saulpw

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by saulpw 6mo ago
Insight under concentration is a mechanism for durable neural rewiring. Ever notice how some people don't get 'stuck' in their negative habits and brain loops? Like they can just let them go. If they get feedback from the w
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Welp, this was 20 years ago and I was 25, and literally no one ever gave me any instruction on how to conduct interviews (over my entire career). If I was a "huge asshole" to this person, then I'm sorry, that wasn't my
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by saulpw 6mo ago
I've had the pleasure of interviewing someone, for a coding job in C, where it became clear within 10 minutes that they just didn't know C beyond "hello world". Through body language etc they indicated they weren't
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Great, how does one fix the therapists? Or is this another one of those tricky systemic generational problems that means that I'll have to YOLO something for my own life before they're fixed?
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by saulpw 6mo ago
I love printers, I hate ink cartridges
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by saulpw 6mo ago
I can see the most important values being: ± 0 (infinitesimal) ± 10^-2n ± 10^-n ± 1 (unity) ± 10^n ± 10^2n ± infinity For fp4, this leaves 2 values. Maybe one of them should be NaN. What should the other one be?
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by saulpw 6mo ago
You say "without staying power" but I still remember and frequently cite these ancient Onion article headlines: - Drugs now legal if user is gainfully employed - Top 10 Genocides of the 20th Century (Infographic) - Cycl
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by saulpw 6mo ago
sign = most important bit of information
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Because it means "infinitesimal negative" which is distinct from "infinitesimal positive".
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by saulpw 6mo ago
OTOH, it seems quite plausible that the most important numbers to represent are: +0 -0 +1 -1 +inf -inf
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Nono, that is the reverse centaur. Structure your own thoughts, that's the human work.
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by saulpw 6mo ago
There are many levels between "pays for a vacation or two a year" and "billion dollars". I think most people just want to make a comfortable living (which includes eventual retirement) and not have to work themselves to
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Usually it's used like: if max < min: min, max = max, min [... algorithm that requires min < max] So your suggestion would be to have two versions of the algorithm in the two branches of the 'if'. Th
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by saulpw 6mo ago
If you only focus on "solving the traffic" then you're right, adding more lanes ultimately just leads to more lanes being full. But the overall throughput is much higher! We need more holistic solutions, to be sure, but I h
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by saulpw 6mo ago
I agree that open source needs to find ways to engage with the economy, for multiple reasons. But the project needs to create the system/process/structure; individual contributors paying money won't affect these systemic pro
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Agreed. But, many said the same thing about Moore's Law or its equivalents in 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, and yet the pace of core hardware development has been relentlessly exponential. I keep thinking we must be approaching some kind o
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Whenever someone posts AI-written content, at least half the comments on this site are calling it out and saying they stopped reading. I think it's obvious at this point that AI has a certain writing profile, which includes blandness
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Sure, everyone deserves some share of the blame, but it's like 10% for the Ds and 90% Rs. We can't keep talking like it's 50/50, that's how people become completely disenchanted with politics and don't even bo
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by saulpw 7mo ago
You're welcome!
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Yes, I believe the creator has outright stated that they just YOLO vibe and don't even look at the code.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
I agree, I'm venturing into Level 6 myself and it often feels like being one step too high on a ladder. Level 7 feels like just standing on the very top of the ladder, which is terrifying (to me anyway as an experienced software engin
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by saulpw 7mo ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, I agree that "more != better" with these levels. It's just a descriptor of how much human vs AI attention was given to a task/PR.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
> That wouldn’t even be a big violation of the vibe coding concept. You’re reading the innards a little but you’re only giving high-level, conceptual, abstract ideas about how problems should be solved. The machine is doing the vast majo
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Great, thank you for the detailed response! The biggest difference in our use is your "loops every minute", which I've not been willing to try yet (even with me at the helm, Claude might try to make a fairly straightforward
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Since 1970. It's quite misleading to take two data points spread 55 years apart and make the titular claim as though the trend is continuing.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
> more people are moving up a rung than falling down one. How do you figure that? Do we have any data that backs that up?
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by saulpw 7mo ago
3-5 parallel sessions for 8 hours a workday, fine. 5x8x20 = 800. How do we get to thousands?!
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by saulpw 7mo ago
> as if debugging python code is the point of it all. You have a good point, but I would argue that debugging itself is a foundational skill. Like imagine Sherlock Holmes being able to use any modern crime-fighting technology, and usi
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by saulpw 7mo ago
This is like asking Claude to explain some aspect of physics to you. It'll 'feel' like you understand, but in order to really understand you have to work those annoying problems. Same with anything. You can read about how t
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by saulpw 7mo ago
There are 720 hours in a month. You'd have to be running 3 sessions in parallel continuously to be doing thousands of session-hours in a month. Are individual people really doing this?!

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