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by kcexn 8d ago
Huh. This reminds me of the asymptotic equipartition theorem. Samples taken from higher and higher dimensional spaces will concentrate into a typical set. Does model performance also concentrate into a 'typical case' where things
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by kcexn 8d ago
That's also plausible.
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by kcexn 8d ago
No. The official report seems to suggest that software in IMS core (the subsystem that controls VOIP signalling in the mobile network) bugged out after the time was shifted back 20 years. That doesn't narrow down the specific failure t
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by kcexn 23d ago
I think most of these problems could be solved through contracts. A contract for purchasing Parent Co.'s HR, legal, and compliance expertise for child co. And a contract for sharing technology infrastructure. The terms and pricing of t
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by kcexn 25d ago
It's still impressive, but it's not enough.
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by kcexn 1mo ago
Australia's bar for skilled employment is pretty low and deflates wages as well. That's before we get into the prevalence of exploiting working holiday visas for practically slave wages.
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by kcexn 1mo ago
You can't really force someone to work for X years at a place they don't want to. I don't know if what you're describing is an enforceable contract term.
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by kcexn 1mo ago
I mean. That's how profiteering works for the most part. Extracting wealth from people who don't know better is many times easier than creating more wealth for everyone.
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by kcexn 2mo ago
Most hardware tinkerers are not EE's. But will rely on EE's to certify that their electronics are safe.
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by kcexn 2mo ago
You don't need to be an "Electrical Engineer" to do simple design work like this. Professional Engineers are qualified to take on more liability than just creating a design. So you don't need an Engineer to design a prod
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by kcexn 2mo ago
If you can call yourself an Engineer if you feel like it, then it's not a protected title. "Doctor", is for instance a protected title. You can not advertise yourself or your services as a doctor unless you're a qualifie
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by kcexn 2mo ago
I don't think Software Engineers in the US would sign any documents that expose them to legal liability as a professional engineer either. It's still not clear to me from this discussion whether the term "Software Engineer&qu
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by kcexn 2mo ago
In which countries are Software Engineers not allowed to call themselves engineers unless they are professionally qualified engineers?
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by kcexn 2mo ago
I think most people who write code are the latter and not the former. The industry has diluted the term "engineer" so much that they maybe don't even realise that traditional engineering projects are about more than just impl
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by kcexn 2mo ago
I think whether "taste" was ever important comes down to whether software is a commodity to be bought and sold, or something more strategic. The company that needs a webapp because everyone else has one is never going to value &qu
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by kcexn 2mo ago
Interesting. Do you have any more specific insights into where you feel AI was a big value-add to these problems? I don't want to be overly dismissive of AI, but I also feel that the AI hype engine frequently positions claims as being
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by kcexn 2mo ago
I have no idea how many PhD's have spent how much time of their careers tackling these very specific problems, and I doubt you do either. I'm trying to understand if these specific problems were the kinds of problems that would ha
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by kcexn 2mo ago
I assume you're talking about No. 5, the arithmetic circuit complexity bound? The existence of a lower bound than state-of-the-art is certainly a significant result and worth publishing. But the wording of the result makes it sound lik
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by kcexn 2mo ago
I'm not arguing that this isn't innovative or worthy of publication. Basically any result that moves the needle meets those criteria. I'm interested in how the results that OpenAI has published here differs from finding optim
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by kcexn 2mo ago
Not being an expert in any of the fields OpenAI has "advanced" I don't want to prematurely downplay the significance of this contribution. However, I am worried that the language they are using in this blog post is exaggerati
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by kcexn 2mo ago
I don't think the problem is that memory footprint can't be reduced. The problem is that the token generation rate is simply far too low. OP suggests that the token rate of of their solution is ~5 per second. That's at least
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by kcexn 2mo ago
How will open-source and open-weight models continue to thrive after financial incentives die off? Surely open models will suffer from outdated knowledge cutoffs if noone will pay for model training?
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by kcexn 3mo ago
Well said! The lines from this movie are written in a way that make it easy for people to relate to this vague notion that 'experience' is different from 'learning'. But quantitatively speaking it's less clear what
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by kcexn 3mo ago
Everyone knows there is bias. The problem this article highlights is that by delegating screening and human judgment to a few AI vendors those vendors will bias all employers in the same way.
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by kcexn 3mo ago
It's a side effect of rewarding 20-somethings with lots of money to do 'smart' things with stuff they learn in an undergraduate degree. It's easy to conflate recognition with achievement when that's all you know in
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by kcexn 4mo ago
If both systems have a good clock. Then the synchronization messages only need to contain the time delta to correct the time (phase?) drift to achieve full synchronization.
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by kcexn 5mo ago
The highest profile recent case that I can find is Rambler vs Igor Sysoev on the development of Nginx. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771144 Although in this particular case, I tend to agree with Igor as he was empl
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by kcexn 5mo ago
Absolutely! The backlog is enormous though, and much of mathematics requires a great deal of work to understand it to the depth required before a novel application becomes apparent.
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by kcexn 5mo ago
The problem with exams is that everyone has a bad experience with a poorly written one. Well-written exams will have questions that test students at different levels of understanding across the whole curriculum. So a student who only unders
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by kcexn 6mo ago
I feel like there is a lot of nuance around this topic that is getting lost in the noise. The direct and indirect financial impact of technical decisions are indeed hard to measure. But some technical decisions definitely have greater finan

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