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I agree. I was taught Scheme and I later taught it. It was a much cleaner and suitable language for teaching computer science than Python. Students could completely understand the …

Browser debugging tools are very basic. Their UI is generally awful. Spend a few days debugging in PyCharm and you'll scream when you open developer tools.

I only use print debugging when working on the web, and your mention of console.log makes me think maybe you're in the same boat. It's an absolutely damning indictment of the devel…

I taught both SICP and Java, and I can confirm Java was far more confusing to students. Classes vs instances, inheritance, polymorphism. Why was everything a class? Don't I just wa…

Yes, I agree these are two good points. I also experienced teaching SICP and would say the overall position of the GP is incorrect and results in a less profound understanding of p…

> Bullshit. Again, I was a TA for this course. You do not spend the rest of the semester on ideas, you spend the rest of the semester on the students being very confused. I was a T…

My completely unscientific analysis: aerobics gets the blood circulating more and enables the body to remove stress hormones from the blood at a faster rate.

Hi Hacker News I’m Captain Obvious and I’m here to tell you (and myself) an uncomfortable truth that most of us kinda know but really can’t face up to. Many of us have sleep proble…

My theory is this is cause by stress hormones. You can get to sleep because you’re so damn exhausted, but you wake up as soon as you’re physically able because of the hormones. The…

A lot of people wake up at 3 or 4am. This is typically stress related. Possible solution: 1. Sit up or get up. If getting up, I usually get a mint tea. 2. Journal. Write down your …

Problems with f/oss for business applications: 1. Great UX folks almost never work for free. So the UX of nearly all OSS is awful. 2. Great software comes from a close connection t…

What happened when someone from the cool club got promoted and became a boss?

I actually think Slack is great and it has improved over the last 12 months.

Tbf the same debate has raged over SO snippets for a long time.

Hmm, no I think people don't get what I'm saying. Yes, you might waste five years (in your words) of income. But that is not a "risk". A "risk" for me is "this could all go badly w…

I don’t think there are risky either. For me risk is “could go horribly wrong” but the worst case for most startup founders is … get a job?

“Wasting years” is not a risk. It’s a choice. And as I pointed out it’s likely not wasted anyway.

This is a fair point. I was talking in the context of USA UK Canada but it might not generalise.

I disagree, but I don’t have a cogent argument yet. So I can’t really refute you. What I can say is, I think there’s a very important disagreement here and it divides nerds into tw…

For folks without responsibilities like kids, aging parents, etc. I really don’t think startups are very “risky”. What’s the worst that happens? It doesn’t work out and after five …

The tech wasn’t ready. Alexa is the same. No progress. Businesses have to focus and it made sense to drop this as a priority.

What do you mean by “an LLM doesn’t reason”?

Well yes, necessary but not sufficient, obviously.

The context comes from the attention mechanism, not from word embeddings.

I think what this argument is missing is the emergent properties of the LLM. In order to “predict the next word”, the LLM doesn’t just learn the most likely word from a corpus for …