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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I live about 1:30 hour from my office. Before covid I went in 2x per week. Since covid I've been to the office about 6 times in 3 years. Never going back to a regular commute. Never. Open floor plan is terrible for thought-work (p
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
The best ones had BS in math (mostly pure math not applied). The second best ones had physics degrees (from BS to PHD). The WORST ones BY FAR had PHD in CS (typically AI/ML focused), absolutely atrocious coders and engineers.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
JFK would be considered a right-wing extremist by todays democrat party (the political powerful left wing, not the average voter)
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
You should never be a "believer" or trust ANY VC. They are blood suckers who only want to make 10x their money
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Im a talented cook. I have no idea how long it takes to caramelize onions, lightly brown garlic, etc. I just do it by look, feel, smell, etc. So if asked to write down a recipe, it would just be rough guesses. Same with measuring, is it
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
If you are smart enough to handle a real CS degree (with the MATH!) then you should do it. It will help to understand the mechanics of ML/AI and give a solid foundation for whatever types of software exist in the future. With a simpl
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Models get smaller and perform better, requiring less GPU hardware. The "hallucination" problem persists. More prompt programming tools are created for AutoGPT-type task processing. Lots of companies spend lots of money to roll ou
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
You hear that, Dean Koontz????
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Neighbor down the street has 2 nice ones, in addition a basically full-on full size video arcade. During a block party, none of the kids cared about the video games. They were lined up to play the pinball.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I worked as consultant at several of these big banks, and a few top end private equity firms. And what I learned was I would never want to work there full time. The whole culture of these places is really awful. And it comes from the top.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
They used to call it "strong AI" but I guess that fell out of favor.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
horrible click bate headline. Again people, its a giant auto-complete system. It is not actually intelligent. You want to have it manage your hard earned capital go ahead.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I predict a major decline in salaries and demand for software engineers. For three main reasons: AI, lack of funding to startups, remote work. A fourth reason would be overall economic growth decline. As an (aging) engineer myself, the b
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
The curse of the high IQ is that statistically you wont find a lot in common with the average Joe. Too bad just deal with it. Get married and raise children. Go to church. Spend time in your local library. Volunteer at a local CSA (communi
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Max out your retirement accounts into index funds. Play a team sport. Take care of your health and fitness. Build some muscle. Dont waste time living or workin in a place you dont want to be.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Nice. For average person though $20 month seems high. Not sure where the ROI would be at $240 per year for average person. However, for business people with monthly expense reports it could be a really nice product. Making expense report
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
As always, follow the money and give no heed to virtue signaling politicians who claim to care about climate change while living in multiple homes, flying around on private jets and rarely spending any time in nature.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I think its actually pretty cool but I would also see it in reverse, to have highlighted passages while reading the log form - click to view a relevant summary of why that passage is important point in the longer doc
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Its hacking not engineering. But what helps is understanding a bit how the attention mech works and how your prompt effects the output. This "prompt engineering" is a vastly different programming paradigm. The notion of time is
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I really hope they dont bard-ify the basic search page too much. I like simple, fast tech.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Well its already "impossible" for most people to know how it works. Personally I know how the sausage is made but not well enough to code my own transformer (yet). I think there is a dichotomy between those who see it as magic,
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
the base LLM is token predictor - given some stream of tokens, guess the next token, and the next, etc. But ChatGPT is trained on top of the LLM with a whole bunch of example questions+answers, and also most likely they are augmenting you