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> And a large fraction of those who do have re-used existing open source solutions without digging a lot into them.

This is a good thing. Coming up with new ideas is for researchers. Turning them into a product is for entrepreneurs and engineers. One of the reasons I see so much promise in ai startups is because the research has matured to a point where anyone can take it off the shelf and apply it to their domain. Similar to the web, there was a few early companies that did great things with novel engineering, but most of the value generated was CRUD apps built on top of frameworks like Ruby on rails.

Next generation smart HDR is a big upgrade. The new chip will be able to run the new image processing algorithms based on deep learning which gives you photo quality bump similar to a better camera

> I think creative nerds are the life-blood of the industry, but they tend to be shy and not assertive, so they have their life controlled by the "business types". I honestly believe that if the nerds told them to fuck off and started spending their time working on things they think are relevant, the world would become much better quickly. This won't happen, I know.

This is how I felt about myself, I spent my early twenty working a job living frugally saving and then quitting to work on my own projects. Failed entrepreneurship was a great lesson in how hard it is build things people want and how easy it is to build things you think people want. The difference is often very subtle small details, but asking the right questions to unearth those details in incredibly challenging.

The amount of things that someone will give their time or attention to our suprisingly small

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

Written from a psychologist who survived the concentration camps. A wholly unique perspective on human life.

I'm working a piece of generative art, a rendering of the milky way galaxy.

I enjoy doing interactive art on the side. e.g. https://nicholasbardy.com/, but I've always hacked it out on my own. I've recently been studying some of the state of the art techniques(Signed Distance Functions) and I'm excited to make something running on the GPU.

Over the holidays I studied Signed Distances func

It's not just rare cases. 12% of the people in hospital in Italy are under age 50.

A lot of his techniques come from Tummo(Inner Fire Breathing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummo

> let alone convincing them to change their minds.

This has become a growing issue in American politics. As much as a love progressive politics myself. I can't deny the important of strong political opposition and the importance of conservative view points in opposition to progress.

Progressive politics has become ignorant to the people, and as a result the people have turned a dead ear towards it. Instead of trying to convince them of their new ideas and why they're better than the old ones. Progressives have adopted an assumption of, "the other side is evil and is deliberately holding us back".

It should be hard to cause political change. Most new ideas in politics are truly awful and failures at that level affect society gravely. Disagreement over how to move forward is fundamental to a functioning democracy and the emergence of good ideas. Yet modern politics seems to treat any amount of disagreement as a solemn oath of obstinance. Yes, changing minds politically is challenging, and yes it should be.

Yes. The optimizations for the perfect life are boring, learn how to love the life you're living not chasing milestones.

I've been to Colombia pre and post and Uber and this doesn't line up at all with my experience. 90% of the cases of friends I know getting robbed in South America was from a taxi.

You can also run CloureScript on node.

I just swapped from using Clojure to TypeScript at work and I can't feel any different. Types are really useful at organizations where people need to work together, Spec has been largely underwhelming on this front. I wish more attention would've gone into core.typed. Hickey has generally spent most of his time with the language choosing other peoples great ideas and picking the right set of them to combine for Clojure. Spec feels overly ambitious and more like a research project than something than something fundamental.

Deep Rock galactic. If it's not all game objects its damn close.

Eschew performance isn't the right way to put it. React allows you to do 90% of UI work in performant ways. It has good predictable performance for the majority of work and allows you to move through a lot of simple UI tasks quickly. And spend time focusing on the performance in parts of your app that matter. The situations where you really need performance tuning are going to be unique to your specific app and data.

At the same time we have the rise of long form podcasts. Producing quite the opposite effect.

Labeling this as "an incidence of gaming" is a framing that misses the main conflict of the situation. This real incidence here is an American company practicing censorship on behalf of the CCP.

You're right. We'll need bigger datasets and more complex models to achieve more useful results, but machine learning models can give predictions in real time so you could have this running as you type in your IDE, instead of visiting a website, also with a model fine tuned to your code base. "simpler use cases like the results on stack overflow" could explain at least 10% of the work I do, so even just that tool would be very useful for mediocre programmers like myself.

Behind all the hype, predictive text is something machine learning models are beginning to do very well. G-mail has rolled out a lot of similar features from advancements in deep learning models.

Great idea, I would love to see this. Tools for programming are going make some interesting leaps with all the new work going into language modeling. So much of the code we write is tweaks and combinations of a not particularly large set of patterns: loops, functions, merge, reduce, sort, filter, interleave, etc... Generating large blocks that are near your target result would be really useful for saving time, especially on the more repetitive tasks like writing tests or simple CRUD API endpoints.

Microsoft was showing off similar work from their own code datasets this year at ICLR, I couldn't find a link online, but the demos had block suggestions from method signatures for C#. It should be possible to get similar results with natural language queries.

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I wouldn't mind that, more responsibility on the software developer means more leverage to push back. I guarantee you I'm not rushing for a deadline if I think I'm compromising security that may put a black marge on my career.

I visited Brazil with an American passport a few years ago and ended up spending a bunch of time gathering documents and visiting the embassy back and forth. It was pretty discouraging and draining and I thought about not going.

Potentially turned away tourists, but now I also I understand what it's like to go through the process and I'm a big proponent of more free borders. It's a double edge sword, but it certainly left a similar impact on the other Americans I met in Brazil as well.

Working remotely and contracting so I could travel the world. Went well until I burned out and ended up a broke alcoholic.

I don't. I just suffer through the anxiety. Mostly trying not to pay attention to it until I've made something. Once I've made something with a new technology I've got evidence for myself, than I can start to find comfort.

I have the same qualifications as you. And the same struggle getting my foot in the door. I used Triplebyte and it was fantastic. If you can pass their interview it's worth doing.

If you didn't think their content was worth it you didn't have to visit. Now no one can.

Yea, I think what we really need is more tools for enabling build to build there own stuff.

Why is Adobe in there? Are they really an ad company?

I agreed its good to atomate jobs, but raising the minimum wage behind you is an anti competitive move I can't behind.

Raising the minimum wage to what they know they can afford looks more like an anti competitive manuever than a PR move. That would be a massive strain on most large retail chains.

I spent around 2 years in different countries in South America before this and I guarantee you the situation was worth without uber. Getting scammed was guaranteed, I was consistently more concerned about getting robbed or killed. 90% of the stories I heard of people getting robbed in South America were from cab drivers. Chloroform rags being tossed in the back seat, Guns pulled, Driving to a bad part of town and getting jumped by the cabbies friends, etc...