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Re:Claude for Excel on Monday October 27, 2025 @06:52PM (#45727280)
Sheets also has an `AI` formula now that you can use to invoke Gemini models directly.
I'd like to see a comparison of ijson vs just `json.load(f)`. `ujson` would also be interesting to see.
Re:Sky-Scanning Complete for Gaia on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:34PM (#42718791)
Which university if you don't mind me asking? I'm interested in doing something similar as a hobby.
Re:Ask HN: Share your "LLM screwed us over" stories? on Thursday January 02, 2025 @01:05PM (#42576893)
The linked post is more a story of someone not understanding what they're deploying. If they had found a random blog post about spot instances, they likely would have made the same mistake.

In this case, the LLM suggested a potentially reasonable approach and the author screwed themselves by not looking into what they were trading off for lower costs.

Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @02:55PM (#29814063)
It is because they have a different vesting schedule from most companies. Instead of 25% of your stock annually with a 1 year cliff, they pay out 5%, 15%, 40%, 40%. So once your signing bonus is up, your shares ramp up.
Re:What Is Dbt and Why Are Companies Using It? on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:14PM (#29424909)
Unfortunate typo: It’s about to be a decade since the Harvard article touting data science as the sexist job in the 21st century.
Re:Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:54AM (#29237684)
Given this, it's also possible that it would take such minimal effort for such an advanced civilization to destroy upstarts, that they would automate it and be done with it.
Re:Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources on Monday November 15, 2021 @03:44PM (#29232451)
My personal favorite take on this is the Dark Forest concept (probably because I just finished reading the book).

It makes sense to me that unless there were some way of ensuring mutually assured destruction, any advanced alien race would simply eliminate any sentient species they became aware of that could possibly become a threat in the future (whether that's hundreds, thousands, or millions of years).

Re:Billions of Random Numbers in a Blink of an Eye on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @01:11PM (#20346303)
Ah yes, thanks everyone for pointing out my mistake, I am not using the `size` parameter, so this is really only generating a single random number. My mistake!
Re:Billions of Random Numbers in a Blink of an Eye on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @10:17PM (#20341061)
Am I missing something? With numpy on my 2017 Macbook Pro, I can generate 1B random, normally distributed numbers on a CPU in ~1.3 microseconds.

In [3]: %timeit np.random.normal(1000000000)

1.3 µs ± 26.2 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)

Edit: and 2.5e17 in ~7.95 microseconds

In [5]: %timeit np.random.normal((500000000, 500000000))

7.95 µs ± 90.7 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100000 loops each)

Re:Rate My iPhone App on Friday August 07, 2009 @12:26AM (#746996)
It's called Middow and it basically takes two locations and finds the midpoint between them. You can then search for pretty much anything around the midpoint and meet people in the middle or whatnot.

I have already pushed out the first update which will save addresses you search for so you don't have to type the same ones over and over. That should be approved by the App Store either tomorrow or sometime soon after that.

Also, if you wanna be a sport and give me some free publicity, digg this story!

http://digg.com/apple/Middow_Meet_in_the _Middle

Any tips, suggestions, praise?

Rate My iPhone App

http://middow.com

It's called Middow and it basically takes two locations and finds the midpoint between them. You can then search for pretty much anything around the midpoint and meet people in the middle or whatnot.I have already pushed out the first update which will save addresses you search for so you don't have to type the same ones over and over. That should be approved by the App Store either tomorrow or...

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