Breza

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by Breza 1y ago
Unpopular opinion, but I actually like traffic enforcement cameras. They don't know what race you are, and they never end up escalating to using lethal force.
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by Breza 1y ago
I completely agree. Here in DC, we have sporadic enforcement of things like fare evasion, reckless moped driving, unlicensed food trucks, and speeding on the shoulder of the highway. It definitely helps somewhat.
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by Breza 1y ago
Here in Washington DC, we've installed a variety of different kinds of traffic cameras. And the local police engage in targeted enforcement actions against things like driving on the highway shoulder or recklessly operating a moped. It
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by Breza 1y ago
What Python libraries do you prefer? Even after doing this for years, I have trouble making anything remotely complicated in matplotlib without at least one look at the documentation. For data viz, I'm absolutely smitten with R and ggp
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by Breza 1y ago
I guess I'm lucky to have learned it in 2012 when base, ggplot, and lattice were all being taught at the same time. I love ggplot, but I dip into base from time to time when hist(students$age) is faster then ggplot(students, aes(x = ag
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by Breza 1y ago
I totally agree with you. Some of the most intense thinking I've put into writing code has been when I go out for a run in the middle of the day and come back 30 minutes later with solutions to the thing I spent all morning trying to f
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by Breza 1y ago
I set up a treadmill desk during the pandemic. It has definitely improved my focus and concentration. The book In Praise of Walking has a lot of the science behind why.
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by Breza 1y ago
Given how easy it is to spin up GCP resources with a text file, I'm surprised Gemini doesn't already offer this service. The prompt below gave me a 167-line file that uses Cloud Run, Cloud Built, Artifact Registry, Firestore, Maps
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by Breza 1y ago
That's my approach. I got my quarterly statement in the mail yesterday. Looks like the market must have gone up over the past three months. Not sure what to do with this information since it's not like I'm going to change any
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by Breza 1y ago
If it were that obvious, someone would have already picked up the $20 bill. There are many examples of companies that appeared to be just as dominant as Nvidia was on May 29, 2020 (GPT-3 release date) who went to heck shortly thereafter.
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by Breza 1y ago
Great suggestion. I'm having solar panels installed on my house partially because I ran thousands of Monte Carlo simulations on a range of variables and almost all of them pointed to a great NPV.
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by Breza 1y ago
I agree. Public benchmarks aren't very useful for a bunch of reasons. Any company relying on LLMs for a critical function should have its own internal benchmark system. I maintain such a system for my job. If you are able, use the same
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by Breza 1y ago
Plus I can imagine uncomfortable things coming up given how much non public information people send to LLMs. "What do you think of REVG?" "REVG is a solid company with a long history and upcoming earnings that will exceed Wal
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by Breza 1y ago
GPT-5 did the below today when I asked it to proofread an email. Would you consider it a hallucination? I'm asking genuinely because I'm a fan of your thoughts on tech and am curious where you draw the line. My wording: "Woul
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by Breza 1y ago
That's what I like about Deepseek. The reasoning output is so verbose that I often catch problems with my prompt before the final output is even generated. Then I do exactly what you suggest.
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by Breza 1y ago
Outside Magazine. I know it's strange to include a magazine subscription here, but they keep buying software companies and giving their subscribers complementary access. I enjoy planning hikes with their Gaia GPS app.
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by Breza 1y ago
If it worked in my DC backyard, I'd pay that in a heartbeat.
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by Breza 1y ago
Ugh don't remind me. My daughter's fifth birthday is tomorrow and with how fast she's growing I feel like her 15th is on Thursday.
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by Breza 1y ago
That's a good note. I use DeepSeek for early planning of a project because of how valuable its reasoning output can be. It's common that I'll describe my problem and first draft architecture and see something in the output li
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by Breza 1y ago
Very well put. There's a lot to be gained from using smaller models and existing hardware. So many enterprise PMs skip straight to using a cutting edge LLM via API. There are many tasks where a self-hosted LLM or even a finetuned small
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by Breza 1y ago
Well said. And it's not just the cloud. We self-host at my job and there are real cost savings to speed here too. Being able to continue using an old server for another year and having your staff be just a little more efficient adds up
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by Breza 1y ago
"GLM 4.5 McKay was born in 1890 in a little thatched house of two rooms in a beautiful valley of the hilly middle-country of Jamaica."
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by Breza 1y ago
Nuclear power plants certainly have their place, but this is overstating things. If you take the total costs involved in building and operating a nuclear power plant over its lifetime and divide it by the energy produced, you still end up s
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by Breza 1y ago
My daughter was born in 2020, when my employer was going through big changes and the world around me was obviously in chaos. There were real opportunities to work long days and advance in our new parent company. Instead, I took every day of
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by Breza 1y ago
Different approaches work for different folks. When I was new to running, I had a good streak going for a long time. Now that I'm training for ultras, I focus on quality training, which can mean spending a Saturday playing with my daug
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by Breza 1y ago
What are some of your favorite data viz books? I'm a fellow chart nerd and I'm always looking for new suggestions.
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by Breza 1y ago
I had a similar reaction. OP has only run a few marathons, and most of his runs aren't exactly setting a record-breaking pace. That's a refreshing change from social media influencers who make it seem like anyone can run a near-4
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by Breza 1y ago
The battery life of Garmin watches is astonishing. When I get a low battery alert, I still have several days to plug it in. If my phone dies, my watch stores my run until I get home, at which point it logs into my Wi-Fi network and uploads
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by Breza 1y ago
I've found success in spending time walking when I'm not running. I have a treadmill desk, but I also take part in long conference calls while walking around my neighborhood. Training your body to spend hours moving on a regular b
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by Breza 1y ago
I set up my laptop on my treadmill. Over the years, I've built increasingly fancy setups, but I started with a basic stand from Amazon. Playing a computer game for hours on end feels productive when you burn 1,000 calories doing it.

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