thenoblesunfish

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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
As with many things, just understand what you are trying to do. If you want to predict Y and you know X, you can use data that tell you when they happen together. If you are trying to cause (or prevent) Y, it's harder. If you can&#
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
True for your immediate team, but if you work at a giant company where people from all over the world can send you messages and emails and meeting invites, you are always going to have to deal with people who you haven't gotten to know
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
It doesn't really fit in with the format, but often the best way to "say" many of these things is simply to say nothing (quickly). Especially for the ones about demanding your time and attention inappropriately, you are usual
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
Ok, but you are disregarding the 1000s of things the undergrad was aware of and the fact that he worked with other researchers who were aware of the existing results enough to understand the significance of the result. The real trick is sim
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
Correct. You're acting like your statement refutes the point, though. Charging for things which are publicly shared is regressive.
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
One thing that needs to be added is that this is all very true for each individual project, but once you start stacking project on top of project done a little bit fast, the cut corners can compound. So you have to make sure that some of th
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
Thinking that AI assistants are going to make programmers better, as opposed to just faster, is liking thinking hiring a paralegal is going to make you a better lawyer, or hiring a nanny is going to make you a better parent, etc. It's
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
You don't have to literally revert the commit, but it will make it easier to write commit to undoy plus aiming for this means your commits will be well-contained and reviewable, which is also good.
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
Sufficiently recognizable name: Commonly held opinion
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
I've watched a couple of members of my parents generation struggle to admit they need hearing aids, and prefer not to wear them a lot of the time, even when they miss things people say. I doubt the current generations are going to have
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
That's not a dealbreaker for me, as I don't run syncthing continuously on either end, just when I'm trying to sync my music.
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
That's a bummer! Can anyone suggest an alternative way I can get files from my macOS laptop to my Android phone? I "just" want to put my folder of music files and m3us there so I can play them (with PowerAmp).
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
The only universally useful advice is "all good advice is context dependent". SOFA is a good idea when you are learning, or when you want to have fun or feel inspired. It is obviously terrible advice if, you know, you need to fini
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
Glad to see my own instincts here. Filesystems, text files, plain HTML, fun, long-lasting.
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This is so awesome. Not because it will necessarily work or be incorruptible, but because it can be replicated.
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Messing with this thing sure seems like a great way to stay focused.
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
Very interesting, and aligns with what I would expect in terms of the type of "thinking" LLMs do. I think that it's also the type of "thinking" that will let a student pass most school courses, except of course for
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
I am not sure these publications were intended to generate sales of these technologies. My assumption is that they mostly help the company in terms of recruitment. This lets potential employees see cool stuff Google is doing, and see them a
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
The big question underlying this kind of analogy: are the spectra of visible things (EM) and the spectra of mechanically vibrating things similar? Naively, I'd say no, so this is yet another fun but ultimately arbitrary mapping which p
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Jai?
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
I made a similar move and felt a similar sense of loss. I wish I had had the mental clarity at the time to throw fun parties instead of just trying to keep life together. I'm comforted by the fact that in my new career there are great
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
I guess what I'm pushing back on is that, as other comments allude to, this isn't do different from talking about God, divine watchmakers, etc. Having read the comments here I do see more why people find it intriguing, especially
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
True. I assume you have to assume that the outside world is likely to have built a simulated world in its own image, more or less. I personally struggle with the idea that something you can observe is really "outside", though. But
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
This, and most writing on introverts/extroverts, go out vs. stay home, office vs home office, etc. leaves me feeling unrepresented and oversimplified. I, and I really assume most people, see the good in both approaches. I am an introve
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
It's not the the simulation hypothesis is impossible, it's that it seems to be utterly uninteresting. What measurable predictions could it make? How could it influence your decisions (more than any other religious or metaphysical
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
You don't need to have the commit history to see "how it works". ML that works well does so in huge part due to the training data used. The leading models today aren't distinguished by the way they're trained, but w
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
The title is misleading, isn't it? I was expecting this was scanning for training or testing or something, but this is summarization of articles the user is looking at, so "caught" is disingenous. You don't "catch&q
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
This is silly. You do the routine stuff so that when the "10x" opportunities come, you are fit to execute on them. It's like saying pro athletes shouldn't spend all that boring time in the gym - just score some points! M
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This was one of three times Americans have won the olympic marathon, and in none of the three was the Americam the first to enter the stadium at the end!
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It's sports so the whole thing is contrived to have a fun set of rules (if you're just trying to go fast, get a car, etc.). So innovation is ultimateld really only impressive if it helps reduce injury or improve comfort. Making it

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