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by zmgsabst 3y ago
1 hour per week of increased coding is a 5-7% boost in productivity, using the Amazon guidelines for how SDEs use their time — 50%/20hrs for SDE1 and 33%/13hrs for SDE3. Is that enough to be competitive? I’m not sure — but at scal
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Tried Lexis+ AI, and… it’s just not very good yet. Much like ChatGPT, it can only handle recall and summation — and even then, I don’t fully trust it because it often misses key ideas. And much like ChatGPT, it can’t do anything coherent at
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
This, but seriously: Let your junior colleagues fail on a schedule within the margin of error on your planning, but keep a close enough eye on them so you know how to bail it out if they can’t pull it together with a little extra time/
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
For maximum results, trade-off with a buddy: Spend Q1 each crashing your respective project; spend Q2 as a fixer undoing that damage using his knowledge of his own work. You’re both cutting edge and a proven fixer!
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Harvard and UNC lost a lawsuit over being racist to Asians. Was that online, too?
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
This is false: They operationalize their racist beliefs by discriminating against poor and powerless Whites in employment, education, and government programs.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
They use euphemisms like “DIE” because they know their beliefs are unpopular and repulsive. Even dystopian states like North Korea call themselves democratic republics.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
“We need to enforce our morality on you, for our beliefs are the true ones — and you’re unsafe for questioning them!” You sound like many authoritarian regimes.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Yes — if you use a consistent measure, this latest inflation is the same rate as the late-70s/early-80s inflation. https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts In fact, 2020s inflation (using histor
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
This is a nonsense reply. You’re committing a fallacy of “Appeal to Authority”, even though your comment doesn’t make sense — obviously we need a consistent measure across decades if we want to compare inflation across decades. Comparing tw
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
This isn’t the “other direction”, it’s the same direction with different victims.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Harvard and UNC lost a Supreme Court case last year about their racism towards Asians. This isn’t a fringe movement: Google’s racism exists across institutions and with real consequences.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
People are rightly making fun of Google for their racism.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
This seems hugely destabilizing. Is one of the US nuclear triad non-functional? — how would we know? Edit: Apparently the US can successfully launch them — and lets everyone know. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/20
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
When has a decision that’s bad for the decision maker ever been popular? We see it in the C-suite; we see it with engineers. I think the travesty of so-called “principal engineers” and “engineering leaders” is their adamant refusal to make
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Because it’s highly effective. You just slap a topology on things and you get an effective type theory that gets mostly good results which allow you to elide most of the complexity. This in turn allows you to reason about more complex thing
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Disagree: A lot of why large corporations fail to make products that people enjoy is tied up in this behavior and that mass is not independently distributed along each distribution — you end up with “continents of taste” your centroid produ
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I don’t understand: This link opens the post for me, while paywalled news is semi-routinely posted. What’s the objection?
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Iterated prisoner’s dilemma. The optimal strategy is signaling alliance (to receptive partners); after that, it’s reciprocating behavior. Teenagers (and many adults) aren’t willing to ally, so we’re left with reciprocating. Until they accep
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Game theory tells us the most effective strategy is matching their energy until they shift modalities. Sometimes, adults deny this truth to their own detriment because they’re “smart” or “civilized”.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Of course — and even more advantages in special administrative courts, where even reaching a regular court to assert your rights is so expensive most small farmers can’t afford it and where Big Ag doesn’t have to expend any money at all sin
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Right — but there’s a broad question of if Congress can establish special courts. This is being asked about more than labor, including taxes and regulations. The rise of special administrative courts is arguably denying people their rights
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
This has been a large frustration of mine: I know from talks that filaments[0], galactic lobes[1], structure of arms[2], etc relate to EM — but finding anything at the layperson level is basically impossible. Just short blog posts, but no r
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Is there somewhere that assesses the EM impact of things? As I understand it, planetary magnetic fields influence solar winds; stellar ones structures in the galaxy; etc. I’d really like to learn more (preferably, with numbers).
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
That’s how we think: Imagine where you want to be (eg, “I scored a goal!”) from where you are now, visualize how you’ll get there (eg, a trick and then a shot), then do that.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I’d argue it’s a process solution to a people problem: “We don’t like how bankers do their job or their relationship with government, so the community will create a shared ledger.” All the discussion around technology is just details of tha
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I’ve also seen the reverse: What’s presented as a technical solution is actually a process solution to address a people problem.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Why would you care about customer problems if they don’t embarrass you in public? /s
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I’m relatively sure that NNs are learning an implicit type theory anyway. But: 1. we don’t know which one; and, 2. you can only use fuzzy reasoning, not synthesize and compute results. I think the next breakthrough will be using statistical
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Yes — that’s correct. Programs with a fixed amount of execution time always terminate. That’s why we add timeouts to executions, because they’re a solution to the halting problem, which guarantees execution flow of our machines always retur

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