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by viccis 6mo ago
>The purpose of the Ukrainian military is to get stuck in a years-long stalemate with Russia. >These are obviously false. The purpose of the Ukrainian military is to exhaust the Russian army's materiel and test out our weapons. &
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There's no need to "estimate" it. "Time" is not something built into training and sampling a generative distribution. He might as well have told you your Naive Bayes email filters will measure time passed.
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by viccis 6mo ago
Thank you, I didn't realize all of the course counted as "slides and auxiliary material" haha edit: Really great stuff in here. Every day at work I think about how much I love DuckDB
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Am I missing something or is the content empty?
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by viccis 6mo ago
A B+ tree with deletion was one of the most difficult algorithms I had to do back in college. You'd hit edge cases after billions of insertions...
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by viccis 6mo ago
Same but for Diet Coke. Would make ridiculous amounts of it
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by viccis 6mo ago
>It is designed by hastily promoted middle manager PM/Product type people As someone in the middle of arguing about API design and service boundaries in a complex system with a product manager right now, who has redesigned our full
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by viccis 6mo ago
I remember doing some research on this topic, and, when I looked for usage patterns for my type of job specifically, I realized that most people were just posting about their workflows learning about... taking notes.
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by viccis 7mo ago
They switched their best sorting algorithm to be engagement based rather than upvote based [1]. Upvotes are just one of many metrics, but heavy comment interaction is another. It incentivizes rage bait and performing for the crowd with ever
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by viccis 7mo ago
I created an account and started reading this site primarily for programming news when r/programming took a precipitous dive in quality around 2020 or so. Before it was an example of one of the few good communities there, but it quickl
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by viccis 7mo ago
You should elaborate your snarky rebuttal more.
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by viccis 7mo ago
If you're just connecting over Tailscale and your machine is otherwise not exposing the (configurable) port to the internet, it's fine as far as I know. Set up firewall entries if you are concerned.
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by viccis 7mo ago
Wasn't my first, but my first unintentional one was writing multiprocessing code with Python on Windows many years ago. Not sure if this is still true now, but if you didn't wrap your main entrypoint in a if __name__ == "__
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by viccis 7mo ago
Little tip for anyone who decides to try this: You need to enable IP access on the device you intend to connect to. It's under the security settings in RustDesk. I've been playing around with it. The iOS RustDesk app is nice, and
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by viccis 7mo ago
>This was the most-discussed finding in the HN thread. The general reaction: an LLM company using regexes for sentiment analysis is peak irony. >Is it ironic? Sure. Is it also probably faster and cheaper than running an LLM inference
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by viccis 7mo ago
As far as actual people? Depends on their personal moral code and is why colleges make people take ethics, even if I don't think that results in anything other than more elaborate ways to justify doing whatever they feel like anyway. M
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by viccis 7mo ago
One of the most surreal meetings I've ever been to was a company All Hands after a 20% layoff round. The upper management people who decided who was laid off took turns talking about how upset it made them to have to do it. They showed
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by viccis 7mo ago
This is 2000s era middle school level English or below. I get not stressing things like judicious use of parentheticals and comma splicing, but if it's just stream of consciousness motor mouthing run on sentences, it gets fatiguing to
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by viccis 7mo ago
Elaborate
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by viccis 7mo ago
>Although 80 % of the content was my own writing, the fact that it was run in a LLM enginee for grammar and vocabulary cross-check, made it failed the "probable written by AI " metric; and it was rejected. should be: >Althou
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by viccis 7mo ago
>damn you commas and a/an/the articles This sounds like an ESL issue. LLMs are good at proof reading ESL-written English text. They are not as good at proof reading experience English writers.
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by viccis 7mo ago
Exactly. I think it's popular because it takes a difficult question and answers it with a conceptually elegant answer that has an evocative and spooky nature metaphor. Unfortunately, since it's so poorly grounded, any second order
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by viccis 7mo ago
It's a silly concept IMO because it assumes that civilizations with the ability to do interstellar travel or communication make the decision to not do so because they have knowledge of an interstellar force that destroys any civilizati
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by viccis 7mo ago
Feels like just yesterday that everyone agreed that critical code is read orders of magnitude more than written, so optimizing for quick writing is wrong.
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by viccis 7mo ago
>I guess I have not thought critically why we couldn't use a Transcendental argument to support Descartes. The previous section within the Transcendental Dialectic that focuses on the nature of the soul goes into a refutation of Des
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by viccis 7mo ago
>other techniques include Kant's Transcendental Deduction or Descartes's pure doubt This is not quite accurate. Kant says very explicitly in the (rarely studied) Transcendental Doctrine of Method (Ch 1 Section 4, A789/B817
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by viccis 7mo ago
Unless you were unfortunate enough to go during peak covid years, then that was just a skill issue. If it was truly beneath you, you could have been writing and publishing papers.
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I think being a great "software engineer" at a company is about getting the job done. A great "programmer" is about designing and writing great code.
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Yeah, regular and even respected media outlets are basically giving you the 2005 porn pirating site experience.
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>You need to go to college to get a piece of paper saying you did. If you were passionate about computer programming, you can do it in your free time while you flip burgers or do whatever you need to survive This is a naive view of the a

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