rmshin

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by rmshin 3y ago
Without too much experience in writing compilers beyond this course, I'd say that the course focuses on grounding your conceptual/intuitive knowledge of how compilers work rather than any serious exposition into modern-day product
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by rmshin 3y ago
Just wanted to second this recommendation. I did the course a few months ago with near-zero baseline in graphics programming (though a few years' experience as a standard swe), and it gave me a pretty decent grasp of how 3d shapes get
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by rmshin 3y ago
I just wanted to second this, I recently went through all of Karpathy's videos from almost zero baseline ML knowldege and am now fairly comfortable writing language models from scratch (simple bigram statistical models, MLPs, transform
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As We May Think [pdf](web.mit.edu)
3 points by rmshin 3y ago|0 comments
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by rmshin 3y ago
I'm curious what your current career is and why it's coming to an end. Is it because you don't enjoy it anymore, it's a dead end, programming is far more enticing to you, or something else? If you enjoy programming a lot
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by rmshin 3y ago
I never went to college at all and have had (still have) similar feelings of unstable CS foundations. Some things that have helped me: 1. I historically treated programming purely as a means to an end (for income/work, for business ide
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by rmshin 3y ago
First off, this is an amazing app as others here have already mentioned–congratulations for launching! In terms of improvement ideas (not that you're short of additional suggestions), I've recently started going to the gym again t
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by rmshin 3y ago
This is interesting, do you ever think back on those years and have a desire to actively seek out such environments again? Or have you simply found peace with your current situation and are happy to give your attention to other things in li
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by rmshin 3y ago
Can I ask what kind/fields of research you support? I left my big tech job some months ago to try start something of my own (in an attempt to find more joy in my day-to-day, hence the post), but if things don't work out for me wha
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by rmshin 3y ago
This sounds really great, good for you :) Do you happen to have any photos/exhibits of your works, because I'd love to see them!
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Ask HN: Who here loves their job?
19 points by rmshin 3y ago|35 comments
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by rmshin 4y ago
So I've been searching for my "purpose" for about 10 years, and unlike some other commenters here my personal experience makes me believe it's possible to consciously discover/create your purpose. But I don't s