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by photon_lines 1y ago
I agree with the principles discussed here, but am not agreement with the rules based approach. Great looking design isn't about UI 'rules' - it's about making the users of your application love what you're presenti
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by photon_lines 1y ago
I use Simple-Tax (I'm based in Canada) which is 100% web-based so unfortunately I don't have a suggestion for you but I'm really surprised that Intuit doesn't provide a purely web-based interface for their software...
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by photon_lines 1y ago
So I posted this conversation between Ilya Sutskever (one of the creators of ChatGPT) and Lex Fridman within that blog post and I'll provide it again below because I think it does a good job of summarizing what exactly 'makes tran
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by photon_lines 1y ago
If you want my 'intuitive' explanation of how transformers work - you can find it here (if you're a visual learner -- I think you'll like this one) albeit it is a bit long: https://photonlines.substack.com&#x2
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by photon_lines 1y ago
I'm about to say goodbye to Windows forever -- and it has nothing to do with their security vulnerabilities. It has to do with 1) the incredibly shitty software they produce (Windows 11) and 2) their lack of ethics in regards to pretty
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by photon_lines 1y ago
If anyone is interested in a more visual or intuitive over-view, I made a mini-book on it as well a few years ago which you can find here: https://github.com/photonlines/Intuitive-Overview-of-Linear-...
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by photon_lines 1y ago
My favorite LLMs ranked: DeepSeek (with thinking & reasoning & search turned on) Claude Code QWEN Coder (with thinking & reasoning & search turned on) ChatGPT Google Gemini Each one has it's own strength
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by photon_lines 1y ago
'I don't know if LLMs have a built in scepticism like humans do' - humans don't have an 'in built skepticism' -- we learn in through experience and through being taught how to 'reason' within school (
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by photon_lines 1y ago
So - in the pre-training step you are right -- they are simple 'statistical' predictors but there are more steps involved in their training which turn them from simple predictors to being able to capture patterns and reason -- I t
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by photon_lines 1y ago
Sorry -- I keep seeing this being used but I'm not entirely sure how it differs from most of human thinking. Most human 'reasoning' is probabilistic as well and we rely on 'associative' networks to ingest informatio
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by photon_lines 1y ago
This is why I love using the Deep-Seek chain of reason output ... I can actually go through and read what it's 'thinking' to validate whether it's basing its solution on valid facts / assumptions. Either way thanks
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by photon_lines 1y ago
Thank you - I will correct the mistake!
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by photon_lines 1y ago
Correct. If you're curious about the 'essence' of what black holes are I actually just did a write-up on them which you can find here: https://photonlines.substack.com/p/an-intuitive-guide-to-bla...
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by photon_lines 1y ago
Energy and momentum are always conserved in EVERY physical process. We can distinguish three types of collisions: “sticky” ones, in which the kinetic energy decreases (typically, it is converted into heat); “explosive” ones, where the kinet
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by photon_lines 2y ago
Fantastic resource - just an FYI I just posted a 'visual' review of most of the key algorithms used in comp sci and the real world which is available here: https://photonlines.substack.com/p/visual-focused-alg
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by photon_lines 2y ago
I love the paper - don't read into the negative comments. I find that a lot of online feedback (more so on Reddit and much less so on HN (usually)) tends to be opinionated and misinformed by quite a bit these days. Fantastic work and f
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by photon_lines 2y ago
The whole report shows that it was a company being run by bearcats and middle-managers who focused on sales rather than product. The detailed out exactly what was coming and why it was great and their general response is atrocious. Some of
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My Personal Notes, Book Summaries and Papers(github.com)
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by photon_lines 2y ago
I disagree. The best employees are the employees who don't need to be managed. They figure what out what needs to be done and walk into the business (from day one to the last day they are there) thinking like owners. Google in its very
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by photon_lines 2y ago
Alternative HTML version: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vierecks-interview-einstein-1...
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by photon_lines 2y ago
The last paragraphs really are beautifully written: "When he ascends to his attic, she does not cling to his coat tails. When he wishes to be alone, she completely eliminates herself from his life. She spares him disharmonious contacts
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by photon_lines 2y ago
I 100% agree - I just wanted to add that processed food also plays a huge role. Our ancestors didn't eat canned fish dipped in high calorie oils or snacks / junk food with no fiber. White bread is used commonly throughout many hou
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by photon_lines 2y ago
Vitamin D (or lack of it) plays a vital and huge factor: "A prospective study of dietary intake of vitamin D found women with daily intake above 400 IU had a 40% lower risk of MS. [53] In a study among healthy young adults in the US, W
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by photon_lines 2y ago
https://inspirehep.net/authors/1007642
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by photon_lines 2y ago
'Greene isn't a paragon of scholarship either though - again, superficially, for many years now he's been a popsci celebrity rather than a real, actual, string theorist' - Working at Cornell and Columbia, doing research
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by photon_lines 2y ago
I 100% agree with you - I don't buy anything about string theory and I believe it has almost nothing to do with the state of reality, but the attempt itself is honorable and the mathematics behind it is beautiful and can be used to adv
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by photon_lines 2y ago
The Fabric of the Cosmos is far far better in my opinion and doesn't stick to theories - he attempts to explain concepts in an intuitive manner and it's an amazing exposition into physics.
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by photon_lines 2y ago
1. Mostly through daily stand-ups, but I hate these: I only do them due to MBAs in suits love progress reports and have the impression developers being 'idle' is a detriment to the business which has costs which they have to minim
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by photon_lines 2y ago
FYI just small tip on the Windows / Node front, you should just install & use NVM instead of Node directly - will make many headaches go away.
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by photon_lines 2y ago
Sorry, but do you have any data that shows 'great' candidates run tests and use your approach of finding / fixing bugs? Read the book 'Coders at Work' which describes some of the best developers of all time - most o

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