patrickmay

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by patrickmay 10mo ago
I asked to have LaTeX installed at one site, several years ago. The first Google results were eye-opening.
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
Serious question: How do they bully online reviewers?
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
LLMs aren't world models, they are language models. It will be interesting to see which of the LLM implementation techniques will be useful in building world models, but that's not what we have now.
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
They're a model of language, not of the world.
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
If I'm remembering the full quote correctly, it's "Ugly bags of mostly water."
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
In those cases, you should be asked for estimates to eliminate the unknowns.
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
The one I heard was estimate, double it, and move to the next higher unit. 2 days? Nope, that's 4 weeks.
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
This is a fantastic description of why Technical Program Managers (TPMs) can be force multipliers. Imagine involving someone who understands both the needs of Product and Engineering and whose job it is to allow both of them to focus on wh
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
Have you tried bringing the LLM into the shower with you?
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by patrickmay 11mo ago
Most turkeys of my acquaintance would not fit into a toaster oven without some percussive assistance.
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by patrickmay 11mo ago
So much for the platitude that violence never solves anything.
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by patrickmay 11mo ago
If each person can eat half a pizza, you've reinvented the Amazon approach: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoPizzaTeam.html
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by patrickmay 11mo ago
This is the key point. No site is sending material to the UK unsolicited. People in the UK are initiating the download of information they find of interest. If the UK government has a problem with that, it's on them to block the dow
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by patrickmay 11mo ago
I think a U.S. rugby league has potential.
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by patrickmay 11mo ago
The article said that a close relationship is one where the other person can influence your views. I didn't dig into the details to see how that was measured.
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by patrickmay 11mo ago
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom". -- Viktor Frankl (maybe)
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by patrickmay 1y ago
Great idea. I had a chemistry lab in college where I was given a vial of a white powder on the first day of class and the course was complete when I identified what it was. A similar course in CS would give each student a legacy codebase w
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by patrickmay 1y ago
This is the right framing. No site, including 4chan, is forcing their content on innocent Brits. The only way people in the UK see 4chan is by proactively establishing a connection to the site and requesting the download of data. Those u
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by patrickmay 1y ago
Olin also wrote the greatest acknowledgment section ever: https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
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by patrickmay 1y ago
Exactly. Emacs Lisp is an existence proof that this can be done well.
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by patrickmay 1y ago
Holding politicians legally accountable for their campaign promises will never happen, but I love the idea.
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by patrickmay 1y ago
I must not be a people -- I don't have my browser maximized. I like to be able to see the browser window, Emacs, and a terminal all at once.
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by patrickmay 1y ago
Exactly as you put it, but with a date. "I'll get back to you within 3 days." If that's not possible, provide a date for a date: "I'll know by Tuesday when that will be ready."
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by patrickmay 1y ago
As the owner of a U.S. based website, I am not sending data anywhere. Some people in the U.K. might request data and download it from my site. I'm not forcing it on them.
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by patrickmay 1y ago
> However I think we should be thinking harder about how coding will change as LLMs change the economics of writing code: - If the cost of delivering a feature is ~0, what's the point in spending weeks prioritizing it? Writing code
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by patrickmay 1y ago
As always, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030
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by patrickmay 1y ago
No, no, that would be wrong. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Thermite
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by patrickmay 1y ago
They collect data that allows tracking the movement and locations of individuals to a reasonably high degree of fidelity. Governments cannot be trusted to protect this data or to use it legally and responsibly.
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by patrickmay 1y ago
And here I was about to post this completely unrelated link: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Thermite
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by patrickmay 1y ago
This is the drawback of teaching some software developers social skills. /s

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