mastersummoner (u/mastersummoner)

mastersummoner commented on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/rrock

Dalewyn · a year ago

>The people are largely unhappy with how things have been

This is an understatement to say the least, and the fact it's been denied and even refused by the powers that be until today is why the pendulum has swung as hard as it has.

Americans wanted change, and they finally got it with ferocious retribution because it's been held back for so long.

mastersummoner · a year ago

I'm confused. Are you saying specifically that you think the experiences described in this article are for the good of the country? Or do you think they're an exaggeration/lie.

mastersummoner commented on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/rrock

jacobgkau · a year ago

Something small like in-person gatherings for several years in response to a pandemic? Like someone else in the thread claimed was a made-up problem that's only in peoples' heads?

It's really interesting seeing how widely varied peoples' definitions of these things are.

mastersummoner · a year ago

The pandemic was a national emergency. Covid was an extremely contagious disease without a lot of existing immunity. The right call was made for the safety of several hundred million Americans. Most other countries made the exact same one.

mastersummoner commented on Using Linear Programming to find optimal builds in League of Legend versary.town/blog/using-l... · Posted by u/birdculture

kqr · a year ago

I love it when people apply operations research technologies to silly things like video games.

One thing I'm missing in this article is a discussion of how useful the ILP techniques really were compared to dumber heuristics. Take the first optimal build as an example:

- We know we will need some items that give us a large boost to our stats thanks to the six-item limit.

- Nashor's tooth seems like an "obvious" choice for the above, given that it supplies 130 units of desirable stats at only 100 gold per unit.

- Once we have that, the Amplifying Tome is really only there to fill out the remaining units of one of the stats.

I guess what I'm saying is the optimal item selection has surprisingly few interactions. That seems like a solution we could get close to with far simpler methods!

mastersummoner · a year ago

> I love it when people apply operations research technologies to silly things like video games To be fair, video games can also be big money. And even if not, some take them very seriously.

mastersummoner commented on Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns wikenigma.org.uk/start... · Posted by u/jgamman

dang · a year ago

> karma/upvotes/etc actually does contribute to reputation

I hope not!

mastersummoner · a year ago

Much less here than on, say, Reddit. But it's not nothing!

mastersummoner commented on Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns wikenigma.org.uk/start... · Posted by u/jgamman

dang · a year ago

Ah yes - and a couple others did in the last week, too. I wonder why!

It's a bit of a lottery which instance of a submission ends up 'winning' a frontpage position. The intention is to build some sort of aggregation mechanism that will involve karma sharing in the future. In the meantime, I guess it does at least even out in the long run if one keeps submitting articles (and thanks for doing that!)

mastersummoner · a year ago

I'm glad you're thinking about this. It's always strange to search for a topic, and find a dozen hits, most with one post max, and one which went absolutely viral.

In a world where karma/upvotes/etc actually does contribute to reputation, it seems unfair and arbitrary.

mastersummoner commented on Phased Array Microphone (2023) benwang.dev/2023/02/26/Ph... · Posted by u/bglazer

analog31 · a year ago

>>>> Reminds me of the electronics adage: "all sensors are temperature sensors, some measure other things as well."

A corollary that's one of my rules to live by: Never measure anything over time without also measuring the ambient temperature.

mastersummoner · a year ago

Not really related, but the way you chose to indicate a comment here immediately made me think you had merge conflicts.

mastersummoner commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba

mastersummoner · a year ago

I'm an informed, white, male Democrat and I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

mastersummoner commented on Quincy Jones has died apnews.com/article/quincy... · Posted by u/gfortaine

teeray · a year ago

> The documentary made by his daughter Rashida Jones

I just watched Parks and Rec for the first time last month and didn't make the connection that she is his daughter.

mastersummoner · a year ago

If you ever listen to Rashida speak, she's one of the most incredibly eloquent people I've heard. Pipe dream for me to ever be as well-spoken as she is.

mastersummoner commented on Using LLMs to enhance our testing practices assembled.com/blog/how-we... · Posted by u/johnjwang

mastersummoner · a year ago

I actually tested Claude Sonnet to see how it would fare at writing a test suite for a background worker. My previous experience was with some version of GPT via Copilot, and it was... not good.

I was, however, extremely impressed with Claude this time around. Not only did it do a great job off the bat, but it taught me some techniques and tricks available in the language/framework (Ruby, Rspec) which I wasn't familiar with.

I'm certain that it helped having a decent prompt, asking it to consider all the potential user paths and edge cases, and also having a very good understanding of the code myself. Still, this was the first time for me I could honestly say that an LLM actually saved me time as a developer.