors and according to their lab tests was told everything was fine, that maybe this was my "new normal." Recently had an infection that nec
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by nsagent 2y ago
Congrats! One little nitpick is that while I prefer hardmode for puzzles like this, on mobile (where I prefer to play such games), it's WAY too easy to misclick on the keyboard. I had "8 excess keystrokes," but those were all
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by nsagent 2y ago
Thanks for clarifying! Certainly seems like dissembling to me. Wish news organizations actually did the due diligence and reported these kinds of details.
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by nsagent 2y ago
I'm completely unfamiliar with what systems exist, but here's what the article states: > the White House had authorized the use of Signal, largely because there is no alternative platform to text in real time across different a
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by nsagent 2y ago
> According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing
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by nsagent 2y ago
Nope. I did it purely due to long-term intellectual curiosity. I first pursued "AI" in undergrad during the last AI winter. For example, the only professor who taught neural networks at Purdue was in the EE dept, not CS, and was r
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by nsagent 2y ago
I'll bite. I received my PhD in Computer Science focused on NLP and creative text generation last year and I think the hype around LLMs is ridiculous (academics are no better than industry on chasing hype). They're trained to pred
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by nsagent 2y ago
> Banning phones won't help, phones are just a surface level symptom of the fact that humanities courses at minimum have become completely fake and professors don't care enough to stop it. It's not just humanities courses
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by nsagent 2y ago
That's pretty spot on with my experience as well, though I'm a decade older.
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by nsagent 2y ago
> several key supporting points been mostly disproven scientifically (early humans often hunted by running to exhaustion, for example) This article from 2024 [1] that discusses newly published research seems to refute your claim. [1]: h
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by nsagent 2y ago
It seems odd that as a society it's been deemed a-okay to pathologize a cluster of traits shared by 30% of the population.
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by nsagent 2y ago
I most likely would be diagnosed with ADHD if I sought a formal diagnosis (my ex, who I was with for over a decade is a clinical psychologist and said I most likely have ADHD; my brother is diagnosed with it and my mom's ADHD traits ma
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by nsagent 2y ago
I'm also an AI researcher and I'm not hopeful that the hype will die down anytime soon. People have been touting insignificant results through shoddy science for a long time now. They've noticed it works well enough because c
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by nsagent 2y ago
Thanks! It's hard to describe, but ultimately I realized that neither academia nor industry is willing to invest in moonshot type ideas. Moreover, academics have to worry about funding and tenure (in addition to teaching and service).
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by nsagent 2y ago
Well, I resigned my postdoc and decided to pursue "Science 1" as he terms it. Let's see how successful I am in a year or two...

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