koliber

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by koliber 10mo ago
Love the title. Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." This is what user stories were supposed to accomplish in a more lightweight way. The w
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by koliber 11mo ago
right. My goof. That adds two more zeroes across all the math. More crazy, but I think in the realm of "maybe, if we squint hard."
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by koliber 11mo ago
right. My goof. That adds two more zeroes across all the math. More crazy, but I think in the realm of "maybe, if we squint hard." But my eyes are hurting from squinting that hard, so I agree that it's just crazy.
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by koliber 11mo ago
NOTE: People pointed out that it's $800 billion to cover interest, not $8 billion, as I wrote below. My mistake. That adds 2 more zeroes to all figures, which makes it a lot more crazy. Original comment below... $8 billion / US ad
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by koliber 11mo ago
Imagine that they do skyrocket but the RoboCEO is in charge trillion gets distributed to shareholders.
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by koliber 11mo ago
In the broad picture of engineering, I would consider this to be technically difficult. Many pieces of the puzzle need to interact correctly to remove latency, from physical location, network gear, decision about where software runs, removi
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by koliber 11mo ago
# Books ## * Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners by Larry Harris* - comprehensive overview written in an accessible way ## * The Microstructure of Financial Markets by Frank de Jong and Barbara Rindi* - 1st 1&#x
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by koliber 11mo ago
One of the most important things about great performers in any discipline is to be adaptive. This also applies to engineering managers. I think the article is correct that it identifies that fads shifted. Great people were able to both adap
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by koliber 11mo ago
I don't know where it stems from, but I think it's harder to fire people in union shops. In a non-union shop, you have to work with the person, their manager, and HR to see if you can correct someone's performance, and if tha
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by koliber 11mo ago
You're forgiven, but not correct re: me being under-qualified to comment. I have interacted with union shops and non-union shops and have 25 years of professional experience, so please don't be dismissive. I've worked with un
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by koliber 11mo ago
I never worked at a union workplace. However, I’ve worked with underperforming colleagues who were could not be fired for whatever reason. It was miserable.
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by koliber 11mo ago
Please forgive me. I am not a Markov chain.
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by koliber 11mo ago
Hmmm. Didn't think about that. In people there is a difference between unconscious hallucinations vs. intentional creativity. However, there might be situations where they're not distinguishable. In LLMs, it's hard to talk ab
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by koliber 11mo ago
If you tell me that trees are big, and trees are made of hard wood, I as a human am capable of asking whether trees feel pain. I don't think what you said is false and I am not familiar with computational theory to be able to debate it
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by koliber 11mo ago
Here's how I see it, but I'm not sure how valid my mental model is. Imagine a source corpus that consists of: Cows are big. Big animals are happy. Some other big animals include pigs, horses, and whales. A Markov chain can only re
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by koliber 11mo ago
You're right that this happens. However, if I had to guess I would say that it's due to bad information / intel. North Korea is a closed country with limited access to information (think before the internet). On the flip side
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by koliber 11mo ago
On the map of Europe, Poland has a strange nonexistent river flowing through it. It enters the Baltic Sea more or less where the Vistula river really does. But going south it mysteriously veers east into Belarus.
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by koliber 11mo ago
There is a difference between creating a summary and double-checking if a summary is correct. It's kind of like coding something, or doing a code review. It does save me time, but that might have to do with how I think and what I enjoy
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by koliber 11mo ago
I guess you’re right re chatbot for summaries. I was thinking about the use case and not the whole integrated product experience. For example, for code gen I use agents like Claude Code, one-shot interfaces like Codex tasks, and chatbots li
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by koliber 11mo ago
It depends on how much time I have, and how important the task is. I've been surprised and I've been disappointed. One particular time I was wrestling with a CI/CD issue. I could not for the life of me figure it out. The logs
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by koliber 11mo ago
I hate what LLM spit out and would never accept the whole output verbatim. I love how they occasionally come up with a turn of phrase, a thought path, or surprising perspective. I work with them iteratively to brainstorm, transform, and cra
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by koliber 11mo ago
I sometimes get contracts, NDAs, or terms and conditions which normally I would automatically accept because they are low stakes and I don't have time to read them. At best I would skim them. Now I pass them through an LLM and ask them
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by koliber 11mo ago
I like this approach. In finance you have three basic statements: - balance sheet - profit & loss - cash flow It seems like looking at net worth of a person is like only looking at the balance sheet. The mag wealth approach also takes p
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by koliber 11mo ago
A few more seem to work as well, because I've used them and found them valuable - human language translation - summarization - basic content generation - spoken language transcription
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by koliber 11mo ago
Painting is such a great way to explain this. I've made many mistakes painting myself, and only came to appreciate the amount of extra work involved when I looked closely at how a pro does it. Things that have caused me to screw up var
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by koliber 11mo ago
At the core, doing is paramount. But doing the wrong thing, poorly, is also not doing the thing. To avoid that, you need to do some of the things that the post mentions. That concludes my morning dose of Zen.
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by koliber 11mo ago
If you define “specifications” as a formal document with that title atop, then you’re right. If you define it as a description of what needs to be built then by definition you can’t build what is not described. User stories are a type of sp
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by koliber 11mo ago
It hasn't met my doctor.
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by koliber 11mo ago
You can't code without specifications, period. Specifications can have various forms but in ultimately define how your program should work. The problem with what people call "Waterfall" is that there is an assumption that at
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by koliber 11mo ago
That does put it into perspective. At the same time, I don't think a medium-sized container ship of pellets is lost each year.

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