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by jebarker 3y ago
Indeed. There's countless movies that could be made around other aspects of this period in history. Personally I found this movie kind of a disappointment as Oppenheimer's story is one of the less emotionally engaging aspects to m
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by jebarker 3y ago
I also have a PhD in Algebraic Topology and feel similarly. One application I'd like to see explored more is the use of differentiable topological invariants as loss functions for training neural nets. Loss functions to measure topolog
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by jebarker 3y ago
What does "GPT-4 connected to a VM or SQL engine" mean?
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by jebarker 3y ago
I can definitely see those things being problems, but they are much more likely to occur when asking an LLM to generate code for you. That's not the best coding use case for LLMs IMO, it's much better to provide it code already wr
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by jebarker 3y ago
My experience has been that the hallucinations in GPT4 are actually pretty rare. But in any case, if I choose to use code it suggests I ask it for explanations and then I verify those myself by other means, e.g. tests. I think it's too
906.
by jebarker 3y ago
My point is that AI is just a tool for programming and that I see it as more comparable to the difference between walking and driving than the difference between driving stick and automatic.
907.
by jebarker 3y ago
But you do use a car, instead of walking everywhere.
908.
by jebarker 3y ago
I strongly disagree with this perspective. I have found GPT4 in particular to be very helpful in learning new programming languages and improving my overall coding. I still solve problems myself and I still read books, but GPT4 is the TA th
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by jebarker 3y ago
I'm not missing the point, I'm disagreeing with it. Sometimes ideas are insightful and this seems like one of those to me. It's OK that we disagree about that. It's too easy to just paint all ideas as trivial because the
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by jebarker 3y ago
I can see that maybe I was violently agreeing with the second part as I can't know why the parent comment was saying realizing the invention is hard. But I think my quibble with the first part stands. I'm not convinced that this i
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by jebarker 3y ago
That seems like an odd thing to takeaway from this. Envisioning the cellphone and it's social implications in 1919 is quite impressive. Making it a reality wasn't hard because it was missing the right person to build it, it was li
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by jebarker 3y ago
For coding jobs?
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by jebarker 3y ago
I use LLMs for helping with coding it's proving invaluable. I see it very similarly, an inexperienced assistant with very broad knowledge. I also find that they don't make too many mistakes in tasks such as refactoring or finding
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by jebarker 3y ago
That's what I'm hoping we can do too. We had one failed attempt at a dairy ladder and are waiting for the doc to tell us when to try again.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Yeah, our daughter was born with a cow milk protein allergy. She got early introduction via breast milk and it just made her really sick, it was a tough first few months until we figure out the problem. My wife stopped eating dairy and our
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by jebarker 3y ago
I don't disagree that Python environments are a mess. I'm actually a developer on quite a prominent large scale neural network training library and a DL researcher that uses said library. With my developer hat on I like to have mi
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by jebarker 3y ago
The point is that as awesome as this repo is it doesn't do much to ween the "ML folks" off of Python since it doesn't provide the flexibility and GPU support that people designing and training DL systems rely on.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Yeah, I think the learning curve and ability to optimize for the hardware is the draw.
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by jebarker 3y ago
This blog is gold. Kudos to the author.
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by jebarker 3y ago
The transition to consoles "just" being locked-down PCs makes me a little sad. From a software engineering perspective I really like the idea of squeezing out raw performance from custom bare metal architectures.
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by jebarker 3y ago
One thing university can do is help minimize procrastination. If you have financial and socially visible skin in the game you have a reason to show up and do the work as prescribed. I personally find it hard to stick with Coursera courses b
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by jebarker 3y ago
Three readings of such a massive book is quite an endorsement!
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by jebarker 3y ago
Cats paws and catapults - I saw this first recommended on a different HN thread. Great comparison of natural and man-made mechanical systems that changed my intuitions about why things in the world are built the way they are. From Strength
924.
by jebarker 3y ago
When I looked into this briefly my impression was that it's extremely hard to do mechanistic interpretation beyond very simple cases like CNN classification or toy problems like arithmetic in transformers. Not to say it's not a wo
925.
by jebarker 3y ago
I think so. My daily driver for coffee is a Chemex since I can make enough for two in about 5 mins. I use reasonably fresh roasted beans I grind right before making the coffee. But whenever I get a good espresso based drink I recognize the
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by jebarker 3y ago
This seems like a better way to evaluate real-world coding skills. Did you use it in a standard 45-60 min interview or as a take home problem? It seems like it'd take a decent amount of time to read the requirements and just introduce
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by jebarker 3y ago
I think it depends on the type of book. I agree that you can't really appreciate what value you'll get from literature before reading, digesting and living with it. But lots of non-fiction should actually just be a blog post or so
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by jebarker 3y ago
I think this a great strategy for many of the many self-help/life management type books that come out now too. They usually contain a few useful nuggets surrounded by a couple of hundred pages of cherry picked anecdotes posing as evide
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by jebarker 3y ago
Makes sense. I feel similarly about the constant ads for beer and terrible food during sports broadcasts.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Out of interest, why? I haven't seen the commercials so don't understand why they'd be problematic for kids to see.

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