deltasepsilon (u/deltasepsilon)

deltasepsilon commented on Logical/semantical inverse of the definition of synchronicity? · Posted by u/rgbswan

I would say another one. A system does not exhibit synchronicity if: all highly improbable coincidences between events are causally linked.

Although, this question kinda looks like a homework question in a philosophy of logic class.

deltasepsilon commented on Show HN: Site where rich people can fulfill poor people's wish. P2P donationflex.com/... · Posted by u/preetramsha

deltasepsilon · a year ago

You sure as heck make a whole lotta apps. One of these days you'll strike gold.

I think you'll have better luck with an app that allows depraved rich people connect with desperate poor people in order to have them do their bidding. Easier to game-ify as well.

For the confused, this is sarcasm, or as the kids say these days, based.

More concrete advice would be to spend less time on tiktok and more time figuring out what you genuinely need, as it's easier to motivate yourself towards finding a comprehensive solution to it, as opposed to your present scheme of random, half-baked ideas.

deltasepsilon commented on What to do when your intelligence does not align with your interest? · Posted by u/mintsuku

mintsuku · a year ago

I always think about programming and CS concepts, I am currently reading the OSSTEP books, I’ve one of those minds that obsess over the things they find fun or enjoyable so my mind is always lingering with things I’ve learned or done. I’m very curious about how everything works, all the way down to this finer details. I’m usually never satisfied with just knowing that something does what it does, I have to know why, how and what mechanisms are in place to allow this to happen. Yes, you are right, I do need to get over myself and as you said, it seems that I lack self esteem and confidence. I’m not sure how I’d fix that especially since programming more seems to make it worse. Also I think you misunderstood what I meant by research and high paying job, what I was trying to say is that if my goal to be a researcher doesn’t work out, I wanted to know what jobs would be high paying and not require a significant amount of intelligence, and since I believe I don’t have the required intelligence to do what it is I want to do, I asked what other jobs there were I could do. Thank you for your words and advice!

deltasepsilon · a year ago

FWIW, your ability to self-reflect makes me excited for your future. There is nothing to "fix" with respect to self-esteem and confidence. Just observe those thoughts as they arise and laugh at them. We all are novices. We just happen to be at different stages of our own personal development.

"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." —John von Neumann[1]

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/11267/what-are-some...

deltasepsilon commented on What to do when your intelligence does not align with your interest? · Posted by u/mintsuku

deltasepsilon · a year ago

You are putting to much emphasis in what you believe to be your intelligence.

If you enjoy something, pursue it. There are some caveats, however. You have to get out of your own way. If you want to believe you can't do it, congratulations you have achieved your goal. If you expect everything to be below the cusp of hardship, sorry but it won't be that way. You have to allow yourself to wallow in your own ignorance and accept it. This, however, has to be WITHIN REASON. Too much of this and you will burn out. Sometimes the program you may be in may be beyond reasonable effort on your part. In this case, you need to find another way of learning that is more tuned to your pace.

In short though, you have incoherent goals. You want to do research yet failing that you want something high-paying. From my perspective it's hard to take you seriously. If you're unserious about this then I can't imagine you being particularly serious about your own development. Let's be reasonable here. You say, for example, "I'm not even looking for [...] people to tell me that I am smart enough [...]." GET. OVER. YOURSELF.

You seem to be lacking confidence. Do you think about OS concepts? Do you use whatever devices you use and say, "Hey, I think this could be better." Do you doodle ideas about how they could work and behave to improve your productivity? Great, you are in the right program. In time, you will learn tools, concepts, and theories to make your ideas real. If you're not curious or wondering about this already then find another major aligned with something you're naturally curious about. That said, sometimes the academic process will beat any love you had for the subject out of you.

If you're competent and have an above average amount of hustle, you can be successful at anything in a stable, modern, Western democracy... for now.

deltasepsilon commented on Everything we can't describe in music hazlitt.net/feature/every... · Posted by u/anarbadalov

deltasepsilon · 2 years ago

This story was not submitted by tintinnabula.

I'm scandalized. /s

deltasepsilon commented on Ask HN: Looking for a Talk on Software Optimization · Posted by u/deltasepsilon

deltasepsilon · 2 years ago

Thank you for your suggestion, but no.

This wasn't explored recently. It's been a year at least since this was discussed. The work comes from an academic researcher in a CS or Engineering department. I'm interested because it presents a much higher-level view of optimization beyond micro-optimization where people worry about such things as cache effects and such, which would be bound to micro-architectural implementation choices.

deltasepsilon · 2 years ago

Woah, I can't believe it, I've found the discussion that linked the thing I was looking for. [1] It's called Coz, the causal profiler [2]. I've submitted this talk again, because I think it's super interesting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36366179

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A

deltasepsilon commented on Ask HN: Looking for a Talk on Software Optimization · Posted by u/deltasepsilon

logtempo · 2 years ago

This one ? https://wordsandbuttons.online/the_real_cpp_killers.html

from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39770467

deltasepsilon · 2 years ago

Thank you for your suggestion, but no.

This wasn't explored recently. It's been a year at least since this was discussed. The work comes from an academic researcher in a CS or Engineering department. I'm interested because it presents a much higher-level view of optimization beyond micro-optimization where people worry about such things as cache effects and such, which would be bound to micro-architectural implementation choices.