tictacttoe

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by tictacttoe 11mo ago
I wouldn’t want kids to grow up chasing a number. It’s just too reductionist. If you want them to be financially secure, teach them skills and the money will follow. TC obsession is a blight.
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by tictacttoe 1y ago
You don’t need skills to build progressively detailed context. You can do this with MCP.
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by tictacttoe 1y ago
Meanwhile, it’s my feeling that technology is moving insanely fast but people are just impatient. You move the bar and the expectations move with it. I think part of the problem is that the market rewards execs who set expectations beyond r
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by tictacttoe 2y ago
First, the author is right. This is the way the world works, and if you want to get ahead, play the game. But I have strong contempt for management throwing up their hands and saying “it’s your promotion, own it”. Usually the subtext is tha
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by tictacttoe 2y ago
First, happy customer of OSM and it’s impressive what they’ve built! That said, I’ve noticed their company website field is sparsely populated. Any recommendations for acquiring the place website URL through an API or ethically scraping it
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by tictacttoe 2y ago
For low-funnel sponsored advertising, the effects are largely instantaneous, and you can measure your net profit lift simply by turning it on and off every hour (or day).
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by tictacttoe 2y ago
I’m using AI in my daily life. ChatGPT has largely replaced Google. My programming output and ability is greatly enhanced. I’m working on projects that were impossible a few years ago. How can people say this is another hype bubble?
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by tictacttoe 2y ago
I found llava to be disappointing, but Claude Haiku is quite good
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by tictacttoe 2y ago
Having heard a variation of this comment many times, I keep waiting for an “aha” moment, where I see the light and abandon my obsession with minimalism and clean code. But at least in science roles it hasn’t happened yet. Rather, I keep see
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by tictacttoe 2y ago
And all Claude models…
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by tictacttoe 3y ago
The problem is that there are really only a few large platforms: windows, Android, macOS and iOS. These are also owned by three mega corps. The issue here is that free market mechanisms break down in the small competitor count limit.
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by tictacttoe 3y ago
From ChatGPT, Yes, Google and Meta (the parent company of Facebook) do allow businesses to upload customer email addresses and phone numbers for advertising purposes, under specific conditions. This process is part of what's known as &
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by tictacttoe 3y ago
I sort of hate buying cheap junk toasters, but I also don’t need something with a bunch of unnecessary frills like an LCD screen. And it needs to toast well! I’ve been banging my head against the internet looking for something and have come
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by tictacttoe 3y ago
My two cents is that while browser tracking matters, people should also be conscious of not giving away their email and cell number when signing up for accounts or making purchases. Every time you do this, the company sells the data to Goog
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by tictacttoe 4y ago
Asahi (Arch) is fantastic and I’m immensely grateful to the dev team. One small issue I wish they’d fix is monitor over Thunderbolt. Currently only HDMI works.
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by tictacttoe 4y ago
I’m one of those affected. It’s not particularly interesting to discuss if people are aware that stock can go down. No one is disputing that. However, if the market pulls back X% on compensation, but Amazon pulls back Y% with Y > X, peop
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by tictacttoe 7y ago
Realized I can download my transaction info into csv format and build my own financial analysis in python without handing over my data. It’s pretty easy to do 90% of what you want, e.g. breakdown expenses by type.
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by tictacttoe 7y ago
Banking setup I use a credit union for checking. I'm currently planning to open up a second checking account with the same credit union to split my income stream into fixed and variable expenses as some have mentioned here. General i
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by tictacttoe 7y ago
Anecdoctal, but while we are discussing narrow scope interviews... I just finished a physics PhD and applied to a finance firm. Before I get a chance to speak with a human, they send me a 15 problem 20 min timed exam. Some of the questions
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by tictacttoe 7y ago
Well the Poisson uncertainty is only reasonable if the count is sampling a random process. But yea, they could try adding Poisson uncertainties and using a probabilistic emulator like a Gaussian process.
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by tictacttoe 7y ago
I think what companies really want is smart generalists with advanced math, programming, and modeling skills coupled with domain knowledge. That skill set will always carry high value in technical companies. The reason it carries value is t
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by tictacttoe 7y ago
Bayesian parameter estimation typically trains an emulator to reproduce the objective function using a limited number of design point (order 10 per dimension). Once the emulator is trained, you could of course use a multi dimensional minimi
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by tictacttoe 8y ago
If you are reasonable comfortable in Linux and a developer, I'd strongly recommend Arch with i3 window manager. Pacman is fantastic. The initial setup is a bit of a pain, but it's so much smoother and more stable from that point f
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by tictacttoe 9y ago
STEM positions have a long pipeline with appreciable attrition along the way. Any losses upstream propagate down stream so it's somewhat obvious that we'd have less women in physics national lab positions if we have less women stu
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by tictacttoe 9y ago
I don't think the choice to continue using Fortran is as well thought out as the author. I work in computational physics and have written a lot of Fortran, C++ and Python. The predominant issue is that physics codes are typically writt
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by tictacttoe 9y ago
It's very cool, but I think it also requires a very specific "adversarial" problem with a well defined notion of success (winning the game). If your machine learning task is something more nuanced and harder to define, e.g. i
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by tictacttoe 9y ago
There are a lot of quantities which are positive definite. If it's bounded from below, it's not Gaussian.
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by tictacttoe 10y ago
I have to say that I'm absolutely in love with Arch linux. It's some work to set up, and it's not exactly novice friendly, but once it's set up, you barely have to muck with it—it just works. Truly a wonderful OS for the
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by tictacttoe 10y ago
Coworker. (jbernhard.xyz)[jbernhard.xyz]
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by tictacttoe 10y ago
As a PhD candidate in high energy nuclear theory, I've observed a lot of 'math wacking', i.e. reading theory papers which include pages and pages of detailed equations without a single experimental data point. Just take a l

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