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by stared 2y ago
I am neurodivergent. Yet, this website (while well-intentioned) feels chaotic, offering too many things (I bet the author is neurodivergent as well :)). So, instead of doing something from the TODO, I want to give the professor mode a try.
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by stared 2y ago
Such operations have a history - the first successful one was carried in 2014 in Poland: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-29645760
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by stared 2y ago
> Us tech workers could be leveraging the privilege we have to get better conditions for everyone. Yes. A bit of context here: I am European and take for granted many things related to social safety (healthcare, benefits, parental leave,
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by stared 2y ago
> How many of us have been forced to work on projects that make us sick to our stomachs - surveillance tech, data mining tools, algorithms that reinforce social biases - because we don’t have the power to say no? This is also a point tha
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by stared 2y ago
I love these kinds of acknowledgements, as they not only show gratitude, but also give a glimpse into the collaborative, creative process: > We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the following individuals for their valuable
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by stared 2y ago
It is generally a good mental tool. Yet, without explicitly saying it's about (base-10) logarithms, it is preaching to the choir - either you already know that, or won't learn either. Pet peeve - while most numbers make sense, thi
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by stared 2y ago
If you want to get listed on https://news.ycombinator.com/show , use "Show HN: ...".
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Cleaner Codebase, Happier Mind(blog.danieljanus.pl)
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by stared 2y ago
Software engineering is one of the ways of playing life in "easy mode" (I moved from academia over a decade ago, and I know the difference). This blog post tries to paint it differently - and it feels like it lacks perspective com
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by stared 2y ago
I do such things with pre-commit. Doing it in CI sounds like making things more complicated by resetting to remote branches after pushing commits. And, in the worst case, something that actually brakes code that works locally.
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by stared 2y ago
GPT 4o is not particularly good at this kind of logic, at least compared to other current models. Trying something that is at least in the top 10 from this WebDev Areans leaderboard: https://web.lmarena.ai/leaderboard would
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by stared 2y ago
Key things for debugging: * What is the data format it gets? Does it unambiguously correspond to output (i.e. without mistaking rows for cols, or indexes starting at 0 or 1)? * What is the prompt? * Is the model allowed to think? (If it is
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by stared 2y ago
I am surprised they didn't mention RMarkdown ( https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/ ), which was developed in parallel to Jupyter Notebooks, with lots of convergent evolution. RMarkdown is essentially Markdown with executable
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Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks(metr.org)
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Visualizing the lifetimes and reigns of a subset of Roman emperors(github.com)
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Pierogi in Space(esa.int)
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by stared 2y ago
Link for anyone interested: https://github.com/sharkdp
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by stared 2y ago
For some products, like free-range eggs, there is the possibility of choosing more ethical options. With many others, the supply chain is opaque, and paying more gives absolutely no guarantee of better conditions. The only way to be sure is
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by stared 2y ago
Also, I highly recommend this Kurzgesagt video on how paying just a bit more for meat or eggs drastically improves animals' living conditions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVfTPaxRwk Additionally, while (pun intend
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Max Mode for Claude 3.7 – Out Now(forum.cursor.com)
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by stared 2y ago
Do you know a proof for that? I.e., that for n logical qubits, decoherence time goes down polynomially rather than e^(-a n)? AFAIK (and yes, I could be mistaken!) what we deal with is reducing a susbtantially.
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by stared 2y ago
During my PhD (2011-2014), I had naive dreams of changing science ( http://offtopicarium.wikidot.com/v1:open-science-2-0 ). Instead, I understood that I cannot change the world, but I can change myself - and moved to data sci
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by stared 2y ago
The issue is that, apart from the Shor’s algorithm, it is hard to find a quantum algorithm, substantially faster than a classical one. Moreover, since cost of qubits scale exponentially, a slight reduction in the power of a polynomial-time
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by stared 2y ago
You may say that nuclear fusion in stars does not mean anything; only what matters is that we see light. At a certain level it is true, but to simulate a system we need to simulate its inner workings, not only - the end effect. The exact ph
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A physics lab inside your head: Quantum thought experiments (2023)(arxiv.org)
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by stared 2y ago
> Wave functions are just a mathematical representation of a physical property that are (only?) ever operated on using quantum operators which result in a statistical distribution. It is not correct— at least not unless you subscribe to
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by stared 2y ago
I always feel that we are inclined to ask this question because we want to treat the wavefunction as if it were a probability distribution. While they share some properties, fundamentally they are not the same thing. In typical probability,
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Mac Source Ports – run old games on new Macs(macsourceports.com)
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VkQuake – Quake Port in Vulcan for Win, Linux and macOS(github.com)
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by stared 2y ago
If Stoicism appeals to the rich, I wonder if the same can be said about Western Buddhism à la Alan Watts and other "everything is love" spiritual philosophies? From my anecdotal observations, these philosophies particularly appeal

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