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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Also software development. I would gladly keep on paying for copilot if it just does what it does right now. It makes writing code (the part I find least interesting in software development) just a tad bit less boring.
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Uh, yeah.. no. I want a dumb display that lets me use wireless CarPlay and physical knobs for everything else. It's like the people making these decisions don't actually drive cars.
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
I’d be interested to know how this stacks up against Kevin Murphy’s recently released two volume Probabilistic Machine Learning books. [1] [1] https://probml.github.io/pml-book/
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
I find his comment on Copilot to be enlightening. He says it’s not always right, but he still finds it useful. Kinda like that old saying in stats “all models are wrong, but some models are useful”. Language models are really helpful when y
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
7. Yeah the weight gain thing I don't get. Calories in, calories out. Wear a watch that tracks your workouts. Log the shit you eat on an app. Make sure it balances out. It's basically an exact science at this point, I'v
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
I think it’s even simpler than that. They’re engineers, they’re used to reading the “specifications” and then assume that’s how things work. In this case they read whatever a 501(c) non profit is and now can claim they understand exactly ho
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Tao's notes seem to be based on the book Linear Algebra by Friedberg, Insel and Spence. I found it to be one of the best books on Linear Algebra, better than even Hoffman/Kunze. The proofs are extremely clear, it has examples like
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Should be noted that Casella’s book is… well… really great if you thought Spivak’s calculus and Rudin’s analysis to be fun books, especially the exercises. Casella’s exercises are absolutely brutal.
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
There’s also the auton survival library. I’ve used it for very big survival models with time varying coefficients: https://autonlab.org/auton-survival/
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Why? Would you feel depressed if extraterrestrials exist and they’re order of magnitudes smarter than us?
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Is it something specific to SF and the policies made there? Clearly this doesn’t happen in all states, so what are they doing right that doesn’t lead to this type of degeneracy?
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Some of my most recent ChatGPT interactions: 34.223.203.0/28 what is the end ip of this range? Write python code to strip out characters that are not alphanumeric or spaces How do make FastAPI not return nulls in the re
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
The language part is the least of the problem. I would gladly develop in Turbo Pascal if it had the libraries I need. People use Python because of the ecosystem. PyTorch, Scikit learn, numpy, pandas, and many many other libraries built on
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
The interviews were meeting the people, having a chat about what kind of work they’re doing, what I’d be responsible for, etc. Nothing technical. More like an informal chat where it was like them trying to convince me to come over, not me t
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Yeah this is weird. Work is not just a place where you transact time/utility for money. You can also get to know people and form friendships. I still regularly chat with past work colleagues and meet up with them when I travel. In the
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Notebook classic for me. Vim keystrokes + Black plugin for formatting. I hate JupyterLab, have tried it multiple times. Have tried VSCode and PyCharm’s notebooks (I use PyCharm for actual development). I always go back to Classic as it just
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
I think he actually wanted to change it to Titter and have the bird logo have tits. Seriously.
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
At high doses of psilocybin you experience the loss of ego. It's a weird feeling, where "you" are not there anymore. There is no "I". So it's definitely possible to be conscious but feel like "you" o
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
For meme stocks like Tesla boomer valuation metrics don’t work. You just buy and hold.
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Some people believe being homosexual is also intrinsic, despite identical twin studies showing contrary evidence. People like simple answers. It’s probably partly genetic, partly environmental. In other words, something worth studying furth
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Huh? I have that book, and it's nothing like ISLR, at all. It's a good book, but ISLR covers topics such as gradient boosted trees, survival analysis, GLMs, etc. Nothing at all like the book you mentioned. If forced, you could s
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
Deploying the Snowplow backend is non-trivial (to put it mildly) and extremely expensive if you don't want to host it yourself.
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
> but she found the assertion that mass unemployment is 6-12 months away 'pure speculation' Who in their right mind has been asserting that?
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
If anything, we’ll hopefully get a definition of AI out of all of this. Worst case we’re going to ban matrix multiplication or the GPU acceleration thereof.
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
I remember picking this book up at the university library in my second year because I had seen it in the movie “Hackers” and the cover looked really cool. I distinctly remember the parsing chapters especially recursive descent parsing. It w
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
I wonder how many Christians there are that haven’t actually read the entire Bible. Like from Genesis through Revelations. It would be super interesting to know the statistic.
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by laichzeit0 3y ago
The most difficult thing, which everyone in all these discussions try to avoid, is that we don’t even have a universally agreed upon definition for the words AGI, consciousness or intelligence. Let’s just agree to define what we’re talking
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by laichzeit0 4y ago
Depends on what you do. I had some Pandas code that I wanted to be slightly faster. I pasted it in and asked it to optimize the code. It did exactly that, with an explanation at the bottom of why it was doing each particular thing. It was c
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by laichzeit0 4y ago
It's probably fair to say modern software should be seen as a disposable commodity. It doesn't have to be good or durable, but it should be cheap and abundantly available. If you're developing software, see your employer as a
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by laichzeit0 4y ago
Negation. The negation of nothing is something.

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