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> in TestFlight it shall remain forever: a cozy, eternal beta.

When I read this I thought -- oh man, I hope Apple doesn't decide to somehow limit this feature in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if it's already against the terms of service somehow to deploy a 'beta' app and then just keep using it forever. (Besides, don't you have to pay to be in the developer program? That may be somewhat acceptable for some adults, but kids whose parents would prefer that their kids "study" instead of "wasting time playing computer games"?)

Anyway, this is one of the reasons I use Android. While becoming root isn't realistic on many devices, I think it allows you to do enough for kids to find their way into programming. Maybe the challenge of getting a root shell/flashing your own OS is enticing to some too. And maybe the tech used to protect devices from their users is interesting to some people too -- and since OEMs need to know how all this stuff works, it also happens to be documented pretty well. (I think this tech is still in its infancy unfortunately.)
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Time I DIDN’T train a neural net to generate candy hearts
Put it another way: do I rather fly with the wiring that was tested for 200M hours in the NG, or do I want the configuration that is retrofitted in a hurry to meet the standard? It’s not obvious that trying to “fix” this defect is a good idea.
Articles like this speak as of thr FAA has the sole authority to bring the Max back into service.

Doesn't it require other agencies in Europe and China to do the same? How useful is a fleet that can't fly in large segments of the world?
The thing with babies is that they are, from the start, individuals. Some like a lot of contact, some don’t; some are very active sleepers, some aren’t; some will do fine by themselves in a crib, some won’t. You have no choice but to figure out what works for that kid. That’s not to say there aren’t some general procedures you should follow. I think most kids do best on a regular schedule, for example. But you’ve got to take them as you find them.
Do you mean fighting bugs in the code, or literally fighting those weird bugs that fly around the caverns? Do they get aggressive, like the biters in Factorio?
Visual noise is as bad as audible noise. What's next, horse blinders?
Already exists:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/mi...
Surprised this rant is the top comment, seeming to put the feelings and convenience of the parents in prime position. You may think that is ok, but it is not the basis of proper argument.

It’s really quite simple - have we have proven that formula is non-inferior to breast milk over the life time of the child? No. Is there some evidence that it is inferior? Yes. What is the size of the difference? Not clear, but probably depends on the child. Who decides what goes into formula? A for-profit company.

For the health system to encouraging breast feeding seems eminently reasonable under these conditions.
Modular synths like Max and Reaktor are great. You can open up the source of random components and combine them in weird ways to make new instruments. I do wish PD was more useable like Reaktor is. NI had a massive assortment of user-created instruments dating back to 2001 to spend hours poring through.
It doesn't help that employment contracts in today's dystopia don't even allow one to be creative even in their spare time, as recently highlighted by popular cases.
Why did you have so many kids and so close together in age? Or are they adopted?

Are you able to work or are you a stay at home mom?

If you work, does your company or government provide assistance/aid?

I hear people with 1 or 2 kids struggling, I don't think I've met any with 5 kids so young.
The electric motors can apply more power than a human can resist. So that's not exactly helpful.
Idk, I always tended to do that, like talking to myself about topics in order to get a better grasp - it's like self-rubber-ducking. When I asked several people about that, they said they don't do that so I extrapolated. :P
I wonder why their Mojo system doesn't use mach ports on darwin platforms? You can pass port rights along to another process but they aren't forgeable. Unless the renderer process itself has a right to send messages to the network process it simply can't, no matter what it knows.

A process can also disinherit its own bootstrap port, preventing it from using most services except for port rights it already holds.
Can you make a good case for legitimate researchers of any kind not to exist? Just because its a potentially dangerous/dismal subject matter doesn't mean it should be discarded as forbidden knowledge; if the truth destroys us then perhaps we deserve to be destroyed, better that than to live in ignorance.
> But isn't that simply the nature of venture capital?

Venture capital isn't a monolith.

Investing in pre-seed, seed, or series A rounds are significantly different than coming in as an investor in a later round.

For Softbank to whiff so badly on such late stage investments is drastically different than an early stage investor failing with a similar portfolio. The risk and uncertainty profiles are starkly different for the early stage and late stage investor.
Does your GDC talk have a name yet? I'd like to keep an eye out for it.
Author Here: Just wanted to share some technical details. The code can be found here https://github.com/valentinvieriu/stylegan2
The main code and modification were put together by https://github.com/pbaylies/stylegan2.
I've started with the pretrained ffhq model, and I've trained it using come hand picked 1000 images of cubist Wikiart paintings.

