djoldman

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by djoldman 1y ago
Yes, well there's the irony. "Unbiased" and "fair" are quite overloaded here, to borrow a programming term. I think it's one of those times where single words should expressly NOT be used to describe the intent
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by djoldman 1y ago
If the definition of "unbiased" and "fair" is that the model flags squares and circles at a rate or proportion equal to the population distribution of squares and circles, then the model is unbiased and fair. As noted ab
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by djoldman 1y ago
"Unbiased," and "fair" models are generally somewhat ironic. It's generally straightforward to develop one if we don't care much about the performance metric: If we want the output to match a population distrib
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by djoldman 1y ago
I've heard Gurobi is fairly expensive. Anyone willing to share pricing details?
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by djoldman 1y ago
Derek Lowe's take: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/reaction-alzheimer...
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by djoldman 1y ago
Laminate countertop and mahogany veneer plywood in the same project is wild. I assume these were the materials available? :)
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by djoldman 1y ago
HackerNews is not a general news or general link aggregator. It is niche: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer migh
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by djoldman 1y ago
I tried to read carefully so please forgive me if I missed it, but I didn't see anything addressing response provenance or performance as in accuracy/other_metric. The difference between a web search and text generated by an LLM c
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by djoldman 1y ago
> At ForgeRock, we had hundreds of security bugs in our OAuth implementation, and that was despite having 100s of thousands of automated tests run on every commit, threat modelling, top-flight SAST/DAST, and extremely careful securi
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by djoldman 1y ago
Absolutely. And then regardless of the answer: "what is a good SQL question and what makes it better than the first one?"
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by djoldman 1y ago
Falsehoods people believe about programmers: * Programmers believe they are handling all possible configurations of the universe when putting something into production. * Programmers don't handle all possible configurations of the univ
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by djoldman 1y ago
I believe I understood what you were saying. The criteria or definition for " A causes B" that you alluded to is a useful one in the context of medicine: > The experimenter needs to turn off the cause and turn on the cause in a
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by djoldman 1y ago
I find the definition of causality that places it squarely in the realm of philosophy to be a dead end or perhaps a circle with no end or objective or goal. "What does it mean that something is caused by something else?" At the en
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by djoldman 1y ago
> Should You Use ed As Site Generator? > No, not at all. Well, it (totxt.ed) looks pretty inscrutable to me: H !# Include proxy title !# Insert fallback values ?<head>?a <SUBTITLE></SUBTITLE> <D
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by djoldman 1y ago
This is not a problem with charts, it is a problem with the interpretation of charts. 1. In general, humans are not trained to be skeptical of data visualizations. 2. Humans are hard-wired to find and act on patterns, illusory or not, at g
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by djoldman 1y ago
Given section A7 in your paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.20266 ...would it be accurate to say that syftr finds Pareto-optimal choices across cost, accuracy, and latency, where accuracy is decided by an LLM whose asse
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by djoldman 1y ago
You just have to give the upvote for projects targeting extreme performance hardware by the DIY folks. If I'm not mistaken, this is why HN was made.
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by djoldman 1y ago
So for a directed graph with positive weights, this beats Dijkstra!? This would be an amazing result, right? Or is this one of those Algorithms that is only meaningful with impractically small, large, or weird data?
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by djoldman 1y ago
Well there are 7.2 million job openings: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm I'm not sure how many of them are more complex than truck driving but it's safe to say that there are plenty of employer
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by djoldman 1y ago
Pretty well in some ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_Mine_disaster https://www.sitesofnj.com/Bethlehemsteel/BethlehemsteelMemor... https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982&#x
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by djoldman 1y ago
Some will retire early. Some will take on more and more of the much more complex logistics jobs like delicate loads, large loads, etc. Some will switch professions. Some will go to school to switch professions. Some new professions will ope
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by djoldman 1y ago
I'm not trying to be an asshole either when I ask: what we do with all the former farmers made redundant by modern farming technology or furniture makers made redundant by the increased productivity of manufacturing processes? I think
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by djoldman 1y ago
If you will permit me to be more careful: Instead of "we want people to do higher complexity tasks than operate motor vehicles," I would say: Moving humans from lower to higher complexity tasks generally correlates to increased pr
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by djoldman 1y ago
> These new trucks won’t need sleep, they won’t speed, and they won’t get road rage. They won’t ride the brakes or make unnecessary lane changes, wasting fuel. And they won’t need to abide by the 11-hour daily driving maximum imposed on
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The Great American AI Race(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
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by djoldman 1y ago
> If we are in the business of teaching, as in making people learn, exams are a pretty blunt and ineffective instrument. I'm curious: what is fulfilling in your job as a math teacher? When students learn? When they're assigned
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by djoldman 1y ago
Basically it comes to this: a sufficiently large proportion of a student's grade must come from work impossible to generate with AI, e.g. in-person testing. Unfortunately, 18-year-olds generally can't be trusted to go a whole seme
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by djoldman 1y ago
Unfortunately, the solution to something like this is more intense KYC and lawsuits. You don't defend at the web, you defend in the courtroom and bank. I assume it's too expensive or the ticket sellers don't actually care, th
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by djoldman 1y ago
1. I suspect that the vast majority couldn't care less about the philosophical implications. They're just going to try to adapt as best they can and live their lives. 2. LLMs are challenging the assumption, often unvoiced, that hu
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by djoldman 1y ago
> If we assume that a breath diffuses evenly throughout the atmosphere and that these molecules are preserved over time (a reasonable assumption—nitrogen is relatively inert), then... Way to take all the fun out of it..

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