danjl

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by danjl 2y ago
Actually, Moore's Law has been dead for quite a few years now. Since we hit the power wall.
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by danjl 2y ago
There have been variations of this story going back several months now. It isn't really news. It is just building slowly.
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by danjl 2y ago
Clearly the performance of the "instruct" LLM is due to some odd bug or other issue. I do not believe that it is fundamentally better at chess than the others, even if it was specifically trained on far more chess data, which is u
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by danjl 2y ago
Perhaps the tokenizer is the entire problem? I wonder how the chat-based LLMs would perform if you explained the move with text, rather than chess notation? I can easily imagine that the "instruct" LLM uses a specialized tokenizer
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by danjl 2y ago
We could easily support government grants to Open Source developers and companies without needing to increase taxes. It should already be part of the NSF grant process that funds a large number of universities, who's research is also g
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by danjl 2y ago
Where will the training data for coding come from now that Stack Overflow has effectively been replaced? Will the LLMs share fixes for future problems? As the world moves forward, and the amount of non-LLM generated data decreases, will LLM
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by danjl 2y ago
Even with the perfect coding Oracle, you need to ask the right questions to get good answers. The LLM will cheerfully give you bad answers if you ask the wrong question. The implication is thet you still need to learn the problem space your
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by danjl 2y ago
I should also add asyncpg-trek for migrations to that stack above. Took me awhile to find a simple Postgres migration tool that just used asyncpg, without ORM, and simple SQL files.
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by danjl 2y ago
The vast majority of the security "industry" is about useless compliance, rather than actual security. The chimps have put their fears into large enterprise compliance documents. This teaches the junior security people at enterpri
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by danjl 2y ago
Love it. My new backend app stack is Postgres/FastAPI/PGQueuer. No need for Redis. Perfect for backends that need a fleet of workers to generate, e.g. embeddings.
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by danjl 2y ago
More generally, any work that a developer does outside of coding will improve their coding. If they learn a bit more about the business side of the company, they will have better conversations with the business teams because they speak (som
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by danjl 2y ago
I don't use the autocomplete very often. I do use the chat window to do rubber ducking about potential changes. I ask it about features of the libraries I'm using, the built-in features of the language, ways to restructure the cod
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by danjl 2y ago
This fix allows me to run the OpenAI CLIP model in less than a second per image in the browser, whereas before it was taking 30+ seconds, making interactivity possible.
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by danjl 2y ago
I've rarely met anyone who can get more than four useful hours a day. Sure, there's lots more time when you are thinking about work, writing code in your head, prioritizing, and planning. That stuff can and does happen when you si
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by danjl 2y ago
Exactly. I didn't start coding until the '80s, but even at that point I was writing a lot of assembly code. I don't do that anymore. Each decade that I've coded I look back and see that I've moved up to higher and h
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by danjl 2y ago
Who uses previous titles to determine capability or compensation? Just look at their job history, call references, and make good hiring decisions. Perhaps the issue is that people are bad at hiring?
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by danjl 2y ago
When I'm debugging, I imagine that there is a huge cartoon style 2000lb weight supported by a mish mash of random toothpicks and I have to stick my arm waaay underneath to remove a bit from the middle and replace it with a new, clean a
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by danjl 2y ago
I'd also include the status of the company. What a startup needs from tests is very different from what an enterprise company needs. If you're searching for product market fit, you need to be able to change things quickly. If you&
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by danjl 2y ago
That's funny, since I wouldn't code at a place that mandates unit tests. Sure, they have a very minor role, in very specific cases, but I'd say 90% of projects can get 90% of the benefits by writing only integration tests wit
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by danjl 2y ago
Why just unit tests? Integration tests seem much more valuable as documentation of what the users will do in the app. Unit tests have limited benefits overall, and add a bunch of support time, slowing down development. If you have good (90%
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by danjl 2y ago
The trick is finding a problem that increases revenue or decreases costs after providing structure to the data. Sure, it would be great to bring structure to assets, but you can't just provide search or labeling. You have to figure o
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by danjl 2y ago
Back when I worked in an office and had to do deep thinking without interruptions, I'd string up a bit of yellow police-like tape that I stole from the SGI offices that were closed during Shoreline concerts that said "SILICON GRAP
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by danjl 2y ago
In case you were worried, this is just the data center versions. The consumer GPUs will still be available.
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by danjl 2y ago
The topical matching is horrible. I tried two very different topical areas and got the same candidates in the same order. Likely there are just not enough candidates, or their demo is fake. Hard to make an app like this because it needs a b
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by danjl 2y ago
A good senior developer should be able to go out to lunch and know if the candidate has the skills and the right cultural match by the end. There's no need for coding tests or whiteboarding problems. I've seen some of the best dev
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by danjl 2y ago
I'm curious. Can you elaborate on what CLIP proves about what AI can and can't do?
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by danjl 2y ago
Mercedes already has a level 3 available for purchase in California: https://www.mbusa.com/en/owners/manuals/drive-pilot
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by danjl 2y ago
In fact, with things like slack and Discord, there's far more conversations happening when employees stay at their desks.
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by danjl 2y ago
The best things about WFH are hard to quantify, like the best things in life. You are more relaxed, with lower stress, more control of your time, less probability of auto accidents commuting, ... These are rarely mentioned because they&#x27
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by danjl 2y ago
When you go to a movie in towns like LA, Seattle or the Bay Area, you can always tell which people work in the industry because they are the only people who stay to watch the credits. Normal humans all leave when the credits start to roll,

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