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Did you have qualifications / an interest in this field before switching? What drawn you to this occupation in the first place? Just being curious

One thing I don't get with this workflow, and all the ones we see in similar articles: do the authors run their agents in YOLO mode (full unchecked permission on their machine)? It seems their agents have full edit rights (scoped to a directory, which seems reasonable), but can also run tests autonomously (which means they can run any code), which equates to full read/write access on the machine? I mean, there are ways to sandbox agents in dedicated containers, but it requires quite a bit of setup, and none of these articles mention it, so I guess they are YOLOing it?

I really don't get why people would want AI to write their messages for them. If I can write a concise prompt with all the required information, why not save everyone time and just send that instead ? And especially for messages to my close ones, I feel like the actual words I choose are meaningful and the process of writing them is an expression of our living interaction, and I certainly would not like to know the messages from my wife were written by an AI. On the other end of the spectrum, of course sometimes I need to be more formal, but these are usually cases where the precise wording matters, and typing the message is not the time-consuming part.

Very Wrong Math 2 years ago

I believe the strength of gravitational force would not be constant either, as your center of mass would still have a fixed location, so every point on the disc have different distances to that center of mass (in addition to not being orthogonal to the surface). But maybe it might be approximated with an infinitely long cylinder, so the center of mass is infinitely far away below the surface ?

French high speed trains are fast, for instance the average speed of the train on the Paris-Strasbourg section (~400km in length) is 250km/h. This is the global average speed, so it is even faster on the high-speed section, going at around 320km/h. I often take this train, which is very convenient.

I suffered from RSI in one hand for a whole year, which forced me to mostly use a single hand to type. I found out that as a developer, the time I spent typing was not that extensive, and I spent much more time navigating through code and reading stuff. Though my typing speed was more than halved, all in all I believe my productivity was not really reduced. The most annoying things were typing emails and chat, and I often called my coworkers instead of starting long chat sessions. It ended up going away by itself, and I've been pain free for almost two years now.

I use ranger quite a lot when I have to explore the contents of a folder I just cloned or downloaded. Moving around with vim keybindings is much quicker than typing many `cd`, `ls` and `cat`, as you have a preview of files or folder contents on the right side.

I find it also quite useful when doing some housekeeping and cleaning, as while moving around you can mark several items to delete or move them all at once.

On Voice Coding 6 years ago

Could you please elaborate on the exercises you're finding helpful ? I have a mild RSI myself (outer part of the forearm, near the elbow) and have been trying some eccentric exercises for a few months now but I'm not seeing a big improvement.

What "absurdly demanding online game" is the author referring to in the first paragraph ? He mentions Overwatch later in the article but in another context so I'm not sure that's the one he meant.

It’s, uh, really not that bad.

I guess you got used to it. I also had the chance to re-discover how many ads are everywhere on the web thanks to firefox addons outage, and I was very surprised. Honestly, smartphones screen are already quite small (even more when the keyboard pops out) and with all the ads the actual useful surface of the screen gets ridiculously tiny.

I couldn't imagine that chrome on mobile doesn't have an way to block ads, and still has such a huge user base.

Such a massive amount of custom information is quite impressive. I wonder how a single man can maintain all of it up to date, as it seems to be mostly written by hand.

Everything in NLP nowadays involve ML.

Some really nice projects do NLP without using ML at all, for instance Duckling [1] (a library made by facebook to find entities in a text) works a 100% with parsing rules, and is surprisingly efficient.

I agree with your point though, most of the time there is ML at some point in your pipeline so you can't really avoid learning it !

[1] https://github.com/facebook/duckling

Typically not. Although the musicians themselves sometimes have the ability to do it, classical isn't transposed to suit vocalists.

Actually it is, classical pianists accompanists are supposed to know how to sight-transpose a piece to fit a singer's range - for melody, songs and lieder, usually not opera. Only pianists though, you can't ask an orchestra to transpose !