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by smokel 3y ago
What a beautiful initiative, thank you. This might be a good place to inform people about the existence of the Sheltersuit Foundation [1] (I'm not affiliated in any way). They create decent sleeping bags for the homeless, and accept d
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by smokel 3y ago
"Email, I hope it's from a female!" And I often hum the "fhqwgads" tune, and go "boop boop" on an imagined keyboard.
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by smokel 3y ago
Most software is not written for such large audiences. Typical enterprise software is used by tens to hundreds of people. There is simply no budget to create user interfaces at TikTok standards.
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by smokel 3y ago
To make this strand of discussion slightly more interesting, I hereby present you a page [1] with the history of Q-tips. Apparently, the "Q" stands for Quality :) [1] https://www.qtips.com/about/
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by smokel 3y ago
I was recently interested in road traffic speed prediction. The problem with academic research into predicting speeds is not as much the lack of reproducibility, but the lack of measures that make sense. Hundreds of papers compare a short-t
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by smokel 3y ago
It depends on your level of expertise. Andrew Ng's courses on Coursera are helpful to learn about the basics of deep learning. The "Generative AI for Everyone" course and other short courses offer some basic insight, and you
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by smokel 3y ago
As much as I'd like to agree with your sentiment, it is a rather flawed argument to state that if some elements of a set have a property, that all elements must have that property. There are scientific breakthroughs such as the proof o
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by smokel 3y ago
This does not cast doubt on Gödel's proofs. The strengthened liar paradox discussed in the video is "This statement is not true", whereas Gödel constructed a mathematical statement that says something along the lines of &quot
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by smokel 3y ago
Perhaps you have not read the article? In your defense, the title is a bit misleading. The article states that the Linux users report more bugs, but these bugs affect other platforms as well. Hence, the Linux users are probably even more
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by smokel 3y ago
You seem to have found a very polite way of highlighting this. I assume that in a not so distant future, a malware scanner will detect this and disallow one to run this locally.
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by smokel 3y ago
A lot of people seem to think that front-end and back-end developers are intrinsically different people. This would be the reason why full-stack frameworks (Kotlin for JavaScript, Scala.js, JavaScript backends, and now Blazor) never really
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by smokel 3y ago
Actually "open source", as we know it, can only exist in a capitalist framework. Note that the government is there mostly to keep the capitalist system running. In an anarchistic society, for example, there would probably be no g
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by smokel 3y ago
It depends :) Do you have an idea what stands in the way of your ambitions? Here are some suggestions (dang, I'm starting to sound like ChatGPT here): 1. Try an accountability partner and call them once a week to discuss progress. 2. S
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by smokel 3y ago
Sam Altman was president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. Y Combinator is the company behind Hacker News. It's a small world, the one where money pours round.
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by smokel 3y ago
Recently discussed here, under "Sad clown paradox": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38198417
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by smokel 3y ago
Without a proper context, this is fairly strange, and possibly even bad advice. For loops and if statements are both control flow operations, so some of the arguments in the article make little sense. The strongest argument seems to be abo
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by smokel 3y ago
The book "The Synaptic Organization of the Brain" appears to be from 2003. Is it still relevant, or is there perhaps a more recent book worth checking out?
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by smokel 3y ago
This topic is discussed here every now and then (because it is awesome). Most recently at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344
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by smokel 3y ago
The results of this research are not in mice, but in a life form much closer to humans.
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by smokel 3y ago
Emacs key bindings through the "Emacs Friendly Keymap" extension [1]. I wonder if for newcomers it is still a good idea to learn Emacs keybindings. At least for those who did, we can use nearly any IDE with it. Don't forge
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by smokel 3y ago
"Journey to the Edge of Reason, The Life of Kurt Gödel", by Stephen Budiansky. Even though it contains an introduction to his proof of the Incompleteness Theorems, you won't learn all too much about logic or mathematics, but
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by smokel 3y ago
This may sound like I am a complete idiot, but I sincerely think that reading works like the Tao Te Ching may help more than reading books on software architecture. There are still many new ways of architecture to be found. For example, ma
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by smokel 3y ago
No, it is not. For a hobbyist it is overkill, for a professional it might require filling out some TPS reports.
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by smokel 3y ago
It might also be "idealism". Perhaps that is less narcissistic, but even so, an undesired trait in society cannot be a good argument against a metaphysical theory, don't you think?
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by smokel 3y ago
Before, God was always watching, and that seems to have given people a comfortable feel for many centuries.
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by smokel 3y ago
This paragraph seems pretty clear to me: "Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development Environment. Moldable Development is a new perspective on programming through which we create custom tools for every development problem. We find t
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by smokel 3y ago
It's a happy coincidence that thanks to AI, soon people will trust authenticity of video as much as that of written text.
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Perhaps we misread, and "their" refers to the researchers, not to the mice!
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by smokel 3y ago
Probably not, there is an impressive interactive 3D point cloud rendering, which only shows up after a few seconds. Perhaps you missed that?
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by smokel 3y ago
... in mice.

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