Wazzymandias

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by Wazzymandias 9d ago
> been trained on enough long context tasks to have become pretty good at planning This is absolutely not true
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by Wazzymandias 10d ago
depends on the blast radius of zero-days, it's not like there's a continuous immediate release process for these models; they can eval internally before releasing publicly
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by Wazzymandias 10d ago
This looks and feels a lot like productionized conformal prediction
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by Wazzymandias 11mo ago
Similar reasons why Israel hasn't experienced any sanctions yet despite their ongoing genocide against the Palestinians
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by Wazzymandias 11mo ago
It's not a conflict, it's a genocide
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by Wazzymandias 3y ago
Some good takes, some bad takes in the post. The analogy of cutting a tree is pretty dehumanizing and doesn't factor in the morale and culture hit laying people off does to a company. Sustainable growth is far better than boom and bust
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by Wazzymandias 3y ago
It depends on the definition of "relatively simple features" Mismanaged startups can have a lot of technical debt as a result of pivots, shifting priorities, weak engineering and an emphasis on being feature factories. As a result
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by Wazzymandias 5y ago
It's been mostly from personal experience, though I shouldn't generalize to the community as a whole. Anecdotally my experience with nix community has been unpleasant. They're very resistant to suggestions and offer little in
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by Wazzymandias 5y ago
Nothing should be labeled as the ultimate devops toolkit when its documentation is as atrocious as nix People can commend it as much as they want, but the steep learning curve is largely self inflicted because of their resistance to writing
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by Wazzymandias 6y ago
Would anyone happen to have an ELI5 of how the M1 chip achieves greater power efficiency?
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by Wazzymandias 6y ago
I think the problem is the industry standards and expectations for candidates. The fact that OP links an archive of interview questions is indicative of the underlying problem. Giving a candidate a problem they haven't seen before and
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by Wazzymandias 6y ago
Apologies if these are naive questions, but why does Microsoft require use of Edge to track user data? Can't they obtain data from the DNS requests any browser makes to access websites? And are there any ways to mitigate the amount of
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Ask HN: Why is Microsoft pushing Edge so hard?
4 points by Wazzymandias 6y ago|12 comments
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Ask HN: Career advice with respect to programming language
2 points by Wazzymandias 6y ago|5 comments
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by Wazzymandias 6y ago
I've tried so many options for note taking but I can never find a good solution that fits all my needs. I find writing things down helps with comprehension and retention, but using a physical notebook has its limitations when you want
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by Wazzymandias 6y ago
"It could be he has been busy doing real work in the last ten years and not researching solved problems that are generally encapsulated in well tested existing modules." Sorry, I should have been more clear. We didn't ask the
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by Wazzymandias 6y ago
In my previous job we hired someone in a "Senior Architect" position. They had extensive experience at a larger company, but there were red flags from the beginning (including the interview, where they got visibly upset and melodr
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by Wazzymandias 7y ago
"Islam was out because that’s not for white people." For someone who espouses an expertise in mathematics his perspective on religion is quite reductive if not completely wrong in some cases. I guess in addition to math the author
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by Wazzymandias 9y ago
Deletion can also be a little misleading. I deleted (not deactivated) a Facebook account that I had from high school to sophomore year of college. A year or two later I made a new one and didn't fill out anything except my name and did
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by Wazzymandias 9y ago
That's disappointing to hear but thank you for the honest response. I currently work in Ruby but my favorite language is C, I feel like it helped me become a better developer and improved my understanding of imperative languages. Sucks
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by Wazzymandias 9y ago
Thank you! Your explanation made the most sense, a lot of the other ones went over my head. This is so clever and fascinating.
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by Wazzymandias 9y ago
I honestly have no idea what's going on, but his writing is humorous.
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by Wazzymandias 10y ago
Whiteboard coding isn't really a metric close to what is required in the job though. I like to write my algorithms on paper first before writing code, but doing it on a whiteboard in 45 minutes while explaining my work and checking for
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by Wazzymandias 10y ago
What I think about when I use Facebook: don't use Facebook.
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by Wazzymandias 10y ago
I very much agree with this, but just as an aside I'd like to mention that I worked on a full stack web application as a side project and I believe that helped me land my current job at a startup. However I'd also note that I appl
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by Wazzymandias 10y ago
Thank you for the comprehensive response! I have a lot to learn but it's exciting.
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by Wazzymandias 10y ago
What would you recommend instead for a beginner trying to get into ML?