ur-whale

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721.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Not just forecasts. Accounting should do it too in their reporting. I would love to see a balance sheet with a proper 'certainty range' around the values in there.
722.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Convolution, or the art of given hard names to easy things. Convolution is something you learn when you're 7. It's called weighted average.
723.
by ur-whale 3y ago
The graph editor is really, really well done, congrats.
724.
by ur-whale 3y ago
With pictures: https://archive.is/j3zRC
725.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> where do they plan to move? Basement of their office? We reached the same conclusion they did a while back and went back to good-old self-hosted. Reliability has been as good as cloud and TCO is divided by a factor of 10.
726.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Curious to known where he decided his fortune should go after his death.
727.
Interview with Senior JavaScript Developer [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ur-whale 3y ago|0 comments
728.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Enders game, speaker for the dead Truly not in the same category as stuff from e.g. PKD, by a very wide margin, especially speaker for the dead.
729.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> the dull hard SF the came after To be fair to the crowd that came after, the average consumption of creativity-enhancing substances was a lot less in the 80's and forward than in the [60's, early 80's] period.
730.
by ur-whale 3y ago
No mention of any piece by Jack Vance ? For something to claim to cover the golden age of Sci-Fi ? Very weird.
731.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Notably missing from the docs is a "Why?" Specifically, in what way is Breezy an improvement over existing DVCSes
732.
by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/W282A
733.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Minecraft IRL
734.
by ur-whale 3y ago
In other words, it's using a greedy algorithm
735.
by ur-whale 3y ago
ETHZ is quite famous indeed. Einstein, among others, studied there [1] [1] https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/global/events/digitaler-ei...
736.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Given: - the string of missed opportunities in the last 10 years (specifically AI) - the string of user-hostile product decisions (latest: adblockers vs YT) - the complete lack of innovation (name a cool product launched by G i
737.
by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/eVZvb
738.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> It looks like one should strive to become product manager, not an engineer or a scientist. If you look at who's running Google right now, you would be essentially correct.
739.
by ur-whale 3y ago
This is the Silicon Valley's boy's club, itself an extension of the Stanford U. boys club. "Meritocracy" is very impolite word in these circles.
740.
by ur-whale 3y ago
The folks that are the real losers in this are OpenAI employees who have had equity-based comp. packaged given to them in that last few years and just saw the value of said comp. potentially slashed by a factor of 10
741.
The monumental free speech case the media ignored [video](youtube.com)
4 points by ur-whale 3y ago|0 comments
742.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Google's key, meaningful homegrown products are Search, Maps, Gmail and Chrome. TBH Youtube and Photos aren't half bad. And their cloud-based office suite, while it could be way better, is kind of useful.
743.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Too little too late? Announcing things and actually executing on said announcements are two very different things. Sundar has never been able to tell the difference between the two.
744.
by ur-whale 3y ago
You're thinking of the Google of 2008. In 2023 Google is an entirely different beast. 20% project is a forbidden sentence by now and certainly never mentioned by the current layer of middle management that has come to infest the engine
745.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Google was certainly completely caught of guard. They weren't. Their AI research team is completely dysfunctional and unfocused. They're only interested in doing research and are entirely incapable of the engineering and prod
746.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Youtube is your friend: it is a bottomless pit of Blender tutorials from the very basic step-by-step "learn how to use the UI" to super-advanced topics. This guy has an extensive collections on both basic and advanced stuff: http
747.
by ur-whale 3y ago
One metric that is seldom mentioned for crypto algos is code complexity. I really wish researchers would at least pay lip service to it. TEA (an unfortunately somewhat weak symmetric cipher) was a very nice push in that direction. TweetNaCl
748.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Yeah, I've read all of Pratchett in English, and read one or two in German and French. The French version, much effort went into it, and it is very good indeed, but nowhere near the original. Some attempts at translating Pratchett&#x27
749.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Seems to be a long way of saying to go get offended but not too offended. Mmmh yeah, it's a little more than that. He suggest that being offended is OK, while taking unreasonable action because of said offense is not acceptable.
750.
by ur-whale 3y ago
TL;DR: - disagreeing and being offended aren't on the same level - getting offended is a good thing, it shows you care deeply about an issue, you should do it more - behaving like and ass***e because you're offended is

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