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by wjholden 1y ago
I feel very inspired by this, thanks for sharing! Didn't know this Run Streak Association existed but now I want to join. Congratulations on your immense achievement.
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by wjholden 1y ago
Very cool, I've often thought that such a short-range chat would be fun on an airplane. Not practical, but it could be neat to chat with the group in the air.
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by wjholden 1y ago
I would expect that Julia could similarly show performance boosts here because of its column-major memory layout.
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by wjholden 1y ago
Cellular networks. I specialize in computer networking in my day job. Most of what I do is Cisco routers, Cisco switches, and Cisco firewalls. I would be interested in learning more about cellular networks. I haven't put any effort int
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by wjholden 1y ago
Price point matters here. I keep getting ads for a competitor called Jumpspeak. They're very explicit that you're chatting with a bot, but their price is many times higher than Duolingo's subscription.
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by wjholden 1y ago
I just wrote a paper a few days ago arguing that "manual thinking" is going to become a rare and valuable skill in the future. When you look around you, everyone is finding ways to be better using AI, and they're all finding
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by wjholden 1y ago
Lately I've been saying often the phrase "the process is the product." When you outsource the process, then the product will be fundamentally different from what you would have delivered on your own. In my own case of knowled
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by wjholden 1y ago
The confidence value is a good idea. I just saw a tech demo from F5 that estimated the probability that a prompt might be malicious. The administrator parameterized the tool as a probability and the logs capture that probability. Could be a
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by wjholden 2y ago
You could make an analogy to the engineer babysitting a self-driving car during testing: you'd need to be a better driver than most to recognize when the machine is about to make a mistake and intervene.
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by wjholden 2y ago
It really is a pretty measured and reasonable take.
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by wjholden 2y ago
This was a pleasant and encouraging article to read. I do think that open source is slowly growing in traditional enterprises, although I think recent interest in cloud computing and artificial intelligence has pushed a lot of software cont
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by wjholden 2y ago
This is the first time that I've noticed a website where I can add the page as an Android app. What is this called and how can I get started making my own web applications into installable apps?
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by wjholden 2y ago
The author explains their reasoning in the next post: https://hackers.town/@zwol/114155807716413069
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by wjholden 2y ago
If anyone from Math Academy is reading: the price point just doesn't work for me. I'm happy to pay ~$100/year for our family's Duolingo subscription. $49/month is too much.
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Internationalization Puzzles(i18n-puzzles.com)
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by wjholden 2y ago
Pedantic nitpick: he didn't find a linear correlation. Let x=[-5..+5] and y=[25,16,9,4,1,0,1,4,9,16,25] (that is, x²). The Pearson correlation coefficient, R², will be zero. We know that y is dependent on x, but isn't linearl
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by wjholden 2y ago
Which R-Tree Rust library were you referring to?
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by wjholden 2y ago
You can also frame this as a strong-link problem. For high-aptitude students, one might argue that it's a waste to have them drill basic financial literacy when instead they need to be learning more abstract mathematics to follow pione
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by wjholden 2y ago
I learned a little Spanish growing up in the USA. As I learned French as an adult, when I didn't know a French word, the Spanish word would often come to me. Now I'm learning German, and often the French word comes to me when I do
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by wjholden 2y ago
I'm currently using Rocket, Maud, Rusqlite, and Serde for the first time on a project. I'd like to offer my perspectives as someone new to this space. Rocket routes work pretty well. I like being able to derive FromForm and have i
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by wjholden 2y ago
Came here say the same thing, I had never thought of nor heard of using base 15 for digit tricks before!
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by wjholden 2y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but there is another possible reason. I often see this kind of thing on very local news websites in the USA. I think it's possible that small-town newspapers simply doesn't believe their local news ha
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by wjholden 2y ago
This was a very fun article to read. It was so much like my own story. I grew up in rural USA with very limited access to the Internet. A teacher introduced us to Linux, I saved money and built a computer, and had a wonderful (though someti
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by wjholden 2y ago
This is a great example of an instance of this "Makefile effect" with a possible solution: use Markdown and Pandoc where possible. This won't work in every situation, but sometimes one can compose a basic Beamer presentation
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by wjholden 2y ago
I agree that it wasn't completely well-received, and I think this is a real shame. The stated goal of Advent of Code was always to make better programmers. Extending, maintaining, and testing large systems is an important part of real-
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by wjholden 2y ago
What solver are you referring to? I've used z3 and OR-tools, but I find it so difficult to model problems in either one that I seldom get good usage of either one.
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by wjholden 2y ago
Right, Eric Wastl addresses exactly this in his talk. He considers weekends and burnout in the pacing of the event. I think this is the right video: https://youtu.be/bS9882S0ZHs
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by wjholden 2y ago
I would have loved to train an LLM on my old technical blog. In my last job, I used a blog to write informal reports. I set pretty loose rules for the blog for my team. We would post meeting minutes, outage postmortems, scripts, tricky one-
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by wjholden 2y ago
Cisco switches can mirror ports with a feature called Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN). For a monitored port, one can specify the direction (frames in, out, or both), and the destination port or VLAN. SPAN ports are great for network troubleshoo
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by wjholden 2y ago
I'm really impressed that it can render math from TeX input. Is this a common thing in GUI toolkits? My graphics experience is mostly limited to Java's Swing and OpenGL from my college days.

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