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vasvir··on Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
I certainly hope so.

But LLMs do not need to change that. Sufficient marketing can change the perception of decision takers and middle managers to: Oooh, they can do that.

That is all that it takes.

vasvir··on Julia 1.13 highlights
Cool. Thanks for sharing this.
vasvir··on Rivian's gambit for full autonomy
I wander what it does for different objects.

Oups a ball crossed the street 15m ahead. Let's slowdown to a crawl and watch for the kid is what a human would do.

I suppose they may have special cased the ball case.

vasvir··on Why jet engines aren't made in China
This is not my understanding by reading the article. The blade failure will destroy the plane if developed independently of the rest. So modern nacelles will contain the blast as you say but they have decades of integration testing together with the blades in all kind of conditions.

if you develop everything anew there will be mismatches in tolerances and thousands of potential individual failure risks that can be combined in interesting, unexpected and fatal ways.

vasvir··on Show HN: Extract Biomedical Knowledge from Multi-Modal Data Using Biovista Vizit
Hi there,

I am here to answer questions and provide clarifications.

vasvir··on USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
This sounds kinda premeditated though...
vasvir··on LittleSnitch for Linux
and that's how you learn...

Shooting yourself in the foot really helps to built intuition!

vasvir··on Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly
wprs? Does not work for mac yet IIRC...
vasvir··on I hate: Programming Wayland applications
In the same sense windows are not network transparent when in fact RDP works perfectly, certainly much better that X11 over WAN.

Actually for wayland there is wprs for remote display of apps so here it goes the network transparency argument...

vasvir··on I hate: Programming Wayland applications
like the web and we saw how that went... Oh wait!
vasvir··on Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm
Not only winners but anyone that looks like to know what is doing.

By that I mean that they try to detect and ban any pattern that may be math / ML derived or arbitrage seeking.

I have been banned on an account that was loosing money (around -15eur) and the bet was 2.96eur - yep fractional bets is a big no - no.

So while it is possible to find better odds and win in the long run based on stats and ML with a 3% - 5% profit they will ban you before you do.

vasvir··on Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
Copy pasting images is often hit & miss.

Sometimes I have the image copied but it doesn't paste in the browser. However it can be pasted to GIMP. If I paste it there and copy it from GIMP then I can paste it to the browser.

So who's fault is that? Spectacle's or browser's? Maybe wayland's?

vasvir··on Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
I agree about Kate.

In addition while kate has many plugins, like the one that allows running arbitrary command line utilities with std input the current selection, I would like to point you at something else in case you write / debug SQLs.

Kate has a SQL plugin that allows to send the current selection to the connected SQL server for execution. It displays the output in table form below the editor pane and you can copy paste rows or columns.

That allows to organize your SQLs in markdown files. That was such a productivity booster for me that simply there are no words to describe the difference felt.

vasvir··on 80386 Protection
yep that's my recollection too
vasvir··on Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer
That would be my question too...
vasvir··on Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring
The point is that he may not using AI in any shape or form, Regardless, AI scrapes its work without explicit consent and then spits it back in "polished" soul free form.
vasvir··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
MANNA https://milweesci.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/4/13247648/mannap...
vasvir··on Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature
MEDLINE (health / life science) has 37M papers.

IIRC the rate of publishing was superlinear thus the curve of actual publications goes faster than the quadratic function.

vasvir··on Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature
Been there done that. At least for life science / health publications. The article is spot on.

Not sure if there is value of that approach in other more rigorous fields but in health for sure it does. The knowledge in health science is generally fragmented and a way to connect islands of knowledge has the potential to unlock a lot of value.

If you would like to see how this article ideas are applied in a playful manner in a web application you can visit: https://www.biovista.com/vizit/

vasvir··on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
Java uses type erasure which are very cheap in compile time but you cannot do things like

   t = new T(); // T is a template parameter class
C++ uses reified generics which are heavy on compile time but allows the above.
vasvir··on Element: setHTML() method
Yes the CORS threat model was also reversed for me. Couldn't understand it. Eventually I got it...
vasvir··on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
Also spectacle for screenhshots... It took me a while to not try find kscreenshot
vasvir··on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
With that level of nit picking everything is off and there is no OS / DE with zero inconsistencies.

KDE is good for me. I admit that I simplify the interface in a new setup turning off some things but the fact that it gives me that capability is a huge plus for me.

KDE Connect rocks by the way...

vasvir··on Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize
My bet on this would be to abandon moving to vertices like simplex does and move on facets instead.

However, this requires to solve a quadratic 'best direction' problem each time which if IIRC reduces to 'Linear complementarity problem (LCP)' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_complementarity_problem). The LCP problem scales with the number of active constraints which is always smaller than the dimensionality (N) of the problem. So if you have number of constraints P >> N you are golden.

Note that Dantzig has also contributed to LCP.

Obviously any breakthrough in these basic methods is directly translatable to more efficient learning algorithms for training single layer neural nets (perceptrons). Extending to multi layer NNs is not far off from there...

vasvir··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
Thanks that's an interesting trick.

This is beautified if somebody wants to see how it is done.

  function() {
    var myBody = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
    var myBodyWidth = myBody.style.width;
    if (!myBodyWidth || myBodyWidth === 'auto' || myBodyWidth === 'inherit') {
        myBody.style.width = '1200px';
        myBody.style.marginLeft = 'auto';
        myBody.style.marginRight = 'auto';
        myBody.style.position = 'relative';
        myBody.style.cssFloat = 'none';
    } else {
        myBody.style.width = 'auto';
        myBody.style.position = 'static';
    }
  }
vasvir··on If all the world were a monorepo
Yes,

Also the other problem of a big monorepo is that nothing ever dies. Let's say you have a library and there are 1000 client programs or other libraries of your API. Some of them are pretty popular and some of them are fringe.

However when you are changing the API they all have the same weight. You have to fix them all. In the non monorepo case the fringe clients will eventually die or their maintainer will invest on them and update them. It's like capitalism vs communism with central planning and all.

vasvir··on Mathematicians hunting prime numbers discover infinite new pattern
Well I have a really elegant proof for this but I don't have enough space in the HN reply box to write it out -- but it is trivial, I am sure you will work it out.

   Fermat Reincarnation.
vasvir··on Enhancing MySQL: MySQL improvement project
That's not my impression. MariaDB looks to me that it has greater development velocity than MySQL.

Do not know about speed difference divergence though. I guess a speed run down would be interesting...

vasvir··on Enhancing MySQL: MySQL improvement project
Question: Does any of this optimizations apply to MariaDB?
vasvir··on Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table
Ha I didn't notice the date but I did notice that was based on datatables.net a very cool library.
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