bemeurer

Please don't recommend that people use nix-env. It's one of Nix's biggest footguns and a huge support burden for the maintainers.

We've been actively trying to remove mentions of it from the documentation.

If you want something "installed" use home-manager. If you just want something for quick dev use nix-shell.

I'm almost completely self taught. Went to uni for a couple years and changed directions a bunch (CEng -> CS -> Math) before dropping out.

Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first?

A friend back in high school pointed me at the problem of brown numbers (Brocard's problem), which are pairs (n,m) where n!+1 = m^2. Known pairs are (4,5), (5,11), (7, 71). I became obsessed with this and attempting to find a new pair, and spent most of high school learning programming to improve my searching programs. Things went from there, since I knew that's what I wanted to do.

What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more?

I'm a systems engineer working with Rust on AI infrastructure. It's what I expected to be, it's a good job in that it pays well and I enjoy it. It's not perfect, and I wouldn't describe it as a 'dream'.

How did you break that first-job barrier?

Got an internship by emailing around, that transitioned into a full time position.

What were you doing before this?

Uni, mostly.

Any tips for the rest of us?

Find a cool problem and use it as a 'north star' when learning, I think that helped me a lot. Also, it's a big field, you may find that you don't like a corner of it, but don't take that to mean you won't/wouldn't like any other parts of it.

If you’re interested in non-compiler, HPC Rust work reach out at bernardo at standard dot ai

Nice endorseyment

Why was this flagged?

I wrote about my experience with a Thinkpad here[1]. It was the P1, a great laptop on paper.

[1] https://lovesegfault.com/post/2019-01-24-thinkpad-nightmare/

For what it's worth he retracted that statement. https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_Septe...

You don't need a "looping construct" to be able to perform looping. GOTO is not a looping construct, but with it you can perform looping.

I feel like the difference is that Vale actively destroys forests, and Salgado wanted to rebuild a forest, the damage and the good are related. Epstein and Media Lab don't share that same relation.

Not OP, but I've used Mullvad for a couple years and have 0 complaints.

This video of his made laugh for about an hour straight. I must've rewatched it at least a hundred times by now. [profanity warning] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLWKNTUHiEU

GCC has `-march` and `-mtune` flags for arch-specific optimizations. Just because the compiler is agnostic doesn't mean it can't have, or welcome, arch-specific optimizations.

The fact that he mentions GvHD would indicate that not to be an option, unfortunately. IANAD.

That is a _lot_ of yak shaving to be done

Papers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17NBICP6OcUSucrXKNWvzLmrQpfU... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WPsVhtBQmdgQl25_evlGQ1mmTQE...

This is just sad.

I must've read "The Tale of The Unknown Island" at least 30-40 times. A 30 minutes read that you take for your whole life.

Glad I wasn't the only one!

"There has been a disturbance in the kitchen..."

Am I the only one who read "Breaking Bad with the Romans" and was really confused?

OP mentions on the post how it's a simplified explanation. I don't think he's trying to write a textbook on Shor's algorithm here.

Also, a subject's complexity is no excuse to not try and explain it in an accessible way. I find it far-fetched that someone would read a blog post on QC and then assume they're a specialist; and if they do it's not the author's fault. Articles like this help present the field to non-specialists, it allows people to have a basic understanding of Shor's without having to go through years of education/training.

Finally, saying "these kind of articles are ultimately "popular science"" makes me question whether you actually put in the work to read this.