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the important thing imo isn't the distinction of computing vs running experiment/simulating, but rather the pragmatical aspects around it: how easy is it to set up and execute. if …

this post is way too optimistic. you're implying the people making the decision that leetcode tests are used are competent enough to know they suck but still use them for the soft-…

There's a world of a difference between doing a PhD with an expert supervisor (in the field) and bootstrapping it completely on your own.

if you work on a non-trivial c++ code base, being vigilant about compile times can literally make the difference between compiling your codebase from scratch in a minute vs. compil…

I don't quite think you understand. The data presented here absolutely does not allow for the conclusions you make particularly in your second paragraph. In fact the reality could …

It's useful to have differentiable versions of all sorts of rendering techniques. They can be used as input to training for whatever you want to do.

people complain because those whiteboard / algo heavy interviews don't actually test for that ability, and it's trivially obvious. just the fact that people practice them before FA…

Maybe I'm missing something but unless the interviewer expects a 100% correct csv parser that handles all possible corner cases this is basically - read file - start at beginning; …

The specific things he's mentioning are domain specific topics to (it sounds like) OS development that most low-level capable programmers could pick up no problem. I'm talking abou…

phrasing it this way rubs me the wrong way, it gives people without a good understanding of science the idea that scientists are just wildly wrong all the time like the way people …

super late response, but I'm saying we understand. EM radiation from your router is just way too low energy to enact any changes in the atoms making up the molecules in you for eve…

it's just kind of obvious from looking at the distribution of these kinds of posts. lots of people posting blogs about why they use x and y new technology with these objectively go…

I would engage with this with a lot of caution. There is a class of psychoactive compounds (psilocybin is one of them) which, from what we can currently tell, increase neuroplastic…

Even if it sounds like it makes sense, something tells me that these (not just this one, all of these kinds of 'why x and y is happening') are really after-the-fact rationalization…

Attention span and related topics are well studied in psychology, with new research appearing almost weekly - much more than becoming not boring, what would really help is if the a…

We've known the basic physics answer to this for ages, yet even my old physics teacher in high school used to say that he's careful around a lot of electromagnetic radiation like W…

it's less about democracy and more about the economical systems and hierarchy in use. i suspect an encounter with china for example would go quite differently

science is a pretty long term process. in practice results and consensus stabilizies after around 50 years or so. the reason it takes so long is that the turnaround time for a sing…

there are many much more unequal societies than the US where this just isn't a problem. russia or china, for example. their rates of violent crimes like this are far below that of …

why terrible? those wikis are super helpful

in 2006 cpus made a momentous breakthrough by breaking l1 cache access time barrier of 1.0ns and reduced it to 1ns

I wish there was a version that normalized the times somehow instead of showing absolute times. Most of these numbers will get smaller simply because CPUs get faster, but it would …

the game gets shit on a lot but for better or worse they are genuinely trying a lot of things that nobody else tries and is probably ever going to try again. the depth of simulatio…