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by daxfohl 3y ago
The picture is misleading. Scholz's star is a dwarf and was not visible by the naked eye even at closest approach, unless it happened to flare at the time (and even then would have been like the thousandth brightest object in the sky).
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by daxfohl 3y ago
I'm surprised anyone who has gone from python to rust still finds contributing back to the python ecosystem worthwhile.
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Why not pass/fail everything? I've never looked at a transcript when hiring someone. It's not a strong differentiator in industry. Maybe it makes a difference for grad school, but even then there are likely far better indicat
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by daxfohl 3y ago
I once believed this since there were so many articles written over and over about it over the years. Religiously refused type notes. Handwriting only. Carried notebooks everywhere, the only person in a meeting handwriting notes. Could neve
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by daxfohl 3y ago
The wikipedia article on enshittification has a section specific to google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#Google_Search
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Sounds like a good approach to me. I think you'll do fine. Best of luck!
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Could this be done more simply by how go does exceptions: just return the effect and let the caller handle it (or not)? So a function that has exceptions would return "value, error". A function that is async would return "val
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by daxfohl 3y ago
I did this myself for a good 15 years or so, but eventually with a family, money became a bit more of a priority, and it's hard to get a good job if all you've worked at is small shops. Any next role in a larger tech company will
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Don't need any of it. Start simple. Some may be useful though. The list makes good points. Keep it around and if you find yourself suffering from the lack of something, look through the list and see if anything there would be good ROI.
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Now it's "fix it with AI". (And pay lip service to green tech.)
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Though humans aren't able to do it in a chat session. Being able to work on the problem in the background for a couple days may be a prerequisite for AI to solve these problems. And such would require money from the asker.
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Sounds like this whole thing is an insane 30-year effort by some engineer who couldn't get over the discontinuation of Clippy.
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by daxfohl 3y ago
There could be a paid tier, maybe running 24/7 "thinking" on topics you ask for rather than just answering spot questions. Or more resources committed to a "mixture of experts" model, etc.
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Oh, interesting! We already use bazel at work but it was all set up before anybody on the current team got here and the only process we have is "fight it until it works", which fortunately doesn't come up too often. Or maybe
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by daxfohl 3y ago
I've always felt like instead of public, private, protected, there should be something like security groups and acls on classes and functions. That way it's very explicit when you are newly coupling things, and brings tighter scru
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by daxfohl 3y ago
True. Makes me wonder if half of being famous is coming up with creative ways to say the obvious.
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Oh, right. I missed the point of that step on first read.
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Yeah the figuring it out part feels good sometimes, but since it's rarely the same thing that goes wrong each time then the learning doesn't actually help much. Hence the repair man who supposedly does stuff like this all day freq
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by daxfohl 3y ago
I'm surprised the transformer model scales here. In NLP the amount of self attention you need is like a few paragraphs maybe, but with time series you'd need to capture millions of data points in the attention blocks in order to c
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Are there any multimodal models where you can annotate your time series with events in natural language, and have it identify other occurrences of similar events? Or where you can ask it to do a forecast assuming some new event, also in nat
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by daxfohl 3y ago
I gave up on mine when I learned it was equivalent to type inferencing an F_omega language, and that such a task was Turing unsolvable. It was a bit of a relief because after three years I wasn't getting anywhere on it (unsurprisingly)
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by daxfohl 3y ago
I can't find it, but I think pg also said something like "when you're 20 if you're not doing bad you feel good. When you're 50 if you're not doing good you feel bad."
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Actually I may take back my previous thought. While I don't think there's curiosity, I think it could be mimicked pretty well by a reward function similar to social media bots. Initially it will explore specifically what mathemati
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by daxfohl 3y ago
I'm not a diligent fact checker at all. I just think that disinformation is already all over the place, and essentially always has been, that I don't think AI will have as much effect here as much as people are saying. The gullibl
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Back in the day, Google Reader was great for this. It's still hard to fathom that nothing ever replaced it.
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by daxfohl 3y ago
IDK, put a TPM or something on cameras and media players display an "untrusted" watermark if the key doesn't match. Or something. I have a hard time believing we won't figure something out. But even if not: gullible peop
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by daxfohl 3y ago
I don't get the spike in drama though. "Don't believe everything you read on the internet" was a common sense maxim long before AI came around. What is so different now? If anything, it just amplifies the maxim, which is
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by daxfohl 3y ago
One thing that hadn't occurred to me before, in light of some other threads arguing that it all comes down to maximizing entropy, which sounds reasonable, is that consciousness implies the ability to make mistakes, and mistakes imply m
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by daxfohl 3y ago
I disagree. Chemicals are perfectly sufficient as a feedback mechanism. I'd argue consciousness is a boring byproduct of evolution. You survive by predicting the actions of your competition. You predict your competition by introspectin
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by daxfohl 3y ago
Taipei 101 has survived many a typhoon.

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