taybin

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by taybin 11d ago
I have not heard of the Scots Wikipedia fiasco.
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by taybin 12d ago
How’s that going to work when everyone turns one on and they’re all driving the profit margin to almost zero?
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by taybin 12d ago
It’d be short sighted to not have a wrapper around which AI to use, even without implementation for them. Like, having an abstract parent class with a Siri implementation of it would be baseline good software engineering.
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by taybin 18d ago
I think finding better systems with fewer false negatives and fewer false positives is very difficult and might even be impossible for many things. It might be my lack of imagination, but I often think about the measures taken to prevent c
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by taybin 18d ago
Sounds great, but I'm not sure this will work well for individual contributors. Say the company is small, with a small team. Can you afford the amount of time it will take to find this bespoke unicorn engineer? Say the company is la
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by taybin 18d ago
It does sound like you should have been investigated though. Like, this sounds like the (or a) system working. What would the alternatives be? Don't investigate for money laundering? Or have so much info that they can eliminate you
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by taybin 21d ago
Agreed, but it’s helpful for communicating to other musicians.
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by taybin 21d ago
Now piano players will be able to join guitar players as not needing to read music or know theory!
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by taybin 21d ago
I’m surprised that reading The Game hasn’t been added to the annual trainings for soldiers and DoD civilians.
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by taybin 22d ago
Gaze upon my blogs, and despair.
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by taybin 22d ago
I remember those. Trackbacks, right? Back when we were using MovableType?
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by taybin 24d ago
Good. Kids need to learn how to think before letting other stuff do it for them.
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by taybin 1mo ago
This is exactly the same problem facing people trying to develop new music notations. In order to grasp the domain enough, they have to be experts in the existing music notation, and once you're an expert in it, the motivation to crea
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by taybin 1mo ago
Calling it a lie is pretty heavy.
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by taybin 1mo ago
You should see his book "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, which is entirely about his experiments with AI in The Fluid Analogies Research Group with his grad students. Although I wonder if those techniques could be paired with L
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by taybin 1mo ago
When I was a pretentious high schooler with fantasies of being an intellectual, I considered going there. I ended up not even applying. It just seemed too far out of the norm.
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by taybin 1mo ago
How is it dated?
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by taybin 1mo ago
He wrote a number of follow-up books. I love GEB, but the follow ups were often disappointing in surprising ways. He has another book about the beauty and challenges of translating poetry, but it’s actually about the sudden death of his wi
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by taybin 2mo ago
Before they buy Dehorse?
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by taybin 2mo ago
Yes, a toy problem only needs a simple implementation. This is a straw man. And I don't even like Robert Martin's Clean Code, but the author is not addressing where this style actually provides benefits. When you're updati
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by taybin 2mo ago
I love Ray Bradbury. My favorite short story author.
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by taybin 2mo ago
To-does. Just like how a butler buttles.
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by taybin 2mo ago
I would love to see an example of a proof for something like a text editor. How can people be expected to do this when the examples are always trivial toys, like array sorting? Show me a formal proof of something that in the trenches prog
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by taybin 2mo ago
Yes, that is also gross.
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by taybin 2mo ago
Maybe he's suggesting it for Canada?
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by taybin 2mo ago
The thing about this that's so distasteful is that it removes the basis of enfranchisement from being the inherent worth of a human life and moves it more to "what have you done for me lately". It's pretty gross.
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by taybin 2mo ago
How long is a fable though?
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by taybin 2mo ago
There are several possible reasons for that, but I'll just say it's a very common use case. It's actually the one of the original use cases for SCSs. How else could you revert to a prior commit?
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by taybin 3mo ago
What does it mean to “obsessively craft every pixel?”
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by taybin 3mo ago
That’s an interesting point about the tension between standardization and creativity. I’m going to think about that for a bit.

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