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New comment by vikiomega9 in "A Visual Guide to Vision Transformers"

vikiomega9 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:28:42 +0000

this post made sense to me https://teltam.github.io/posts/soft-dictionary-keys.html

It helps to think of kqv as a form of look up.

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Arm China Has Gone Rogue"

vikiomega9 — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:35:48 +0000

Thank you for being flippant. I'm too poor for a therapist.

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Arm China Has Gone Rogue"

vikiomega9 — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:39:43 +0000

I agree with you except post-independence in the middle of the 19th and 20th century, the supposedly benevolent West hedged and continue to plunder and usurp Africa and Asia. Values based? Sure, see how rational it is, for you but not for us. We must agree upon universal declarations and you better listen up we know what we're doing.

I have no idea why you think these are `silly ritual flagellations`. Drop everything, the British left the Indian subcontinent in flames. Oh wait, this sounds a lot like Afghanistan. Down vote me for all I care, but if you've not experienced the horror of colonialism and the mess we have to pickup after and fix, with poverty, disease and f_cking IP (TB, Aids, Food Security), and fragile democracy setup to serve external masters, in the presence of evolved men, I respectfully ask you to be empathetic to a lot of voices that still can't be heard. You clearly don't seem to understand the utter s_it some of us and our parents have lived through.

Sure, the awesome Western cultural evolution is grand and something to wait for, who knows what form it will take.

Ok, let's drop all of history except the last 70 years. The zenith of evolution. A poor country had to give you, the West, the finger to save the less fortunate from Aids[1].

I respectfully ask you to continue to self-flagellate.

[1] https://qz.com/india/1666032/how-indian-pharma-giant-cipla-m....

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (2012)"

vikiomega9 — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 06:03:48 +0000

Thanks. Seems like a technical problem on his throw then? I'm not aware of the intricacies of surface and I assumed it was a standardized setup.

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (2012)"

vikiomega9 — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 06:47:17 +0000

Source for the reason Johannes Vetter failed? Does not look like this was covered well in the press.

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Why is China smashing its tech industry?"

vikiomega9 — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 20:16:10 +0000

I'm still reading up so looking for resources. What's a good introduction that talks about how the Chinese state is looking at individual choices? 5 year planning makes sense but the implementation is key (India for example had similar planning processes). Is there writing on how Xi or the CCP thinks about incorrect choices in the planning or a fail-safe that prevents what happened to the Soviet Union? Have they ever talked about getting things wrong?

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Why is China smashing its tech industry?"

vikiomega9 — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 19:18:18 +0000

One idea that seems to make sense to me is that social mobility is the equivalent of starvation in a socialist setup. What we see today with the poorer sections of society especially African Americans is a strong indicator that all systems of power should be viewed critically and with compassion. The vast majority of the poor in America for example are obese and that's one cost I can think of that we pay for the current system. Btw, I'm not saying poverty is the cause, just that the system is setup to maximize free market outcomes that are not good but we put up with them, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-true-conne...

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Why is China smashing its tech industry?"

vikiomega9 — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 19:11:59 +0000

Indeed, one of the more interesting ideas I've been considering is how does society think about the delayed effects on mental health and attention deficit. For example, one might argue maybe Netflix is easier to moderate at the level of a family or community, like having parental locks on time spent on quality content. But what do you do with Internet Porn? There is enough evidence that novelty stimulation has detrimental effects. For either scenario, the internet has made it easier to consume more and at a faster rate, but we don't have a quick and easy mechanism to talk about these things and develop cultural practices. One of the more interesting ideas for me is finding that balance between liberal individual right to choice and recognizing all systems including human society is a feedback loop and drifts into failure (either expanding freedoms or curbing them).

New comment by vikiomega9 in "German gymnastics team, tired of sexualisation, wears unitards at Tokyo Olympics"

vikiomega9 — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 05:55:59 +0000

Does appearing taller win more points for gymnastics?

I've always found it weird that some sports have women wearing scant clothing compared to the mens events. Volleyball for example is a big one where it's unclear how bikini bottoms help over shorts.

New comment by vikiomega9 in "I still use plain text for everything. (2016)"

vikiomega9 — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 21:00:04 +0000

Yes exactly, was looking to comment this. HTML and other formats (markdown) are driven by adoption and stick around for that reason.

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Fifteen years of radar reveal Venus’s most basic facts"

vikiomega9 — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 21:54:29 +0000

> for instance, above normal fresh water accumulation on land will measurably change the length of a day

Is there a name for this that I can google for?

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave"

vikiomega9 — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 17:50:03 +0000

I work for AWS and the concept of Bar Raisers sits in a weird grey area. There are plenty of decent candidates who pass the bar but we do stack ranking for the year end review. So they can hire at headcount and end up having to fire anyway. If you end up with two hires that are roughly the same the stack rank takes care of it.

New comment by vikiomega9 in "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)"

vikiomega9 — Thu, 27 May 2021 20:27:41 +0000

yes excellent mock, I see what you mean.

How would you deal with multiple levels of nesting? :) Let's say you're at level 5 which is pretty reasonable.

Oh and I also forgot about languages like Java that are heavy on interfaces and DI. That would be interesting to handle.

New comment by vikiomega9 in "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)"

vikiomega9 — Thu, 27 May 2021 20:27:26 +0000

Great mock up, this is pretty interesting. Food for thought!

New comment by vikiomega9 in "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)"

vikiomega9 — Thu, 27 May 2021 17:18:32 +0000

I'm curious to understand your use-case, would be open to explaining more?

Do you actually want to overlay the code directly into the parent method or would a tooltip (similar to hyperlink previews) work? I wondering how expanding the real estate space would help with readability and how the userflow would work.

For example, code folding made a lot more sense because the window would have those little boxes to fold unfold (which is basically similar to the act of inline and un-inline).

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure"

vikiomega9 — Thu, 27 May 2021 17:12:09 +0000

I wonder if that education should also explicitly include how likes, ads and attention are correlated. Making them understand their place in the world is good but SM is a different take on that age-old problem.

New comment by vikiomega9 in "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)"

vikiomega9 — Tue, 25 May 2021 22:15:11 +0000

Most editors have code folding. I've noticed this helps when there are comments or it's easy to figure out the branching or what not.

However, what you're asking for is a design style that's hard to implement I think without language tooling (for example identifying effectful methods).

New comment by vikiomega9 in "The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something"

vikiomega9 — Wed, 19 May 2021 22:25:32 +0000

What techniques do you use now to cope? I'm going to go get a diagnosis as well, I think I have enough anecdotal evidence to talk to a medical professional.

New comment by vikiomega9 in "The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something"

vikiomega9 — Wed, 19 May 2021 18:59:56 +0000

I have the same problem. Once I get some sense of understanding the overall skill or problem I lose interest? Novice skill is definitely a worse thing to have and getting better takes a lot of consistent work and time.

How do I fix this? It seems like a motivation problem, possibly some sort of craving for novelty perhaps (I don't want to say ADHD but sounds like it)?

New comment by vikiomega9 in "Way to Deal with a Micromanaging Boss"

vikiomega9 — Mon, 17 May 2021 17:58:25 +0000

> As an employee, try to be as a reflective person as you ask your boss to be one. Maybe your work is the reason for him/her to be micromanaging

This is great advice about being reflective, however most humans don't like such conversations (for example like most friend groups). Do you have advice on how to approach such conversations?