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by thom 2y ago
I continue to love these books all these years later, and my kids have started getting into them (cheating and all). Personal faves are Robot Commando (where you choose from a variety of differently configured robots at the start) and Crims
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by thom 2y ago
o3-mini-high also gets the right answer, in addition to mentioning Janensch.
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To me… To you…
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A bit like the three body problem, I guess. The problem seems simple because it’s just four walls, but think how complicated the constraints are once you have an arbitrary shaped sofa: you shave a tiny bit off one corner, and now you can tr
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by thom 2y ago
Yes and I’m not saying you’re wrong to dismiss it - all that work has been passed down as immutable, static laws that people regurgitate to say some things are good and some are bad. The fact is, most viz exists to support specific tasks or
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by thom 2y ago
It’s so easy to measure how fast and accurate users are at completing real tasks in your domain using various viz. I’d be disappointed if the conversation was purely between rigid principles and artistry.
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I don't see those things as opposed - you want teams aligned, you want people to be able to plan and collaborate both the short and long term. A good process left shifts as much as possible so teams start out fairly well aligned and do
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by thom 2y ago
For me the internal part of this is far more important than any external pitch. Storytelling is a key skill for keeping an organisation aligned. Every company I've worked for that felt disjointed wasn't because of a lack of struct
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by thom 2y ago
Gotcha, totally fair points. It is an inherently conservative approach to standards, to take workarounds and pragmatic solutions that are already available within the community, and provide slightly cleaner (perhaps debatable) baked-in vers
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People are going to build plugin and component systems whether we like it or not. People have massive investments in C++ whether we like it or not. These two concerns often intersect in game engines, apologies if that felt off topic.
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by thom 2y ago
C++ reflection is now good enough that hopefully we’ll start to see more game engines using it to work out components and properties instead of weird macros. jcelerier’s work on things like Avendish really does feel quite fresh and modern,
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The author shows encapsulation of global state elsewhere. I’m not sure why they wouldn’t use RAII for the log level stuff so it was automatically rolled back.
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Microsoft created a managed, wire-compatible alternative: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
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I have a different body but a similar relationship to it as the author. My wife is very stylish and often wears striking jewellery. She gets a lot of compliments and doesn't have to work hard to be at ease socially, whereas for the mos
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Ah, the time I’ve spent in Tring.
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I agree. Fascism is fascism whether it’s a teenage Octavian, Agrippa or a groyper. Underestimate them at your peril.
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Very importantly here they provide a ways of decoding the encoded thought tokens, so you're not really losing explanatory power or debuggability. As much as OpenAI want to present hidden chain of thought as some sort of long term advan
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by thom 2y ago
The distilled versions are terrible and the full version seems very slow, but the latter is certainly in o1’s league.
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Whether it’s data or things that can kill you, you’re guaranteed at least once delivery either way.
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by thom 2y ago
Wow, just when I’d accepted MIPRO in DSPy was magic, here we are. Things continue apace.
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Terrible time to open a shovel store, amazing time to pick up a shovel.
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Hey, some of them are working tirelessly to ruin sports.
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I thought it was less that you could predict across packs and more that you could infer what card had been taken given what was left. That meant you had a better chance of not getting cut during the draft.
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by thom 2y ago
Used this for years and years and it’s always worked perfectly. Hugely appreciate that my license is still honoured after all this time.
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Commoditize Your Complement(joelonsoftware.com)
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This is the thing I specifically use LLMs for when I’m doing history courses. I’ll remember some vague quote or event and ask for the primary sources and latest ChatGPTs are excellent and getting the right reference, which I can then look u
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If you could conjure up any data or video product from thin air to make your life easier, what would it be?
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That's extremely good for a job in soccer analytics. It's a really fun domain, you'd be working with very smart and bought-in people at Arsenal, and they have their own collection operation so control their own destiny in a w
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Fairly sure the vast majority of Hacker News isn't making 300k a year in either big tech _or_ startups. Plus the author of the post mentioned wasn't some scrappy gung-ho founder trying to make it at any cost, they had Google money
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Hashtags became links around 2009, but I think it was just critical mass. Instead of yelling into the void, it became very easy to stumble upon a community or discussion around a hobby or event, and follows didn’t require approval like frie

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