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by fny 4y ago
Yup, this article is some heavy, heavy copium. It feels like digital job automation is only a matter of time at this point. However, I for one am not looking forward to the piles of copilot spaghetti vomit we're going to have to clean
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by fny 4y ago
Real life use case: we had a super user mode for support that looked just like what the end user would see, so we add cursor sparkles to distinguish it from a standard login. Before then we had to roll back a ton of accidental changes.
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by fny 4y ago
We've been here before many times in history. Some debt gets repaid, some is inflated away, some defaults. The real crisis won't be in developed countries because whether you like it or not, you need to borrow and spend in their f
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by fny 4y ago
Wait... do I hear this correctly... while Apple blocks others from using this data, Apple can use this data for its own ad network? Isn't there an antitrust issue here?
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by fny 4y ago
See Microsoft Access.
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by fny 4y ago
JavaScript took over the world. Then data science became a thing.
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by fny 4y ago
I exaggerated. Jumper was a few years out of grad school competing against groups like the Baker Lab which are household names in the protein design community. A lot of faculty shocked when AlphaFold 1 was released. AlphaFold 2 /really
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by fny 4y ago
The lead on the project was a few years out of grad school. The technique is what mattered. Not the experience. There have been many labs dedicated to this problem for years. They never even came close.
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by fny 4y ago
AlphaFold is in part impressive because a team with no protein design experience solved a challenge which had eluded experts for decades. It's absolutely a step change in demonstrating what's possible. The author can sit and criti
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by fny 4y ago
Here's an oldie but goodie: https://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2021/10/icymi-my-t...
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by fny 4y ago
So I've just tested it, and I can confirm, yes, copilot refuses to give suggestions related to gender. Now I know a lot of people are calling this absurd, but looking more closely, there are two PR nightmare scenarios. 1. Copilot makes
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by fny 4y ago
I feel like consumers writ large are forgetting they can protest. If everyone collectively rejects higher prices, the price will come down. Everyone is manipulating this inflation sentiment to wring consumers out of every penny until they&#
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by fny 4y ago
This hack also seems super useful if used judiciously... perhaps one could write a spicy DSL.
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by fny 4y ago
You're missing the point... they did all that while promising "you’d make more money selling it to them than you would on the open market". That's the issue.
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by fny 4y ago
You use versions of the algorithms that have been rewritten to be parallelized. For example: https://spark.apache.org/mllib/ There are a lot of techniques where this won't be possible due to the nature of the algo
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by fny 4y ago
I often wonder whether we're about to move from the golden age of software into the golden age of bitrot. Software ate the world. There's been enough money sloshing around that programmers have had the luxury to develop umpteen to
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by fny 4y ago
I am extremely proficient in LaTeX, but at one point I had to turn in a group project typeset in LaTeX with three others who had no knowledge of how LaTeX worked. This was my solution exactly. Force everyone to follow Microsoft's build
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by fny 4y ago
This is also true of modern PowerPoint files and Excel files. Also some others: open office formats, apk, ipa, jar, and epub.
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by fny 4y ago
You’re getting to my point. There are a whole host of symptoms that can be triggered for numerous reasons and the interplays are tremendously complex. It demands intervention but if we keep discussing this as COVID-specific symptomology the
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by fny 4y ago
Your cohort targets hospitalized patients. It is no surprise to me they have symptoms which continue a year out. If you read my opening I admit that. Also this population is bound to be riddled with other confounders given the population of
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by fny 4y ago
How is everyone so sure 12 month+ symptoms are due to COVID-19? Yes, I accept 3-4 month coughs and brain fog can be attributed (many papers on this, it is also well documented with the flu). Yes, I accept chronic issues evolving from pre-ex
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by fny 4y ago
This is /extremely/ uncharitable. It depends more on the project. For example, both Go and .NET are very well written engineering achievements with thorough documentation. Many, many other deeply influential projects have also bee
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by fny 4y ago
Ugh, you're going to make me analyze AI drivel. Yes. It reads like nonsense. > "How is the soul different from consciousness or sensation?" Red flag 1: it's two wildly different questions in one. Red flag 2: one quest
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by fny 4y ago
This reads like nonsense.
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by fny 4y ago
> I'm not talking about defining an API for other people to use that don't have access to the code, like when you make a library. It's for the same reasons. When you write code you are always writing code that some other h
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by fny 4y ago
One of the big questions I have is what happens if there's no significant financial incentive tied to a therapy. Lithium seems quite promising, for example. However, it's an abundant salt that requires very little research (meager
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by fny 4y ago
Is there anyway to prevent such a thing from happening in the first place?
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by fny 4y ago
Yes it is... which is why the hammer needs to come down and hard.
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by fny 4y ago
There is no legitimate SWE shortage though. Most software can run in maintenance mode with minimal staff and no feature growth. A hospital is dead without nurses.
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by fny 4y ago
First they came for the cashiers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a cashier. Then they came for the taxi drivers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a taxi driver. Then they came for the hotels, and I

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