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by abc-1 2y ago
That’s mental illness, doesn’t mean being a well paid AI researcher is equivalent to fighting in WW2, sorry.
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by abc-1 2y ago
> Doing AI research at the moment can feel like participating in a war. And from Adolph Hitler to Dutch Schulz. it is widely known that going to war can lead to grave outcomes including psychopathy, divorce and suicide. Brother… Please…
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by abc-1 2y ago
Great, so there’s no way to “fail” and they can keep asking for money indefinitely. See the problem here? You’d stop shoveling money into research that hadn’t yielded any results either, especially if it was $24 million dollars that could h
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by abc-1 2y ago
That was stated as the main goal of the project: improve quality of life in dogs and hope the results transfer to humans. It didn’t achieve that goal so far. I really don’t know what you want me to say.
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by abc-1 2y ago
Nothing useful to improving human quality of life.
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by abc-1 2y ago
Last I heard this had tens of millions of dollars allocated to it and yielded little to no results, unfortunately. Is that not the case?
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by abc-1 2y ago
> OpenAI's engineers: brilliant, A+, A* even. Then why do they look about average to Anthropic, Mistral, DeepSeek, and many others of that cohort despite having x100 the amount of resources?
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by abc-1 2y ago
Nope nothing wrong about it at all. Some company’s may structure their business in certain ways to take various trade offs, exactly how software devs make certain trade offs. Then of course there’s shady and illegal stuff you’re getting at,
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by abc-1 2y ago
Fun for a wealthy hobbyist, but if you want to do real work, you’re better off renting from Runpod. Good blog though.
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by abc-1 2y ago
> Our industry is one where actual skills should and do matter [...] Professional rote learning is great for mandarin jobs where you are working within a static prescribed framework (legal, accounting, building codes). Saying things like
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by abc-1 2y ago
Looks really good, you should be proud.
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by abc-1 2y ago
Haha good one. Do healthcare CEOs next.
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by abc-1 2y ago
Plenty of smart and clever people make mistakes all of the time and you’re only oppressing yourself if you think otherwise. For fear of making mistakes is foolish pride.
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by abc-1 2y ago
Has Uncle Bob even written a single line of code in 20 years? And the stuff he did produce 20 years ago wasn’t particularly impressive.
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by abc-1 2y ago
Well put. There’s a reason turnover is so high at these FAANG companies, despite the perks. Amazon is probably the worst of the bunch.
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by abc-1 2y ago
I thought Netflix engineers were the best and could even do mythical leetcode hards. What happened? Why are they paid half a million dollars a year?
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by abc-1 2y ago
> Due to limited seating in New York and Philadelphia, members were allowed only a single admission ticket, and ladies were explicitly not invited. (Boo.) We get it, different times had different morals and ethics. But I'm sure the
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by abc-1 2y ago
None of that looks like stuff I can try. I guess the GitHub copilot onboarding was pretty good. Gists are pretty good, but I don’t think he made those originally.
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by abc-1 2y ago
> I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get it right, because I’m good at it. Why not list some of them that I can actually try out? How sho
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by abc-1 2y ago
Anyone who followed Deep Learning in the 2010s would have guessed the same thing. Big boom with vision models by adding a lot of layers and data, but eventually there was diminishing returns there too. It’s unsurprising the same would happe
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by abc-1 2y ago
> Here’s a classic example: a data type representing the state of an API request, which can be loading, loaded, or in an error state. If it has loaded, it has the expected data associated with it, and if it is an error, it has some descr
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by abc-1 2y ago
Great blog, but reading it gave me deep secondhand anxiety and even exhaustion. It’s strikingly clear this person is a people pleaser to potentially unhealthy levels, maybe due to low self-esteem or something else, and it could be contribut
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by abc-1 2y ago
Beautiful personal site!
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by abc-1 2y ago
I tried to get it to translate a document and it stopped after a few paragraphs and asked if I wanted it to keep going. This is not appropriate for my use case and it kept doing this even though I explicitly told it not to. The old version
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by abc-1 2y ago
Is there a paper on this? Why do no other optimizers give good results? Adam requires insane amounts of memory so alternatives would be welcome.
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by abc-1 2y ago
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by abc-1 2y ago
From everything I’ve read, that seems to be the name of the game on anything beyond senior. Try to gather influence. Slap your name on projects that are going well, stay away from projects that are going bad. Say the right keywords that you
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by abc-1 2y ago
Unless you’re a valuable or high clearance entity, all of this stuff seems like adults having a fun pretend make believe time. Like that neighbor in a nice part of town who owns multiple guns and has a security system set up to protect his
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by abc-1 2y ago
Consider how often SQL, a hash implementation, a data compression algorithm, or a standard library changes. Not often, because they are complete systems. If you don’t like them, you don’t change them- you switch to another system. But they
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by abc-1 2y ago
Keep fighting the good fight. It’s more satisfying, even if entropy inevitably wins ;)

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