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by jcgrillo 1y ago
!m schmichael
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
I've identified serious bugs that were lurking in large legacy codebases for years with this approach. Whenever I read code I always try to find the gaps between "what was the author(s) trying to do?" and "what does this
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Practitioners of this approach to performance optimization often waste huge swaths of their colleagues' time and attention with pointless arguments about theoretical performance optimizations. It's much better to have a measuremen
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Yeah or some sort of washer/wiper system, but there's much better, safer technology for this. They could just use it.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
> For now. What can incremental progress do to make a camera see through road salt deposited on its lens? I call bullshit. There isn't any incremental path because it's not physically possible . The photons are stopped by the
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
As someone who has written many mapreduce jobs over years old protobufs I can confidently report the backwards compatibility made it possible at all .
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
One amazing application of spectral theory I always harp on when this topic comes up is Chebfun[1]. Trefethen's Spectral Methods in Matlab is also wonderful. [1] http://www.chebfun.org/
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
> their apparent success Yeah so the thing is the "success" is only "apparent". Having actually tried to use this garbage to do work, as someone who has been deeply interested in ML for decades, I've found the to
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
This is how you know the "AI" proselytizers are completely full of shit. They're trying to bend the narrative with a totally unrealistic scenario where reading and reviewing code is somehow "more efficient" than wri
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
I don't really know anything about js but this metrics protocol is how most telemetry data is transmitted on the wire. Petabytes per day of bandwidth are wasted on this.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
I invite your attention to the StatsD telemetry protocol, where: 1. Every single measurement in a timeseries is encoded as a utf-8 string having (roughly) the following format: "${name}:${value}|${type}|${tags}" where nam
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Not advocating for this approach, but maybe a fascist oligopoly will get the job done. Or something entirely stranger like a corporate theocracy. There's plenty of room for aggressive, murderous, backstabby species to achieve incredibl
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
> Meticulous code quality, and perfect understanding of every detail I'm sorry but there's just no fucking way. Even before AI these crypto coins companies were absolute clown factories. There's no way they ever had it.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
> it is our responsibility as seniors to coach this new generation into producing quality and value with the tools they have That's one option.. Another is to just skip them and focus on the next one. It could be that the "pand
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
^^ This right here. The reason this is happening is your senior leadership has decided this is how they want it to be. Vote with your feet.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
You would only be able to hire me to do that job if you gave me every last dollar of that ARR. And I still might turn you down tbh..
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
It's also marketing. "Dangerous technology" implies "powerful". Hence the whole ridiculous "alignment" circus.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
You should do it! I bet you could pitch a seed round for that business, might be your big break
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
I'm not much of a writer myself, but what little I do know about writing suggests that a "not very good" editor is actually much worse than none at all. That is, arguing with an LLM about my writing is probably going to mak
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
well since openai is private probably the employees are getting stock options not RSUs--which, since it's private, might be hard to sell even if they do exercise them..
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
yeah this is some insanely out of touch nonsense.. I have no idea who she is but the idea that any of the current crop of models could replace a copy editor is laughable. Just ask it how many times the letter b appears in blueberry.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Yeah summer is actually especially dangerous because people get caught unprepared. There's an excellent book called Not Without Peril by Nicholas Howe. Many of the exposure deaths listed in the appendix occurred in the summer and fal
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
That sounds more pleasant. I think I remember seeing frost or maybe some light snow up there around then.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Worst weather in the world!
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
What good is OpenAI stock? Is anyone buying it?
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
evidence of severely advanced brain rot
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
it was a typo i meant "generations" but this damn phone has a mind of its own
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
The generation leading this world has all the weapons the previous generation built at their disposal and none of the discipline or education to wield them responsibly. This too shall pass, but how it passes will be interesting to see.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
There must be smart people at openai who believe in what they're doing and absolutely cringe whenever this clown opens his mouth... like, I hope?
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Why does it matter? I don't care whether it's intelligent, I just need it to be useful. In order to be useful it needs to start fucking up less, stat. In current form it's borderline useless.

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