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by adw 9mo ago
Inside scoop: the pub group who owned that pub (still going, owns four in Cambridge and environs) was cofounded by Steve Early, a Cambridge computer scientist who wrote his own POS software, so it was very much a case of "yeah, that so
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by adw 10mo ago
Wouldn’t hurt. (The key thing is; have you done work which involved serious linear algebra? I was an electronic structure person, so I’m not familiar with the geophys stuff.)
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by adw 10mo ago
Did you do any serious simulations work? If so, machine learning. (PhD in mineral physics, staff ML engineer at a FAANG.)
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by adw 10mo ago
Skills are just prompt conventions; the exact form may change but the substance is reasonable. MCP, eh, it’s pretty bad, I can see it vanishing. The agent loop architectural pattern (and that’s the relevant bit) is going to continue to matt
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by adw 10mo ago
Yes, that sentence is simply untrue for, at the very least, BrE. For example: https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/chart-show... (2015)
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by adw 11mo ago
The joke is that Calvin is aligned with Hobbes’s philosophy and vice versa.
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by adw 1y ago
This collection is, indeed, ticking all the boxes.
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by adw 1y ago
LLMs speed you up more if you have an appropriate theory in greenfield tasks (and if you do the work of writing your scaffold yourself). Brownfield tasks are harder for the LLM at least in part because it’s harder to retroactively explain
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by adw 1y ago
Which is itself intuitive if you have the prior that “making the claim is the stronger headline, so if the claim is true, it’ll be in the headline”
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by adw 1y ago
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29921137
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by adw 1y ago
Target Schools was a thing in the 90s. This isn’t even slightly new. (And last I checked the Target Schools students had, if anything, slightly better outcomes than the main pool.)
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by adw 1y ago
In my experience startups have as much bullshit as FAANG companies, it’s just different bullshit.
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by adw 1y ago
If you’re using ChatGPT directly for work then I believe that you are doing it so profoundly wrong, at this point, that you’re going to make really incorrect assumptions. As we have all observed, the models get things wrong, and if you’re w
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by adw 1y ago
Nonfree license. You may or may not like the Elastic license but it's definitely not OSD.
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by adw 1y ago
Entirely agree. Most of the critical path roles are not foundation model training, even in places that do foundation model training.
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by adw 1y ago
This very very very much depends what you do. ML critical-path roles are doing much better than everything else as far as I can tell.
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by adw 1y ago
These are also depreciating assets.
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by adw 1y ago
25mpg is still insanely, obscenely profligate when a reasonable vehicle (say a Renault Clio) gets somewhere between 50 and 70. That will make some people angry and it’s hard to see that as entirely irrational.
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by adw 1y ago
C# is the Java of Lua (thanks to Unity) which will never not be weird.
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by adw 1y ago
Peak PHP was Facebook around 2008!
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by adw 1y ago
Python was everywhere in science by earlier than that (Numeric and numarray, Numpy’s predecessors, are from the late 90s/early 2000s).
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by adw 1y ago
Fewer characters than “initialize” or “constructor”, clearly marked as being “not a normal method”. Python is better here.
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by adw 1y ago
Not even all of the UK. Scotland is a hybrid system.
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by adw 1y ago
It’s legal gambling (same as the retail crypto and stock trades in the US). I’d expect that the legalisation of sports markets in the US has meaningfully moved exploitable punters out of the markets and into the bookmakers.
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by adw 2y ago
It’s a company limited by guarantee, which is the structure you use in the UK for non-charity non-profits.
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by adw 2y ago
> As much as I love the aesthetic, I'm developing a fear that they'll soon spin off into a startup with some kind of paid model, and that government websites will regress. gov.uk got started, in part, because the 2009 financial
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by adw 2y ago
It’s also signal processing.
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by adw 2y ago
> Sometimes better than that of a software engineer There is a reason so many of us work as software engineers now; I earn about 5x more than I would as a university lecturer/assistant professor.
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by adw 2y ago
NNs have absolutely revolutionized systems biology (itself a John Hopfield joint, and the AlphaFold team are reasonably likely to get a Nobel for medicine and physiology, possibly as soon as 'this year') and are becoming relevant
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by adw 2y ago
> Hopfield networks and Boltzmann machines Think of this as a Nobel prize for systems physics – essentially "creative application of statistical mechanics" – and it makes a lot more sense why you'd pick these two. (I am a

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