The frontend is Vuejs and it's using the amazing https://github.com/Akryum/vue-virtual-scroller for the very fast infinite scroll option. The app runs on Cloudflare Workers, using https://github.com/l5x/vue-ssr-cloudflare-workers-template

Hope you guys enjoy the experience and would love to get some constructive feedback
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There's a simpler explanation: IEEE 754 does not require the operations in question to be defined. They are spelled out in Section 9 (Recommended operations). There's some corner-case guidance (for example, divideByZero for log(0)), but they are implementation-dependent and different JS engines producing slightly different values are all in compliance with the actual requirements.
I wonder how art experts would assess these paintings in a blinded experiment ("blinded" figuratively, of course ;-)
As a network guy this reminds me of how a lot of networking equipment (and also distributed system clusters) operate - you have this constant background overhead of chatting and gossiping and keeping in sync with your peer nodes, all so that when the actual work needs to be done you are on the same page. If you are not in that network, you can not get any of that work accomplished.
I love posting things to the internet that end up being wrong :).

I think this is an interesting look at ambiguity in wording for computer science terminology. In my mind, height or highest always means node height. The term largest should be reserved for numerical measurement. See the next paragraph for a good example.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the k highest interpretation with an unsorted tree sounds like a simpler problem. If the tree is unsorted, you must traverse the entire tree, sort the result, and then you have your answer. The more challenging problem sounds to me to be what happens when the tree is already sorted. Interestingly, I think the solution for this problem makes my point better than the original problem. Look at how buildHeights breaks the sub problems down. The height (size) of a value in a node at a given level (height) is a function of the heights (sizes) of sub-trees. I included a main method, so you can run the code and not mentally parse it :). What's interesting to me is the commonality in structure between the two solutions despite the problems asking for radically different things.

Note, I probably could not have come up with this solution in the amount of time allotted in an interview because it took a while to find a solution that properly showed problem decomposition.

import qualified Data.Map as Map

data Tree a = Tree a (Maybe (Tree a)) (Maybe (Tree a)) deriving Show

buildHeights :: Tree a -> Map.Map Int a

buildHeights (Tree a Nothing Nothing) = Map.singleton 1 a

buildHeights (Tree a (Just l) Nothing) =
Map.insert 1 a lRes
where
lRes = Map.mapKeys (+1) (buildHeights l)

buildHeights (Tree a (Just l) (Just r)) =
Map.unions [rRes, lRes, curRes]
where
rRes = (buildHeights r)
maxRight = maximum $ Map.keys rRes
lRes = Map.mapKeys (+ (1 + maxRight)) (buildHeights l)
curRes = Map.singleton (1 + maxRight) a

kHighest :: Int -> Tree a -> Maybe a
kHighest k t = (buildHeights t) Map.!? k

main = do
let tree = (Tree 4
(Just (Tree 2
(Just (Tree 1 Nothing Nothing))
(Just (Tree 3 Nothing Nothing))))
(Just (Tree 6
(Just (Tree 5 Nothing Nothing))
(Just (Tree 7 Nothing Nothing)))))
in do {
putStrLn $ show $ kHighest 1 tree ;
putStrLn $ show $ kHighest 2 tree ;
putStrLn $ show $ kHighest 3 tree ;
putStrLn $ show $ kHighest 4 tree ;
putStrLn $ show $ kHighest 5 tree ;
putStrLn $ show $ kHighest 6 tree ;
putStrLn $ show $ kHighest 7 tree ;
putStrLn $ show $ kHighest 8 tree ;
}
Also this: https://2019.ecoop.org/details/ecoop-2019-papers/11/Automati... by Simon Peyton Jones
> Personal life nonsense? I'm your co-worker, not your friend.

Changing this attitude contributed as much to my doubling and then almost tripling my salary over the course of a few years as much as anything technical did.

Your managers and coworkers are human beings and engaging with them like human beings will open doors for you.

I pretty much only talk about personal stuff in one on ones, and will use maybe one out of five as a venting session or to talk about ideas I have.

You want to be someone that people, particularly managers enjoy seeing come in to work every day, and that’s not always or even mostly about being productive. Sometimes they just want someone they can talk about sports or video games with, or someone they can talk about their home life with over drinks — and sometimes I do, too. Spending 40 hours a week with people you don’t like is lonely.

It’s not just about kissing ass— I’ve started more than one project because of conversations I had over drinks where people were just venting about their jobs and I realized I could do something to make their jobs easier.
Good point! So what it needs is a story then? How about the work, is it interesting?
>> getting to a level of "automatic" response where you can fluidly handle any situation requires living in a country where the language is in your face all day every day--and even then it still takes real effort.

I can tell you from personal experience that it's most important that you speak the language. Get yourself in conversations where you are forced to speak and listen to the language. There's a big advantage to recall words when you need them and to try to understand what the other person is telling you. The stress of the situation will burn the words into your memory. Ultimately you will have no choice but to learn it. Also, even fluent speakers will lose fluency if you don't practice so there's no such thing as being fluent for life without using the language regularly.

