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by davedx 2y ago
Can you link me to the "solar cells grown from microbes" please? Not heard that one
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by davedx 2y ago
> decision logic is shit And that's the whole problem with it - there isn't really any 'decision logic', it's a giant low level neural network trained on the outputs of human drivers. It understands driving les
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by davedx 2y ago
No liquidity? He said the company went public… I know people don’t get the best deals on startup equity but something doesn’t add up here
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by davedx 2y ago
Wait, you couldn’t find the 10k cash to exercise 5m worth of options?
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by davedx 2y ago
I’m sceptical, because I can’t find any examples of banks using it in production, just lots of blog posts by consultants and companies selling event sourcing solutions. I did work somewhere that used a Kafka stack in production. It wasn’t a
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by davedx 2y ago
Obviously Tay was not well trained? I think you can see the commentor's basic point, right?
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by davedx 2y ago
Do you know for a fact that banks use event sourcing for transactions? I thought they were extremely eventually consistent
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by davedx 2y ago
I actually did a small C project a couple of years ago, the spartan simplicity there can have its own pain too, like having to maintain a Makefile. LOL. It’s swings and roundabouts!
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by davedx 2y ago
Iirc I originally used conda because I couldn’t get faiss to work in venv, lol. That was a while ago though
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by davedx 2y ago
What can I say, I enjoy pain!?
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by davedx 2y ago
Spoiler: my main role isn’t ML engineer :) and that doesn’t sound like a bad idea at all
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by davedx 2y ago
Yes I started with conda I think and ended up switching to venv and I can’t even remember why, it’s a painful blur now. It was almost certainly user error too somewhere along the way (probably one of the earlier steps), but recovering from
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by davedx 2y ago
Oh god yes I remember trying to support old Android games several OS releases later… Impossible, I gave up! It’s why I still use react, their backcompat is amazing
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by davedx 2y ago
Yeah getting a good python environment setup is a very humbling experience
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by davedx 2y ago
pip install pytorch Environment broken Spend 4 hours fixing python environment pip install Pillow Something something incorrect cpu architecture for your Macbook Spend another 4 hours reinstalling everything from scratch after nuking every
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by davedx 2y ago
Ha I built an internal app just like that for field sales at a mid sized company. One of the best projects I ever worked on.
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by davedx 2y ago
Will they power it with electricity from their own electricity grid?
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by davedx 2y ago
It tests knowledge of how C++ itself is implemented . That's not really something most people study or prepare for unless they work on C++ compilers. I wouldn't call knowing how vtables are implemented intermediate-level C++ know
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Choking during sex Why are young women drawn to destruction?(unherd.com)
1 points by davedx 2y ago|1 comments
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The Geometry of Categorical and Hierarchical Concepts in Large Language Models(arxiv.org)
3 points by davedx 2y ago|0 comments
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by davedx 2y ago
Makes sense. I guess that’s why some python libs use it under the hood
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by davedx 2y ago
But isn’t that why we have things like CUDA? Who exactly is “we” here, people who only have access to CPU’s? :)
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by davedx 2y ago
Yeah games company interviews can be hilarious. I had an interview for a company in the south of England a long time ago. The first half went okay, then in the second half the whiteboard came out, and I was asked to "implement C++ obje
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by davedx 2y ago
Yes, see my second point. Anyone can slack off on their job. Leading a real business with any kind of significant headcount is a full time job.
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by davedx 2y ago
I REALLY like how snappy it is. I've always been impressed with how fast Wikipedia managed to stay over the years, but this is even better. Really nice work.
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by davedx 2y ago
This is nonsense. I know CEOs and they are not “leisure class”, managing the running of a company and executing on strategy is an endless job. Sure some CEOs might drop out and play golf, but all that proves is you have slackers at any le
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by davedx 2y ago
There’s a huge difference between c-level and board responsibilities. I think it’s generally not wise for c-levels to be at multiple companies. Board is a totally different role
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by davedx 2y ago
They were well funded, but it’s not highly unusual to encounter culture like this.
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by davedx 2y ago
Serverless is like AWS lambda, when you don’t have an explicitly running VM that you pay per time; instead your code is run in “a cloud” and you pay per invocation. This is nothing new! “Serverless” is well defined and understood for years
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by davedx 2y ago
I use Fly.io, it’s not serverless at all, it’s a PaaS that manages your servers for you via its own automations and cli. Fly also already supports postgres (I use this too) so I’m not sure why I would use this? To me the whole point of Fly

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