wendyshu

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   by wendyshu 4y ago

   These "X, or: Y" titles are becoming an annoying cliche.
2. 152.▲
   by wendyshu 4y ago

   There are legitimate criticisms to be made of Python but this is a pretty poor list.
3. 153.▲
   by wendyshu 4y ago

   OpenAI has to pay for resources to run the service. I'm more concerned about whether the research is "open" in the sense of being public and open source.
4. 154.▲
   by wendyshu 4y ago

   There are two OpenAIs. OpenAI LP is for-profit, OpenAI Inc. isn't.
5. 155.▲
   by wendyshu 4y ago

   Similarly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_method_(combinatorics...
6. 156.▲
   by wendyshu 4y ago

   "A Self-Adjusting Search Tree" https://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/splay/#:~:text=A%20Self%2DAdjust...
7. 157.▲
   by wendyshu 4y ago

   https://pirateweather.net/apis isn't loading for me
8. 158.▲
   by wendyshu 4y ago

   What's a maker?
9. 159.▲
   by wendyshu 4y ago

   This was kind of a sequel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_Down
10. 160.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    Can you provide some evidence?
11. 161.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    I love it when people reference "my country" and don't say the country.
12. 162.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    I had a fucking blog on Tumblr but then they banned pornography.
13. 163.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    Mypy supports plugins. That's the only advantage I'm aware of. I like Pyright because it has a track record of adding new type features months ahead of Mypy (e.g. recursive types, ParamSpec).
14. 164.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon#Noun
15. 165.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    Thanks for the link. Although I wouldn't describe that as extreme demands.
16. 166.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    "The Economic Policy Institute is a 501 non-profit American, left-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C."
17. 167.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    Should say "Lebesgue measure" (or "Borel measure") instead of "measure" a few places
18. 168.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    Algorithm problems are what FAANG candidates do in interviews but is it what FAANG engineers do for work?
19. 169.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    Is this a new version of AlphaCode or just a new evaluation of it?
20. 170.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33998145
21. 171.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    There needs to be a word for these projects that are a UI layer on top of a preexisting browser engine. Calling it a "new browser" is a little confusing.
22. 172.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    Is there a link for reporting to the attorney general?
23. 173.▲
    by wendyshu 4y ago

    The usage may have changed over time which can definitely be irritating but I think "engineer" is a useful word to mean roughly someone who applies some sort of theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems. E.g. financial eng
24. 174.▲
    by wendyshu 6y ago

    Maybe read an economics textbook before opining on economics?
25. 175.▲
    by wendyshu 6y ago

    "What about..."
26. 176.▲
    by wendyshu 6y ago

    What's wrong with ads for drugs?
27. 177.▲
    by wendyshu 6y ago

    Why national?
28. 178.▲
    by wendyshu 6y ago

    What are some ways in which Python's type system should improve?
29. 179.▲
    by wendyshu 6y ago

    Fossil fuels are already taxed and regulated.
30. 180.▲
    by wendyshu 6y ago

    Reassigning not mutating