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t_mann commented on OMSCS Open Courseware   sites.gatech.edu/omscsope... · Posted by u/kerim-ca
mym1990 · 2 months ago
The OMSCS degree you get is equivalent to the in person one, so there is no way to make the distinction in an interview. I actually don’t see how people see that an experience like this brings no value, given the rigor of the assignments. One certainly would come out with a better knowledge of how things work, develop a better work ethic, and hopefully make some network connections on the way…
t_mann · 2 months ago
> there is no way to make the distinction in an interview

Just ask?

Some online degrees state that they're equivalent, but interviewers may still have their own opinions. I would discourage anyone from failing to mention the online nature of a degree in their CV. You're really not doing yourself a favor. A rigorous online degree is something to be proud of. I see people with PhD's proudly announcing their online course certificates on LinkedIn. However, 'discovering' that an education was of a different nature than one had assumed based on the presented materials may raise questions.

t_mann commented on The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude   blog.chrislewis.au/the-un... · Posted by u/knackers
wavemode · 2 months ago
"one-shot" usually just means, one example and its correct answer was provided in the prompt.

See also, "zero-shot" / "few-shot" etc.

t_mann · 2 months ago
The article says that having decompiled some functions helps with decompiling others, so it seems like more than one example could be provided in the context. I think the OP was referring to the fact that only a single prompt created by a human was used. But then it goes off into what appears to be an agentic loop with no hard stopping conditions outside of what the agent decides.

We're essentially trying to map 'traditional' ML terminology to LLMs, it's natural that it'll take some time to get settled. I just thought that one-shot isn't an ideal name for something that might go off into an arbitrarily long loop.

t_mann commented on The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude   blog.chrislewis.au/the-un... · Posted by u/knackers
t_mann · 2 months ago
> The ‘give up after ten attempts’ threshold aims to prevent Claude from wasting tokens when further progress is unlikely. It was only partially successful, as Claude would still sometimes make dozens of attempts.

Not what I would have expected from a 'one-shot'. Maybe self-supervised would be a more suitable term?

t_mann commented on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs   arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047... · Posted by u/50kIters
crote · 2 months ago
Note that nothing in the article is AI-specific: the entire argument is built around the cost of persuasion, with the potential of AI to more cheaply generate propaganda as buzzword link.

However, exactly the same applies with, say, targeted Facebook ads or Russian troll armies. You don't need any AI for this.

t_mann · 2 months ago
Sounds like saying that nothing about the Industrial Revolution was steam-machine-specific. Cost changes can still represent fundamental shifts in terms of what's possible, "cost" here is just an economists' way of saying technology.

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t_mann commented on Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions   finfam.app/blog/credit-un... · Posted by u/mhashemi
cortesoft · 2 months ago
There are downsides.

I have a really great rate on my mortgage, but our house is super expensive and small for our family… but now we can’t afford to move.

If we moved to a new house, we would have to pay off this great mortgage and get a new one, at a much higher interest rate. Even if we found a house that cost the exact same as ours, the monthly payment would be 50% higher, because current interest rates are more than twice what we have. We are locked into our house.

t_mann · 2 months ago
Would renting it out be an option?
t_mann commented on Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions   finfam.app/blog/credit-un... · Posted by u/mhashemi
t_mann · 2 months ago
Great initiative and beautiful site! Tiny nitpick, the wrapping of the controls above the table on my phone could probably be improved. What did you use for the table?

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t_mann commented on R packages for data science   tidyverse.org/... · Posted by u/cl3misch
parsimo2010 · 2 months ago
I almost wish Hadley had forked R to make the tidyverse. What I usually see are people that start using tidy functions and coding style, but at some point they realize they don’t know how to do something the tidy way or something hasn’t been implemented in a tidy package yet, so they fall back to base R.

Imho, transitioning from tidy to base R makes your code less readable than just using base R throughout.

If the tidyverse were forked and base R functions weren’t available then people would be forced to come up with a different solution and maybe they would stay committed to being tidy. I realize that probably won’t ever happen, there is too much work to reimplement all the missing base R functions.

t_mann · 2 months ago
There's a school of thought of using mostly base R, for all its flaws it already had before Hadley, and selectively using some tidyverse packages. Base R has been the de-facto coding standard for academic statisticians for decades, with all the wealth of open source packages that that entails, and some of the tidyverse packages are just a godsend. ggplot2 is probably the most powerful plotting library I've seen, while being fairly accessible. You don't have to subscribe to an entire philosophy for data wrangling or plotting (and may even frown at the syntax overloading) to get a huge amount of utility out of it.
t_mann commented on Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=15_-h... · Posted by u/franczesko
drnick1 · 3 months ago
> Works great over Tailscale/home lab setups

I think it's better to avoid commercial dependencies like Tailscale in a "home lab" setup if you can. You can set up a plain Wireguard tunnel and manage your own keys just fine at that kind of scale without some third part identity provider collecting your data.

t_mann · 3 months ago
What about Headscale?

> Headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.

https://headscale.net/

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