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I got about two sentences further, it turns out another smoking gun is Mr. Back using c++ in his graduate studies, just like the original bitcoin implementation.

You may not be able to think of a worse experience, but a lot of "newer" programmers may not even know what an LSP is. While it's true that I no longer need to rely on some of the …

Assuming that the plugin is enabled for the free version, CLion is also amazing for Rust. Thanks Jetbrains! Here's hoping this won't be abused by smaller companies that will no lon…

I love the look and the idea, but I wonder if it will go the way of the small/budget phone? Will folks revealed preference continue to be big and expensive?

Good article. Funnily enough the throw away line "I don't see parentheses anymore". Is my greatest deterrent with lisp. It's not the parens persay, it's the fact that I'm used to r…

By definition if I knew how AI would change the world, I would invest/build things to that end. The fact that we still don't have a great AI product outside of chatgpt, shows that …

My great-grandmother and grandfather were in Leningrad during the siege. My great-grandmother continued to teach throughout. At some point she was given the option to evacuate with…

Required reading for this theme, and one of my personal favorite short stories: https://qntm.org/lena

Humans tend to like to stay at there they are, in the tech context especially. It takes a long time relative to the length of a career to learn new systems, make new connections, a…

I did a research project on this a while back - and when it comes to understanding deep network learning rate, regularization, hidden layer effects, and activations, I don't think …

Article seems to make the argument that is should happen (poorly), but doesn't provide any evidence that it will happen.

Essentially automating project boilerplate that is custom enough to need attention, but not quite custom enough where it's interesting. Some examples include creating dockerfiles, …

Classic misunderstanding of programming languages. The only thing stopping cobol from being "known" is these companies paying for it.

yeah - as seen from a few comments on my post, everyone has different opinions on non-objective stuff related to keyboard/trackpad. I feel like the keyboard is pretty responsive wh…

Glad you are! I don't want to be overly negative. I am comparing my M2 work macbook trackpad with my 2 year old lemur pro trackpad - it's not really a fair comparison. The problem …

Figure I might as well drop a quick review after 2 years with the lemur pro 11 Pros: * Most things "just work", which you only appreciate after working with other linux laptops. Fo…

Idk inventing convolutions and a bunch of other stuff we use everyday is somewhat significant. Machine learning, if we call it a field, is a whole lot newer than physics, and so a …

I have to agree. Especially given the very real possibility that your ML project won't be cutting edge research grade. At that point someone who doesn't have bias and is willing to…

They do have this, you can choose to bid for a target conversion cost (I want to pay at most $x per conversion). In general I find all of this pretty silly as a Google employee.. I…

I agree in general, but most people that run 50 miles a weeks also eat healthy. So there's a lot of correlation there. IE show me a person that runs 50 miles a week but also eats m…

Meta is a company that makes money off of users endlessly browsing content. It would follow that making it easier/faster to generate content would benefit Meta.

I was pretty impressed with my interaction. When I asked it to help me practice French, Claud let me ask clarifying questions about specific phrases it used, with background on spe…

Oh yeah I agree that it _could_ do all those things, but it would be a bit of overkill to always send every observation an agent encounters into the API/chatbox, and ask it to spit…

This paper feels significant. If chatgpt was an evolutionary step on gpt3.5/gpt4, then this is bit like taking chatgpt and using it as the backbone of something that can accumulate…

Time for my yearly tradition of making it to day 4 in Haskell and feeling very smart before completely giving up on the first hard problem that needs regular arrays :)