The back of the envelope computations are shockingly shallow and meaningless. (20 Questions, from the intro) Trying to think of a thing for the game is not a search over a set of known things. Just saying the…
I was a TA and instructor for several programming classes, usually in Java, with which I was moderately experienced but not an expert. My students would frequently ask how to accomplish something, how syntax or keywords…
I'm reminded of a high school programming class where a project partner named variables with the most crude and lewd words he could imagine. Not that I was prudish, but he unsurprisingly never remembered what "butts"…
Agree, looking for the multi upvote button
I mean can't you just have the input signal to the light be a disjunction of signals? So it's on if the camera is on OR if some programmatic signal says turn it on? I don't see why they should be mutually exclusive
I'm thinking you misinterpreted the comment you responded to? I read it as saying that you don't necessarily have to have employment linked healthcare just because you have at-will employment. The "inexplicably" being a…
I can remember a number of instances of having to dive into design docs to ascertain how a few systems interacted with each other. I bet a lot of the time it might be good enough to just have a "here's the set of…
Do you have, offhand, any names or references to point me toward why you think fish and lizards can make rapid common sense deductions about man made objects they couldn't have seen in their evolutionary histories?…
Some adjectives stack, like "terribly". Though maybe there's some kind of strong enough diminishing effect on emphasis value such that any number of "terribly"s still has bounded effect XD
It's weird to me for "ease factor" to be an intrinsic property of a card/thing to learn at all. I study things like Chinese characters with Anki and it's not but just rote memorization, there are systems and structures…
You're imagining something you think is what it's like to be a crab, or what you think it's like to have more legs, etc., but why do you have any confidence that's what it actually is like?
The existence of "The dress", which is seen by different people or the same person in different states of mind as white/gold or blue/black, and other such illusions, would seem to invalidate your perspective. Or if…
Sure, an LLM based tool may happily double down on a wrong position, and articulately address a student's concerns in doing so, possibly hallucinating convincing evidence.
100% agree with this attitude. A human whose attention is directed at you who uses their eyes for input will turn their eyes to you. The eyes are not just signalers, but the person actually needs to turn them to you to…
No, it's the most... Hobby... Mathematician
That's not how anything works. A knowledge gap doesn't warrant any conclusion you want.
Why not say "the essence of computing is computing"? It's not like "universiality" is any more explicit or clear than "computing" itself. What is the point of this kind of "finding the essence" exercise anyway?…
Some positions are remote but many are hybrid, required to go in some fraction of days
Didn't read the article because i don't care to bother with the paywall, but if its title is related to any arguments within, then the comment you're responding to actually does address the main idea. The title is an…
Disclaimer: I have been employed by Google and my views are my own. I can also see the value for a large organization in culturally enforcing interchangeability and replaceability of workers. I always considered this…
No, you dohave a valid list of features you want to group together, but attaching them to a word you have not clearly defined -- especially in this incredibly fraught case -- is just confusing you. If you haven't…
- tech labor cost is depressed most effectively when everyone is doing it - everyone is doing it so it's that much easier to buck responsibility for the decision
It never ceases to amuse me how confidently "it's difficult to define" and "clearly it's this way" can appear in the same thought/sentence about the mind.
Discord has a large contingent of gamers among its users who expect to be able to use discord to communicate while gaming, so even if this isn't Discord's fault it's in their interest to look into it and facilitate a…
It's easy to think all of the things you wanted to say were important, so you leave them in. But often they weren't so important to your eventual audience.
The back of the envelope computations are shockingly shallow and meaningless. (20 Questions, from the intro) Trying to think of a thing for the game is not a search over a set of known things. Just saying the…
I was a TA and instructor for several programming classes, usually in Java, with which I was moderately experienced but not an expert. My students would frequently ask how to accomplish something, how syntax or keywords…
I'm reminded of a high school programming class where a project partner named variables with the most crude and lewd words he could imagine. Not that I was prudish, but he unsurprisingly never remembered what "butts"…
Agree, looking for the multi upvote button
I mean can't you just have the input signal to the light be a disjunction of signals? So it's on if the camera is on OR if some programmatic signal says turn it on? I don't see why they should be mutually exclusive
I'm thinking you misinterpreted the comment you responded to? I read it as saying that you don't necessarily have to have employment linked healthcare just because you have at-will employment. The "inexplicably" being a…
I can remember a number of instances of having to dive into design docs to ascertain how a few systems interacted with each other. I bet a lot of the time it might be good enough to just have a "here's the set of…
Do you have, offhand, any names or references to point me toward why you think fish and lizards can make rapid common sense deductions about man made objects they couldn't have seen in their evolutionary histories?…
Some adjectives stack, like "terribly". Though maybe there's some kind of strong enough diminishing effect on emphasis value such that any number of "terribly"s still has bounded effect XD
It's weird to me for "ease factor" to be an intrinsic property of a card/thing to learn at all. I study things like Chinese characters with Anki and it's not but just rote memorization, there are systems and structures…
You're imagining something you think is what it's like to be a crab, or what you think it's like to have more legs, etc., but why do you have any confidence that's what it actually is like?
The existence of "The dress", which is seen by different people or the same person in different states of mind as white/gold or blue/black, and other such illusions, would seem to invalidate your perspective. Or if…
Sure, an LLM based tool may happily double down on a wrong position, and articulately address a student's concerns in doing so, possibly hallucinating convincing evidence.
100% agree with this attitude. A human whose attention is directed at you who uses their eyes for input will turn their eyes to you. The eyes are not just signalers, but the person actually needs to turn them to you to…
No, it's the most... Hobby... Mathematician
That's not how anything works. A knowledge gap doesn't warrant any conclusion you want.
Why not say "the essence of computing is computing"? It's not like "universiality" is any more explicit or clear than "computing" itself. What is the point of this kind of "finding the essence" exercise anyway?…
Some positions are remote but many are hybrid, required to go in some fraction of days
Didn't read the article because i don't care to bother with the paywall, but if its title is related to any arguments within, then the comment you're responding to actually does address the main idea. The title is an…
Disclaimer: I have been employed by Google and my views are my own. I can also see the value for a large organization in culturally enforcing interchangeability and replaceability of workers. I always considered this…
No, you dohave a valid list of features you want to group together, but attaching them to a word you have not clearly defined -- especially in this incredibly fraught case -- is just confusing you. If you haven't…
- tech labor cost is depressed most effectively when everyone is doing it - everyone is doing it so it's that much easier to buck responsibility for the decision
It never ceases to amuse me how confidently "it's difficult to define" and "clearly it's this way" can appear in the same thought/sentence about the mind.
Discord has a large contingent of gamers among its users who expect to be able to use discord to communicate while gaming, so even if this isn't Discord's fault it's in their interest to look into it and facilitate a…
It's easy to think all of the things you wanted to say were important, so you leave them in. But often they weren't so important to your eventual audience.