DryLabRebel's comments

DryLabRebel | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)

I calculated the ratios, and ordered them (probably. It's 5am and I did it very quickly)

git: 0.28

rust: 0.42

c++: 0.94

typescript: 0.95

react: 1.10

kubernetes: 1.22

go[lang]: 1.33

php: 1.33

aws: 1.39

sql: 1.40

postgres[ql]: 1.50

c: 1.57

nodejs: 1.62

python: 1.69

java: 1.73

terraform: 1.83

docker: 2.25

c#: 2.29

ruby[on_rails]: 2.40

javascript: 3.00

scala: 3.00

linux: 3.22

html: 4.00

flask: 4.50

mongodb: 4.67

mysql: 5.50

javascript/typescript: 6.50

bash: 13.00

express: 14.00

css: 21.00

DryLabRebel | 2 years ago | on: The Cynical Genius Illusion (2018)

> competent individuals held contingent attitudes and endorsed cynicism only if it was warranted in a given sociocultural environment.

The paper doesn't speculate on how many cultural environments cynicism is warranted. Is it statistically signficantly different from unconditionally embraced cynicism!?

DryLabRebel | 2 years ago | on: ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution

The world is changing, and children should change with it. Learn and understand technology, and the benefits of where modern machine learning is taking us.

But you cannot unironically think we can substitute fundamental skills like essay writing and critical thinking for a degree in 'prompt engineering'?

DryLabRebel | 3 years ago | on: Regular caffeine consumption affects brain structure

20 people is very low, presumably becuase the goal of the study was sleep effects, and they were using sleep labs, so I'd say that budget was a big issue here.

No doubt they wanted to maximise sample size, which is why they used the same 20 individuals for both the test and control groups.

DryLabRebel | 3 years ago | on: We lost 54k GitHub stars

I think this is getting at the more robust solution.

When youtube videos are taken down or made private, they are not deleted necessarily from my playlists. There's simply an indicator that they video is 'no longer available'. I don't see why something similar can't be the behaviour for GitHub stars and watches?

DryLabRebel | 4 years ago | on: Google Search Is Dying

I don't think it's really a secret.

It's pretty straightforward to understand that when the vast majority of your sites income is generated from ad revenue, that data is being used to optimize for generating ad clicks, etc., rather than actually giving users the best/most relevant/useful/desireable information for their purposes.

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