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Yeah, I was completely exhausted after the build. Glad that this confirms my suspicions.

Yes, but it’s like walking. I enjoy walking, but I’d rather drive to get to another town.

I remember showing a similar article to a teammate in a class to warn him about overcomplicating the assignment by using ORM. He said that the idea is beyond contempt and went ahead and used ORM. We didn’t finish the assignment.

Better link: https://forum.knime.com/t/batch-execution-no-longer-supporte...

Command-line automation feature will be disabled from KNIME 5.6 on. This is a move to force people to use their proprietary Business Hub. Very disappointing news for people who loved KNIME's open-source nature, and a very dangerous move for the company in the age in which people can easily create new application using AI. This is not the way. Users should take note and speak up.

I was hoping to see a glass surface for cats with keyboard and mouse space underneath so a cat can’t sit on backspace and escape key. No luck.

Try using reader mode (rectangle with two lines below). That got over the pictures.

Given that people can remember smell for years, this might be very useful for learning aid. Hook it up to an IDE and let people literally smell bad code as garbage.

Saying pharma companies are just holders of ‘expensive, time-limited IP’ is not only wrong, it’s offensive to those of us who actually do the science. We spend years designing, testing, and validating drugs, not scheming to hike prices. We’re not all Shkrelis out here.

Apple offers recycling service, so that’s an option.

I’ve done both, and I disagree with you. You are always working for someone else, either a client or a boss. Investment is not work.

When we go to grad school, we’re taught how to write a research paper. Each field has a more or less standard format, where different types of data go in specific sections. So if an LLM is trained on enough papers in that field, it can learn to plug in the information you provide according to those conventions.

In that sense, you’d give the LLM the purpose of the paper, the field you’re writing in, and the relevant data from your lab notebook. Personally, I never enjoyed writing manuscripts — most of the time goes into citing every claim and formatting everything correctly, which often feels more like clerical work than communicating discovery.

I don’t mind if LLMs help write these papers. I don’t think learning to mimic this stylistic form necessarily adds to the process of discovery. Scientists should absolutely be rigorous and clear, but I’d welcome offloading the unnecessary tedium of stylized writing to automation.

Stroustrup took out object hierarchy introspection feature that was available before, which turned out to be a pretty handy feature that people kept trying to reimplement.

In my experience, I don’t think hallucinations are a big problem anymore in terms of coding as long as you work within your domain of expertise.

The perception that AI tools make development faster is perhaps due to the part we spend a lot of time with thinking about how to write (like commenting) is solved instantly.

I think a lot of the delay is that it’s a new class of tool, and just like last gen IDE it takes a bit of getting used to and know where their strengths are, and know how to effectively fit it into your workflow.

This is the best advertisement of the book. I wasn’t even aware of the title until now.

It’s just that ADHD was not recognized until recently. We as a society is not well informed about this. But it’s important for us to feel the need to address this problem.

I think the best analogy is myopia. Until glasses were invented, people with poor eyesight were very limited in what they can do. People with glasses were stigmatized (remember “four-eyes”?). We didn’t know what caused it. Then things became normalized and lens making techniques became so advanced and ubiquitous that it no longer became such a big deal to see people with glasses. Then things like contact lenses and surgical procedures that came along which can correct it, making the person with myopia indistinguishable from one without. We are now starting to reach a stage where people can prevent the condition from developing because we have a better understanding of the disorder (although there are a lot of snake oils out there).

ADHD is like myopia, which limits the range of things that people are capable of. We have imperfect tools like adderall which has a lot of unwanted side effects. My hope is that technologies like AI personal assistants geared toward helping people with ADHD will act as a way to augment these deficiencies, much in the way glasses have. We as a civilization simply did not reach that stage.

“ You could argue that at its core, poetry is about distilling thoughts and emotions into their purest form.”

I really disagree with this statement. Language places heavy constraints on what can and cannot be expressed in poetry more than prose does. If poetry represents human emotion, then it should be easy to translate poetry to another language, but it’s not. Try using the same form of a poem and translate to another language and see if it has the same emotive effect - it’s really difficult to do so.

Poetry seems to express emotions because its constraints has limits on what can be conveyed effectively. As far as I understand, rhymes and meters used in poetry are more of mnemonic techniques from non-literate culture, like a check-sum or error correction mechanism. In post-literate culture, it’s merely a word play.

Maybe I just don’t like poetry.

“I think where a lot of parents go wrong is representing things as "because I said so" when in fact, there is a very good reason for what the parent is doing and explaining that reason to the child would both reduce resentment and be more valuable than the discipline being given. ” Oh boy…if kids were that reasonable I would overlook almost any other deficiency. I don’t think this isn’t what you are implying, I think the author’s parents DID explain things to him. He just didn’t like what he heard.

Being unable to focus attention is not a beneficial trait in current society. Imagine having to have to take regular medication to control your blood pressure but cannot keep track of your regimen. It requires extra effort to keep the person healthy. Another is tackling difficult and long-term cognitive tasks, which is often necessary to function in society nowadays (I dread filing taxes). This may change in the future (especially with AI) but right now it is the way it is.

There are many traits that are advantageous in one environment and not in another: for example, sickle-cell phenotype became prevalent in regions where malaria was common, because you are likely to survive the infection. But otherwise the individual is likely to suffer from sickle cell anemia. People who have low calorie requirement may survive a famine, but may suffer from obesity in calorie-rich environment.

Many things are hard enough for “normal” person who would not be perceived as having ADHD, but it’s more so for people with it. The expectations are set by the modern society, but the actual challenges for ADHD are naturally present - thus they are classified as disorder. It’s commonly debilitating enough to be recognized as one.

Yes, this article has the value of having a child’s perspective in form of an adult prose. It’s difficult to sympathize with him as an adult but gives insight on how some children see their parents during their adolescence.

I disagree. The author is clearly stating that he was not compatible with his parents’ way of raising him. So he is saying their way was “wrong”, and this implies that there is a “right” way, or at least “not wrong” way. I just feel really bad for the parents.

Or, you know, adopt phonetic alphabet like the Japanese and the Koreans. That may stop all the nonsense with arbitrary pronunciation (it won’t).

The only gripe I have is I have like 100 project windows open and I need to look for it (ctrl+P only works within the project window). Otherwise, it’s pretty much a perfect editor. Maybe I’m missing a plugin.

Absolutely agree on this. 1. DeepSeek just inspired a LOT of startups to develop their own as you no longer need to be a tech-giant to compete on training. 2. Companies with sensitive info will now buy their own GPUs to run their models locally as the range of application increased (as it did with Llama3) 3. As with 2, new services that were prohibitive with ChatGPT API will spring up. It’s difficult to reliably rent GPUs for services even with enough money, so people will buy more GPUs to host it themselves.

I understand if new CPU/GPU can outperform Nvidia and DeepSeek was developed using another GPU, but this is not the case. Lower requirement for higher performance historically never reduced the need for computational capacity. There is very poor reasoning for this move other than purely “technical” (trading-wise) reasons.

The company is an established leader in molecular design software suite. Everyone uses their docking software.

I think the article correctly points out the problem with the story of the company. At least to investors, their effort looks too unfocused by trying to be everything at once. Is it a software company or biotech company? I guess you’ll have to open the box to find out.

(everything is working with no effort)

No one:

IT infra: let’s move our repo platform to SaaS!

This article sounds a bit incoherent and under-researched.

Software “nerds” were the unsung heroes from the very early days of spaceflight. A good book on the involvement of software engineers during the Apollo Program is Mindell’s “Digital Apollo”.