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by smokel 2y ago
Extrapolating from two samples to "once-in-a-century" does not strike me as rational.
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by smokel 2y ago
The built-in functions and API to a system library spoil these metrics. As an example, consider HQ9+, which is pretty good at printing "Hello, world!" for instance. https://cliffle.com/esoterica/hq9plus/
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by smokel 2y ago
Sorry for going off-topic, but why is this comment being downvoted? The comment provides an alternative view on things and even links to a nice book. One may not agree with the perspective, but that's no reason to downvote. Perhaps it
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by smokel 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand your argument, except for the needless stab. All Master's thesis papers at my university were publicly available at the library, apart from some that did theirs at a company which did not allow this. Do y
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by smokel 2y ago
The OO patterns are still quite popular in enterprise software, where people mostly work in large teams. Hiding implementation details is terribly annoying for a single developer, but can be a great way to reduce complexity for other team
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by smokel 2y ago
The real problem seems to be with the testing and grading system, and the fact that some people game them to receive some title or other credentials. If one is really interested in learning to write well, or to understand what good writing
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by smokel 2y ago
One way that worked for me in trying to quit Reddit was to edit /etc/hosts, and redirect it to localhost. 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com Limiting my Reddit intake this way actually worked, but I don't feel the need for
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by smokel 2y ago
Aren't we the court jesters who entertain them with our wit, or the court scientists who provide them with early insights into which technologies will be worth investing in?
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by smokel 2y ago
From an investors perspective looking at a group of people with randomly distributed interests, it seems like great advice to motivate each and every one of them to pursue their interest with all their energy and waste their lives on it. S
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by smokel 2y ago
Indeed. I am only using Cursor for some hobby projects. While we're on this subject, is there a simple way to ensure that VS Code extensions do not contact external servers?
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by smokel 2y ago
The competition in AI editors is a bit silly at the moment. Everyone and their dog are "building" an AI assisted editor now by duct taping Ollama onto VS Code. I don't like my data being sent to untrusted parties, so I cann
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by smokel 2y ago
I was listening to an episode of the "inControl" podcast [1], in which Ben Recht suggested that overfitting is not always well understood. Perhaps it is interesting to read his blogpost "Machine Learning has a validity proble
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by smokel 2y ago
As someone unfamiliar with the topic but trying to piece together information, I have to admit that they do a better job at convincing me of the potential of reinforcement in chip design. As with most, if not all, applications of reinforcem
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by smokel 2y ago
That's a bit harsh. Note that studying advertising might differ significantly from practicing it. For all you know, there could be a PhD out there researching the moral implications of Facebook's advertising practices during the
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by smokel 2y ago
Practice on the job is still practice, no?
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by smokel 2y ago
> In order to assess the difference between deliberate practice habits between elite-level performers and moderate-level performers, it was also necessary to recruit moderate-level performers. Hehe :) Edit: Very interesting read, with
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by smokel 2y ago
Wow, you seem to be pretty invested in this topic. Care to clarify?
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by smokel 2y ago
It's not all about attention. Most companies are still in it for the money, and attention is only a means to an end. For the idiotic narcissist leaders that pop up every now and then, attention might be interesting by itself. But luck
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by smokel 2y ago
I don't really understand all the fuss about this particular paper. Nearly all papers on AI techniques are pretty much impossible to reproduce, due to details that the authors don't understand or are trying to cover up. This is
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by smokel 2y ago
Not an expert, but I guess that simply enabling the firewall should avoid most problems related to this vulnerability. In Ubuntu, this can be accomplished with: sudo ufw enable
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by smokel 2y ago
This vulnerability seems to be pretty hard to actually exploit, but for those of you who are running Ubuntu on their desktops, consider enabling a firewall, which is as easy as: sudo ufw enable Beats me why this is not the default.
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The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
3 points by smokel 2y ago|1 comments
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AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison [video](youtube.com)
2 points by smokel 2y ago|0 comments
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by smokel 2y ago
This would require a potentially successful researcher to also be a successful entrepreneur. Seems like it does not solve the problem for most people. Also, even with a steady income, not having access to academia can get in the way of suc
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by smokel 2y ago
Even among humans with roughly similar neuron counts, there are notable examples of individuals displaying extreme stupidity.
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by smokel 2y ago
That might be research, but it's most likely not scientific research.
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by smokel 2y ago
See for example: https://justforfunnoreally.dev/ Discussed on Hacker News here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33255920 and more recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41496725
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by smokel 2y ago
You may also like: lattice.
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by smokel 2y ago
I tend to have another level of nested windows inside applications, also mostly full- or half-screen. It's at that level that sometimes other shapes become interesting, for example for a time slider (long and horizontal), or a list of
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by smokel 2y ago
There is very little information to base a serious reply on. The only thing I understand is that you are studying at a university, and that you want to aim big. Are you "the brains" looking for a business partner, or are you the

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