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by achileas 3y ago
There are plenty of examples in the literature of using LLMs for translation beating the metrics of non-LLM models, even for languages for which there isn't a lot of data. Transliterating non-Latin characters helps a lot with accuracy
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by achileas 3y ago
Very interested, will be applying soon! Just under 10 years total experience, 8 of that as some form of data engineer and the latter 5 being heavily focused on ML infrastructure/ops/tooling with one of my favorite roles being in b
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by achileas 3y ago
Having worked in other sciences (neuroscience for me), I’m not sure what catastrophic obvious errors you’re used to seeing. The vast majority IME are like this, except with even longer feedback loops (on the order of several months).
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by achileas 3y ago
This is really common in and around Boston too. The architectural style is from the area and we cal them three deckers (in Boston) or triple deckers (everywhere else). Lot size is probably similar, and they’re still highly valued (if kept u
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by achileas 3y ago
Looping was more natural to me, but learning Elixir (I've been using Learn Functional Programming with Elixir) made it so much easier to grasp and more natural. It's a fun language to use to boot.
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by achileas 3y ago
I do most of my longer form writing at https://erisianrite.com , usually around Python, ML/data engineering, and amateur radio. More frequently, I update my evergreen and project notes at https://codex.erisianrite
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by achileas 3y ago
DS roles aren't the only roles in the field available.
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by achileas 3y ago
I work in machine learning and also in data engineering, and for most of my career the data engineering title was for people doing everything in the lifecycle outside of R&D workflows (building the models/model architecture itself)
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by achileas 3y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by "AI engineering?" There are two main paths right now - this is from my experience as a software engineer overall for a decade, a data engineer of some form for all but a year and a half of that, an
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by achileas 3y ago
This is exactly what I did years ago, and it's much closer to software engineering than building models (which a lot of commenters are conflating with MLE - but tbf the titles aren't delineated well in practice).
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by achileas 3y ago
I've been an ML/data engineer for the majority of my nearly decade-long career. You don't need hardcore math unless you're building models themselves, and even then it's pretty variable. There's a LOT that happ
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by achileas 3y ago
Does Python work fine without all that? If it did, validation and type-checking tools like mypy and pydantic (or the recently introduced Typing in the standard library) wouldn't exist. Or having to write lines and lines of checking cod
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by achileas 3y ago
Having used Python and Perl professionally, I'd have to agree with really all of this. I just want to emphasize Python's niche in ML (since that's what I do with it mostly lately) - it was also helped by a large, early set of
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by achileas 3y ago
Just go with Perl, IMO. Raku is completely separate, and would be more akin to learning Ruby or Elixir to get the Perl experience IMO.
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by achileas 3y ago
All this means is that teams have to enforce readability. It's not good or bad, just a different shifting of responsibilities - and this is something that you still need to do for other languages, there's just more tooling (like f
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by achileas 3y ago
100% agreed. I'm in Boston, and same thing. And I've been into bodybuilding for around 15 years now, dad was a bodybuilder and gym owner, etc. and there are still guys younger (and older) than me who are way bigger than me, and ev
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by achileas 3y ago
> it's very welcoming to non-conformistist and people who don't look like typical gym junkies. Ironically being very dismissive of people based on their looks, nice.
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by achileas 3y ago
It doesn't even have to be group fitness. I've made great friends at traditional gyms (I train more in a bodybuilding style) just showing up and training.
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by achileas 3y ago
I'm in Boston, which is very walkable but have lived on major arteries and busy neighborhood roads. We still hang out on our porch with our neighbors all the time, as do lots of people here. It has nothing to do with vehicular traffic.
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by achileas 3y ago
This isn't really the case outside of far-flung suburbs and rural areas. Where I live, setbacks of more than 6 feet or so are rare, and front porches and stoops right off the heavily used sidewalks are the norm. We do "porch hangs
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by achileas 4y ago
alwayshasbeen.jpg I was doing this work since before MLOps was the new buzzword in town, and it was always under the data engineering job title. It was only in the past few years that data engineering has become more focused, requiring new
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by achileas 4y ago
There are (arguably) better ways to handle this, though. When you get enough cards, you won't conceivably review them all within a reasonable enough timespan to encounter concepts often enough to really remember. The use case you menti
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by achileas 4y ago
My two loves, knowledge management and Elixir! Wish there was a backend or data/ML infra type role open, maybe next time!
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by achileas 4y ago
These are two extremes, there's a major gulf in the middle, and this is something that doesn't lend itself to min-maxing. The content creators have convoluted setups that take more time to use than they're useful for because
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by achileas 4y ago
As a heavy user of TfTs (and one who finds immense value in them as a personalized reference guide more than anything else), I've come to a similar conclusion. If search is good, not much else matters (the bad search in Roam was one of
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by achileas 4y ago
That controversy has been rightly following Lambda around for a few years now.
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by achileas 4y ago
And Tan was a major backer of that recall
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by achileas 4y ago
VC people have always been rightwing. They're not your friend.
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by achileas 4y ago
> He had probably been harassing Garry for any local political position for months. This is your red flag for motivated reasoning
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by achileas 4y ago
Like with the crypto shilling, he's full of shit.

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