vackosar | 2 years ago | on: Permutation City (1994)
Egan is great. Another good book is Incandescence. Only problem is that some of his novels contain some kind of loneliness. Can't describe it.
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vackosar | 2 years ago | on: OKRs Are Bullshit
I see only the problem of no ability to change the OKRs, otherwise the core idea of making a plan is right. Changing the goals should introduce a additional change process, because priorities change with new knowledge. I haven't see that done well yet. Maybe just having 6 weeks cycle OKR [1] instead could work better as in Shape Up?
vackosar | 2 years ago | on: Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck
I use mapy.cz often, because of the UI and better maps. Only the traffic is probably not estimated the best.
vackosar | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?
I read about criticism of General Relativity, that I haven't verified so grain of salt please. The criticism is in that the equations are so complex that only the simplest limits of them are studied and so the theory is therefore not verified.
vackosar | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://vaclavkosar.com/
Mostly on machine learning research
vackosar | 2 years ago | on: Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (1953)
True problem is not technical and it is right there in the article. Non-academics "speak less and worry more". So their knowledge is likely scattered and not distilled. Building these devices is probably quite simple in the end, it is just the story is not being told.
vackosar | 3 years ago | on: Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
Correction! Cost is around $10M not $10B.
vackosar | 3 years ago | on: Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
Sounds interesting! Would you link to that or describe them here? Thanks!
vackosar | 3 years ago | on: Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
Yes, of course, thanks!
vackosar | 3 years ago | on: Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
Correction!! The model costed around 10M not 10B! Thanks for raising that. Mistake during copying from the second slide :(
vackosar | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Share your personal site
I write on machine learning, software, business, and many other things.
https://vaclavkosar.com/
vackosar | 4 years ago | on: PID Controller: A Simple Control Loop Mechanism
Why it breaks the KISS principle?
vackosar | 5 years ago | on: Written communication is remote work super power
Give the quizzes at the end of the blog posts a shot:
- https://vaclavkosar.com/ml/starspace-embedding
- https://quizrecall.com/rack/Cynefin-Framework--Making-The-Be...
I use the service for personal training, but it is opened for others now as well.
vackosar | 5 years ago | on: Written communication is remote work super power
Hi! I recently opened my quiz generation service to public. Would you try out the quiz AI assistant at https://QuizRecall.com and let me know what would you need to be added to make useful also for your use case?
vackosar | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
I finished my automated micro-training generation tool, that I used a lot myself, but wanted to see if others find it useful https://Quizrecall.com/
vackosar | 5 years ago | on: Cloudflare TV
Can't you use Firefox with uBlock addon on an iPhone?
vackosar | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
I recently written a software for automatic question generation, which I use for learning snippets of text without need to manually create flashcards for say Anki. You can try it here https://quizrecall.com/personal/ and you can read more on the rationale to build this here https://vaclavkosar.com/2019/11/02/Quizrecall-Learn-any-text...
vackosar | 5 years ago | on: GitHub Codespaces
Once they have all the coding sessions recorded they can finally replace those pesky devs /jk. But seriously, is there anything in the conditions about ability to record coding sessions of say open source devs?
vackosar | 6 years ago | on: 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries
Why do you think that?
vackosar | 6 years ago | on: Adjusted Age-Specific Case Fatality Ratio During for COVID-19 in Hubei [pdf]
Death rate:
Age 0-9: 0.0094% Age 10-19: 0.022% Age 20-29: 0.091% Age 30-39: 0.18% Age 40-49: 0.4% Age 50-59: 1.3% Age 60-69: 4.6% Age 70-79: 9.8% Age 80+: 18%
TL;DR dont infect ur parents as 60-69 has 1 in 21 chance of death.
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