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by he11ow 3y ago
My introduction to the web was, I'd say, about a year earlier - and I don't miss it at all. Sure, it was nascent and full of promise. But that's mostly what it was - promise. Yes, there were all these offbeat websites you cou
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by he11ow 3y ago
Thanks! When it comes to choosing where to work with these models, which compute platform do you recommend (assuming locally doesn't really make sense with my resources)? Colab? AWS StudioLab? Which is your go to?
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by he11ow 3y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion, amidst a crowd who are maybe more comfortable with the whole deployment side of things: I use super boring tech (React, Node) for fairly simple apps. When I was looking to deploy one recently, I looked at a
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by he11ow 3y ago
You're like the person who's struck gold and believes it to be tin foil. You're being paid like a developer, but spending your days in direct contact with real customers and their real pains? You say it's a fintech, so o
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by he11ow 3y ago
This is absolutely marvelous! I've been looking for something just like this. The batteries included aspect matters a lot if you just want the damn thing to work within a larger workflow, and the text editor is just one step along the
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by he11ow 3y ago
Thanks! Will check out these services, MLOps is definitely where the biggest pain points are right now.
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by he11ow 3y ago
This looks great! Can I ask, are you using a HuggingFace endpoint to hit the LLaMA models, or deploying it yourself? Still new to this and trying to understand how putting the large models in production works...
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A Survey of Large Language Models(github.com)
2 points by he11ow 3y ago|0 comments
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by he11ow 3y ago
I've tried every shortcut possible only to realize the long way is the short way. Sign up to a Udemy web-development bootcamp. Take it class by class by class. It won't necessarily be quick. Some things won't work, because th
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by he11ow 4y ago
What I realised in my journey to pick up web development was, the long way is the short way. YouTube, blogs, forums etc. look like they might make things easier. They don't. The only thing that I found has made a difference is to fully
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by he11ow 4y ago
In late 2017 I got enough of a feel that NLP was moving fast to figure I had better get acquainted with it. I had a technical background, but nothing in NLP. About two years later, I wrote an article with a practical roadmap to learning NLP
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by he11ow 4y ago
Because of all the free, open source software, I don't see it as a big deal. I don't mean to say that you can just get the free version of everything in OSS. Rather, that the entire software landscape has shifted, in a meaningful
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by he11ow 4y ago
It seems like the trap you're falling into goes back to what "a job" is. Not your fault, you're still young, and a lot of older folk fall into the same trap, believing a job is defined as "someone paying me to do so
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by he11ow 4y ago
Sure thing. "Collecting data from various sources" can become a very difficult problem (depending on the data, depending on the sources...) It doesn't necessarily change any of my earlier suggestions (especially on the mockup
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by he11ow 4y ago
I'm going to give advice here on the assumption that you won't be taking on a CTO. I think it's a legit choice, finding the right partner is hard. Anyhow, it'll be easier to find the right person after there's somet
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by he11ow 4y ago
Notice what makes you smile despite yourself. Think about the things you did over and over again between the ages of six to twelve. Think of the times when you had to choose between different problems to solve, homework to do, questions to
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by he11ow 4y ago
I was inexact with my wording. I don't think you need less code overall, just that so much of it has been written by others. For sure a lot of the reference depends on what I was doing then and now. Both times involved data and ML, tho
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by he11ow 4y ago
Bad enough to make you want to quit. People nowadays complain about algos and red-black tress but honestly, that was the easy bit. Wasn't much open source, so you had to build pretty much from scratch. Internet was young and empty, so
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by he11ow 4y ago
Paying it forward: An article by David Graeber I first saw here, where he argues the utilitarian evolutionary view (every action witnessed in animals is there to somehow increase changes of survival) is a relic of the industrial revolution.
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by he11ow 4y ago
I like that you posted this here, and I like your humility. I'm also both a paid Medium subscriber and write (once or twice a year) on the platform. What sets Medium apart to me from Substack, and why I would write in one but not the o
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by he11ow 4y ago
I've written about building an audience on LinkedIn, including sharing some of my own data.[1] Summary as follows: * Figure out a niche. It’s a scary commitment, but it’s the most direct route to becoming known as an expert. * Set view
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by he11ow 4y ago
I would ban the phrase "going forward" for talking about the future. It's not like you have a time machine, where else would you go?
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by he11ow 4y ago
This obsession with being "great" is unhelpful. The only question that matters is: Do you ship? Someone who ships practices their craft. Someone who ships learns seeks out how to get better. Someone who ships discerns between the
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by he11ow 4y ago
Almost nothing has been done. The secret is staying on the f*cking bus[0] [0] https://jamesclear.com/stay-on-the-bus
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by he11ow 4y ago
I'd recommend to look at the FastAi NLP course[1]. The relevant lessons are videos 8, 9 and crucially - 10. (the first minutes is about an ethics conference, then the lecture starts in earnest). Basically, you can then do similar thing
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by he11ow 4y ago
I think the clue is in lazy people. I mean lazy in the sense of, "if you want to solve a problem give it to someone lazy". Python offers a huge ecosystem of useful code that mostly works and just does stuff. If you're learni
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Ask HN: What did you buy after reading about it here?
9 points by he11ow 4y ago|9 comments
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by he11ow 4y ago
One of the things I like about getting older is that you're old enough to see industries forget lessons they've already learned. A few years back I invested some time reading the entirety of Joel Spolsky's blog, and because h
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by he11ow 4y ago
Some people seem to be able to do it - I couldn't. Here are a few things I learned experimenting with Bubble: 1. The learning curve is not that bad, and the support forums are useful. 2. The sticker price is misleading, in that very qu
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by he11ow 4y ago
LinkedIn ups the stakes on being an asshole. That's a good thing. One can still choose to be an asshole on it, of course. Just that, one's career or income may take a hit, so there's an argument against it...

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