ultra_nick

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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Same, my wife works a 10 hour day, comes home, gets yelled at by neurotic patients for an hour, then does paperwork for another hour. We're not even making money yet due to student loans. Sucks.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholascgilpin Email: nicholascgilpin123 (at) gmail Senior engineer graduating with MSCS in perception and robotics
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Memorize fundamentals and frameworks: Logic, fallacies, philosophy, and science for arguments Fundamental algorithms and structures for code Common joke/meme formats and questions for social skills
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Breaks. Methods that expect the same input to map to the same output don't work with feedback.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
If transformers can plan, then AGI only requires better education...
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
In a storm, the likelihood of A raindrop hitting your computer dwarfs the likelihood of THE raindrops[5927] hitting your computer. Hence why using A and THE is important.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Agreed, using neuron layers as vectors seems like a waste. Moving to a graph-like compute model seems like it'd be more efficient.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Xonsh by itself is pretty cool and I hope it continues to grow. However, I feel like Xonsh needs a killer app to really demonstrate the advantages of the semantics Xonsh provides. Maybe something like Rawdog ( https://github.com&#
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
If anyone wants to work in this area, AMD currently has a lot of related job posts open.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Actually, the e/acc community has stated it rejects Nick Land's more recent work. If you read older posts, you'll find the earlier e/acc members got started with Fanged Noumena.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Unison is a distributed programming language. YAML config files and Hadoop/Kafka/Kubernetes/etc are additions for non-distributed programming languages. Unison is a grand simplification of everything into one system so that f
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Prions. Non-mammal prions have a different enough shape to avoid breaking mammalian biomechanisms.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
SDKs for 4+ platforms is added tooling...
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Now my managers have even more reason to rush out broken "features" and use bugs to "fix" them later.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Yes, we've had chess engines and spellcheck for years.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
The Baldwin Effect is interesting because it hints at how humans may have evolved intelligence. Below is a textbook excerpt that explains it well. "... other mechanisms have been suggested by which individual learning can alter the cou
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The Baldwin Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ultra_nick 3y ago|1 comments
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Compound growth has been the most realistic historically.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Simply Hackernews makes you better informed than about 80% of other engineers. Follow and read popular documents from a few professors, entrepreneurs, and communities on Twitter/Reddit/Quora to get to about 95%. Hunt for specific
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Judges and police shouldn't have legal immunities. Professionals doing jobs over $10k should have to buy malpractice insurance like doctors. There's a bill to end qualified immunity currently. https://www.congress.gov
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
If you prefer projection over bank statement tracking, then Projection Lab is nice. https://projectionlab.com/
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Quick care beats quality care past a certain level of time and money.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Are you new to software? The bugs in programs aren't actual bugs either, windows aren't actual windows, and many would argue that computer science is still more of an art than a science.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
I just write English these days and have my LLM compile it to Python, so...
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
How?
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Are you arguing that freedom of speech doesn't matter because people can say bad things?
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Create Machines(youtube.com)
2 points by ultra_nick 3y ago|1 comments
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Venjet is a rising musician on YouTube. He specializes in industrial drum and bass music.
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
Is it common for CEOs not to use their own products?
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by ultra_nick 3y ago
I'd like if all IOT devices had an offline mode where network access is shut off. Most companies don't have the skills to make their devices secure. We should have the option to buy devices without network access. Devices that hav

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