The biggest disservice you can do to a person that's trying to learn a new language is to translate for them in their native language. It helps at the moment but long term it's harder for them to learn the new language.
Not trying to be mean but the fact he made that up out of thin air is not only something that isn't backed with data but something that is intuitively not true. With the reputation and amount of comp google offers there is no reason why intelligent people or less intelligent people would just avoid google. You're assuming only less intelligent people want higher salaries while intelligent people don't which isn't true at all.

>I don't see any data that says it's correlated with standard IQ test scores.

While there's no Data that correlates IQ with algorithm problems. Intuitively the more intelligent you are the better you would be at these algorithm problems.

If IQ measures intelligence and if intelligence determines your ability to perform well on algorithm problems than your performance on these problems correlates with IQ.

To deny the above logic would be to say intelligence has no correlation with IQ and/or algorithms therefore algorithms don't correlate with IQ.

Not every axiom needs to be measured with data. Common sense and intuition also fill the gap where no data exists. Google saying Intelligence correlates with your problem solving abilities and abilities to solve computer science problems is something that absolutely makes sense even if no data to back it exists.

>Leetcode grind for 3 months is not exactly raw ability.

Doesn't matter how long you spend on leetcode. Google will present you with a problem you haven't seen before and there are a huge amount of people who have done leetcode for years and can't pass the interview questions.

If you're a guy who just grinds for 3 months and can suddenly pass the google interview with flying colors than you're the guy that google wants because there are many people who can't do this.
I gave this advice just today: Don't call yourself "A jack of all trades" on a resume or in an interview.

Instead refer to yourself as a "Swiss Army knife" or something.

The reason is that "A jack of all trades." is often (mentally at least) followed by "Master of none".
Uh huh. And I taught myself C++ in 21 days.
Thank you. I agree: prying further would be very rude.
Knowing that detail can help determine the implication/feelings on other responses, such as if you later shared "my parents stopped by last night". I can avoid asking "did you have fun?" and instead ask "how did it go?" Or "anything you need today?". The answer may be "no", however you may add something (ie: I just need a breather) which helps let me know to avoid placing additional burdens on you today if they are not urgent.
Great idea. Looks very convincing and aesthetic to me, but I am not an art expert. But I do know a lot about music and I am not yet convinced of the current offers of AI in this regard. So it would be very interesting to know how art experts react to these paintings.
Maybe partly depends on whether you are the kind of engineer that designs/makes tangible things that can kill people, or the kind of engineer that "moves fast and breaks things"
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> you have to pretend it is some kind of "beta" of a mass market commodified product instead

Or you could use enterprise distribution, which is the "correct" route for apps that don't go through the app store. But TestFlight is probably the simplest way to distribute an app to a handful of people and the only real problem with it is the need to distribute a new build every 90 days.
All I need to show the identity you claim 'is not true of everyone' is to find a single person for whom it isn't true. I am that person, so I've proven it not to be true.

I am extremely rarely bored. Certainly "not having anything interesting to do" doesn't generate boredom in me. I am quite content with nothing to do at all (let alone something interesting).

Granted this is unusual (though very far from unique).
Sega was already bleeding money so bad by the time the Dreamcast launched I am not sure they could have done anything to recover at that time. The fact that they missed their first sales target in the US (they wanted to sell a million units by a specific timeline but were 40% off) marked the end of the party.

About dev support dont forget that EA pulled out of supporting Sega since they did not want their sports games to compete with Sega's own line of sports games. That may have be a big deal not to have games like John Madden in the US.
I'd much rather see a list of things to bring up as the subordinate that will actually effectively improve one's lot.
That only makes sense if the total bribe outweighs the investment in building the credible alternative.
Any good references on those uprisings?
Something that inhibits my understanding of a lot of the things beyond section 2.6: according to the article, equation 4b is supposed to also work for scalar ^ vector and scalar ^ scalar, but both those cases seem to contradict defn 20. - according to 4b, scalar ^ scalar will always be 0 (a^b = (ab - ba)/2 = 0, since scalar multiplication commutes), same for scalar ^ vector (a^V = (aV - Va)/2 = 0, since scalar times vector also commutes). Definition 20 on the other hand makes sense (scalar ^ scalar is a regular multiplication, same for scalar ^ vector where it's just scaling). Am I missing something? Why does 4b try to generalize to grades <= 1 in a way that contradicts the other definition (and is counter-intuitive to me)? It all makes sense if 4b only applies to grades = 1.
There are certainly cases where this might be true, but I doubt that this assumption is generally true; one would have to do some experiments and put these artificially generated paintings up for real auctions (for the purpose of scientific knowledge, of course, not to cheat).
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> no immersion

I see this somewhat frequently among some parts of the online language community. For some reason people seem to think that you're not immersing in a language unless you're in a country where that language is frequently used. They somehow equate being immersed in a language with physically being in a country where that language is frequently used.

