RevEng

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by RevEng 1y ago
Every meeting I'm in where we talk numbers or strategy starts with someone saying, Please don't record or share this. The documents all say CONFIDENTIAL all over them. That's not true of all our presentations, just ones that
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It happens. Our CTO "resigned" about 6 years after we started our VC funded startup. He sold his shares to the rest of the investors. It wasn't his choice to leave.
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I'm seeing a lot of that in my own job. Every company has a top-down mandate to use more AI and a budget to back it up, my employer included. But we write software. Now this means we are chasing the AI dragon making LLM-based software
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Not entirely. Since generation is auto regressive, the next token depends on the previous tokens. Whatever analysis and decisions it has spit out will influence what it will do next. This tends to cause it to be self reinforcing. But it&#x2
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by RevEng 1y ago
The article rightly points out that people don't enjoy just being reviewers: we like to take an active role in playing, learning, and creating. They point out the need to find a solution to this, but then never follow up on that idea.
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Not 24 hours ago he said the tariffs were non negotiable, now he says this was always the plan. There's no reason to believe a word he says.
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Because it's not the country getting rich - it's the government getting rich from its citizens. It's another form of taxation, but one with no plan and crazy fluctuations day to day that affect first and foremost businesses,
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by RevEng 2y ago
Why not both? If I want to learn how to do something, I want to be educated in that. There should be education available for that, but for knowledge workers, there largely isn't; instead, university has been hijacked to fill that role.
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Service industry is all paper in person.
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This idea of learning not to be anxious about insomnia is what CBT-I is all about. A lot of insomniacs are such because they worry about not sleeping, which keeps them awake. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. By learning to accept the p
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Panels and live programming assignments are such an awful idea. Is that what the workplace is like? Doo they want people who can work under those conditions? I've been a working professional for 18 years who gives public talks regularl
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The question we have to keep asking is: is this a politically motivated charge or was there actual wrongdoing? Anything that the government does as of Trump's inauguration is not the work of the non-partisan civil servants we all know,
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In the last few days? No, that would be impossible; no one has the resources to train a base model that quickly. But there are definitely a lot of people working on it.
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I have to imagine that they expect this. They published how they did it and they published the weights. The only thing they didn't publish was the training data, but that's typical of most open weights models. If they had wanted t
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That's the result of guard rails on the hosted service. They run checks on the query before it even hits the LLM as well as ongoing checks at the LLM generates output. If at any moment it detects something in its rules, it immediately
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Guard rails can do this. I've had no end of trouble implementing guard rails in our system. Even constraints in prompts can go one way or the other as the conversation goes on. That's one of the methods for bypassing guard rails o
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Tell that to people who can't even afford rent. Some goods are inelastic because people need them at any price. Housing prices are good example of that. This is also econ 101.
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Does anyone else find their results don't match their claims? In many cases the base model or a simple LoRa beats their proposed method. The few times theirs wins, the difference is very small. I feel like some of these "wins&quot
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by RevEng 2y ago
That's the best guess my family doctor can come to as well. I've not been given a formal diagnosis, but we have proceeded assuming that is the case. Unfortunately that doesn't lead to many options for treatment. Modafinil hel
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I appreciate the suggestion. They tested me twice for sleep apnea. The first time it was borderline so we decided that was unlikely to be the cause. That was also just a few months after COVID when my symptoms were extreme and persistent an
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I was prescribed Modafinil, and while it did keep me from falling asleep, it didn't help with my wakefulness otherwise. When I had a serious crash, instead of sleeping through most of it, I would be awake through it all, with all the d
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This is fascinating. Three years ago, after recovering from COVID, along with many long haul symptoms I developed several similar to but still distinct from narcolepsy. Even now as the CFS-like symptoms have mostly faded, the narcoleptic sy
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I was 240 pounds and dropped to 190 pounds in one year. I didn't do any more or less aerobic exercise than I had before my weight loss (which wasn't much). All I did was monitor my weight and adjust my calorie intake to maintain a
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Appearances can be deceiving. Using graphical elements from the late 90s or early 2000s isn't indicative of poor quality or stagnant design. As some mentioned, modern design trends can actually be much worse. Software that looks (and i
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Every other protocol I've used has a standard way to encode arbitrary data, but especially text data, usually using some kind of escape sequence. SSE does not. Just because it has been around for a long time does not mean it is well th
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The very idea of the Transformer architecture. Surely you've heard of "Attention is all you need".
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The answer has been and continues to be clear in the indie scene. Many of the most memorable and beloved games have not been high fidelity, but rather unique and thematic. Consider Mario Kart, Portal, Braid, Slay the Spire, and Balatro. Eve
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Flooding the court system with frivolous charges and mountains of irrelevant evidence is already a common tactic for stalling justice. Sometimes it's just to make the other side run out of money and give up. Sometimes it's an atte
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Technological advances tend to happen in jumps. We are no doubt approaching a local optima right now, but it won't be long until another major advancement propels things forward again. We've seen the same pattern in ML for decades
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OpenAI's own documentation makes note of how difficult it is to work with SSE and to just use their library instead. My team wrote our own parser for these streaming events from an OpenAI compatible LLM server. The streaming format is

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