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New comment by potbelly83 in "All means are fair except solving the problem"

potbelly83 — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:15:55 +0000

see yosefk reply above

New comment by potbelly83 in "All means are fair except solving the problem"

potbelly83 — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:57:35 +0000

Why not have the program touch a file on success?

Achievable to reach 3–5 microseconds end-to-end order latency

potbelly83 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:55:59 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/quant/comments/1sdx5tf/w/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693843

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New comment by potbelly83 in "How Russia's new elite hit squad was compromised by Google Translate"

potbelly83 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:58:03 +0000

agreed, imagine what a Michael Lewis type writer could make of this story

New comment by potbelly83 in "Epstein asked Chomsky for advice over 'putrid' media coverage, files show"

potbelly83 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:33:04 +0000

There was a comm where Peter attia asks Epstein if he knows Simons. Epstein replied, never met him.

New comment by potbelly83 in "Epstein asked Chomsky for advice over 'putrid' media coverage, files show"

potbelly83 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:06:15 +0000

And Jim Simons also comes out of this looking good.

New comment by potbelly83 in "FFmpeg is not happy with AI generated patches sent by AMD"

potbelly83 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:25:33 +0000

yeah, they seemed to be nitpicking there, better to focus attention on what someone's actually trying to commit

New comment by potbelly83 in "AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded"

potbelly83 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:21:44 +0000

Great list, and most of those don't involve big tech. I think what your list illustrates is that progress is being made, but it requires deep domain expertise.

New comment by potbelly83 in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

potbelly83 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:55:00 +0000

I'm not disagreeing with the fact that there's a shit ton of founders out there looking for a quick pay day (I'd guess the majority fall into that category). Just pointing out there are exceptions, and the exceptions can be quite successful.

New comment by potbelly83 in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

potbelly83 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:16:09 +0000

I don't know, look at someone like https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dmbaggett he seems to be an entrepreneur who enjoys what he's doing.

New comment by potbelly83 in "The Monks in the Casino"

potbelly83 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:09:35 +0000

Fixed typo! Yeah, alone time is inherently a male thing, and is probably what drove a lot of the historical breakthroughs in the past. This need to always be socializing is a very feminine construct and probably does more damage in the long run than people realize (i.e. to deep breakthroughs, case in point how science has now become a popularity game rather than a search for the truth). A more nuanced article would have delved deeper into the types of alone behavior that are beneficial vs those that are destructive.

New comment by potbelly83 in "The Monks in the Casino"

potbelly83 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:30:02 +0000

My criticism with this article is that the author seems to lump all time alone behavior into the 'bad' category. What about the guys spending time alone to work on their guitar solo, dive deeper into a branch of AI math, or how about spending hours reading plato?

New comment by potbelly83 in "An illustrated introduction to linear algebra"

potbelly83 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:16:35 +0000

Honestly all these cute websites give people a false sense that they're actually learning something. The only way to learn this stuff is get one of the million good LA books out there and work through the problems. But that's hard, so people look for shortcuts.

New comment by potbelly83 in "When Bruce Lee trained with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar"

potbelly83 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:22:14 +0000

Yep, but I thought he touted his martial skills as being able to beat any discipline.

New comment by potbelly83 in "When Bruce Lee trained with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar"

potbelly83 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:04:26 +0000

I never understood the obsession with Bruce Lee as a fighter (not considering his acting/stunt scenes here which deserve to be judged on their own merit), it seems any half decent Judoka or amateur boxer would have probably beaten him in a fight.

New comment by potbelly83 in "Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of numerical linear algebra?"

potbelly83 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:22:22 +0000

Doesn't fortran also support the ability to define arrays with arbitrary bounds i.e. (-4, 5) which is quite difficult todo in other languages

New comment by potbelly83 in "'We need the smartest people': Nvidia, OpenAI CEOs react to H-1B visa fee"

potbelly83 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:17:06 +0000

Yeah exactly, the people coming through these pipelines aren't the next batches of Moore's or Noyce's.

New comment by potbelly83 in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

potbelly83 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:41:06 +0000

Nothing really to add, but the NSA museum outside of DC is really cool. I think this is a good example of a museum that works well for adults/kids alike.

New comment by potbelly83 in "U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier"

potbelly83 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:19:49 +0000

People have short memories, they'll come out of the woodwork in 2028 claiming the dems are taking away their freedoms.

New comment by potbelly83 in "I should have loved electrical engineering"

potbelly83 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:57:07 +0000

Yep, it's insane that SWEs working on products like pinterest earn more than engineers working on major infrastructure projects. Honestly without direct government intervention I think market forces will always lead to this outcome.