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by bsoles 8mo ago
I am on the same boat. I left management to go back to a senior IC role in my early 50s. I am perceived as an important contributor in my company, but I am 90% sure that no big company would ever hire me. I am also pretty sure I cannot pass
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by bsoles 8mo ago
I feel like a perfect realization Goodhart's Law is about to happen to move up our rankings.
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by bsoles 8mo ago
I asked my students in a take home lab to write tests for a function that computes the Collatz sequence. Half of the class returned AI generated tests that tested the algorithm with floating point and negative numbers (for "correct&quo
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by bsoles 8mo ago
There are, proportionally, more lawyers than software engineers in prison I would claim. Code of ethics doesn't really mean much.
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by bsoles 8mo ago
> Why are you so certain that LLMs/AI can't be used as a tool to learn and grow? Because every other post in here, for example, starts with "I vibe coded..." and not with "I learned something new today on ChatGPT
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by bsoles 8mo ago
> ... regular wires with plastic isolation, but those can be a pain to strip, even with a semi-decent stripping tool. > Boil away a millimeter or 2 of enamel without cutting the wire off the spool. The person spends 18 seconds (see th
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by bsoles 8mo ago
Over the last 25 years of building commercial software, but being a programming enthusiast since I was 15 years old, I came to the conclusion that self-improvement (in the sense of gaining real expertise in a field, building a philosophy of
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by bsoles 9mo ago
The reliability of all AI tools with potentially severe consequences for people needs to be tested using adversarial patterns. This is nothing new, yet the mentioned article fails to do that. They test the happy paths and find the results t
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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click(nature.com)
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by bsoles 9mo ago
> The false positive rate is 0. The tool never says human writing is AI. That cannot be true as it would be easy for a human to write in the style of AI, if they choose to. Whoever is making that claim is lying, because money...
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by bsoles 9mo ago
This is just sad to read. AI makes all of us stupider by the day, no matter what the tech bros and wanna-be billionaires of HN tells us...
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by bsoles 9mo ago
Anybody who worked with a local contractor knows that their estimate and the reality has no correlation. When you ask for a firm estimate, you are basically asking to be lied to, and the contractor happily complies by telling you a lie.
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by bsoles 9mo ago
Ever heard of Big Dig in Boston, for example? Or the Joint Strike Fighter? Estimations in government contracts are as ridiculous as in software. They just pretend to be able to estimate when things will be done, when, in fact, the contracto
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by bsoles 9mo ago
> Not sure what you've been sold, but there are no special rules or rigid methods. I am not intentionally trying to be argumentative, but - I have seen UX designers refer to a team of developers as "my developers" and I ta
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by bsoles 9mo ago
As many other people on HN, I am an advocate for software engineers and I think it is important that software engineers themselves develop expertise and become owners in their particular fields of application, their processes, etc. Attempts
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by bsoles 9mo ago
It is the practice that matters, which is the "designers" trying to elevate their position to something more special by inserting their special rules into the design process, often at the expense of other people involved, includin
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by bsoles 9mo ago
> ... my masters was in signal processing But, you are making my point for me here. Most data scientists don't get masters in signal processing. You are also acknowledging that gaining expertise in a particular field was worth pursu
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by bsoles 9mo ago
Sure. Let me then call it this way: "Design Thinking is the Data Science of design: an attempt to gain influence in fields that you don't have expertise in."
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by bsoles 9mo ago
Sure. There are many examples of data scientists attempting to use complex Machine Learning and Deep Learning models to predict machine (bearings, gears, etc.) failures from vibration data, where a simple Fourier Transform (FFT) provides a
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by bsoles 9mo ago
Design Thinking is the Data Science of UX: an attempt to gain influence in fields that you don't have expertise in. Even though there might be universal design principle that can be applied in many fields, the Design Thinking people th
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by bsoles 9mo ago
> is there any Linux distro with a desktop experience that matches Windows and macos? Sure. Ubuntu, for example. I don't know what people's expectations are in terms of UX & GUIs, but I have been perfectly happy with Ubunt
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by bsoles 9mo ago
Exactly. In the long term, I would argue that "interest" is always a bigger determining factor of professional success than innate "capability" in a field. An interested person can grow their competence over time, wherea
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by bsoles 9mo ago
Mostly. 50% for midterm and final, plus 10% of the 50% project work is individual contributions to the project to account for varying interest/contributions to the project work.
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by bsoles 9mo ago
I am also doing the same. 50% for project work and 50% for individual work, including paper and pen exams with no digital devices allowed. The days of take home exams and coding lab assignments are gone...
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by bsoles 9mo ago
That yoga classes give me more anxiety instead of reducing it. The calm and quiet of the yoga class does not similarly make my mind calm and quite. Instead, my wandering mind always wanders to bad things.
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by bsoles 9mo ago
> that doesn't mean you have to work more than your fair share for your employer I would never argue for that. My meaning was more about having a passion/hobby in the field that you are working in.
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by bsoles 9mo ago
> Intellectual curiosity in the form of hobbies, nerdy interests that they can talk about with passion Although I know that a lot of people would argue for "what's wrong with doing your day job well and going home to your famil
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by bsoles 9mo ago
Raspberry Pi 400 did it (TM) , minus the AI PC crap.
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by bsoles 9mo ago
> You should feel the same about your wife or child as someone else's. I don't see why it should be so. It makes perfect sense to sympathize(?) and understand that somebody is grieving and is likely going through pain/emot
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by bsoles 9mo ago
> It is feeling needed by others. My perspective on these things have changed when I saw a successful old friend of mine thank his friend for asking his help. I feel like being asked to help by a friend might actually be a privilege some

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