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Ironically, developers may turn out to be easier to replace than taxi drivers. We've seen technological progress replaced workers or made certain roles obsolete, and this may becom…

It sounds like a fun project. I worked on a vision based biometric system that used near infrared light as its light source. NIR was supposed to be more stable than natural light b…

People use their laptops under various lighting conditions. I can imagine it would be difficult (or likely impossible) to bring this PoC to a solid production level technology. It …

I agree with you. About a decade ago, I got really tired of coding interview prep. I somehow ended up getting into Project Euler and worked through the first 100 problems. It was a…

I found the news hilarious. Orcas used to wear salmon hats back in the 80s, then the trend disappeared, only to make a comeback in recent years. It really feels like they have thei…

His name could be interpreted as "aspiring to be a scholar". I guess he's done an exceptional job living up to it.

> To add: Reading is also thinking (ideally). I've heard that some philosophers like Schopenhauer argue that reading can become a passive process, where we simply follow another pe…

I miss the old days when Facebook was simply a fun way to reconnect with friend and family who lived far away. Unfortunately, those days are gone. It feels like an over engineered …

It's sad to see the interviewer wasting the opportunity to interview Penrose. I found Lex Fridman does a much better job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0

We should thank Meta for laying off a talented engineer.

I recently used an LLM to translate an algorithm from Go to Python at my work. The translation was quite accurate, and it made me think tasks involving obvious one-to-one correspon…

I have a conundrum about this. If an LLM can learn our codebase and generate reasonable reviews, does this imply it could perform the work independently without us? Perhaps generat…

I’m the same way. I bought 12 and 13 minis and stopped upgrading my phone since then. I’d love to have a mini version with a good optical zoom camera.

So the progress of human proficiency in Go and our collective advancement over time is hindered by dogmatic rules introduced over time. These rules predispose players toward specif…

I started my journey in machine learning fifteen years ago. Ironically, at that time, my professor told me that neural networks were outdated and trying them wouldn't result in pub…

This is a relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191408

I thought neither mathematics nor engineering is strictly science. Engineering utilizes scientific knowledge to solve complex problems, but its purpose isn't to make scientific dis…

Taiwan has important semiconductor companies like TSMC. It’s also one of geopolitically unstable regions. I guess this is part of mitigating the risk of chip shortages.

debugging a machine learning algorithm is already hard without this approximation method. I can see adding another layer could make it extremely harder.

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8833/4/dome_100711.pdf It looks there's a paper related to the topic.

I'm not familiar with ketamine at all, but it just feels unsafe to decide by ourselves. Do psychiatrists have to monitor patients closely and determine the amount and frequency of …

I will use tor browser and duckduckgo for the rest of my life

Is this because they are afraid of the model misused, like used for generating fake reviews? It is frustrating that I've been hearing great news on NLP but am able to try none of t…