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by thehappyfellow 2y ago
The proof of Young’s inequality is pretty neat but has the „magically think of taking a log of an arbitrary expression which happens to work” step. But it clarifies why the reciprocals of exponents have to sum up to 1: they are interpreted
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The Metronome(randsinrepose.com)
1 points by thehappyfellow 2y ago|0 comments
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by thehappyfellow 2y ago
Sure, the approach I advocated for can have much worse consequences in general. However, in this particular case it was ~impossible for the outage to get that costly - we operated the servers and knew the blast radius. My estimate was for t
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by thehappyfellow 2y ago
Do you have an example of “polite but curt” tone? I’m struggling to see what you mean.
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by thehappyfellow 2y ago
A frequent form of lack of tolerance for risk I’ve seen is not being able to make a speed vs quality trade-off. One example: We were rolling out a change that had a small risk that we’ll have to manually reboot a couple of machines. The tot
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by thehappyfellow 2y ago
I get that, but even if titles were an amazing proxy for skill, that will only correlate with some subset of skills and say nothing about the rest (e.g. some staff engineers are amazing technically and only pretty good as team leads or vice
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by thehappyfellow 2y ago
So you’re saying in order to finish projects I just need to learn how to be honest and clear with myself? Seems like a reduction to a harder problem :) Joking aside, I came to believe that various form of procrastination are a response to p
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by thehappyfellow 2y ago
I think you are basically right, in many organisations you get a lot of influence based on your title and not on your skill.
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User interfaces are hard. Why?(happyfellow.bearblog.dev)
2 points by thehappyfellow 2y ago|1 comments
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The Final Constraint(happyfellow.bearblog.dev)
3 points by thehappyfellow 3y ago|1 comments
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by thehappyfellow 3y ago
This is very nice! I remember drawing direction fields and integral lines through them in my numerical PDE class but I guess I lacked artistic mindset to push it further :) I see that some of your generative art i this styles has multicolou
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by thehappyfellow 3y ago
This book is not aimed at practitioners but I don’t think that means it deserves to be called „actively the worst one”. Even though the frontier of deep learning is very much empirical, there’s interesting work trying to understand why the
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Is software testing worth it?(happyfellow.bearblog.dev)
1 points by thehappyfellow 4y ago|0 comments
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by thehappyfellow 4y ago
That’s exactly what I worried about: https://happyfellow.bearblog.dev/sydney-the-seo-specialist/