Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Fireship" channel.

  1. In the Lower Decks episode "Crisis Point II," the characters go off-script, and the holodeck stalls for time with filler words ("The meaning of life is... something important... that I will reveal..."). That's something I've seen LLMs do as well, especially as they try to run out the max_token limit.
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  2. ​ @personalbranddata You're misunderstanding. It's not me who's conflating the two, it's the managers who claim that their devs (more often quants) write garbage code when in actuality no one ever trained them in proper style conventions. Plus—and this is all from personal experience as both an autodidact developer and as a coach—well-formatted Python, especially, tends to naturally suggest better programming patterns, such as code modularization and functional paradigms.
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  3.  @TheRanguna  Yes, I'm aware. But Kim Dotcom isn't a name I have heard in a loong time.
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  4. More importantly, since the suit is being filed in Rhode Island, I'm guessing they can recruit a Grade A lawyer who will represent them on contingency, since Anti-SLAPP means that when the case gets thrown out, the plaintiff had to pay the defendant's legal fees.
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  5.  @anon_y_mousse  I think you're the one missing the point: just because you can write cross-platform code doesn't mean you get it for free--GTK and SDL are themselves abstraction layers that map your system calls to the OS. You're also implying that Linux binaries can't run natively on Windows and vice versa, but cygwin and WINE would beg to differ.
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  6. Could they come after the most common Python web scraping library? Because that's BS. Hopefully somebody sees what I did there.
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  7. ​ @anonymousshadow8308 I feel so seen!! 😭
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  8. ​ @Fishamble  Same. Been playing a lot of Robot Defense as a result, though, so at least now my time is better spent.
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  9.  @florinbaciu2325  which is such a shame, because teaching people microPython / CircuitPython (with prototyping through the REPL) is such a gentler learning curve while being every bit as practical for any project you'd realistically want to teach Arduino.
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  10. I thought Smaug-72B was the new hotness (in addition to being open source).
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  11. Then you need to pacman Syu. Arch isn't vulnerable to the malicious payload, but it's still not something you want on your system.
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  12. YouTube real-time metrics are fuzzy at best. Guarantee if you view the same video on five different browsers on three different machines, they'll each report different numbers.
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  13. 3:15 OMG. The ending to a certain episode of Strange New Worlds suddenly makes sense.
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  14. Jetbrains products are incredibly overzealous by default, though, and they're getting worse. I haven't tried PHPStorm, but with both Pycharm and IDEA I'll way too often miss real typos and valid warnings in the sea of spell-checked variable names and incorrect type inferences (that pass other linters just fine).
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  15. I first heard about functional programming from a joke in xkcd: "Code written in Haskell is guaranteed to have no side effects" / "...because no one will ever run it?" Nowadays, I defer execution like I'm the California penal system and am less willing to give things state than a Republican voting on DC or Puerto Rico.
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  16. If a genie granted me one wish, it would be to re-brand every "Center for AI/ML" as a "Department of Large Matrices"
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  17. Transformer models are, by definition, dumber than deep learning models—what's allowed them to take over the world hypetrain is that they're lobotomized of their recurrent network layers and just focus on "attention," which is way cheaper and easier to scale. So yeah, no 💩 they're hitting a plateau. This is also why Altman is saying he wants trillions of dollars in GPUs and electricity—because even with efficiency gains, today's clouds won't bring about The Singularity.
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  18. Congratulations! Your rainbow knee-socks are in the mail.
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  19. Understanding C types is what differentiates Python developers from script kiddies analysts—beyond just using type hints and understanding package ABIs, performance optimizers like numba require understanding what code can be "easily converted" to C.
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  20. ​ @afrofantom6631 That's awesome! First off—no disrespect to analysts meant: if you're making or informing high-level decisions, you got no time to be worrying about type safety. Second, good on you for broadening your skillset—even if it stays strictly a hobby, the more languages you learn, the more paradigms and ways of thinking you get exposed to, and that's always valuable.
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  21. Running Python in Excel is the uno reverse card of my entire career up until this point—parsing business analyst and recruiter spreadsheets for ingestion into Python frameworks. I also have a prediction that Jassy's Web Hosting (And Omni-Bazaar) is going to hard fork LibreOffice and market it as their own competitor that runs in AWS.
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  22. Yeah. It's called "Global Stallions" and it's owned by Weatherbys.
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  23. It's interesting how calculus is part of the standard curriculum but is honestly a lot less important in day-to-day life than concepts that aren't as well taught, like Bayesian statistics. Of course, if quantum computing ever takes off, having a good handle on integral calculus is going to be one of the most useful skills in a CS arsenal.
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  24.  @Thorhian  We're saying the same thing. I'm talking about teaching it to people who aren't likely to go into tech as a career. If all you ever need is a scripting language or a flexible interface for basic computation and plotting, python will easily meet those needs in a way that's more user-friendly than bash and more powerful than Excel.