Don't get me wrong, being in a country is a great way to immerse yourself in a language, but it is by no means a requirement.

In terms of exposure to content in the language you're learning, what's the difference between someone who is living in a country where they see that language on TV, in the newspapers, hear it on the radio, and speak it with native speakers, versus someone who watches content in that language on youtube, reads articles/newspapers online in that language, talks online with people who speak that language, but lives somewhere where they don't speak it? Not much.

Setting up a "local immersion environment" requires putting effort into finding native resources and trying to reduce your exposure towards your native language. It's certainly more effort than being in a country where you can't help but be surrounded by your target language, but it's definitely not impossible.

The idea that listening to music, listening to podcasts, watching youtube videos and reading articles in your target language is not immersion is silly, since this is what native speakers living in their country experience on a daily basis. Environment is everything, not location.
Small anecdote: many years ago I tracked down a working Dreamcast and acquired Sonic Adventure 2, arguably one of the best SEGA games ever created. At the time, I remember spending $40 for a used copy of the game that was now a decade old. After just scanning eBay, it looks like SA2 for Dreamcast is still selling for between $20-$70/ each. Incredible.

Other side note: one flaw of the original Dreamcast was that the circuit board that houses the controller ports had a capacitor that would occasionally fail. To the uninitiated, the console would become a brick since you can't play without a controller. I used to buy large sets of "broken" Dreamcasts, and could usually fix more than half of them by simply swapping internal components. I miss the days of this level of modding. Though the OG Xbox was pretty fun too in this hacking space.
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The challenge is that the Latent Space ( the space of all the art pieces of this model ) is so HUGE ( technically is infinite ) that there could be masterpieces sitting there undiscovered. I was aiming to create an interface to allow for crowd sourcing this process of finding those masterpieces. Hope the ui and and easy to pick some favorite process will help
Most mechanics are really bad at wiring. I watch them "fix" wires on those TV hotrod shoes, and cringe. (I used to do professional electronic assembly work, and at least I know how to solder properly.)

A popular topic on online car forums is electrical gremlins, almost always from crummy electrical repairs.
This person has a lot of will power, and I think that is the secret here. I'm pretty weak on will power, which is why I'm not yet B2 level in Finnish after nearly 20 years living in Finland.
Depending on how well you know your manager it might be OK to tell him as much, and let him help you accomplish it. But I can tell you that there is a sharp limit to the money you can make as a coding-focused IC - to get more you need to level up to senior/principal and finish projects that take multiple people to execute - the more the better. That's just the way it is.
Would be interesting to take this same codebase and increase the rendering resolution since computers are so much more powerful 26 years later.
I have fantasized about draping a thick black curtain around my workstation to try to focus. Do you think that would fly?
Languages and gym stick out to me as the most astounding educational failures in high school.

When I later actually wanted to learn about those on my own time, it became obvious that those initial classes were not only not helpful, but actively harmful.

High school language courses might just be overinfluenced by academic linguists-- obscure grammar is probably the right focus if your main interest is comparative linguistics and you've already studied six other languages. That just doesn't apply to many high schoolers.

High school fitness education is like a bad daycare with spontaneous expectations for you to run a couple miles, despite having never been trained in how to build up capacity slowly over time. It's as if the goal is to teach people that fitness is unlearnable and out of reach. It's exactly the opposite, it's one of the domains where it's easiest to measure how much consistent practice improves performance.

I feel like we could redesign both from scratch, based around how people grow up and actually learn these things, and we'd be way ahead.
>Would you ask Donald Trump if his presidential administration is doing well?

You're absolutely insane if you compare google engineers with the trump administration. Nobody thinks of google engineers like this. Check yourself. Being a google engineer is like getting into stanford or berkeley the prestige is high and I've even asked engineers who've worked in both scrappy startups and google.

The difference to them is night and day; working outside of a google-like company is like dealing with people at a community college... the level of intelligence, work and projects are on a whole different level.

The google interview process is absolutely stellar at creating teams of raw intellectual power. What it is not stellar at is catching all the people who are incredible programmers but bad at whiteboard interviewing... that's it.
I don't know what the point of salvaging this plane is at this point. I'm never going to get on board one of them.

Could they convert the entire fleet into cargo jets, or does the configuration not match that role?
If it's not clear, I made it all up to illustrate the point.
I'm just curious if you have used the cartoon method to learn a second language and how effective was it?
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