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by prerok 1y ago
To do what, exactly? I was replying that there are very few research labs in industry. As stated, pharma is the potential outlier. What physics research is conducted? This is a real question, I would love to point this out to my PhD in phys
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by prerok 1y ago
Industries that want PhDs are quite limited IME. Very few companies are running their own research labs. I guess pharma would but in CS? Not one company in my country. I also don't remember seeing PhD requirement/advantage in who&
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by prerok 1y ago
Well, to expand on your point, the -cide suffix is actually rooted in Latin. So, even us, non-native English speakers would sooner recognize that word as opposed to other words. That said, the term genode is familiar to me, so I did not get
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by prerok 1y ago
See also "objective" :)
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by prerok 1y ago
Sorry if this is a basic question but are you setting the GOMEMLIMIT? Also, are you running the code in a container? In K8s?
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by prerok 1y ago
> The most important thing is that what's bad today can in fact be good tomorrow, especially if you don't get defensive about it. What a great way to put it. I wish software developers of every product would feel that way. And
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by prerok 1y ago
So, a lot of comments have already poked lots of holes in the article, but just wanted to chime in with a very basic observation: the mere statement that the 12k dimensions can pack in 10^200 concepts is staggering in how wrong it is. Sure,
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by prerok 1y ago
I must admit I was very much against the practice of NIH syndrome, but if it's that short I would prefer to write my own version instead of adding a dependency. In this day and age who knows when a dependency is hijacked :(
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by prerok 1y ago
Well, yes, the same concept, it's an N-dimensonal space, but outside of LLMs, we would rarely work with N=12000.
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by prerok 1y ago
Your initial statement is still wrong, that you can include a lot of information in a small number of bits. If you have a small number of bits, the overlap will be staggering. Now, that may be ok, but not ok, if you want to present orthogon
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by prerok 1y ago
Why not? The 1010 and 0101 are orthogonal.
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by prerok 1y ago
Hmm, I think one correction: is (0,0,0) actually a vector? I think that, by definition, an n-dimentional space can have at most n vectors which are all orthogonal to one another.
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by prerok 1y ago
I might be missing something but AFAIK that is not true. I live adjacent to the Mediterranean and I still see folks eating at home what is considered their diet. Can you elaborate what you meant?
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by prerok 1y ago
We have them in Europe too. Creates a pizza from scratch (well, ok, the dough is preprepared) in about 5 minutes. Never tried it, though, but folks tell me it's ok.
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by prerok 1y ago
Isn't this just sort of market research for how to prioritize the roadmap? I think it was a great way to do so.
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by prerok 1y ago
I think you are always in this phase of being able to be anything you want. Even as you are growing up, there are usually more choices than you can see. What experience and age gives you is a broader understanding that that really is the ca
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by prerok 1y ago
Indeed, but it's more like computer literacy not comp sci. We also had a course in "computers" in high school. We had to know by heart the contents of "File" and "Edit" menus for Paint in Win3.1. Windows95
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by prerok 1y ago
Indeed, depends on deployment and type of application. If the customer has their own deployment of the app (on their own server or computer), then all you have to go with, when they report a problem, are logs. Of course, you also have to ha
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by prerok 1y ago
How about when baking? https://xkcd.com/341/
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by prerok 1y ago
Understood. I was more referring to a case where a project would start defining its own language constructs and if each project would do that then every single project would come with a very high cognitive load.
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by prerok 1y ago
Thank you for posting this. I always looked at these features of being able to extend the language beyond some commonly accepted practices as detrimental to the language. I've spent way too much time debugging issues with operator over
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by prerok 1y ago
No, skynet went to the past and gave git and md to microsoft, which then proceeded to create the doc format from the md as a starting point :P
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by prerok 1y ago
Yes, somebody could doctor those commits with the right timestamp so that we would get a clear historical progression. It's doable, but would have to doctored, there was no git then, obviously.
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by prerok 1y ago
Emm, they don't, but the price to switching is too high. If everyone in their formative years would use Linux, then it would be a different story. But... they don't, so it requires reeducation. I think Mexico attempted it and I ho
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by prerok 1y ago
There's an important difference as to what is omitted. An encyclopedia could say "general relativity is how the universe works" or it could say "general relativity and quantum mechanics describe how we understand the uni
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by prerok 1y ago
Since sibling comments all seem to have concentrated on idealistic good intent, I would also like to point out a different side of things. I grew up in socialism. Since we've transitioned to democracy, I learned that I have to unlearn
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by prerok 1y ago
Well, from my experience, as well as from tools figuring out complexity of functions (so, seems to be accepted and not my personal preference), nested ifs add to cognitive load. So, we know that early returns are easier to understand. In a
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by prerok 1y ago
Not the GP. I agree that you can always find a better name, as the old joke goes, naming things is hard. That said, there is a significant difference in cognitive load between isSecure and isAdminUser to condition4. I've had the pleasu
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by prerok 1y ago
In programming you would put function as a parameter. So, maybe something like this F{sin}(x) = ... is just as short and clearer?
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by prerok 1y ago
Indeed and I have seen it happen many times in my career. Shoehorning things into working systems is something I have seen juniors do. I have also seen "seniors" do this, but in my view, they are still juniors with more years work

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