random32840 | 5 years ago | on: It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
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random32840 | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Career Fair – Learn about Jobs by People Who Have Done Them
I don't think the problem is who they polled. The problem is that they're fishing out two-sentence platitudes that are not useful.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
You're right, I misread. I apologise.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Strategies Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent (2012)
Both are problems. Our brains have a tremendous amount of compute and use complex, nuanced, adaptive strategies.
The clearest example is how much energy we spend modelling other humans' thought processes. We spend so much because a simple permutation of tit-for-tat isn't sufficient - it will lose. It's an arms race to use complex strategies, an outcome which is specifically precluded in the model. I'd argue the fact observable reality is so divergent from the model means we should be skeptical of the applicability of the model.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
This is naive. If it's a bad library full of bugs, it's going to be garbage code. I'm not going to spend inordinate amounts of time & effort wrestling with shitty code to earn the right to say the library is bad. IMO that's not a good standard.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
Text is ambiguous, overtly communicating that you aren't trying to be mean is a good idea IMO.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
How do you differentiate between "reasonable developer, can deal with complexity" and "extremely good developer, will dramatically improve the codebase and produce less technical debt"?
Does the distinction matter at your company, or is the primary metric "good enough"? Is this industry standard, or does it vary by company?
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Strategies Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent (2012)
Forgiving tit-for-tat rectifies that flaw.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Strategies Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent (2012)
Should be: "Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Contains Strategies That Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent at a Game as Simple as the Prisoner's Dilemma"
You can write a perfect tic-tac-toe program with relatively simple rules, but an evolutionary strategy will wipe the floor at Go. This kind of modelling has value but real life is incredibly complicated, complicated strategies destroy simple ones as the rules of the game become more complex. Our brains are extremely expensive organs, and they're built that way for a reason. I think people are way trigger-happy extrapolating models like this to the real world.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: A first look at Unreal Engine 5
That's not a great example of what's possible. Research-land has some wild demos:
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: A first look at Unreal Engine 5
Computing & rendering all on the GPU without having to query back to the CPU at all seems a natural fit to me, but I don't have a deep technical understanding of it.
My main thought is just that DL reduces the amount of computate you actually need by allowing you to approximate rather than derive things like cloth physics, how that's eventually integrated seems an implementation detail.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
Heh
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
If you think the stock market is overvalued, buy. If you don't, sell. Money talks, articles in the New Yorker don't.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
Yes, but it's branded to sell you products and ignores differences in each item's volatility & leverage.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: A first look at Unreal Engine 5
I can see deep learning shaking up dynamic cloth animation dramatically in the not too distant future. It's already happened for fluids.
random32840 | 5 years ago | on: A first look at Unreal Engine 5
You can also use SkookumScript, although I wouldn't. Blueprints can also be compiled down to C++.
random32840 | 6 years ago | on: Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
Probably not, it's just more effort to verify you as legitimate and your baseline behaviour is closer to a robot, meaning when your account gets hijacked, it's more difficult to detect deviance.
random32840 | 6 years ago | on: Engineering code quality in Firefox
JS is generally very fast because these monolithic VMs have had so much money poured into them that their optimisation process is unparalleled. V8 can sometimes get performance on par with C. "Overhead" is arguable, JS may be garbage in a lot of ways but modern JS is quite efficient.
random32840 | 6 years ago | on: The Decline of Usability
You're right actually. I was missing the point. Yes, this would be very useful.
random32840 | 6 years ago | on: Writing Python inside Rust
Quickly introducing battle-tested data science frameworks, snippets and patterns without having to replicate them in Rust.
What I'm really trying to fish out is: if a developer is significantly better than the competition relative to his years of experience, how is he supposed to communicate that? How does he actually get paid commensurate to that extra effort? In your experience is it even possible?
As far as I can tell the only way to really do that reliably is either work on a respected product & basically make an impression outside your company (crapshoot) or show what you can do via open source. I can't see how I could communicate it otherwise.