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by jstx1 4y ago
In the same interview he also says that he's not fit to pass judgment on Rust even though he's used it.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Big data and data science became popular terms around the same time, doesn't mean that one implies the other like the GP comment suggested. Big data isn't a concern for most working data scientists today - not all datasets are tha
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by jstx1 4y ago
> My understanding is that data science implies big data. It really doesn't.
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by jstx1 4y ago
The specialized part is kind of true to some extent but that's getting bogged down into job titles - data analyst, applied scientist, ML engineer, research scientist - some of these are used more often because "data scientist&quot
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by jstx1 4y ago
> I am looking to actively learn how to write more "pythonic" code. Effective Python is a great book which aims to teach people who already know the language how to use it well.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Not at all, why would it be?
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by jstx1 4y ago
What's up people not wanting to write "Google" and "Meta" in this thread?
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by jstx1 4y ago
Move to a similar company as an IC - you'll get a change of scenery without giving up the high compensation. What's NIH?
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by jstx1 4y ago
Everything about it seems exaggerated - the initial reaction to ChatGPT, people wondering if it will take their job, people thinking that it can replace search, Microsoft rushing to integrate it, Google reacting to this etc. I kind of wish
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by jstx1 4y ago
> I want to make queries on this matrix like (what are the rows most similar to row #2) There are libraries for efficient vector similarity search like https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
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by jstx1 4y ago
That's a low bar though, there have been bs books about pretty much anything.
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by jstx1 4y ago
I don't know, I think it's too soon to tell whether it will go even that far.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Do recruiters ask you how good your Googling skills are now? They don’t, and you need to have really high expectations of the “LLM+chat” paradigm to think that it will be as useful and prevalent as search is now.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Don't pretend that it's already a thing.
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by jstx1 4y ago
You can’t single out moving to Spotify as the cause because there are two other confounding factors - moving to Texas and his reaction to everything around Covid. And even if it was because of Spotify… well, that’s what the money is for - t
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by jstx1 4y ago
You're putting them on a pedestal a bit too much. Their work isn't as different as you think.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Design implies some kind of planning. I think it's a result of different companies making decisions that optimize for the short term.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Freelancing isn't exactly stable and reliable either.
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by jstx1 4y ago
You seem way too invested into 1. a programming language 2. the telemetry proposal I like Go, I would never use the words "hopes and dreams" to refer to it (or any other language). And the telemetry proposal isn't as apocalyp
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by jstx1 4y ago
What's the point of a DI framework? I never got the point of even thinking about DI explicitly like it's something special. It's so obvious that it hardly deserves to have a name, let alone a framework.
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by jstx1 4y ago
I feel like I'm either too young or somehow sheltered to understand why people care about this. Hasn't it been very standard for a while now to press the tab key and have your editor insert 4 spaces?
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by jstx1 4y ago
> If we use Python as a strongly typed language, it makes no difference which one you use. If we don't (i.e. use Python as it is: a dynamically-typed language), Nitpick: Python is strongly typed, it's also dynamic. The strongly
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by jstx1 4y ago
Prefixing with underscores to pretend that a variable is private still seems like the most pointless and ugly thing ever.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Is there a separate person who does your project management, or is this a project manager with a different name? As your team grows and especially as you need to coordinate with many other teams, you eventually need someone to take care of
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by jstx1 4y ago
It's a company in a very different state from most others that have had layoffs, it shouldn't be surprising that their answer is different.
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by jstx1 4y ago
While some stuff is slowly becoming more accessible, the deeper end of technology gets deeper and deeper - complex systems with many moving parts operating on many different levels of abstraction.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> I feel 'empty' inside. If I gave up every time I felt empty inside, I wouldn't have done a single thing in my life. Finish your degree. You're finishing it because it's better than the alternative, not because
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by jstx1 4y ago
Google search has been powered by a large language model (BERT) for years so we've all been successfully using LLMs for search for a while now, just not in the way you're thinking.
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by jstx1 4y ago
No, "HN for {}" isn't a thing in general, I don't why people keep asking these questions.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> We have a person who is clearly not a great fit. By the way, this isn't a layoff. Layoffs are done for financial reasons, due to company restructuring etc - in a layoff it's not the employee's fault that they're los

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