malux85

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by malux85 1y ago
There is a virtuous element to resisting and holding strong on a position, but there’s a wisdom element to know that enormous tidal movements cannot be influenced by a few tiny data points and at some point you’re just harming yourself and
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by malux85 1y ago
This is what I have seen as well, enormously bloated codebases, with perhaps 5-10x as much code as there should be. Also really whacky implementations, things like every page load, sucking up a bunch of MD files, inserting them into an SQL
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by malux85 1y ago
Scrolled for 2 seconds, intrusive dialog “you’ve reached you 5 page limit” Never been to this site before, annoyed. Intrusive dialog freezes scrolling, can’t be dismissed, annoying have to get my back button by hitting url bar Such a user h
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by malux85 1y ago
How much did they make selling the data? If it's greater than the fine, and they suffer no other consequences (e.g. nobody goes to jail) then the fine is just cost-of-business. The fine must be greater than what they made, AND some exe
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by malux85 1y ago
I remember early in my career I was working for a consultancy and the user was complaining that the search results were slow, our tech manager just LOVED this problem, in his mind he would get to go down the search engine rabbit hole - anal
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by malux85 1y ago
Demonstration of capability will get you hired, capability comes only through practice. I built a hobby system for anonymously monitoring BitTorrent by scraping the DHT, in doing this, I learned how to build a little cluster, how to handle
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by malux85 1y ago
I was one of the original engineers of DFP at Google and we built the systems that send billions of ads to billions of users a day. The complexity comes from the fact that at scale, the state space of any problem domain is thoroughly (maybe
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by malux85 1y ago
That sounds fun, count me in!
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by malux85 1y ago
^ Exactly, generative AI can /sometimes/ help at /sometimes/ the first step of high throughput structure searching for example, but if you want results that are grounded in reality, then you need to fallback to classical
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by malux85 1y ago
Or running molecular simulations, I can keep our whole cluster pegged at 100% CPU for weeks
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by malux85 1y ago
Can you tell us which software? (Even if it’s very niche) I’m really curious where the gaps are.
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by malux85 1y ago
Pretty interesting, I recently build an nth order spherical harmonics encoder that can encode the electronic structure of a local environment (of n Å) into a high dimensional fingerprint. We can then use this to search against a big TB data
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by malux85 1y ago
Absolutely the case here in NZ - in the last approx 1 year restaurant and bar attendance has plummeted as cost of living rises.
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by malux85 1y ago
I have a vm with NsCDE installed for when I what that childhood nostalgia hit https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE One of my mentors when I was very young gave me an Alphaserver 2100A running OpenVMS with CDE on it, and I re
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by malux85 1y ago
Yep poor management cannot tell the difference between busy and productive - pure unproductive busyness gives the illusion of progress, so as the demands for output increase, they often slow things down even more!
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by malux85 1y ago
This is a sign of extremely poor management, if your manager is constantly asking for updates and interrupting you, then look for another place ASAP, because either the company is dying or your manager is incompetent ... or both
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by malux85 1y ago
When I had some mild success with my first startup in the UK, I got flooded by news organisations offering "premium publication content" --- basically pay us a big chunk of cash to write a positive article on your company. I was
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by malux85 1y ago
Perhaps this is a really great AGI test - not in the sense that the AGI can complete the given task correctly, but if the AGI can interpret incredibly hand-wavy requirements with “do XXX (as much as possible)” and implement these: A,B,C etc
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by malux85 1y ago
Yeah this is the curse of the intermediate developer at work The junior developer experiences nothing but errors, and struggles to get something over the line The intermediate developer adopts “reduce errors at all cost” mentality and their
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by malux85 1y ago
If you want to argue technicalities I think it depends on your frame of reference. Relative to the galactic centre we are orbiting around it, so if a very long period of time passes, and we don’t have AGI, we certainly can be “light years a
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by malux85 1y ago
That's true - except rather than just rolling over and accepting it, maybe the workforce as a whole should wise up so they dont get totally fleeced a third time? Because capitalism/free market rewards companies that do this behavi
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by malux85 1y ago
Very surprising that it was not feature flagged, when I worked at Google we went to enormous lengths to support partial feature rollouts, supporting this for complex codebases often added weeks to development but was crucial because an outa
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by malux85 1y ago
We were given 25k in Azure credits, along with 100k from AWS and 350k from Google. The microsoft one has been the worst experience by far. No GPU availability, couldnt even get one despite many attempts in many regions. They have two differ
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by malux85 1y ago
Agreed, I think there should be much more safety net for people to start over and be more fluid, I definitly think the weird "Full time employed or homeless" thing has to change
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by malux85 1y ago
“Some people have a singular purpose in life and that’s OK” Strong disagree, that’s not OK, it’s fragile
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by malux85 1y ago
We should actively encourage fluidity in purpose, too much rigidity or militant clinging to ideas is insecurity or attempts at absolving personal responsibility. Resilience and strength in our civilisation comes from confidence in our compe
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by malux85 1y ago
For us it’s been auto-generating tests - we focus efforts on having the LLM write 1 test, manually verifying it. Then use this as context and tell the llm to extend to all space groups and crystal systems. So we get code coverage without al
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by malux85 1y ago
Yeah, wherever possible I try to have the llm answer me in Python rather than English (especially when explaining new concepts) English is soooooo ambiguous
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by malux85 1y ago
Yeah came here to say a 14% speed up in compression is pretty good!
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by malux85 1y ago
Nobody sees how the story ends

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