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by vector_spaces 6mo ago
I'm sorry to hate but it's extremely rich to write > Do not send me anything longer than you would send to a crush. Some people email me six-paragraph essays about the time they saved a cat from a tree ...in a rambling piece th
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by vector_spaces 6mo ago
The comments on this subthread are a bit out of touch in a very coastal-tech way -- yes, Oracle is a monster, yes, their tech is garbage, yes, their products are awful. But Oracle owns Cerner Health (now Oracle Health, but to most users it
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by vector_spaces 6mo ago
Maybe I'm naive, but my sense is not everyone streaming on Twitch is trying to make a career out of it. Even for those that are -- everyone starts somewhere. Hopefully those that aren't successful on first brush notice and realiz
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by vector_spaces 7mo ago
This strikes me more as a matter of taste, i.e. more art than something which can be provably wrong, or correct for that matter. The concerns you outlined might be concerns the author doesn't have to worry about for whatever reason --
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by vector_spaces 7mo ago
PyPy is a JIT-compiled implementation of a language called RPython which is a restricted subset of Python. It does not and has never attempted to implement Python or replace your CPython interpreter for most intents and purposes. CPython is
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by vector_spaces 7mo ago
There are a few companies doing this already -- I think AI Dungeon was one of the first movers in this space. I don't know how it is as a user, though
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by vector_spaces 7mo ago
Every polynomial interpolates itself -- meaning that you can often apply this interpolation procedure to your favorite/nemesis polynomial or equivalently rewrite your polynomial of interest in this Lagrange basis, and see if the coeffi
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by vector_spaces 7mo ago
Yes, there is a pervasive anxiety around strangers and impromptu socializing among younger millennials and Gen Z particularly in North America and parts of Europe, and across age groups in certain subcultures. There are lots of causes for t
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by vector_spaces 7mo ago
Letting curiosity be the motivator behind starting these conversations and cultivating curiosity more broadly can help -- or at least I have found it to be helpful in making initiating feel less forced. I wonder about people's jobs or
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Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)(keithburgun.net)
118 points by vector_spaces 9mo ago|67 comments
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by vector_spaces 9mo ago
> If MAA does not understand that there is huge market for Mathematics targeted towards Computer Programmers, they are just dumb. Presumably a large math textbook publisher that has been publishing math books for literally one hundred ye
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by vector_spaces 10mo ago
I worked in this business for over 15 years on the tech and business sides and I can say that the traditional VC-funded startup regime is fundamentally incompatible with the basic realities of the food industry. What is sort of funny about
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by vector_spaces 10mo ago
OK, I've had a chance to play with it in earnest. First: my sense is that for most use cases, this will begin to feel gimmicky rather quickly and that you will do better by specializing rather than positioning yourself next to ChatGPT,
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by vector_spaces 10mo ago
It seems to work except when I connect to my work VPN, which is very permissive -- I haven't observed it to break anything else
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by vector_spaces 10mo ago
Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.phind.com (see the browser console for more information). Getting this error the homepage. In the browser console I am just seeing Content-Security-Policy
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by vector_spaces 10mo ago
index.pdf won't tend to play nicely with screen readers and also sucks for people on crappy mobile networks, so it's a minor inconvenience for some, and straight up unusable for others
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by vector_spaces 10mo ago
I am not your target with this question (I don't write Zig) but there is a spectrum of LLM usage for coding. It is possible to use LLMs extensively but almost never ship LLM generated code, except for tiny trivial functions. One can us
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by vector_spaces 11mo ago
> Our other tool, HyperTwin, tackles the “tribal knowledge” problem. It learns directly from subject-matter experts, observing workflows, analyzing screen interactions, and conducting AI-driven interviews to capture how they debug and re
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Practical Creativity (2017)(youtube.com)
2 points by vector_spaces 1y ago|0 comments
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
I meant "problems" in a broad sense -- I loved disorganized professors who would pause and stare at their lecture notes in silence for a minute, realize their proof or example contained some flaw, and then have to correct it on th
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
The viewpoint of a lecture as an inefficient note delivery system is a pretty common and reductive view. Your "Let's Play" analogy was pretty apt though. I think their (potential) value seems pretty clear when you look at lan
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
OK, point taken re most people vs most food deserts In any case, I am talking about the availability of items in response to the parent's obviously absurd implication "every food market I have been to sells X, therefore every food
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
Wow, 100% accurate? OK, I definitely can't argue with that. Nor I suppose can I argue much with overinterpreted anecdotes and absolutist analysis from a non-expert about a nuanced topic. You should start a Tiktok or a Substack or somet
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
It actually says right at the top that overwhelmingly they are in urban areas
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
I have also found plain yogurt in gas station convenience stores My issue was less with the plain yogurt specifically and more with the logic of the parent, namely that "X product has been available in every grocery store I have shoppe
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
The "cost conscious" option in a city with one of the highest median incomes in the US is very different from a cost conscious shopper in a city like Daytona Beach, where practically a quarter of the population lives below the pov
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
Yes -- I know that my experiences don't align with most middle-class grocery shoppers: I worked in the food business for a decade where assortment was literally my job. There is a lot that casual shoppers like you don't notice! Th
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
You made a claim that plain yogurt is generally available in US food markets, attempting to make an inference about grocery store selections drawing from your own experience. I pointed out that it is not actually generally available and not
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
I hope that you recognize that your casual-outsider evaluation of the assortments of these stores is deeply flawed and not based on actual data. If you think about it even just a little bit, you'll recognize that it wouldn't make
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by vector_spaces 1y ago
> Every grocery store where I've shopped has yogurt with no added sugar. It's right there on the shelf, just look at the label. Large parts of the US are designated as food deserts, where one's best option for groceries mi

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