rg111

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by rg111 3y ago
One extra year of study before beginning the major will be prohibitively expensive for the lower middle class and the poor people.
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by rg111 3y ago
Slightly tangential, but in the span of my career, when I have worked with young people, I have enjoyed it much more than old boss-stereotyped bosses. I only once had a younger supervisor, and I preferred that much more than an old boss. Is
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by rg111 3y ago
Can you share with me if you have found any really good ones?
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by rg111 3y ago
Yes, he is knowledgeable and some episodes added value to my life. But they are horribly long. He is basically extending a tweet with some bullet points to 2.5 hours long episodes. And his pro-supplement stance is awkward to say the least.
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by rg111 3y ago
Can vouch for the quality of Fall of Civilizations, and some episodes of Lex Fridman. Hardcore history has many factually wrong and misleading content in it. But yeah, it is entertaining. I will check out Isaac Arthur.
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by rg111 3y ago
You mean weird supplements salesman?
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by rg111 3y ago
I use twitter only for the Deep Learning research folks. Getting bombarded by Onlyfans types and crypto types has increased manyfold in the last few months.
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by rg111 3y ago
This is why there are forums and places like Reddit (RIP?) and Quora (RIP). I come from a really small town and made it further than anyone I know in that town in tech. (Not in terms of money, though) Just Google: "best books on Spart
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by rg111 3y ago
I also got thid sense when I started learning to program. I moved towards ML later. I do no interaction with the web whatsoever other than a Flask web app once or twice a year for higher ups' pet projects. I want to feel the joy of web
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by rg111 3y ago
AI hype is like blockchain hype is a common HN meme which is gravely mistaken. Blockchain didn't have any proper usecase that was better than what it was aiming to replace. But AI already has real use cases. And it is already solving
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by rg111 3y ago
Don’t. Just finish college. From the point of view of a college undergrad, "professional life" seems to be a dream. Like-> do work you like -> make a ton of money to do all the stuff you want. Adult life is messy. And work i
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by rg111 3y ago
Yeah that's what I said. I found other services. People didn't like that.
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by rg111 3y ago
This is exactly what I meant. I want interesting content from all of my interest areas no matter if I follow a person or not. You elaborated it fully.
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by rg111 3y ago
I am part of Lemmy for some months, and keep going back to it. But not Mastodon. I want to be able to follow whole instances and get content delivered to my feed no matter who posts it- whether followed by me or not. In Lemmy, you can follo
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by rg111 3y ago
What I meant is that I want algorithm suggested content come to me automatically like it happens in Twitter or Reddit. In Reddit, you can sub to r/math and r/programming with a single account and have content appear on your feed.
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by rg111 3y ago
Mastodon is unusable to me because I need two accounts to be parts of the math community and programming community. N accounts for N interests I have. Doesn't work for me. Reddit had subs. With one acocunt, I could sub to any number of
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by rg111 3y ago
Don't forget the beautiful illustrations in the book. We can use Stable Diffusion. Huggingface's Diffusers library do a good job in running some versions locally really well.
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by rg111 3y ago
Slightly tangential. Just like "alignment" of LLMs, the ideology this hypothetical book teaches will have huge controversy. When Hackworth in the book tells the Judge/Dr. X that he will tweak the book so that it teaches them
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by rg111 3y ago
I am quite skeptic about that effect. When a ractor's voice reaches the child, it is changed completely. Only some pattern remain here and there. And Miranda just read words from a screen without ever touching or seeing Nell. She didn&
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by rg111 3y ago
I believe, with technology such as Stable Diffusion and LLaMa, "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" is more possible than ever.
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by rg111 3y ago
I quit that kind of internet years ago. I was on Reddit to talk about Math, programming, books, etc. There are several subreddits from which I was helped. And I helped a lot of other people, too. Quora had a refined userbase. I liked it the
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by rg111 3y ago
A more fitting title would be: "46 Books that American Intellectuals and Academics Talk About the Most". When it puts Diamond Sutra on top, I thought that this list is going to be interesting. But then I saw it didn't include
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by rg111 3y ago
Same here. My YT recommender algorithm is super-trained and all my recommendations are really good. I get high value from YouTube and I happily pay the premium. I use that account for cs/tech/math/deep learning/electroni
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by rg111 3y ago
I second this as a consumer of a lot of MOOCs. Bad video as long as you can read everything on the screen is okay. But poor audio is an absolute bummer. Cannot tolerate this at all. This doesn't make rational sense to me. I think it is
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Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski Dies in Federal Custody(wsj.com)
6 points by rg111 3y ago|1 comments
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Ted Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber,' has died in prison at age 81(npr.org)
26 points by rg111 3y ago|10 comments
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by rg111 3y ago
I came to hate the experience so much, I didn't even need willpower. The dislike started small, and it grew into a hatred, and it kept increasing until it hit a tipping point. I quit Reddit in one day. I still have a books focused, and
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by rg111 3y ago
I created multiple reddit accounts- one for programming and math stuff, one for books only, one for general stuff, etc. I quit the general one two years ago because of Reddit's dumb monoculture. I kept visiting math, cs, and book subs.
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by rg111 3y ago
I tried joining, and the sign-up button kept buffering for an hour, and then I gave up hope for joining.
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by rg111 3y ago
Everyone uses PyTorch both in industry and academic research. Some labs use JAX/Flax. Companies that ships ML products often use Tensorflow. I want to say that it doesn't matter much which one you start with, but you will have to

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