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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> For some of those solutions we'll try to figure out if they would work, if they handle the edge cases, spot bugs Most of the solutions will have been posted after submitting to the platform and passing hundreds of test cases, so y
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
In a "have you memorized the code to solve this problem" interview? Probably. In a "can you solve this new leetcode problem that just came out and is not in the training data"? Awful.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Maybe you just need to find something you enjoy doing, programming might not be "it"? Or do you do well solving the problems on your own and just have trouble when being interviewed?
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> And then these PhDs will be Research Engineers and such in DeepMind, OpenAI, etc. Research Scientists. You don't need all that pedigree to work as a Research Engineer.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
I don't know about a philosophy. But people with graduate degrees in Zoology seems to be doing well: https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/valueofcollegemajors/ For some reason it groups "philosophy and
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Why would the ones who control the robots keep you and your descendants alive and enjoying the wealth generated from the robot work if you provide no value to them?
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> The solution is to have universal catastrophic insurance for all citizens automatically > It is not as easy as that because supply is heavily constrained I don't think this argument works when the data shows 90%+ of the populat
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Replace Western with Russian and foreign with American and you have Snowden. The asymmetry you imply does not exist.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
The only scenario where this makes sense is if the "all H1B team" is all from the same country / speaks the same language. The issue is not "all H1B", it's the lack of diversity in the team.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
This is tough, but there is an easy solution: delivery apps provide a way to communicate with the delivery worker, explain your situation, potentially offer a better tip for the service. They will come to your door.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
The natural solution to that problem that eventually develops from your line of thinking is extended unpaid internships. No thanks.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
I regret to inform you, I don’t think it’s the same set of people. Writing a cute “Transformers are SVMs” paper and “building chatGPT” are not the same skillset.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
“Engineers who like to pretend to be mathematicians” - I heard once.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> but even if they don't one would imagine a quality hire would be able to get a short term loan at a very good rate Instead of just accepting a job that doesn't have weird staircase salary structures? Good luck finding this un
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> To me, adding a constant to all edges seems like an obvious idea to try Yeah, as you explained that is not useful because it does not preserve the shortest-path of the original graph (which is the reason we are making all edges non-neg
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
here is what I get: track&field, chess, some music
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
personalized RLHF is the keyword
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> But the discriminator of having to "pay an intelligent professional otherwise" sets the bar very high. That implies AGI I believe they were using that discriminator to classify AI, not AGI.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
And their creators?
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
The original statement: > "gifted kids are far more likely to contribute significantly to our future" didn't say anything about gifted kids being far more likely to be "wildly successful with mansions and all that&quo
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Insert "not with that attitude" meme.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> They claim that instead of a real-world accuracy, they wanted to find the “max” accuracy that their classifier was statistically capable of Yeah, I read this on the GitHub issue a week ago and couldn't believe it. Ideally, their p
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> Since their academic background is so relevant If their academic background were relevant, they would have provided specific negative outcomes that may result from the usage of Llama 2, rather than a vague "the history of this com
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
See my sibling comment. Very unlikely the author has any familiarity with Meta's history of releasing open source software for ML/AI.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> He is an associate professor in Language and Communication at the Centre for Language Studies of Radboud University Nijmegen. Dingemanse obtained a MA degree in African Languages and Cultures at Leiden University in 2006, and a PhD de
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> find them entertaining I also find them entertaining. That doesn’t mean I believe them. > The explanation is very simple: they simply didn't think it through Something I rely on to predict the future is the kind of thing I woul
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
This seems like a counterintuitive idea. Older people helping to make more products/services is a downside to society at large? I would understand if “working” was a competition for limited resources. But if it is, in fact, a value gen
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> They also have a hard cap on the number of allowed users you may have using your Llama-based product above which you must seek further Meta approval. This is not what the Llama 2 license says [0]. There is a cap on the number of active
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
I’ve seen so many of these on Twitter since chat GPT came out. > Look at this amazing capability, it gets it perfectly! (screenshot of interaction with clear flaws/outright wrong answer)
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Middle age is generally not defined as 50% of your life expectancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age

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