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by danbrooks 11mo ago
I made a donation. Props to the PSF for standing up.
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by danbrooks 1y ago
I've heard (second-hand) that bots were instrumental in the decline of online poker popularity.
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by danbrooks 1y ago
Academic hiring has taken a big hit with the uncertainty and decline in federal funding.
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by danbrooks 1y ago
Surprisingly, this site is blocked under the "religion" category by my Fortune 50 employer. :)
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by danbrooks 1y ago
I worked with a team that did this for the Facebook app. https://engineering.fb.com/2018/05/02/developer-tools/sapien...
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by danbrooks 1y ago
This can happen if the prompt or response is blocked by a safety filter. Check some of the other fields in the response.
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by danbrooks 1y ago
As a data scientist, this mirrors my experience. Prompt engineering is surprisingly important for getting expected output - and use LLM POCs have quick turnaround times.
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by danbrooks 1y ago
Building a Magic: the Gathering draft assistant trained on historical data. Produces a pick order that shifts as the draft progresses. Have a browser runnable colab notebook for 20+ sets. https://github.com/danieljbrooks&#x2
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by danbrooks 2y ago
Welcome Tom!
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by danbrooks 2y ago
Sorry to hear about all that you are going through. Looking at your profile - it appears as though you've worked extensively in technology in the past - and are reporting a cash crunch currently. First order of business seems to be sec
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by danbrooks 2y ago
Continual learning & keeping up with current trends as part of professional growth. Working in ML my primary role is using new advances like LLMs to solve business problems. It is incredible though, how quickly new tools and approaches
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by danbrooks 2y ago
Sorry to hear that. Consider consulting a lawyer to see what your options are.
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by danbrooks 2y ago
Looks like image search using CLIP embeddings with frames sampled from video at a low frame rate.
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by danbrooks 3y ago
Breaking in can be tricky - but getting a position as an entry level developer sets you up on the software engineering/coding trajectory.
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by danbrooks 3y ago
When I was younger, I used to enjoy competition and climbing leaderboards. Now, parenting always comes first. Reaching the top 5% is possible for most people with sustained effort. Many participants aren't dedicated to reaching the top
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by danbrooks 3y ago
Super interesting that drafts can be represented with LLMs. The best performing draft AI's I've seen leverage representation learning in some form. See: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.04438.pdf
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by danbrooks 3y ago
Small changes in initial state can lead to huge changes down the line. See: the butterfly effect or chaos theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
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by danbrooks 3y ago
Love the style, looks fun!
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by danbrooks 3y ago
Encouraging evidence that the recent work on room temperature superconductivity might be real! Still waiting for confirmation from multiple labs.
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by danbrooks 3y ago
Is this surprising? LLMs are trained to produce likely word/tokens in a dataset. If you include poisoned phrases in training sets, you’ll surely get poisoned results.
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by danbrooks 3y ago
Is this comment GPT generated (following the description in meghan_rain's bio)?
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by danbrooks 4y ago
I wouldn't say big tech was "trounced" by OpenAI. Advances in LLMs are driven by the research community. OpenAI is a small, well-resourced organization with the sole purpose of quickly deploying and hyping state of the art AI
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by danbrooks 4y ago
The N queens puzzle is a well known mathematical problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle
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by danbrooks 4y ago
I’m 5 years out from a tough last year of a PhD program. Married with kids now. It gets better. Power through the final stretch.
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by danbrooks 4y ago
I second this. I have friends who consulted an employment lawyer in similar circumstances - and were able to negotiate additional severance.
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by danbrooks 4y ago
This is my income situation as well. Career investments have a higher ROI than side hustles for me.
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by danbrooks 4y ago
I keep searchable daily notes in a OneNote doc. It's useful for finding old information and performance reviews.
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by danbrooks 4y ago
Lesson learned - it isn't great for retention when you tell employees to leave and make more money. :)
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by danbrooks 4y ago
Keep applying! It's very normal for a job search to take months. And it's possible that one of the companies will reach out to you down the line with an interview offer. It sounds like your resume could use some review. Consider r
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by danbrooks 4y ago
Former Meta employee here - only slightly exaggerated.

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