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by samhw 4y ago
OK, if you're wondering why you get downvoted, my advice is thus. When any normal, healthy human being reads a sentence like this: > reddit is a crazed totalitarian system with Red Guards on the loose all around the communities look
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by samhw 4y ago
> a function over discrete data, otherwise known as an algorithm 'A function over discrete data' is a far broader concept / far larger set than 'an algorithm'.
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by samhw 4y ago
> The innovation in AI really seems like it is being made on a thin line of engineering and compute. This perfectly echoes my own thoughts. The advances being trumpeted in AI are functions of hardware advances that allow us to have massi
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by samhw 4y ago
I'm not totally sure whether you're agreeing or disagreeing with me... In this case I'm supporting the right thing for (in my view, obviously) the right reason. Others support it for the wrong reason. Given the inconceivably
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by samhw 4y ago
Christ, I just read this whole piece, which I found after going down a rabbithole: https://www.hundredeightydegrees.com/dan-price-gravity-payme... What a total and utter sociopath. I'd agree with u/d23 that the gu
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by samhw 4y ago
In my experience, people who worship money, and the bitch goddess 'Success'.
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by samhw 4y ago
Eh, they aren't wrong. The Disney Corporation should absolutely blatantly not have those privileges. I don't care if some right-winger happens to agree with that, and what motivations they have for doing so - none of that change
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by samhw 4y ago
Thank you. Christ. In short: raise your child the way you would have liked to be raised yourself (not 'with loads of computer programming' - I mean this in a Rawlsian, veil-of-ignorance kinda way, supposing you are your own fath
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by samhw 4y ago
Eh, I'm gay and I still agree: those types of shows get a bit boring sometimes. I'm all for representation but it shouldn't be the only point of a show: it shouldn't be "here's Ghostbusters, the exact same fi
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by samhw 4y ago
> Not exploiting teenagers in some 3rd world country? > Not gambling with your pension? > Not manipulating some physical commodity like oil? There is no reason to believe #1 and #3 aren't true, and I should very much suspect t
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by samhw 4y ago
…the people who made it? I know none of us sit through the credits, but I can assure you they do typically carry on rolling for quite some time.
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by samhw 4y ago
> The tasks aren't arbitrary. They're meant to be a proxy for some universal concept of competence. I’ve seen absolutely nothing suggesting this. It’s explicitly about task competency; no particular task is specified nor needs
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by samhw 4y ago
> I associate "crypto" with "low fees" Well, sure, that's because it's not doing anything. It can't be used for any of the purposes that money serves -- unless you live next to a matcha cafe in Berkeley
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by samhw 4y ago
> The paper reports on the results of a 'logic' test administered to undergrads and uses this to define competence. Right, but my point is that 'logic' is simply being used as an example of 'a task'. It&#x27
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by samhw 4y ago
That was Andrew Wakefield, FWIW. I totally agree with your point otherwise.
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by samhw 4y ago
> It's about memorization of answers to pass law exams, not an actual test itself designed to verify logical reasoning ability. Why do they think this is a good source of questions for testing logic? I'm not sure what that has
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by samhw 4y ago
Sorry for the delayed response! I appreciate your reply. I think our general point of divergence is that, while I also roll my eyes at lots of the noise coming out of the left-wing community these days, that nonetheless doesn't have th
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by samhw 4y ago
I was referring to the prospect of their spending time working on their own distro, at the expense (considering the finitude of human lifespans etc) of supporting others. As with so many arguments, your point makes total sense until you con
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by samhw 4y ago
> A larger standard library means more disk usage and worse cache utilization Does it? How? I suppose one has to store the standard library on the machine, which does notionally use up disk space, but I can’t see how it contributes by an
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by samhw 4y ago
The other replies are great, but just to put it concisely: big O is ‘worst case’ in terms of input size , while the ‘best case big O’ is ‘best case’ in terms of the input contents (‘shape’).
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by samhw 4y ago
In case you genuinely missed the point: he was saying that the person is a great engineer for not wasting their time optimising irrelevant details like their blog. Time allocation is an optimisation problem like any other.
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by samhw 4y ago
Christ, the description on that second repo is so comically terribly spelled that I can’t figure out whether it’s a joke: > The interdicplinary of Mathematics and Computer Science, Distinguisehed by its emphasis on mathemtical techniqu
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by samhw 4y ago
> Apple always had the advantage of controlling both the hardware and the software. And this is exactly why anyone who likes that approach can & will buy an Apple laptop. Framework is clearly going for the opposite of that market. In
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by samhw 4y ago
Oh nice, thank you! I’d like to pretend that I intentionally linked the crate for the reasons the other person gave, but to be perfectly honest I wasn’t aware of that. Much appreciated!
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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, this is the right answer in my case. I wrote Go professionally for a few years, a few years ago, and I haven’t really touched it since. All my knowledge will definitely be a few years out of date.
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by samhw 4y ago
Ah, fair enough, I’m sorry - for some reason only the deputy CEO’s firing came up when I searched about the CEO, so I assumed that was what you had meant. My bad. Please disregard my comment!
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by samhw 4y ago
I’m not quite sure how this screed is relevant to the article. The point of the study isn’t “Fox News bad, CNN good” (so the counterargument of “Fox News good, CNN bad” doesn’t really hit home). The point is about the nature of people’s bel
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by samhw 4y ago
I have no dog in this hunt, but I just looked this up, and there's no indication he 'resigned in protest'. Their company news site says that he resigned after being sanctioned by the EU.[0] It appears heavily implied that he
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by samhw 4y ago
And a lot more than that! You'll be trusting: a load of silently-linked dylibs; some guy called Linus; some thing called GCC or LLVM (gosh, you don't get that with C); some weird packages called libc and crt0 and shit like that
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by samhw 4y ago
I was responding to "striving to reduce the number of dependencies is a good goal". I don't think that's categorically true. I think it's an XY problem where one would do better to focus on the 'X' (i.e. r

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