cool-RR

Begun, the noise-cancelling wars have.

I used to play with Lotus on my mom's work computer when I was a child. Today I'm doing AI Safety research and when I'm examining experiment data I use the closest modern tool to Lotus: https://www.visidata.org/

I'm happy to see this. It belongs in the stdlib and not a third-party module.

Interesting insight.

It's my fantasy to do this. Congrats on having the courage.

> What’s left behind are opaque, black box systems with almost no one who understands how they work.

Maybe 50-year-old COBOL programs are the original neural networks.

I wrote it in a way that's too intertwined with my other shit to be shareable with people, but honestly you can copy-paste my comment to your friendly neighborhood LLM and you'll get something decent. Indeed it uses `env`.

The most useful script I wrote is one I call `posh`. It shorten a file path by using environment variables. Example:

  $ posh /home/ramrachum/Dropbox/notes.txt
  $DX/notes.txt

Of course, it only becomes useful when you define a bunch of environment variables for the paths that you use often.

I use this a lot in all of my scripts. Basically whenever any of my script prints a path, it passes it through `posh`.

Dating apps are not meant to be efficient, definitely not to someone with a developer mindset.

I wrote this Chrome extension to solve this problem for myself 2 years ago: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/focustoscroll/jbcpo...

Apparently no one else was interested in it. I still use it daily.

Can you share a photo of the backpack?

I printed it but it doesn't work :(

I developed a similar solution for Windows over a decade ago which I've been using every day. It works but it needs to be made easy for people other than me to use (Readme, requirements file, etc.) If anyone volunteers to spend a few hours polishing it, email me and I'll open-source it.

> > I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision

> omg, this sounds like the gigantic, ossified and crushing bureaucracy of a third world country.

No, it sounds like how most successful organizations work.

I'm flummoxed at the lack of Python support.

I wonder why various outlets, including DeepMind's blog, say that John Jumper is a "Senior Research Scientist". That's L5 which sounds like quite a low rank for a Nobel prize winner. I checked his LinkedIn and he's a director, which is around L8. I thought that maybe he was L5 during the publishing of the results, but no, he was either L6 or L7.

SEEKING WORK | Israel | Remote first

Software engineer with 12 years experience. PSF Fellow and Ex-Googler.

Anything Python-related. Bonus points if I get to work with JAX.

CV: https://r.rachum.com/cv

I want to feed it not only the code but also a corpus of questions and answers, e.g. from the discussions page on GitHub. Is that possible?

Bad UI. You need to double-click the desired area. Not sure what to do on mobile.

Right, true safe super intelligence could only be developed in countries that finished genociding their indigenous populations centuries ago.

I can't find whether it's effective against snoring or not. Can someone help?

This might be the first actual livestream.

First sentence reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ

Can you please give your impressions of Perplexity Pro?

Off-topic: When I open that page, my email address shows up in the text input for subscribing. How do they know my email? I don't remember ever going on that website.

Would investors really be interested in an acquihire play? Aren't they looking for a big multiplier on their investment?

Interesting, thank you. I think a big part of PyPy's problem is the long tail of esoteric tools and packages that different people use.

Hi Matti. I'm happy to see that you're doing community outreach. I haven't tried PyPy in a while. The general impression I have about PyPy is that as soon as you try to do anything a little bit complicated, things break in unexpected ways and there's little support. Also, I love using Wing IDE for debugging, and if I'm not mistaken it can't debug PyPy code.

I'm currently doing multi-agent reinforcement learning research using RLlib, which is part of Ray. I tried to install a PyPy environment for it. It failed because Ray doesn't provide a wheel for it:

    Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement ray (from versions: none)

My hunch is that even Ray did provide that, there would have been some other roadblock that would have prevented me from using PyPy.

On many Israeli sites, like insurance providers and credit cards, 2FA texts are used for authentication without a password. i.e. instead of typing in a password, you type in your phone number and then type the 6-number code you got as an SMS message to your phone. I hate it so much.

VisiData is amazing. It's one of the coolest open source projects I've seen in years. I use it extensively in my research.