NotAnOtter

Ammonia is 1 Nitrogen bonded with 3 hydrogen.

The raw stuff is definitely there. Thought I'm sure there are easier ways of making it.

Gah dmn

Huh? Satire?

"Attention Is All You Need" ring any bells?

This was the impression I gathered as well. It seemed the authors had already decided this will revolutionize NN before it had even gone through review.

They have several other "We took the best of both worlds" type papers.

Agree a piece of informative media - in theory - should be taken on it's own merits alone. But to live in that world we would need to forgo the ability to make informed assumptions about how well thought out the media itself is. That's why research papers are intended to be read as though you don't know the author - it's purely data based & logical, any calls to background knowledge requires an explicit reference.

That's just not practical in the real world.

After thinking about it a bit more, I think I am actually on your side. I previously claimed to be on "Const when things should never locally change".

But thinking through the example

function expectedRevenuePerAttempt() {

  (const/let) successRate = success / attempt;

  return successRate * revenuePerSuccess

}

I would prefer to use const there.

Use them

Do you have kids / wife?

If I was in your situation I would spend ~$5k on high quality backpacking gear and spend March - August hiking the APT.

If I was posting my LI to HR I might do the same, at least for that week, so I don't have randoms trying to DOX me.

But I also would never post my LI to HR for the same reason.

If you're working until 9 pm either 1. You need to sleep in and start work around 12:00. Now staying up until 1 doesn't matter 2. Stop working until 9pm

Funny, that's not my preferred one nor the teams

Why rewrite an entire code base away from JQuery.. and not to native implementations?

The era of jQuery and it's clones are over. People need to move on. If you're ever at the architecture level of your code base and think "What package should I use for DOM manipulation?", you're doing something wrong.

It's common at most mega-corps like google. For example, if a utility function in an internal library was deprecated and replaced with a different function that has the same functionality. A team might write a script which generates hundreds/thousands of PR's to make the migration to the new function.

You don't want a single PR that does that, because that would affect thousands of projects, and if something goes wrong with a single one, the whole PR needs to be rolled back.

I also work at google (until last Friday). Agree with what you said. My thoughts are

1. This quote is clearly meant to exaggerate reality, and they are likely including things like fully automated CL/PR's which have been around for a decade as "AI generated".

2. I stated before that if a team of 10 is equally as productive as a team of 8 utilizing things like copilot, it's fair to say "AI replaced 2 engineers", in my opinion. More importantly, Tech leaders would be making this claim if it were true. Copilot and it's clones have been around long enough know for the evidence to be in, and no one is stating "we've replaced X% of our workforce with AI" - therefor my claim is (by 'denying the consequent'), using copilot does not materially accelerate development.

This is like the tech reporter's version of stable diffusion.

Does it have some similarities? sure. Is it easier to understand than actual stable diffusion? yes.

Is this basically how stable diffusion works? Not even close.

I'm guessing you would expect a longer life out of the offerings from 1920 than today as well. We've gotten really good at making things last just long enough to clear warranty before falling apart to save money, back in 1920 they were mostly using real lumber.

"HTML is the struts, CSS is the drywall, wall paper, dining chairs, swing set, JS is the JS is the electricity & plumbing & light switches"

I came up with that metaphor on my own, and didn't know at the time that this is a pretty common metaphor so it holds a special place to me.

Exactly. I have enough money, I need more fullfillment

I'm aware, that's part of why I'm jumping. There is so much overhead in FAANG that you have to spend months dealing with approvals, documentation, etc. that it really only makes sense to silo.

I'm hoping to join a team where I contribute to many ranges of feature sets.

I knew it was just a matter of time before someone but the bullet and built one of these things

This sounds like hell.

It might be a brainhack positive reinforcement type thing, like "tests passed! Ding!" but for actual functional use ("File passed linter! Ding!" every few seconds) sounds like overstimulation fodder.

I already get annoyed at my machine when it's trying to correct what I'm writing faster than I can write it incorrectly. Let me get the rough draft out first.

This sounded very stupid and just a rip off of other projects at first.

By the end of the article I was impressed.

This has no relevance to the article. As others have said, the fungi isn't actually thinking or really controlling the bot.

It makes arbitrary electrical stimulus anyways, and they're just "listening" to that and using it to control a robot

I'm not that familiar with Godot but the built in language always felt like a misstep. Maybe someone more familiar with it can make a defense.

I view 3 users 1. Complete Novice 2. Engineer dabbling in games 3. Professional game designer.

For #2, they are more likely to prefer C# as they probably already have experience with it, or otherwise will be familiar with the similar Java language. Also it's a nice resume boost to say you've used C#

For #3, I can't imagine the godot language is better for large scale games than any custom language. C# just has way more resources put behind it

For #1, I kinda see it. But they would probably be better learning a language with more tutorials available. Or if they're struggling, pygame is probably a better place to start.

Zuck Vs Elon on the 2028 presidential ticket would be.... something

It probably won't be successful, such is the nature of these things. If you're trying to pocket some money off this thing, really your only path forward is to get a utility patent and then stir up enough noise that Yelp or Uber or someone buys it off you. It's a long, long road ahead with a fat pay off at the end but 99% you lose your time and money. 1% of the time you walk away with a few million if you created a big enough dirt storm.

Not trying to discourage you, but you should know what you're getting into.

"It's the journey not the destination" written pedantically as though it's audience could only find a central loci of control by superimposing their life into Lord of the Rings

"It's more efficient because um... the written expression is shorter"

Wait until the hear about base Googol

>A binary logic system can only answer “yes” or “no.”

This line really struck me and it's a failure in technical writing. This is an article published on "quantamagazine", about niche computing techniques. You have a technical audience... you shouldn't still be explaining what binary is at the halfway point in your article.

> Why didn’t ternary computing catch on? The primary reason was convention .. No

This article is honestly worthless, it doesn't address the actual challenges & strengths of moving to ternary or a different base system. Binary is superior mostly because the components are way more reliable and therefor can be made much much smaller for the same price.

Trust me if Nvidia or Snapdragon could make a chip or even a whole prebuild computer working in base 3 that was 5% more efficient for the same price they ABSOLUTLY would and would get rich doing it.