ipunchghosts

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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Overall, i like this guys papers but they strike me as someone who is very smart but hasnt looked through the literature carefully. Many of the techniques he is proposing were already done about 5-6 years ago. However, I imagine that bec
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
This guy's has had a lot bangers lately.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
I agree. Do you have any thoughts on how to mitigate this? After all, its in your best advantage and the companies to hire someone with talents because of the value they can bring.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
I am with you! Been programming since I was 10 and have 20YoE. Many of my prototypes have grown into full fledged products, I have 40+ published papers, and I am regularly sought out for advice and help by those who know me. Everyone i have
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
What did you write? I can't see it anymore. Any leetcoders I have hired have turned out to be one trick ponies and actually aren't very creative or think from first principles. I have been in the industry for 21 years now and I kn
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Yes. Happy to chat if u msg me. Using RL coupled with NNs to integrate search directly into inference instead of as an afterthought like Chain of though and test time training.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Have u seen the work coming out of phd students on dod grants? It's generally poor. There is a lot of grant money from the big tech firms where the slide ts have access to incredible brain and compute resources.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Sure, but none of that was developed by dod in any real way. A litmus test to consider is that the dod still halls belig ml problems but you don't see phds funded by dod going to the dod. The good ones all go to industry because they
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
I think googles could care less about what darpa is doing. How would I know? I'm a darpa PM and google isn't reaching out to me or my team. I think what you are seeing is correlation but not causation. Stanford was working on self
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
I believe the contribution here is overstated. None of the tech used for today's AVs relies on anything developed for grand challenge, including any principles they derived. The leading tech today was derived purely from industry outsi
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
That's what ousd is for.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
YES! I should add that they should be thinking about intelligence generally, not AI/ML.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
DARPA has a rich history of doing fundamental research but today its largely composed of engineering tasks which for whatever reason arent built by the warfare centers. The days of doing fundamental research are mostly gone in the organiza
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Currently, when AI models solve problems, they write out long chains of thoughts (like showing their work in math). While helpful, this takes up a lot of computing power. Heima does something clever - instead of writing out long explanation
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Read a bunch of papers on a topic you find interesting. What do all the papers do wrong or ignore. Start there.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Example of thr bitter lesson. None of these nuanced matter 8 years later where everyone uses sgd or adamw.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Lets ignore these fickle minded people. There is room in the ai/ML space to transform dozens of fields that are completely out of the scope of these larger companies simply because they can't make large enough profit margins to g
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
What was your method to ace the code? Was it fresh from undergrad / grad school?
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
I partially agree with this. Using AI has sped up my work by about 30% so far but only in cases where i need boiler plate to get going and i have written the correct algorithmic solution many times before and can quickly check it. I think
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Define small. I just interviewed at Dandy (the dental group) and they had me go through this process. Also, do you do any type of coding exercises? where do you draw the line?
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Can you elaborate? I like your confidence :) Do you do any coding style interviews? (i had a nice one at my current position which essentially was going through python code to find bugs).
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Ask HN: Are LeetCode interviews appropriate for senior/staff scientists?
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
i do but do not want to get doxxed until i found a job that I am okay with. If my employer found out about my writings, i worry my job would be at risk. feel free to send your email and i can reach out to you.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Honed time management skills and being very good at math. It was not easy. I have written about this but do not want to say where as to not dox myself to the group. but if you provide an email, im happy to chat with you.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
These are great ideas but the timing is wrong. 1. GNU radio circa 2006 did not nearly support the SNRs and modulation schemes we needed; the tools had simply not matured. Furthermore, by making blocks, its difficult to close the loops hitt
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
can i email you at your substack? Otherwise, i can reply to one of your threads with my email and then delete it. Let me know so we can set this up to time well.
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Yes. The problem is darpa PMs only have a 4 year window. They also have a limited budget of about 80 million. They also have to pitch a program to get hired into darpa and then further have to get buy in from darpa brass to move ahead with
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
I guess im wondering if other researchers in DoD are having the same sentiment as me. I find it hard to believe they arent but it's something that not talked about much because from my point of view, there arent many researchers with
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
Thanks for this thoughtful analysis. Your framing of the 'buyer vs builder' dynamic really resonates with what I saw at Raytheon and explains a lot. We weren't just struggling with a technical handoff - we were watching an or
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by ipunchghosts 2y ago
If anyone's building something to address these systemic issues, I'd love to chat.

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