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by rhelz 4y ago
uh, Andrew Kahng is not a "random UCSD professor". And its not just "arguing about research papers and peer reviews" its called Science. What we used to do before fake news.
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by rhelz 4y ago
How to prepare? How much more of this dehumanization are we supposed to just take? I've been a topflight C++ programmer since the Reagan Administration, and yet I've been out of work for over a year now. And yet: I categorically
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by rhelz 4y ago
In a way, its kinda sad that Musk has taken on so much already, because oddly-enough he might be an inspired fit with what's left of SVB. He already has financial chops: His tenure at PayPall and his crypto-cred give him what is a uni
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by rhelz 4y ago
Chomsky's worried about ChatGTP for largely the same reasons that Orwell was worried about NewSpeak. I hope this example from Orwell will help: "The octopus of global capitalism has sung its swan song." Obviously, that sente
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by rhelz 4y ago
Had quite enough "School should be prison" in High School, TYVM.
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by rhelz 4y ago
Procrastination is not going to make anything easier. You have nothing to gain by waiting around for something to happen. Good news is that the job market is still incredibly tight by historical standards. A job search is never the funnes
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by rhelz 4y ago
Of course its intentional! The charter of the Fed is to keep inflation low while keeping employment high. By this measure the Fed is doing great: 1. Inflation has come down from a high of 9.1% in 6/22 to 6.4% today, and will continue
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by rhelz 4y ago
Yes. Due to high inflation (which is pragmatically a wealth tax) and stupid decisions, Facebook, Google, and Elon Musk have lost a lot of money. But (with the notable exception of the 100,000 or so employees they pre-emptively layed-off)
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by rhelz 4y ago
Because (as the old Latin proverb has it) the strong do what they want; the weak suffer what they must.
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by rhelz 4y ago
Since complex systems are composed of simpler systems, seems like for any sufficiently complex system you'd be able to find subsets of it which are isomorphic which any sufficiently simple system.
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by rhelz 4y ago
>>it's already a bit much to want them to control both inflation and employment. They have to have two counter-acting goals in order to not become a paperclip maximization machine.
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by rhelz 4y ago
The movement of a ball on each shape (triangular, parabolic, Norton's-domic) will be modeled with its own differential equation. Some of these differential equations will have one and only one solution (given the boundary conditions).
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by rhelz 4y ago
// engineering artifacts as magic black boxes ... //. Alas, that ship has sailed a long, long, time ago. As far as the average programmer goes, CPUs have been black boxes since before they were born. There are just too
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by rhelz 4y ago
Its due to the fast falling cost of fake. Today, of course, its much easier to fake 50 or so hours of footage to look like going to the moon. But back in 1969, it was way easier to just go to the damn moon than it would have been to fake t
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by rhelz 4y ago
C.F. the "AI effect": once you understand how the "magic" is done by very simple individual steps it stops being magical and you tend to think "that's not AI, its just computation." After thinking this fo
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by rhelz 4y ago
It doesn't matter whether you are Intel or Exxon, any public company has to exit businesses which are not profitable enough. And when it comes to losing money, failing fast is typically better than failing slow.
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by rhelz 4y ago
Not any worse P.R. nightmare than laying off ten thousand engineers. Nobody cares about engineers man.
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by rhelz 4y ago
There really exists no non-subjective way of telling how "rough" somebody has had it. Which means, you don't really know how rough somebody is having it right now. Just give them the benefit of the doubt and help them as muc
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by rhelz 4y ago
Here is a kind of bridge from the articles POV to yours: As the OP points out, state machines are very hard to develop by stepwise refinement. A "general solution" to that problem is...the universal Turing machine--a state machi
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by rhelz 4y ago
If you want to interview for any job at an FPGA company, please read this paper first :-). I majorly blew an interview question which this paper would have helped me ace.
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by rhelz 4y ago
Do we even know that the wondrous abilities of GTP3 are even given to us by a trained neural net? Might they not be generated by in real time by "data labelers"? Sometimes I wonder whether I'm going to go from being amazed t
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by rhelz 4y ago
Good point; in the olden days of prolog only the SLD search strategy came out of the box, and you had to roll your own if you wanted others. However, happily a lot of the tabled programming research from the XSB prolog group (and others) h
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by rhelz 4y ago
Classically, yes, but most prolog implementations these days support a tabled search strategy as Datalog typically does.
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by rhelz 4y ago
Datalog is great for database programming, and since it is a restricted subset of prolog, a datalog comes in every box of prolog :-)
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by rhelz 4y ago
Nicely done. Prolog is killer for database programming/querying and parsing/formatting. Since these are not exactly "niche" tasks, its kinda sad that prolog isn't more popular.
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by rhelz 4y ago
This has got to be a Sokol-style troll. My bullshit detectors are pegged out at max.
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by rhelz 4y ago
We've all been there. By all means, take advantage of the GI bill, at least for a couple of years, while you are figuring this out. But I'm afraid you'll find that no matter what career you choose, you'll eventually end