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It looks most similar to a Rhodes piano-type electromechanical keyboard, where tuned metal elements are somehow actuated and then sonified with a guitar pickup. Unlikely theres any…

Many people who get into software development before 2010 or so have easily spent hundreds of dollars on dev tools of a similar nature.

Sharing my experience if it helps. I graduated in 2006 from Princeton CS, cum laude, with no job offers from any tech company. This was even before the global financial crisis of 2…

This blog post (and blog in general) has some detailed descriptions of different control laws, how they are activated, and how they contributed to the conditions of this particular…

Lmao no, what Ive described is a reasonably competent junior engineer.

> very fancy search engines This is a common misunderstanding of LLMs. The major, qualitative difference is that LLMs represent their knowledge in a latent space that is composable…

I didnt make it past the long list of id() misuses, but its a rookie mistake to confuse referential equality with value equality, and when doing so youre in for a bad time.

For those who aren't already familiar, James Burke in Connections has a great summary/rundown of this technological progression from Jacquard loom to census tabulator to computer p…

The Agency on Showtime also prominently features the Barbican as the protagonist's residence with a number of great exterior shots.

Im saying, lets see some actual reasoning behind the extrapolation rather than "just trust me bro" or "sama said this in a TED talk". Many of the comments here and elsewhere have b…

Thanks -- this is what I mean by evidence, someone with actual experience and skin in the game weighing in rather than blustering proclamations based on vibes. I agree they improve…

Im using them fine. Im refuting the grandparent's point that they will replace basically all programming activities (including architecture) in 5 years.

Thanks -- this is much more thoughtful than the persistent chorus of "just trust me, bro".

I code with multiple LLMs every day and build products that use LLM tech under the hood. I dont think we're anywhere near LLMs being good at code design. Existing models make _tons…

This author presumably understands but buries the lede that for an endowment of $15 billion a university would typically only spend 5%, or $750 million, annually. So "a mere $400m"…

Some of this is probably driven by mobile usage and unifying the experience between mobile desktop. But the truth is a team almost certainly tested this and measured an improvement…

Its not offset, its amortized. Your effective flour / pizza is (300 + 300) / num_pizzas. The total marginal flour expended will go up as you make more pizzas, but the effective cos…

I'm ambivalent about Severance, though folks here may appreciate that it has many excellent establishing shots of the magnificent Bell Labs Holmdel Complex. https://en.wikipedia.or…

Counterpoint: I don't want a boss who is so detached from the rest of life & society that they have copious free time on nights and weekends to practice coding.

Double digits, in binary, at least

You dont have to imagine! Thats less than a sixth of a percent of the entire US federal budget :)

I have no specific insider knowledge, but a decade+ ago they bought a company called the Echo Nest that was developing some of the best audio signal analysis algorithms around, I a…

> This means there might be something universal about octave and fifth There is! At least for the kinds of instruments that are conventionally used in Western music. The harmonic s…