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I'm not sure about this - for quicksort the usual answer for myself is o(nlogn) average case and o(n^2) worst, and for hash maps it's o(1) amortized complexity. Conversely for merg…

Yes I saw the AIisms and immediately went to the comments lol. It's interesting I still don't think that it's worth reading stuff that seems so obviously AI generated! If you can't…

No I'm with him it still makes no sense to me. There's a massive assumption that because you fit the profile you'd have heard of the service if there wasn't advertising. A major pa…

This is technically correct I'm sure but people usually use it w.r.t. f being simply the runtime of the function, in which case the common usage converges. I think the original com…

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology Seems to be the referenced paper? If so previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43697717

Yeah fair points particularly for larger codebases I could see this being a huge time saver.

I directionally disagree with this: ``` It's common for engineers to end up working on projects which they don't have an accurate mental model of. Projects built by people who have…

Got up to the TL;DR paragraph. This was a major red flag given the initial presentation of the discovery of a bottleneck: ''' When a NOTIFY query is issued during a transaction, it…

Conversely this is exactly why I believe LLMs are sentient (or conscious or what have you). I basically don't believe there's anything more to sentience than a set of capabilities,…

I think there is right? It's been a long time but I seem to remember it following from the time hierarchy theorem

Question - why would you do this in current year ? Is it that much more performant? I might be ignorant but frameworks seem to be the lingua franca for a reason - they make your li…

Yeah I'm firmly on the LLMs are actually sentient train so this was a bit of a distressing read

ITT: panicked Google employees try to convince you this is a very bad thing