thechao

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by thechao 10mo ago
I took the test, and the results were completely meaningless. It said that I have a moderate or below average interest in science or engineering. This is patently wrong. This is a deep, abiding, long-term love-affair. It's why I'v
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by thechao 10mo ago
I know this is speech synthesis; but, on a tangential note, it'd be lovely if LLMs could help preserve all the extant languages. That way those languages that died could be revived, later...
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by thechao 10mo ago
Autocorrect — employer. Too late to change, now!
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by thechao 10mo ago
I just built a C++ formatter that does this (owned by my employee, unfortunately). There's really only two formatting objects: tab-aligned tables, and single line rows. Both objects also support a right-floating column/tab aligned
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by thechao 10mo ago
Real income in trades is up; that doesn't mean it's great pay, just up. Real housing costs have greatly outpaced that. It's the crazy post-2000 low interest boom-bust cycle that's wrecking the housing trades as a functio
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by thechao 10mo ago
PostDocs review the review. PI's sign off on PD's to make sure they're not idiots. Only big labs have enough PD's to let them do reviews. And, for sure, in CS there's almost no big labs. I was under Bjarne Stroust
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by thechao 10mo ago
Housing in the US is labor constrained. When I talk to GCs, subs, etc., they'll say that materials a bit more expensive, and labor is a bit more expensive; but what the complain about — and this can be for hours, if I get one going —
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by thechao 10mo ago
Let's be real: graduate students are not paid well. Even a modest payment scheme would be a dramatic boost in their income. What payment schedule would you use for review? By paper? By journal? If it's "by paper" then th
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by thechao 10mo ago
I was in academia for only a few years. I did a lot of reviewing (one of the chores for graduate students). I don't know what to say, here; there needs to be an economically based gate keeper for publication & review. Otherwise you
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by thechao 10mo ago
My dad grew up in the 50s & 60s. During COVID he purchased my daughters' the, I quote, "shittiest briefcase record players" he could find. Both girls listen to their music on their devices, but also buy vinyl. The other d
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by thechao 10mo ago
I'm going to have to disagree in a (hopefully) nuanced way. First, I just ran an end-to-end continent scale simulation of CO2 sequestration for the US, as is. To put it bluntly: there's no way outside of magical pocket sized fusio
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by thechao 10mo ago
For C/++ just use "#!". When TCC first came out, we used this exact technique for "C scripting". It requires a dirty SO methodology (you can't really control linking well). For larger projects (the exe), the sh
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by thechao 10mo ago
As a project gets larger the cost of owning a dependency directly begins to outweigh the impedance mismatch between 3rd party software & software customized to your project. I've got 10 full time senior engineers on a project headi
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by thechao 10mo ago
Weird. I was just having a similar discussion with my colleagues regarding coding style. Anyways, I absolutely view text (code more than prose; but poesy definitely has this!) to be 2D. There is both per-line and interline structure that go
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by thechao 10mo ago
Blocks is the top comment (for me); and yours is number two. Timeless classic. Another one could be plasticine clay. These toys afford play, they don't direct, restrict, or guide play. Other good toys like this: box, stick, the woods,
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by thechao 10mo ago
If you're in a room with 100 physicists and Feynman, the accumulated wisdom of Feynman is your best bet.
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by thechao 10mo ago
Yep. You can find used copies at some online places? Powell's in Portland (online store) sometimes has it for 25 or 30 $s.
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by thechao 10mo ago
We recently visited Peru — Machu Picchu for a week, then Tambopata (the Amazon) for a week. The Amazonians are still proud of the quality of the stone hammers they find and sell to the highlanders; apparently, there's still "old
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by thechao 10mo ago
You'd pay the cost of the core computation O(n) times. Matrix products under the derivative fibration (jet; whatever your algebra calls it) are just more matrix products. A good sized NN is already in the heap. Also, the hard part is f
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by thechao 10mo ago
At best you'd be restricted to the forward mode, which would still double stack pressure. If you needed reverse mode you'd need 2x stack, and the back sweep over the stack based tape would have the nearly perfectly unoptimal &quot
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by thechao 10mo ago
Neat. Here's what I'd keep: just an epoch saying when the last valid element of the vector is. The iterator just needs a ptr to the vector and the vector's data. It's a constant time lookup, with somewhat heavier iterato
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by thechao 10mo ago
No, you mean utopia , friend.
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by thechao 10mo ago
And, yet, somehow, functional languages have been doing this since forever ? I jest, I jest! There's an entire field of study focused on this! I'm no expert, but imagine you've got a singly-linked list, and we're going
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by thechao 10mo ago
Yeah, here's another one: some books just aren't good; it's ok to put it down & give up.
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by thechao 11mo ago
What hurt farmer's the worst is the formation of modern seed trusts (consolidation); well, on the seed side, at least, for small farmers.
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by thechao 11mo ago
I don't want you to think I'm picking on you; but, I've been thinking about the MBA-bullshittism "consolidation" for a while. It's really a euphemism for "trust formation", right? It seems like we fou
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by thechao 11mo ago
Let's just do a quick comparison: the visual cortex consumes about 10x more volume of the human brain than the language center. So... that's a rough comparison of difficulty. I seem to remember the visual centers is also a lot old
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by thechao 11mo ago
Two things: (1) Trump doesn't control the prime lending rate (and that's not the interest rate, either); and, (2) he's rapidly headed to lame duck status, already.
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by thechao 11mo ago
My greatgrandmother (born in 1891) left grade school in 6th grade for similar reasons. The real reason she was taken out was "money". (This was rural Indiana about 1903.) She finished her own education through what you might call
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by thechao 11mo ago
I think the major issue I have with Z3 is that if your input constraints are large and non-decomposable, then the resulting output is functionally undebuggable. There's a bit of handwaving from Z3folk about using assert_and_track() alo

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