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by extr 2y ago
Feels like I am taking crazy pills when I read about this stuff. Like 1500 words that boil down to "make sure you're paying attention to whether or not people are doing a good job".
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by extr 2y ago
Yeah the "pure" backend side (DB/queries to it) was not a problem and something I was already comfortable with. I did not use a client JS library for filtering, I was trying to stick to pure HTML response routes as much as po
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by extr 2y ago
I also took that approach. The problem wasn't the keyup trigger, moreso trying to make the typeahead suggestions play nicely with radio/toggle filters, plus the results, made things really confusing for me personally. I was taking
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by extr 2y ago
I am a backend/ML engineer and tried using HTMX to create a website with: * Search box * Typeahead * Instantly updating search results It was super instructive. In the end, I realized HTMX was probably not the best tool for that job, b
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by extr 2y ago
Children as young as 4 demonstrate theory of mind but would be unable to solve artificial logic problems like OP
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by extr 2y ago
Yeah i don’t really see how the game math for something like Civ couldn’t be run on like, a calculator. It’s fully deterministic with a very low number (relative to many actual numeric computing problems) of inputs/outputs
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by extr 2y ago
this is an interesting problem but it’s more of a logic problem than a true test of theory of mind. when i think “theory of mind” i think being able to model an external agent with complete knowledge, incentives, and behavior. i would not d
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by extr 2y ago
If I had to guess, the actual calculations for the logic of the game itself are completely trivial and are not bottlenecked by any modern processor or any number of cores. They're not exactly doing MCMC to simulate outcomes.
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by extr 2y ago
Great piece actually, I find this really resonates with the way I use LLMs. It works the same way for coding, where often you will not necessarily use the exact output of the model. For me it's useful for things like: * Getting a rough
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by extr 2y ago
From the standpoint of today, the deal is so lopsided to Microsoft as to be comical. They basically gave away their prized IP with the assumption they would have more capability leaps (hasn't really happened), and now the brains behind
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by extr 2y ago
The politics of leadership at OpenAI must be absolutely insane. “Leaving to do my own exploration”? Come on. You have Sam making blog posts claiming AI is going to literally be the second coming of Christ and then this a day later.
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by extr 2y ago
Very cool! I'm wondering how to apply it to the type of RAG problems I usually encounter which are more technical in nature. Specification A refers to Specification C which has references to X, Y, and Z, but only X is really important
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by extr 2y ago
I’m glad that all works for you, but I hope you know you are quite literally the .1% I’m talking about, possibly even the .01%.
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by extr 2y ago
By the sound of it you’re a little younger than me. I grew up managing my music collection and growing it as you describe. It was a lot of fun. But it took time in my day that I no longer have between kids and work and whatnot. Finding and
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by extr 2y ago
The problem is music streaming is so overwhelming better than managing music files that there’s no way 99.9% of the population is going back. I used to be a music library guy, those files have been gathering dust on an old HDD for years now
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by extr 2y ago
What is PP to you? Just any application of bayesian techniques? You should reframe your question in terms of what kinds of problems bayesian techniques are SOTA for and then explore what companies operate in those spaces. No startup is &quo
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by extr 2y ago
Yes lmao, the number of times I would start off on some nominally useful task only to find out 3 weeks later that there is actually already a solution to that created by team XYZ that nobody in my reporting chain has ever heard of…(3 weeks
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by extr 2y ago
That’s how open source already works by default. The difference is if an OSS tool is broken my boss doesn’t imply landing a fix is my responsibility on top of my regular job duties.
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by extr 2y ago
People probably think you’re exaggerating but it’s true. Sometimes when I would get blocked the suggestion was to “read the source code” or “submit a fix” on some far flung internal project. Huge fucking waste of time and effort, completely
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by extr 2y ago
Yeah 100%. I found it immensely frustrating to be using tools with no community (except internally), so-so documentation, and features that were clearly broken in a way that would be unacceptable for a regular consumer product. If you have
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by extr 2y ago
Interesting that the coding win-rate vs GPT-4o was only 10% higher. Very cool but clearly this model isn't as much of a slam dunk as the static benchmarks portray. However, it does open up an interesting avenue for the future. Could yo
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by extr 2y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. FYI, this is the original quora post I'm talking about is here, the response by Vik Veer: https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-been-successful-at-curing-t... I can't comment on how mai
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by extr 2y ago
Apple Notes app
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by extr 2y ago
I have mild tinnitus and the best advice I've ever read on the internet for it is: Stop reading. Don't look up information about tinnitus. Don't think about it. If you happen to notice it, try to distract yourself immediately
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by extr 2y ago
It's because it's often a suboptimal career move from an individual perspective. By branding yourself as a "FinTech Developer" or whatever instead of just a "Developer" you're narrowing your possible job o
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by extr 2y ago
Totally my personal opinion, but not knowing the approximate population of the country you live in betrays a pretty serious lack of curiosity about the world. Obviously a judgement call on how far off is "far off", but it just giv
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by extr 2y ago
Yeah I mean the vacuum landfill thing is stupid. The point was never to try to trip people up, there's no wrong answer (or question), just find out if they could recognize ambuiguity. "Let's try to estimate the amount of pet
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by extr 2y ago
Yes, I have used questions like this before for junior roles and the notes for the interview were something like: - Asked/did not ask clarifying questions - Did/did not (or could not, on prompting) verbally walk through their reas
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by extr 2y ago
Good question. They address it here: https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/discussions/1164
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by extr 2y ago
At this point I would highly highly recommend uv as the starting point for stuff like this. As of the 0.3.0 release it now handles installing python for you as well as all the regular pip stuff and venv management/setup. https:/&

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