IdiocyInAction

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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
The country-wide median for SWEs in the US is about 110k$ AFAIK, the median household income in the US is 1.3 times that of Germany, which with an average German salary SWE salary of 46k€=53k$ (I know, should use the median here, but I coul
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Berlin, along with Munich, is probably the hotspot for tech in Germany, so I think the comparison is actually quite apt.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
The average German developer works for some non-software low-margin company where he only has limited impact on the business and is treated like a cost center, while the average SF developer works on tech projects with huge margins where he
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Working hard like that isn't really rewarded working for software in Germany, which is why people don't do it as much. If you work hard as a lawyer in Germany, you might make partner or something, which is why lawyers are prepared
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
C itself is not particularly complex, especially compared to other languages, like C++. It does have a ton of footguns and nasty UB things though. But writing good, safe code in C can be very complex. That doesn't make the language its
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Kind of ironic, AFAIK SQL was first envisioned as being so natural language-like that it could be used by non-programmers.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
> It's also interesting you need to prompt Codex for security best practices Well, that's one of the central lessons of ML - garbage in, garbage out. There is a lot of garbage code out there and no easy a priori way to distingu
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
> Another thing that's kind of scary (and makes it worrying if this is used for Copilot) is the second prompt to make the text uppercase results in code that is superficially correct, but is very semantically wrong - innerHTML.toUpp
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
That also applies to Argentina.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Is there a summary or transcript available?
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
> How’s stopping Jack and Sheila from going back home in not australia doing anything for covid in australia? I don't know the exact intentions of the Australian government, but the rationale as outlined in the article is that it st
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
They are going for the zero COVID strategy. Not that I condone it, but the whole idea is to keep their numbers as they are in your link. > Somehow the USA with it's private system was able to scale and accommodate massive amounts of
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I think NAS is a bit higher level than what the OP had in mind - NAS isn't usually used to search for fundamental operations like self-attention or convolution. But I guess you could probably adapt it quite easily.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Multi-head self-attention seems to be the new trendy architectural primitive. I don't know how feasible it would be - I guess you could take a set of base operations (matrix multiplication, softmax, etc.) and randomly generate feature
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I think many programmers do assume that their job could be automated. I showed GPT-3 to coworkers and they immediately took that into consideration.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I have absolutely no contempt for the skill. Why would I? But I do recognize that building costs are expensive and that building stuff could be faster and safer and thus think that automation would be good. Same goes for my job, really. Aut
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
There are Japanese-only establishments in Japan. Ever seen those in the west?
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
> Encouraging births isn't hard if a government decides its important. Yes it is. The only first-world nation with replacement birth rates is Israel. Caucescu famously tried to increase the birthrate and that backfired spectacularly
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
It sure helps though. You can't just stroll into the US as a foreign entrepreneur (unless you are very wealthy already or well-connected) and sell your product.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
If you mean median or average, both actually. You have to quite poor to be worse off (on average) in the US than in Europe (don't know about Japan); last time I checked it was something like the 10-20th percentile. FWIW, I am European,
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Why are most innovative consumer products and software from the US, would be a more relevant and contemporary question.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
> I'm not seeing it. What makes it profitable? In the EU (and some other jurisdictions, but the EU is the largest), companies must purchase certificates that allow them to pollute (EU ETS). Such companies could participate in this s
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
> It's more accurately a common law problem. European states with Napoleonic law appear to avoid the cost spiral. Germany alone has like 3 major extremely over-budget infrastructure projects I can think of.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
MSE is kind of crappy for images; you'd use something like image-specific, like SSIM.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
What, really? I have never had that happen to me.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
That's kind of the point of the article. He argues that upwards wage rigidity makes people dislike inflation.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
You mean that UAP stuff? Occam's razor says this is probably some electronic countermeasure stuff by the US or something.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I've heard it used in place of internment camp. Though I honestly associate it with the Nazis too.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
After seeing some uncurated examples here, it seems like this thing is mostly a "smooth" Stackoverflow search (as you kind of would expect from a large Transformer); at least things like that out-of-context MergeSort would seem to
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
People have also made neural networks using Redstone in Minecraft. You can make anything you want in Scratch; the question is whether it is wise to do so.

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