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Comment · 1 year ago
I had never considered until now that my left thumb never touches the keyboard.
Comment · 1 year ago
Their website says 2014. Amazon says 2018. But definitely not 2024, unless I am missing something.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would not use this because of the distracting stuff on the borders. Hardly "minimalist".
Comment · 2 years ago
Can someone explain this? One three occasions in the essay, including the title. he adds a cryptic "2001 Tor". What does that mean? It does not exist in the many other mentions of the same book title. Also, Amazon believes the publication year is 2002. What is "2001 Tor"?
Comment · 3 years ago
Well, either no, or I would not know, as the point is C++ programmers are not nearly as self-congratulatory.
Comment · 3 years ago
100 percent
Comment · 3 years ago
Can I guess, from one not in the field, and no one bothering to define it? "Large Language Model"? I don't think it is a "a graduate qualification in the field of law". JFCFFS
Comment · 4 years ago
About a minute in, I could not figure out if satire or self-absorbed. I stopped reading.
Comment · 4 years ago
The absence of the go binary as a tool (i.e. "go get ...", "go install ..." etc.) is odd, considering that is what has been eating Python's lunch lately.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
> * Don't even think about using ML for this, that doesn't solve biases, it just hides them in a black box.

Can you clarify: what is "ML" here? "Machine learning", ML the language, MatLab, "machine language" (a.k.a. assembly), Matt LeBlanc? I'm out of ideas...

Comment · 5 years ago
Comparing with a similar recipe I have, those look to be teaspoons.
Comment · 6 years ago
Speaking as someone ashamed at having never taken Calculus, I didn't know there were 3 of them...
Comment · 8 years ago
> the faux screen jump when Bowman nearly touched the edge, and instead shattered the glass. It really is brilliant, a movie within a movie.

> that the upright position of the monolith as it is presented is incorrect.

Can you provide references for either of these?

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