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iwsk··on My Mathematical Regression
https://projecteuler.net/problem=76 does this have a closed form solution? vast majority of the problems don't seem to have a closed form solution
iwsk··on I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years
What would you choose if you went to college tomorrow?
iwsk··on What I learned building an AI-driven spaced repetition app
I tried this for "GPU architecture" and "DRAM technology". The hallucination rate for cited wikipedia links was quite high. I think the reliability of the facts weren't good enough either. I think this is more of a function of the learning material's domain(computer hardware stuff) not being as good as say math or programming.
iwsk··on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial
It took you 10 years to get him to give up bread, sugar, potatoes? This approach would be hard to scale.
iwsk··on Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v'
...so mewing is real and it is not a coincidence that it's suddenly a thing now?
iwsk··on Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)
Actually it's way easier to search for the information in an LLM compared to an 8 tb harddisk.

The search is vague, and the result is nondeterministic, but in a lot of cases it's still the better method.

https://fchollet.substack.com/i/137628402/llms-as-program-da... I like the way this article puts it. "LLM is a continuous, interpolative kind of database"

iwsk··on Writing as Transformation
I get it but really, we eat food to retain its nutrients while we read books to retain knowledge(sometimes).
iwsk··on Arc Prize 2024 Winners and Technical Report
in other words, solving ARC is necessary but not sufficient for AGI
iwsk··on Arc Prize 2024 Winners and Technical Report
we live in a society
iwsk··on What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?
Free lunch good
iwsk··on Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010)
When kids are asked to memorize the multiplication table, they are actually supposed to memorize it.
iwsk··on Scaling will never get us to AGI
General intelligence somehow just emerged from dirt and water + @.
iwsk··on Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)
Eloquent Javascript is better suited for someone who already has some experience with basic programming and wants to learn javascript while also exploring more advanced concepts in programming in general.

Javascript was not my first language, but I have refered to javascript.info from time to time and it seems to have a gentle introduction.

iwsk··on Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)
I don't think this is a good book for someone who wants to learn programming for the first time.
iwsk··on Stop Eating Sugar (2020)
okay
iwsk··on Ask HN: How do you find employment opportunities in 2024?
What's there to farm on your CV if everything is on LinkedIn?
iwsk··on Undefined Behavior in C and C++
I don't get it.

How can UB on double-free, use-after-free, dangling pointers, etc lead to optimizations?

iwsk··on Sora: Creating video from text
Your wish is Sora's(or its successor model's) prompt.
iwsk··on Sora: Creating video from text
Should nukes be open source?
iwsk··on Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read
Regardless of that hypothesis, this experiment was a huge success.
iwsk··on Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read
There are good screens and bad screens.
iwsk··on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
We live in a society.
iwsk··on Show HN: Beta test Execute Program's interactive "Python for Programmers" course
As a big fan of spaced repetition I appreciated your previous courses. Going through the python course right now.
iwsk··on How to pass the interview for software engineering roles in Big Tech
What you do you mean by junior not existing in Big Tech?

All the Big Tech companies I know regularly hire interns and new grads.

iwsk··on Comfy with Python basic tooling, now what?
I appreciate the honesty in this article.

There is so much virtue signaling online when it comes to testing and using debuggers.

iwsk··on Modern Computer Architecture and Organization - Second Edition (2022)
Overall I enjoyed this book. However their opening paragraph to floating point numbers is offensive.

"programming languages support numbers with fractions, which are called reals in mathematics. Here are some examples of reals:

3.14159265... (pi)

2.71828... (e)"

>fractions are called reals in mathematics

>immediately gives pi and e as an example

iwsk··on Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode
what do you mean by N+1 algorithms?
iwsk··on California needs real math education, not gimmicks
This is incredibly sad. What does Dr. Boaler have to gain from crippling math education?
iwsk··on Dutch man needs CPR, but YouTube shows ads before tutorial
Maybe Youtube could have a limited number of ad skips meant for emergencies like these. Like 5 per month.
iwsk··on Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages
It would have been unambiguous in a world where we all agreed that both months and days start at 0 :)
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