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gautamcgoel

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About gautamcgoel

Postdoc in machine learning at UC Berkeley.

https://gautamcgoel.com

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    Comment #48890630

    So sad to hear this. Hard to imagine anyone else playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park.

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    Comment #48668356

    Doesn't Zig also have bitwise operators?

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    Comment #47578461

    Wait, I'm confused. Do you mean Boston should have made non-compete agreements illegal?

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    Comment #47566067

    I assume OP means that a probe launched today would take decades to exit the solar system.

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    Comment #47443975

    The thing I don't understand with these loan arguments is: don't you eventually need to pay taxes in the income you use to repay the loan? It seems to me that folks who take out su…

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    Comment #47419766

    Just wanted to say this is an amazing technical writeup, thanks for sharing.

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    Comment #47107099

    Looks amazing. However, I'm confused about some of the examples in the ownership section. Consider this example: [fn consume [xs] [println [str "got " [len xs] " items"]]] [let ite…

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    Comment #46488241

    What old features would you like to dispose of in a modern redesign of D? What would this new edition look like?

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    Comment #46270870

    Mammoth and Red Thunder are both masterpieces.

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    Comment #46139139

    How would this work, given that Anthropic is a public benefit corporation?

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    Comment #45839238

    Whoa! Any references?

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    Comment #45838847

    Been using Boks for a couple months, haven't noticed much difference. Maybe some reduced sensitivity.

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    Comment #45625036

    Which car + how do you like it?

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    Comment #45554598

    I'm confused: why would you short BTC if you knew in advance that additional tariffs would be announced? Wouldn't you expect that to increase the dollar value of BTC due to depreci…

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    Comment #45552337

    Sorry to hear that, that is completely unacceptable behavior.

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    Comment #45459065

    You are correct that 1-based indexing is the norm among mathematicians, but none of the creators of Lua is a mathematician, AFAIK. You can read about the early history of Lua here:…

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    Comment #45243327

    What were the benefits?

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    Comment #45081521

    What British values do you think have been abandoned in favor of American values?

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    Comment #44998515

    Do you have a source for that B200 price?

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    Comment #44934937

    Simple solution: take an antacid, like Tums.

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    Comment #44926002

    Any upcoming advances for gum disease?

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    Comment #44892379

    So sorry to hear this, I wish him the best.

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    Comment #44857577

    How much higher bandwidth, percentage wise, can one expect from integrated DRAM vs socketed DRAM? 10%?

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    Comment #44513697

    Yeah, but their AI/data center GPUs go for closer to $100K, and I've heard that they obtain >50% margins on those. I agree with your overall point that the $4T valuation is not jus…