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by vicnov 2y ago
Many years ago go a girl who liked me gifted a 6 digit icq number. I still remember that. Sigh.
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by vicnov 3y ago
I would have been on board with it, if I didn’t get a completely wrong AI generated response from Google the other day. I was for some reason looking into history of Reddit and ended up searching “what happened to former AMA coordinator Vic
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by vicnov 3y ago
Fascinating. I was looking for some old materials on hiring / culture building, etc., and realized Google shut down re:work. Project's LinkedIn page is now empty, the original https://rework.withgoogle.com/ websit
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by vicnov 3y ago
I shouldn't have said that, but with any other resource, I think it could have been more difficult to re-allocate, etc., with SWE. It is just.. odd.
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by vicnov 3y ago
It doesn't make sense to me. Is google turning into a pure cash cow with no ambition? You have this resource, developers, that you invest a lot into; why would you get rid of your core asset? Is there no NPV-positive way to allocate t
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by vicnov 3y ago
PREVEEEDDD
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by vicnov 3y ago
Youtube comments refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Madness , but whatever is used in the demo is clearly a much newer version of the game.
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by vicnov 3y ago
Auth0 seems to be down as well
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LLM Drifts: How Is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing over Time?(github.com)
3 points by vicnov 3y ago|2 comments
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by vicnov 3y ago
"What are the main findings? In a nutshell, there are many interesting performance shifts over time. For example, GPT-4 (March 2023) was very good at identifying prime numbers (accuracy 97.6%) but GPT-4 (June 2023) was very poor on the
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by vicnov 3y ago
You're on a rocket ship that goes into space. It has already achieved the speed and is on the correct trajectory. Some of those on Earth started to assume the trajectory had to be corrected a year or two ago, but most people still fee
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by vicnov 4y ago
the ultimate safety is ban all cars and stay at home. it is always an exercise in balancing. Legislating UI seems... weird? If people feel uncomfortable driving with touch screens, they may choose not to buy cars with touch screens.
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by vicnov 4y ago
Nah, he is actually right. Tony Fadell agrees with him too (hid book has a full chapter on it). He is not PC in his language, but he is direct. I feel like more people are responding to his phrasing, not the message. Building products requ
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by vicnov 4y ago
I’ve been using this for almost a decade https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
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by vicnov 4y ago
Can someone explain what this piece of tech does? Somehow all things radio is a mystery to me. (Any good YT intros are much appreciated too)
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by vicnov 4y ago
Looks like Whatsapp tries to catch up with Telegram.
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by vicnov 4y ago
Potentially it is not the fist time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss Reed stated the United States added a Trojan horse to gas pipeline control software that the Soviet Union obtained from a company in Canada
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by vicnov 4y ago
Is it close to 18.065 from Prof Strang?
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by vicnov 6y ago
Cramming decreases your ability to recall material. It mostly commits it to a variant of short term memory.
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by vicnov 6y ago
It’s called Google Brain for a reason
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by vicnov 6y ago
Probably because they’re not ready to commit... but that’s weird. Btw I couldn’t find it, can you share here what you discovered? :)
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by vicnov 6y ago
Probably saturated market. "What got them here, wont get them there". They continuously need to show growth . As you said, the strategy of focusing on Pro users worked. It's now time to focus on not so Pro users... those who
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by vicnov 6y ago
How does one can get into drone racing? Where should I start?
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by vicnov 7y ago
1. 1983 2. I wish they were contracting it to other cultures — I wonder if there models that a different from American and what they look like.
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by vicnov 7y ago
What were the reasons for failure? It would be great to learn more about your experience.
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by vicnov 7y ago
1. Would you work for a company that doesn't use agile? 2. Will you hire other engineers? 3. How will you address those issues in your company? 4. Are there companies that successfully addresses these issues?
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by vicnov 7y ago
My company literally says "assume 0 privacy". Not joking.
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by vicnov 8y ago
Very sad. He passed away the same year this article was published. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bui_Tuong_Phong
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by vicnov 8y ago
Okay, can someone explain why is this a thing? It is a genuine question. I am not very familiar with OS designs and skimming through the landing page didn't help. Is it essentially a Linux kernel that runs within an existing instance o
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by vicnov 8y ago
I might want to join as well! Lmk if there are open spots.

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