nphardon

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by nphardon 1y ago
"Just follow this simple road map". I think about it differently. If you want to become a pure mathematician, you have to publish research in pure mathematics. There are many different routes one can take to accomplish this, and
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by nphardon 1y ago
We have a powerful right-wing political party that is aggressively anti-academic.
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by nphardon 1y ago
If that's true, and the employees who can survive brutal tech interviews will leave, it's kind of like an algo for finding a local minimum of talent for the shop enforcing RTO.
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by nphardon 1y ago
> We’ve looked at how our teams work best, and the data is clear: when people work together in person more often, they thrive — they are more energized, empowered, and they deliver stronger results. Ah the data is clear, without referenc
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by nphardon 1y ago
But this is an act of self-control, op is the 'self' setting up the system. The primary target is not compulsive instinct, but time on the phone, but the beauty is that this in turn, will remove the compulsive instinct, because i
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by nphardon 1y ago
Another cool thing about this approach is you can have the arguments to your object init be a pointer to a structure of args. Then down the line you can add features to your object without having to change all the calls to init your object
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by nphardon 1y ago
Here's one example. For us, it's more a tradeoff rather than an aversion. There's pros (manual memory management in C) and cons (manual memory management in C) for each. We do math operations (dense and sparse matrix math
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by nphardon 1y ago
I think the idea that it's important to know how to code is going to be seriously challenged. I know I feel like the learning process and insight I gain is important, but I wonder if it is, beyond the subjective. Like I'm sure th
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by nphardon 1y ago
Yea, I think it's one of those things that I won't understand from the outside looking in. I'm in semiconductor software so I do a lot of classical numerical methods, graph theory, and ML research, like converting obscure ML
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by nphardon 1y ago
"AI is not totally encapsulated by ML" that's the part I haven't been able to put my fingers on. I understand that it's not encapsulated, ML is not intelligence, it's gradient descent. So what is in that set
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by nphardon 1y ago
That's what I was alluding to, I don't think it defines ai, do you? These pieces seem like classical ML pieces to me plus LLM. Is that ai? Like from a technical standpoint, is it clearly defined?
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by nphardon 1y ago
Still not clear to me what is meant by "ai" now? My sense is that it is a marketing term for LLM. Is that accurate? Do people now consider any ML project to be ai?
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by nphardon 1y ago
Oh, it really makes my day when we get hacker post here on the top. This is so well written too, no mystique, just a simple sequence of logical steps, with pictures.