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by jebarker 3y ago
No, they don't. But that's the problem, you can't force all developers to consider these issues and adhere to coding standards. Sure, you can do reviews and then make them do that, but if they have to pass a suite of tests be
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by jebarker 3y ago
Fair enough - it may be that I've never experienced "real" clean code. But I've worked with many good engineers and seen this problem repeatedly. However, no matter how unclean the code is a rigorous test suite will find
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by jebarker 3y ago
> whether they can make changes without worrying about breaking things In my experience no coding standards or cleanliness can prevent this. The only sure way is testing on commit/PR. EDIT: A common failure mode I've noticed is
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by jebarker 3y ago
I think the recent Zelda games are the best physics heavy games in recent years
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by jebarker 3y ago
I like wandb but really it's just an aggregated metrics platform and it's cloud based design limits what's possible due to bandwidth constraints. I like this tool from Nvidia [1] for exploring CNN feature maps. That's mo
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by jebarker 3y ago
I always think glimpses of the custom tools used in game dev are really cool. I work in large scale ML systems and I wish there was similar effort put into tools for observability and debugging of neural networks. I'd be tempted to wor
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by jebarker 3y ago
But the problem still stands that we can't estimate how likely any of this is to occur. So in the overall risk equation we have a term that is essentially completely uncertain and therefore varying that term can yield any arbitrary ris
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by jebarker 3y ago
Fair enough. I don't doubt there are people in the world that hold this view. I just don't know how credible they are as a threat to humanity.
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by jebarker 3y ago
The problem with this analysis is that we have complete uncertainty about the probability that AGI/ASI will be developed in any particular time frame. Anyone that says otherwise is lying or deluded. So the risk equation is impossible t
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by jebarker 3y ago
This doesn't really answer my question. These are arguments for why threat actors might hold the belief that "humanity is cancer", but it doesn't actually provide evidence that this is a credible threat in the real world
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by jebarker 3y ago
Who are the "humanity is a cancer" folk? I thought this was a trope used to discredit environmentalists?
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by jebarker 3y ago
I've often pondered this Christopher Hitchen's quote on this: “The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the
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by jebarker 3y ago
What did x264 go after?
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by jebarker 3y ago
Both approaches will co-exist for the foreseeable future. There's plenty of applications where foundation models trained on random internet images don't help much due to the specialist (or confidential) nature of the imagery and t
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by jebarker 3y ago
> That might sound silly to a lot of players, because "if the game's not fun, why bother", right? Games are no different in this regard to books or movies. The bulk of the market is looking for escapist entertainment gener
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by jebarker 3y ago
The interesting thing about that is that it's actually independent of the current wealth distribution I think, i.e. you could allocate any arbitrary amount to each person.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Wouldn't that wealth become worthless if nobody recognized ownership though?
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by jebarker 3y ago
> important to remember that the study only included people who are regular snoozers and find it easy to go back to sleep after each alarm. Snoozing is most likely not for everyone. I'm not a snoozer, once I'm awake I'm aw
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by jebarker 3y ago
The spirit of this experiment reminds me of the paper "Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?" [1] [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28081141/
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by jebarker 3y ago
Wouldn't a Bay Area company outsourcing to West Virginia just be remote work?
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by jebarker 3y ago
No, it’s proof that human intelligence is possible. Since we don’t know how that works either we can’t really draw any conclusions about the viability of replicating it artificially (if that’s the definitions of AGI).
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by jebarker 3y ago
Nobody knows if building AGI is even possible (or what that even means). So it would seem reckless to put all of our eggs in that basket. Not to mention that it seems immoral to mandate what every single human being does with their lives.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I basically don’t. For work I track in-flight items and a backlog of possible things to do next in a text file. Meetings are in the work outlook calendar. Other than that I just wing it. I’ve found anything else just takes time and doesn’t
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by jebarker 3y ago
> Why go back to school when you already know how to research? There's a couple of reasons I can think of. One is that if you want to do fundamental research in a particular field then you probably need other people to work with and
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by jebarker 3y ago
Coincidentally I just put down Edward Frenkel's "Love & Math" before opening HN to see this. In particular I was reading the chapter about the early 2000s meetings at IAS using DARPA funding to explore the links between t
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by jebarker 3y ago
This is almost exactly the progression of topics that led me to DL too.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Another area where there's potential for an individual to make lots of progress is in theory and mechanistic interpretation. Although it's not where the money is, it's probably not rapid progress and it's really hard.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I use a Zoom H4N for similar purposes. Has a few more bells and whistles than a tape based 4-track, but I find it's a similar experience in terms of removing all the complexity that computer based recording brings.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I do trail-running, backpacking and skiing in the Colorado backcountry. I'd never trust my safety to a cell phone due to the fragility, temperature sensitivity and poor battery life. I carry an inReach and have used the SOS feature. Th
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by jebarker 3y ago
I'd also add that, as much as many engineers hate the fact, marketing is very necessary to sell things to the general market. It's also a real skill set to figure out how to market things well. Even more so when trying to sell tec

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