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by jstx1 3y ago
Pocket Casts
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> but it is far away from anything that I would call a "problem". I see a problem when someone is boasting about knowing json and ipod development, they open with an excuse for dropping out of school 40 years ago but don't
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by jstx1 3y ago
You have communication problems - the needless tech listing took so much space that you had to make your actual point in a comment, and at the same you left out much more relevant information like what you've been doing recently. But a
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I’m not seeing the respect when someone points out real issues that human beings are having and you come in with “shove the manager’s propaganda up yours”.
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This thread is a great counter argument to anyone who claims that HN is a place for civil discussion and debate. People are screaming propaganda and conspiracy as soon as they run into a view that doesn’t align with their own.
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Imagine that other people have different experiences from yours.
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> By easiest, I mean a combination of least amount of effort, time and money. Do it at a university with low standards. The time and money requirements will be similar, effort required will be lower.
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by jstx1 3y ago
OpenAI's embeddings don't add that much. For similarity search you can use a number of open source models from huggingface with small embeddings sizes and do as well or better than OpenAI’s embeddings.
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> He probably made fat bank which turned out to be golden handcuffs. This is a big assumption, not everyone in this field is a high earner - plenty of people make okay-ish salaries without being anywhere near highly paid.
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There are different kinds of prompt improvements - some have more to do with asking a good question, that will always be relevant. Others - like adding "let's think this carefully in a step by step way to make sure that the answer
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Two different questions. > Is Prompt Engineering a Thing? Yes, it's a dumb name for the skill of modifying your prompts and questions to the LLM in a way that produces better results than if you just asked for what you wanted plainl
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And also what if you have a huge nested query which is only reading the database but is difficult to pack into URL parmeters (too long for example and you hit a character limit)? POST with a json body instead of GET even though it's ag
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1. it matters what training data the creators of the LLM use 2. the step of reinforcement learning with human feedback is important 3. as a user you need to ask questions well and know how to prompt it to get the best results
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People who use their DNS knowledge often - what is your job and problems do you solve with your DNS knowledge?
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> conveniently meant you didn't need to address systemic issues and stone wall any attempts at grander change Who is claiming this?
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> Instead of focusing on the source of stress and trying to solve the underlying issues, it fights the symptoms. This only makes sense if you assume that being stressed is a correct and useful response to your environment.
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Anyone with a half a brain has known this a for a while now, it's not 2017 anymore. It's an embarrassing industry to be associated with.
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Reddit and HN. Signed up for a bunch of Discord channels but it never clicked for me - it’s super chaotic and at the same time it feels like you’re speaking into the void with nobody interesting to talk to.
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What's with the weird dog picture?
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You need something that demonstrates that you can code - not just PyTorch and ML-specific code but general software development - creating and deploying an API, using a database, being comfortable with cloud tools etc. That + having a math
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Yes, it's easy enough call the APIs yourself.
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I don't think it will eliminate the vast majority of jobs, more likely that it will significantly reduce the demand for certain jobs in an uneven way. I guess some of this depends on the time horizon you're looking at too.
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Not necessarily as relevant, programming has changed a lot since SICP came out. Sussman says so himself - https://youtu.be/OgRFOjVzvm0
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I'm not convinced that they're worth it for people who know how to program. If you want to write better Python at work, learn how to write better Python at work; don't waste your time on learning how to write a loop in scheme
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> worker's rights (it's literally worse than the US) This seems very incorrect given that the UK has stricter laws around dismissal (the bar for losing your job is much higher), better minimum wage laws, more legally mandated h
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OCaml doesn’t give a specific advantage in trading, it’s just that Jane Street like to be pretentious about most things including programming languages.
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It's not competing if it's limited to Julia. And saving a dataframe isn't on anyone's list of technical concerns anyway. It's a big stretch to say that a tiny Julia library which does a thing we can already do well
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I don't see the value of a language-specific format when we have things like parquet.
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> I am currently completing 2 other Python certifications in scientific computing and machine learning and am already out of my planned schedule for them. If you want to focus on scientific computing and machine learning, don't spen
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by jstx1 3y ago
For completeness - Formal Algorithms for Transformers - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09238.pdf For accessibility - Let's Build GPT from Scratch, Andrej Karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8

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