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by pjs_ 2y ago
Hell yeah brother lfg
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by pjs_ 2y ago
They are missing an additional factor which is - who is running it, and how are they incentivized. This is really the reason I trust signal more than the alternatives, over and above any technical details. Basically I want the ship to be st
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Yes, this is accurate. You often end up with many solutions and human judgement is sometimes required in the end to pick the right strategy. However, what I have found in practice is that heuristics and hinting can rapidly cut through that
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by pjs_ 2y ago
We use the tool that I wrote on a database with tens of millions of rows. Because the keys are properly indexed, we rarely have performance issues associated with joins. Joins use the index, the Postgres planner is really good, and we can j
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Natural join is not jargon that I had heard before but unfortunately it does not refer to what I am talking about - I'm talking about something where the computer automatically figures out how to join across more than two tables.
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Yep, that's exactly what I did - using the ORM schema definition rather than the schema directly, but same difference
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by pjs_ 2y ago
A huge fraction (not 100%, but maybe 80%) of my frustration in trying to get technical people to use a database is that they have such a hard time understanding JOINs. People endlessly want hacks, workarounds, and un-normalized data structu
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Thirty thousand tons of liquid argon
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by pjs_ 2y ago
How can you hate on this. These guys are slaying so hard
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Shazam's technology came in part out of CCRMA, which is a very cool and special place on Stanford Campus, with deep connections to early computer history. I think it is very interesting that so many of the early applications of compute
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by pjs_ 2y ago
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icknield_Way
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Drives me nuts that somewhere along the devops journey people decided that SSHing into a private server used for internal tools is an antiquated and outrageous thing to expect. People for some reason are actually excited about the prospect
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Absolutely. The single most lyrically gifted grime MC hails from the single most densely populated area of the UK - Bayesians rejoice
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by pjs_ 2y ago
https://youtu.be/GELhFB-f8hQ?feature=shared
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by pjs_ 2y ago
I don't like this paper for the following reasons: - The language is unnecessarily scathing - They repeatedly show data where the models are getting things right 70, 80, 90% of the time, and then show a list of what they call "q
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by pjs_ 2y ago
> chainsaw yes… YES
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by pjs_ 2y ago
The UK collectively decided to fuck itself into oblivion, repeatedly, for more than a decade. My only hope is that in a hundred years the sun will still rise over Avebury on the solstice, the white horse will still leap over uffington, and
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Why is the bicycle self stable? https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1201959 We can't say, in any satisfying way. The mathematics is uncontroversial, but all of the simple natural-language explanations
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by pjs_ 2y ago
One day we may even prove that BBC journalists are conscious
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Bad boy algorithm. Amazing algorithm
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by pjs_ 2y ago
I remember talking to Alexa about eight years ago. I was a bit skeptical and asked, "what color is a red car?". I was seriously impressed that it knew that a red car is red.
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by pjs_ 2y ago
All of these different interpretations use equivalent mathematics under the hood, and make identical, accurate predictions about what we will see in experiments. Where people get excited is in the stories they tell about what the math “mean
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by pjs_ 2y ago
The storyline that “science now accepts their ideas” is questionable editorializing imho. Neither Bohmian mechanics nor many worlds are falsifiable, they are just interpretations. They are cool but they aren’t really something you can rejec
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by pjs_ 2y ago
https://archive.org/details/b29827553
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by pjs_ 2y ago
The paper shows that if you obtain someones password, private key, and phone number, and clone their device, you can impersonate them. They talk about "reverse-engineering", but TBH I think that mostly means "reading uncommen
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Bold to post this on a website for people who are paid millions to make buttons on the computer
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by pjs_ 2y ago
Wow, thank you for sharing this. Means a lot
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by pjs_ 2y ago
I wrote the original version of this nearly 20 years ago. Cool to see it still pop up here from time to time. Still runs in the browser thanks to Ruffle: https://peteshadbolt.co.uk/posts/ga/
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by pjs_ 2y ago
We use it for a fairly chaotic internal CRUD tool together with Flask and Postgres. Basically there's stuff on my big computer, and it needs to get onto some other guys' small computers. Sometimes the small computers need just a l
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by pjs_ 3y ago
I speak to VCs quite a bit and recently I was hanging around with a bunch of them, they were all making fun of the state of self-driving cars, ah, stupid industry, will never work, whatever. But to me it's strange, if you go to San Fra

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