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  25. I'm more shocked by the second example—if I'm responsible for GenAI and I need to assess if it's safe to release in two queries, that's proompt no. 1.
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  26. FUD. Yeah, microSD failure rates are higher and median lifetimes lower than other forms of flash, but Home Assistant isn't doing a ton of tile I/O--as long as your µSD isn't a lemon you'll be good for years. Just, like, remember to perform regular backups, same as any computer.
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  27. ​ @adamestrada7610 Yeah, conda-main tends to run a bit behind conda-forge, which itself can be sometimes be a point release behind PyPI. But it's usually not quite "apt repository" level of staleness.
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  28. #! — [ha]she-bang
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  29. I daily drive Linux, but if I'm ever developing something cross-platform, I'm booting up the Windows VM—most languages and build systems give you POSIX compliance for free—backslash handling; NTFS quirks; and lack of standard OS utils like ssh, rsync and cross-volume symlinks make adding Windows support later way more trouble than it has any right to be.
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  30. "Because you will not be seeing the recruiter in the company" -- speak for yourself, I do software and analytics for HR
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  31.  @LuminousWhispers11  Haha, okay, fair. Mine was a stupid comment. And yes, your advice is absolutely correct, regardless of your department.
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  32. Ah, MPI... I remember having to write message-passing instructions manually. Then I blinked past the Hadoop age and we were in the era of Spark/Dask.
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  33. ​ @user-sl6gn1ss8p Jeff simply wasn't ready to let the world know about the mongoose people
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  34. The new kimchi place downtown.
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  35. Nvidia: "Hold my leather jacket."
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  36. This is just my opinion, but the take of "Google built an open ecosystem" is wrong. Google built on top of an open ecosystem and has been closing it off as much as possible ever since.
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  37. I have never in my life heard anyone pronounce SQL "squeal" And I will never again pronounce it any other way.
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  38. Tinder for horses (that is, an app for horse breeders to connect sires with mares) would be extremely lucrative and almost certainly already exists. Edit: I was right. Weatherbys (the British horse and banking empire) have a mobile app in addition to their online "stud book."
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  39. Wait, y'all haven't had deepcopy until now? But people have been pushing functional programs for years in JS. How the Hell do you manage immutability without deepclone?
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  40. ​ @lawrencedoliveiro9104 No, conda is an alternative to pip (really poetry) that is used for creating virtual environments and installing packages. Unlike venv, it's not just limited to Python libraries and can install binaries for other languages and even alternative versions of Python. The package solver was historically very slow (as opposed to pip's solver, which was historically VERY BAD) but it's gotten better lately. There's also a drop-in replacement called mamba that is super-fast.
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  41. Luckily the economics will save us. Back-of-the-napkin math based on experiments using my own hardware and a kill-a-watt meter: Stable Diffusion costs about $0.14/second of video¹ in electricity. So a 60-second short will run about $8. Oh, and tack on another $2 to drive engagement by having the "creator" respond to comments via an LLM. Versus paying a YouTuber, generously, pennies in ad revenue on average. Shorts creators: your "jobs" are safe. ¹Sora is probably an order of magnitude more expensive, and note that I'm not including the cost of buying and maintaining the GPU hardware
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  42. Was it? I see people speculating that cropped / derivative versions were fake, but the original image has no admissions of hoax—and you'd think they would by now, since the story has been reported as true in a bunch of publications, including the New York Times. (to be clear, I'm not saying the Times wouldn't fall for a hoax, but usually when it does, the hoaxer steps up to take credit)
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  43. I hope each of these projects had the good sense to license under AGPL.
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  44.  @timmy7201  In what way? Just the lack of stability? I've found uPython to be perfectly adequate for DIY projects--even moving off the breadboard and flashing to 8285s--but I'm far from a professional engineer
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  45. ​ @akeem2983 Second Sight
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  46. I'd love to see a head-to-head comparison against numba--seems like they're taking similar approaches to the same problem
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  47. Zoom has been fine for me—except on the Steam Deck due to the limited resolution, and the best AMD drivers are baked into the kernel. Finally, if you're not a slave to Adobe, you'll be surprised how many of your productivity apps work in WINE bottles.
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  48. ​ @GamerTowerDX Musicbee is rated Silver on WineHQ—worth giving it a try.
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  49. I also question 0:13 - - that the most popular board is the Uno. Given how expensive Unos are there is no way they outnumber Nanos--or Nano clones--which are still easy to work with (go on breadboards, no soldering) but are like $5 a pop from US sellers
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  50. Make sure to upgrade xz to 5.6.1-2 or above. Arch isn't vulnerable to this attack vector, but do it anyway just to be sure.
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