randcraw

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by randcraw 4y ago
Or more likely, end them entirely.
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by randcraw 4y ago
There's a GIGANTIC difference between a hammer and a button that when clicked builds a cathedral.
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by randcraw 4y ago
I just installed on my Monterey Macbook, but it won't launch. No window appears. I tried launching from a python file, still nothing. Well, if as you say in your site's vision section, "the editor should disappear", it
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by randcraw 4y ago
This is basically a pricing problem. G needs to strike a balance between the naked profitability of selling more ugly and dysfunctional ads versus increasing user delight by delivering more useful search results. While adding more ads boo
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by randcraw 4y ago
"Thinking Fast and Slow" seems to cover some of the same ground, especially Kahneman's and Tverski's Type II or slow thinking, though I think they approach thinking more as a means to solve problems (i.e. decision making
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by randcraw 4y ago
I hope that's true, but I suspect the allure of getting your own personalized news feed on only the topics you care about, in the exact style you prefer will cause 90% of the listeners to choose this medium over all others and presume
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by randcraw 4y ago
I think the literati of any age are a major source of bad writing, or at least, fluff. Many authors dedicate their efforts to writing stylishly, encumbering the reader to wade through excessive windy sentences and irrelevant minutia, or wo
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by randcraw 4y ago
Or several.
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by randcraw 4y ago
I'm guessing your friends still chauffeur their kids around. If they stopped, I bet the kids would learn to drive, since their alternative to taking the wheel is to sit at home. Now that it's become clear that services like lyft&
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by randcraw 4y ago
Yes, assuming he was willing to spend the rest of his life in a US prison, if not Khashoggied en-route.
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by randcraw 4y ago
Beware "people on the ground". They are a terrible source of fact checked verifiable info. Personal opinion is not news. It's merely one person's unfiltered view of the world. And because it's uncurated by a tr
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by randcraw 4y ago
And a heavy dose of crazy nonsense.
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by randcraw 4y ago
Similar difficulties pervade the supply chain as it passes through India, where intermediates expect to 'take a taste' of the product's value. Just try to personally carry new electronics into the country without greasing a
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by randcraw 4y ago
Yes, but the issue with pharmaceuticals is safety -- compliance with regulation and close monitoring of medication ingredient quality. That's something that numerous Indian manufacturers continue to have difficulty ensuring.
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by randcraw 4y ago
Excluding the recent impurities (NDMA and NDEA) that took losartan, irbesartan, and valsartan off the market for months -- made by Hetero Labs, Mylan Laboratories, and Aurobindo Pharma in India (and Zhejiang Huahai in China)?
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by randcraw 4y ago
Blackadder too? Bite my tongue.
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by randcraw 4y ago
That depends on how trivial and stereotypical the tasks fulfilled by that role are. Sure, writing simple functions or accessing databases and loading or unloading form-based user interfaces should be easy enough tasks to specify easily. T
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by randcraw 4y ago
I suspect Sussman told only the more palatable part of the story. Students pay for those degrees, so they have a big say in what they buy. It's likely that both EECS majors and non-EECS majors who took EECS courses believed the four
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by randcraw 4y ago
In the OP video, Sussman mentions that SICP was one (the first) of four core courses in EECS that introduced essential concepts in programming, circuits, signals and systems, and computer architecture. I think all four completed by the end
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by randcraw 4y ago
I agree, elite schools (like MIT) have traditionally grounded their curricula upon a basis set of essential principles like "great books". At MIT, those were calculus through diff eq, physics, and engineering basics like statics
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by randcraw 4y ago
In the OP video, Sussman explains that SICP was one of four courses at MIT that taught students how to combine small H/W and S/W components to build computers and programs from the ground up. SICP built atop those primitives -- c
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by randcraw 4y ago
Agreed. The LAST use of ChatGPT should be the first draft. It's clueless about substance or the purpose of the essay, neither what's necessary nor essential. As such, its best use is to flesh out an outline that HAS these thing
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by randcraw 4y ago
With all the special effects and video postprocessing in photos and films today, it's no surprise they look unnatural. I think we're seeing in film and TV the same phenom that's already big in photography and music — digital
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by randcraw 4y ago
Having worked in R&D at a big pharma for 17 years and in university HPC groups for 10, I echo these comments. I've found that corporate R&D is essentially investigative (rather than production driven), and as an IC computation
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by randcraw 4y ago
For folks who work in virtual worlds (AKA computing), outdoor work is an ideal way to recharge your batteries. Not only is the physical exercise a win, but strong sunlight lifts your mood, even when it's cloudy (and especially if you
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by randcraw 4y ago
Can't agree. A signed contract is a promise. Reneging on your promise says only bad things about you. Meta's management famously lacks character. Please don't use them as a baseline for right and wrong.
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by randcraw 4y ago
Too bad. It was outstanding.
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CL opened a satellite store in Tyson's Corner VA outside DC which lasted a couple years. Between CL and Reiter's (which still exists in DC), I must have spent several thousands on full price trade, textbook, and reference books.
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by randcraw 4y ago
I've seen the same trend at the B&Ns I frequent (Montgomeryville PA outside Philly and Northville MI outside Detroit) — in the past year or so the tech shelves have thinned out by 50%, same for the science and math, toys and games
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by randcraw 4y ago
Nobody looks at a house and asks, "What kind of hammer and nails did they use?" The OP is right: the interesting stuff in computing has always been what a new app/tool/library can DO, how it's being USED, but never

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