Breza

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by Breza 2y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you. There are two directions of pressure. First, the tech just doesn't work as well as it needs to, and it's not clear if that will change in the next decade. Second, the companies are losing money
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by Breza 2y ago
How does it not apply to students? It's rare to read about a college student being imprisoned and tortured for being a member of a church while a soldier moves into her apartment.
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by Breza 2y ago
Well said. I spent years working with an attorney who was first an English major. He wrote the best contracts because his initial focus was making things readable and obvious. The legal formalities came second. I firmly believe that plain l
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by Breza 2y ago
Totally agree that they have unrealized potential. It was amazing when I was in grad school. Then when I started running a corporate data science team, I struggled to find a use case to recommend it for purchase. There are so many other too
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by Breza 2y ago
I'm suspicious of most claims of AI growth, but I think screenwriting is an area where there's real potential. There are many screenplays out there, many movie plots are very similar to each other, and human raters could help with
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by Breza 2y ago
Not The Onion meets Actually The Onion https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1gr5jz8/the_on...
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by Breza 2y ago
You are absolutely correct. Matt Levine wrote about this topic in his newsletter the other day. Well worth subscribing if corporate/legal shenanigans interest you.
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by Breza 2y ago
A very important point. The Onion was going to give $100,000 more to the other creditors than any other bid. That sounds like the better deal. I can't imagine being owed money and having the judge tell me that I'm being forced to
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by Breza 2y ago
I've been active in data visualization for the past decade or so and the closest I've found to what you describe is Visualize This.
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by Breza 2y ago
Yeah, I love talking about my ideas with an LLM. They can be good at finding holes in my planned approach to a project. And if the holes aren't relevant, it's usually because I didn't explain myself very well at the outset, w
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by Breza 2y ago
Here's an example. I had a ton of XML files in an external drive and I needed to delete all the files that didn't contain a certain phrase. I had Claude write a bash script to move all the non-matching files to a new folder, spot
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by Breza 2y ago
Even better, it's not a law, it's a provision of the Constitution. Article 1, Section 6 lets members of Congress say whatever they want on the floor.
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by Breza 2y ago
I generally agree with you, but I would worry that an overzealous agency would be fine with finding and reporting the SQL injection vulnerability but object to the author creating an obviously fake record. It's hard to know exactly whe
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by Breza 2y ago
Well said. One of my friends came to cyber management from a legal background. You'd better believe my buddy is calling the most respected nerd in the building when learning about a possible vulnerability. Knowing your technical limita
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by Breza 2y ago
TSA spends $6.3 billion per year on screening operations. Someone being able to bypass the entire apparatus of airport screening using a SQL injection attack is a really big deal.
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by Breza 2y ago
RAG + documentation might help. I wonder if documentation will start to take a more standardized format across projects that's especially easy for LLMs to parse (maybe everything dumped into a single .txt file?). I'm currently lea
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by Breza 2y ago
I've worked at the same place for the past decade. Continuing to learn is something that takes real effort, whereas my friends who have job hopped have had to learn new stacks every few years. I set up challenges for myself, such as us
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by Breza 2y ago
Totally agree about fiction. Hadley Wickham's textbooks were influential in my path to become a data scientist. The writing is so good. I follow him on Goodreads and he is a voracious fiction reader.
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by Breza 2y ago
Nice. The first edition is still a great book. Some of the specific technologies are a little outdated, but the book focuses on the big picture concepts that are timeless.
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by Breza 2y ago
> Just like with powered-flight we don't need bioliogical intelligence to transform the world. Powered flight offers a cautionary tale for AI. The first confirmed powered flight was in 1903. For the next 60 years, someone broke the
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by Breza 2y ago
Would love to see someone fire a Phalanx for four hours just to generate enough test data to assess that probability
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by Breza 2y ago
Gary, Indiana
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by Breza 2y ago
I agree with your overall point. I'll add that the Fast AI course really does focus on building practical things, and I suggest it for anyone who wants to learn the basics of neural networks, even if you'll never train one from sc
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by Breza 2y ago
Good point. And going back to the start of this thread, you can put a whole lot of Postgre into a machine with even a few hundred gigs of RAM.
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by Breza 2y ago
You might like https://labgopher.com/
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by Breza 2y ago
It's scary to think about what China could do with the $100 million-$150 million the US spends on a single F-35.
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by Breza 2y ago
R gives you a relatively simple set of tools that you can combine in powerful ways. The Wolfram Language seems to have a specialized function for everything, which is nice sometimes but it takes me longer to get started when doing explorato
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by Breza 2y ago
I've encountered plenty of tasks where lower quality models work quite well. I prefer using Claude 3 Opus, DBRX, or Llama-3, but that level of quality isn't always needed. Here are a few examples. Top story picker. Given a bunch o
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by Breza 2y ago
This is what Washington DC did when I moved here. They theoretically had zones, but in reality it was arbitrary. Moving to meters was an amazing development. Similarly, as LLMs become more and more commonplace, the pricing models will need
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by Breza 2y ago
Exactly! I will say that Adobe still does add features to the CC subscription[1], but the things I spend 90% of my time using in CC haven't changed all that much in the past decade. I'd be OK with continuing to use an older versio

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