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by schwurb 7y ago
Thank you! It was absurdly much pain, esp. considering it started at age 9. It is not a place where I wish anybody, and I can't imagine I will ever suffer anything comparable. But good news: I decided to live (religion played and plays
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by schwurb 7y ago
It can also be not entirely or to any degree selfish. Depending on the particular state one is in, the world can be like a place where one is only causing harm, no good. Friends and family suffer because of oneself, one is betraying work an
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by schwurb 7y ago
> Building stuff Oh, absolutely one should build much stuff. Just don't get stuck in the own, in all likelyhood shitty, bubble. > Experts You made it sound fatalistic tho, as there were no use in even trying to identify experts.
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by schwurb 7y ago
Yes, we are on the same page there. I think due to depression during my formative years, I have a mix of slight apathy towards expectations and a slightly off motivation system, which leads me to be very lazy - really only doing what is nec
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by schwurb 7y ago
Of course it all depends on the application at hand, but databases and other system endpoints are something I treat as volatile. However, I don't commit to the madness of replicating a whole database interface in our codebase. Instead,
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by schwurb 7y ago
I never went through the over-engineer phase personally. I am a very very lazy person, which leads to me to correct balance most of times: Not enough abstraction, I suffer because of too much change to the code base, too much abstraction, a
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by schwurb 7y ago
> You should write as much code as possible, run into as many problems as possible, and solve them. This is how you actually learn how to program. Feel free to play with and adapt other people's code along the way though. Agree, but
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by schwurb 7y ago
> (highly impractical) Forget everything practical - we are in deep theoretic waters here! There are thousands of algorithm with even a polynomial solution where you still go for the heuristic because the polynomial version is way to slo
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by schwurb 7y ago
Others gave good answers. I just want to emphasize that your progress will greatly depends on inter talent (which you can't influence), passion and discipline (which you can influence to a degree) and methodology (which you can influen
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by schwurb 7y ago
> That sounds awful, but apparently this is what the world wants: carefully filtered speech that doesn't stray far from what people already agree with. No, it is sufficient already to not blurt out controversial things at bat-shit-i
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by schwurb 7y ago
I know right?^^
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by schwurb 7y ago
Where do you take your certainess from? If even Stephen Wolfram could not produce such predictions, then I doubt anyone else could. In all likelyhood, it is just not a good physical model.
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by schwurb 7y ago
> P=NP in that a solution can be used to attack RSA encryption. Note that 1) P=NP does not necessarily give raise to any polynomial algorithm that solves a NP problem. The proof would prove the existence of one such algorithm, but it mig
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by schwurb 7y ago
It's the same story as with many other deep and important math problems: Practically, not much would change. Many papers already assume RH - we would just have confirmation that they are reality then. What would change is that we would
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by schwurb 7y ago
I just want to thank you for all you work! I have enjoyed your answers and content in the past, and I will continue to do so, be it as a PhD. or as a hobbyist :)
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by schwurb 7y ago
> I'm leaning towards the same school of thought. I'd rather see this tech widely accessible and hence all video/picture material henceforth considered completely untrustworthy, than living in the misguided notion that vid
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by schwurb 7y ago
> If we find a completely different way of computing it that doesn't map to a CA, we'll know it's false. This is wrong. You would have to additionally prove that the other thing is the only alternative. Also, CA is not tes
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by schwurb 7y ago
Good! We need to 1) further strengthen an awareness of the "free product means you pay with your data" and 2) channel that into willingness to pay for products. The more news that link "paying" and "social media&quo
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by schwurb 7y ago
> It turned out it was one of the most successful way to win games. Meh. That statement is euqivalent to "Turns out being able to calculate 400.000 chess positions per second it one of the most successful ways to win games". Gi
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by schwurb 7y ago
Dunno if that is helpful to you, but one tip from the link related it to always think of new CT constructs in terms of partially ordered sets if possible. They make for nice visualizations and are generally quite intuitive.
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by schwurb 7y ago
Our lifetime is finite. Given the choice, I'd rather invent the car than reinvent the wheel.
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by schwurb 7y ago
> I lost out on those long term friendships That would still have happened, only two years later. > I don't have high school reunions to attend. Is this an american thing? I am living in Germany and I know plenty of people that d
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by schwurb 7y ago
> 32% to 34% doesn't really sound like a win :( We are talking about human lives here, not about beating some CPU benchmark. Detection improvement by 2% is huge in almost any sickness.
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by schwurb 7y ago
Note that Haskell makes very few assumptions about the users; the quality and complexity of Haskell code varies greatly. The author of this block is dealing with an abstract topic, resulting in somewhat arcane looking code (I am sure that a
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by schwurb 7y ago
> Nevertheless, they 'successfully' close their JIRA tickets and deliver. Leave those quotes away and I agree. If they know enough Java to finish those tickets in a way that the bug is actually fixed and the fix itself does not
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by schwurb 7y ago
Excellent advice here! I add two more: * Check out the pomodorro technique. It forces my to break tasks down into even smaller chunks that usual and give me a rush of dopamine when I finish those. * I try to stay away from systems and langu
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by schwurb 7y ago
Don't mistake that normal occurrence for anything aching to ADD tho. Saying "I got a little bit ADD because I something loose focus when I find something boring" is equivalent to saying "I got a little bit cancer because
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by schwurb 7y ago
> How do you know you have ADHD? That is best found out by a multi-angle approach including brain images, intelligence tests, patient history, family history, etc... Seeing a doctor is critical because a) it is easy to misdiagnose onesel
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by schwurb 7y ago
> Since working memory is a factor in intelligence, one of these statements must be false. That is quite easy to reconcile: "ADHD has no negative effect on intelligence, when accounting for the impaired working memory". It is s
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by schwurb 7y ago
> If one doesn't care that the carpenter building his house is using a hammer upside down, that's a whole 'nother bunch of issues I won't go into here. I'd love to see at least a small allusion to what nature the

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