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by itissid 3y ago
Compression algorithms are an economization/compression of space(bits and bytes). ML models, especially generative models are an economization/compression of human expression and thought. Text classification is a type of compres
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They could literally draw a direct line from all the tokens in those disclaimers/boiler plate to dollars in the forfeited energy use.
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10 billion$
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I would like to take a parallel view to the BitterLesson and how its playing out. There are exceptions. Its not only computation but also a mix of: 1. decades of theoretical breakthroughs coming together. 2. there is also collective human
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by itissid 3y ago
The only one I know of is Andrew gelmans class in Social sciences dept at Columbia University https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/quantitative-methods-ii... There are other people in that department like Ben Goodrich
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And the culture is also promoting gameable interviews that tell one absolutely nothing to the interviewee about a candidate except that he has managed to parrot an answer from a online guide or DDIA. I am sure a skilled interviewee can find
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My point was that the culture of system design interviews is not a good one. Its repeated to infinity at many companies. > I had better results in asking questions that bias towards a certain set of behavior traits I am curious. What do
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This is not how people learn. And I always found these books more useful after I have actually worked on a system than before. Do you know why people ask such questions at any company? Its because there is a rubrick at every company and 1&#
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Interviewer: How do you design twitter? Interviewee: Long answer with novice RDBMS choices. Interviewer(implicitly): I will judge you based on how you can "Problem Solve" many-many conundrum. Interviewee: Use Cache, scaling, edge
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I wonder if one could create a simple API to take a 2 usernames and let them post as an anonymous user that they got it given the API could validate the primary user name.
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I don't know about ML but if you want to learn applied stats I would look up andrew gelman's or one of the newer books on Bayesian Inference ones using Stan and do them cover to cover.
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4. Models are taught like an end, but courses don't teach you to mix them for debugging. They are usually a means to an end for example say you are using decision trees and your models are acting up, you could still try some debugging
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I think the way courses are taught can give you some needed grounding, like you should always take a good linear regression class. But I think that is as far as it gets you, a theoretical base. Honestly the issue is that most ML programs ar
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And assuming I am right about apple owning the whole loop e2e. The play here is to replace Mastercard and Visa's monopoly, or in other words be what Square Payments was aspiring to be but hasn't gotten there, yeah?
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Does apple's foray into being a financial institution that can lend not already undercut the Goldman venture by being a lender(Apple Financial LLC ) and owning the PoS for the transaction via the iPhone? In other words why did goldman
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[1] is thoroughly recommended.
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In other words this just seems short sighted on reddit's part.
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Noob Question: Given AI is reducing the cost of creating technology. Isn't making reddit access API based the antithesis of the direction where the future of online communities is? The future I presume is: As computation gets less expe
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I mean I am not blind, there are plenty of no code platforms that work on B2B space. But nothing in the B2C for general purpose domain that do this in a privacy safe manner, at least not one that will shake up the tech companies.
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I had a more general noobish version of it in my head how all this plays out. Now that AI based task planning can learn from so few examples and can do extremely general tasks like say the instruction: "Summarize my gmail twice a day a
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What more would it take for google to succeed at something like: "robot can plant, water and harvest food that only poor laborers from other countries did, replacing whole job categories in agro business along with other things like ma
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You know one job that has become largely a bullshit but it affects the entire country. The job of a junior congressman in the US House of Representatives. Just two activities that were told to me by a guy who works for a congressman: 1. The
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Noob Observation: There is an element of knowing what saves you time and then on top of that why and how it does. The saving I will divide into two categories: 1. Easy wins category: Don't repeat code, cause you will take twice to chan
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I had a thought(maybe naive). There is this idea(not new or mine) that, API based access aside, LLMs are increasingly able to embed (semi)structured details(like code or Dom based UI navigation) needed for planning(in the ai sense). Then wh
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Apple always has had this tussle between making things repairable and sustainable vs selling more of stuff. It does not have to be this way. Don't they make a log of money from non hardware services. I heard apple pay rakes in close to
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When AI becomes good enough we will maybe we will stop thinking about trying to imitate human brains. If we viewed our brain's decision making power objectively we can find several flaws, for example our heuristics to make quick decisi
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Was that due to bad software crashing the os ?
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One resource I always wanted to have was how does one figure out the responsibilities for a new role that one is interviewing for and is advertised as mid level: 1. Writing, reading, reviewing software most of the time. 2. Some amount of pl
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I was reading Matt Levine commenting on how the oil industry would have to figure out how to get "out" while making wild profits as recent as this year. It sounds poetic: the elements of man's destruction and food salvation a

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