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Persuading engineers to write 26 blog articles in 12 months

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3 points·by jmcdl·5 years ago·0 comments

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jmcdl
·5 months ago·discuss
This was my thought after getting through a few paragraphs as well. At first, I was thinking, this is interesting, maybe worth sharing with colleagues. But then it became too obvious it was AI written or "assisted". Can't take that seriously.
jmcdl
·last year·discuss
How worthwhile is it without being able to run the code examples and do the exercises? Getting Oz working is a real pain at best.
jmcdl
·4 years ago·discuss
Much like a virtuoso pianist really. Tension is the number one enemy for a pianist. It leads to injuries and more importantly, bad music.

This is a nice video of some elite level relaxed hands: https://youtu.be/Ray6knVCsp8?t=115
jmcdl
·5 years ago·discuss
There is an extension called "bypass paywalls" that I definitely don't advocate using.
jmcdl
·5 years ago·discuss
The fact that alcohol has been a part of human existence for so long might support my hypothesis, if you believe that humans physiology is at least partly shaped by human dietary habits over many thousands of years.
jmcdl
·5 years ago·discuss
What is the advantage of "thinking in vectors" in R versus "thinking in vectors" using numpy in Python (for example)?
jmcdl
·5 years ago·discuss
This is a common refrain but at the same time it seems to be the one substance commonly used across most of the world since ancient times. None of the other supposedly less harmful, banned drugs are so ubiquitous. Perhaps there's a good reason for this (besides varying availability of other substances)?
jmcdl
·5 years ago·discuss
This kind of supply destruction is going to be very bullish for oil prices and oil company stocks in countries not looking to handicap their own companies.
jmcdl
·5 years ago·discuss
Bill Gates doesn't seem to think climate change is a problem either https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/bill-and-melinda-...
jmcdl
·5 years ago·discuss
And this investigation published this year discusses the same https://insightcrime.org/investigations/rise-plata-over-plom...
jmcdl
·5 years ago·discuss
This organisation makes some convincing claims about direct government involvement in drug trafficking in Venezuela. https://insightcrime.org/investigations/venezuela-mafia-stat...
jmcdl
·5 years ago·discuss
Could nuclear power plant operators be incentivised by using "proactive risk detection" metrics or something along those lines?

I suppose there will then be incentives to exaggerate or "invent" new risks for career advancement, but is that not preferable to the alternative?
jmcdl
·5 years ago·discuss
Shouldn't checking for bugs be of primary importance. How many times have impressive research results turned out to be a mirage built upon a pile of buggy code? I get the sense that is far too common already.