FartyMcFarter

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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
I don't know if borders matter much in this case. It's approximately just as easy to travel to England from many other countries as it is to travel to England from the rest of the UK.
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
> Anyone that wants to train a model needs to procure and destroy their own physical copy of each book! Why? Couldn't they resell or give away the books after scanning them?
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
4% drop is a nothingburger. Stocks drop more than that for overreactions to random news all the time.
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
I like most of that TLDR, but: > Full-stack bragging (...) is pure corporate theater. I think Google is just about as full-stack as possible when it comes to AI. They do design their own ML hardware, they do tons of research, and do ever
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
We know he's definitely stepping. That's a start.
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
I think Demis has been way more influential in the past decade. Jeff and Sanjay built a lot of Google's foundational software, but that was a long time ago.
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
What do you mean?
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
Even if that's the way it should be, it's not reality. You can study for the interviews you'd like to have, or the ones you'll actually have.
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
If you expect Leetcode-style problems in the interview and are actually interested in doing your best there, why wouldn't you prepare for that?
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
We're specifically talking about people who are interviewing for jobs - I'd expect a lot of them to have done leetcode before the interviews. Also: when we think about whether we've seen a problem or not before (in order to b
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
Plot twist: the interviewer despises the internal culture and did this as a way to send a signal that the interviewee shouldn't work there regardless of how well the interview went.
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
> As a candidate myself I always mention if I have seen similar problems, such as finding primes - real example, and I was hired on that loop at Microsoft! Normally I'm completely in favour of being honest about this (and would almo
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
> People would not understand assembly any more and blindly trust the output of the compiler. This was OK as long as you understood enough Assembly to debug it. Even though I haven't written much Assembly directly, I can still debu
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
> Problem is short of filtering out anything published after 2023 Is it even feasible to filter this? Such metadata can be easily faked too in a lot of contexts.
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
Great show, great reference.
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
Then I have to deal with whichever random person they decide to send. I can't be the only one who finds this annoying (even if I'm not in the majority).
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
I don't want a person I don't know very well in my space. That aside: if I'm lucky enough to find a person who's good and reliable, they might move away, switch jobs etc. It has all the headaches that come with hiring an
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
> Hell, the only ones that can afford them will be the same that would hire human household help. But maybe they'd rather deal with a robot than a human?
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
Another way to look at it is that they're avoiding some of the expensive parts of making products that use AI, while leaning into their strengths. No Tesla required within the explanation.
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
These robots look slow and not very fluid in their motions, but LLMs like ChatGPT also looked very dumb initially. If progress is as fast as LLMs , this could have massive applications in a few years.
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by FartyMcFarter 2mo ago
Yes. That's a whole other level of difficulty to accomplish safely.
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by FartyMcFarter 3mo ago
> they didn't plan to just spend cash without any return. No return? Annual earnings have kept increasing at 20-40% for the last 4 years. Plus there's this: https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026&#x
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by FartyMcFarter 3mo ago
Why does it raise alarm? Pretty sure all this spending was planned.
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by FartyMcFarter 3mo ago
True on all counts. Not sure why you're getting downvoted.
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by FartyMcFarter 3mo ago
> I do not feel like I have the mental space to keep track of everything I need to do, and I do not even feel like I am aware of what I'm doing anymore. Have you tried keeping a document logging what your thoughts/steps while d
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by FartyMcFarter 3mo ago
Now they have several Turing Award winners, and several Nobel Prize winners.
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by FartyMcFarter 3mo ago
Given his seniority, it could also be that he picks whatever bugs he wants to work on. Whether that is from personal interest, frequency of crashes or any other criteria. When you're at that level in a company, it's rare that some
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by FartyMcFarter 3mo ago
As someone who has debugged his fair share of tricky low-level issues, the parts that I find impressive in his blog posts are things such as "then we look at the bytes in memory and oh yeah, this looks like an exception record". I
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by FartyMcFarter 4mo ago
Quake 1 was worth it even if just for the multiplayer. It was so good that people were having fun online even on just the "start" map with the shareware version. Quakeworld was especially great and very playable even with a modem.
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by FartyMcFarter 4mo ago
Is the title a reference to "will it blend"?

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