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by PeterisP 3y ago
I did just literally say that this has never ever happened to me. Likely that's a regional thing, perhaps panel interviews are popular in USA - but my practice has always been 1-3 rounds of <1 hour interviews, at various sized place
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I've never had such a panel interview in my quite long career and possibly never will. I'm not allocating a whole day for an interview, that job offer isn't likely to be that much better than the current job or other altern
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How would I know that the task actually takes 30 minutes before scheduling as much time they say the process would take? I presume that when they say "come in for an hour of talk and a three-hour practical task" (which the point w
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It seems quite plausible that "boredom" is a mechanism that is required (or at least useful) for building high cognitive capabilities.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
A three-hour test is above what I'd consider acceptable for most potential employers. I can talk with you a bit, but if you want me to come in and do work for half a day, I'm going to refuse, I've got actual paid work to do.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
But for the question of anti-trust action it doesn't matter whether it's "a lot" of people, it matters whether it's an insignificant number of people - if there were 10 smartwatch users in the US, the argument &quot
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by PeterisP 3y ago
We aren't so starved so as to have to prioritize eating efficiently, people will eagerly prioritize aspects of taste and eat inefficiently, and it's great that they can do that - it would be horrific and a symptom of unacceptabl
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by PeterisP 3y ago
One man's "pour your limited resource on the ground" is another man's "valuable use of that resource" - if they're choosing to do something with the energy they purchase, apparently they consider that this
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But as we don't have mass long-term energy storage, future energy is not exchangeable with current energy, thus the future energy cost shouldn't matter for the current training of LLMs, and whether tomorrow it will be a good use o
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It's not a replacement for the cost of operating existing gas and coal plants; building up new solar capacity enables you to burn less gas or coal at the times when the sun is shining and thus cut its fuel costs, but it does not enable
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by PeterisP 3y ago
There are unaccounted externalities in many areas, but energy use of LLMs isn't one of them - people are paying full market price for the energy of training or using LLMs, that energy cost is large enough so that people care a LOT ab
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by PeterisP 3y ago
If your target audience is businesses, not individuals, then you can go a very long way with fully manual onboarding, invoicing, etc. It's different for things like consumer services or e.g. forum users, but why couldn't you man
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The key aspect is that such memory generally works on a "block" level so making any smaller-than-block write on a SSD requires reading a whole block (which can be quite large), erasing that whole block and then writing back the wh
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by PeterisP 3y ago
No people have climbed out of their vehicle in the Marian trench to be able to manipulate or build something with their (heavily gloved) hands.
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The resulting model doesn't have access to the information about what follows what, so it can recreate paragraphs but can't recreate their proper order for a chapter or book. Well, it can try to guess..
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One thing that we did with distributing certain copyright-protected textual material was to scramble them at the paragraph level. If you take every paragraph in the Harry Potter saga and sort the paragraphs in alphabetical order, it's
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Yes, the difference is in what all our tools and infrastructure presume to be more or less sensitive. Sending a GET request to a site for the password-input screen and POST'ing the password will get very different treatement than sendi
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Historically, fraternizing between enlisted and officers has generally been not only unwelcome, but a punishable offense.
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There definitely is a practical organization need for a way to call out nonsense - but this article is about the widely used workaround process (namely, honest talks during after-work drinking) that does enable this valuable feedback to hap
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In cultures where direct confrontation isn't accepted, intention does not matter , you simply can't do it - if someone believes that intention is all that matters, speaks their mind directly with e.g. some not-properly-veiled crit
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by PeterisP 3y ago
How do you perform repair on something inside a solid steel, titanium or aluminum block, which is what this structure replaces? These are structural components that don't have anything "inside" but are used as material for ca
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You could have a much simpler parsing than ordinary parsing if you know/assume that you definitely have a valid number from -99.99 to 99.99. For example, you could find whether it starts with a '-' and where the delimiter i
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The wine (and also e.g. scotch) industry runs its core business on not-that-old product, on which it makes almost all of its money, and may keep a relatively tiny niche of really old stuff for sentimental (for the owner), PR or branding pur
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A key reason for this is that we don't live a feudal society divided in serfs and lords by birthright, so most workers who do have the courage to stand up to management can (and in most industries do) simply become managers. So the p
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It's article 22 ( https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/ ) "The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effec
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by PeterisP 3y ago
You can probably claim they are not answering their phones, but what would that do in small claims court? Do they have some legal duty to answer phones at all, ever? Can't they just say - "oh, if we see that Lio is calling, we wou
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by PeterisP 3y ago
In general, the government wants to hear the opinions of various industries or interest groups when discussing things that affect them. Furthermore, if the politicians have decided that they want to implement a certain change, the detail
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On the other hand, I feel it has been an enabler - the ability to track their phone if they aren't back home when they're supposed to probably allowed me to let my kids go unsupervised to various activities at least a year or tw
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If we have to relearn hunting and gathering, that's not even closely compatible with feeding 10% of current human population, that's consistent with <1%, probably 0.1% or less of current population surviving. Feeding even 0.8 b
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The endurance running adaptations seem to start 1.9 million years ago for our common hominid ancestors that significantly predate the split between us and neanderthals which happened more than a million years later.

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