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by psyklic 2y ago
I've taught beginners both languages and have not noticed a difference. The hard parts for beginners are identical -- e.g. for loops, functions, and finding the motivation to consistently practice.
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by psyklic 2y ago
It's very likely that Stripe initially pitched very cutting-edge, ambitious ideas to VCs. So, comparing seemingly "boring" mature company to new startups may be misleading.
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by psyklic 2y ago
The easiest way to get started is look around for others by themselves, then walk over and say hi. Realize they're likely feeling similar to you. Every time you sit down for a talk, challenge yourself to sit near someone and introduce
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by psyklic 2y ago
The NYT recently published a great article on how sugar affects the body: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/30/well/eat/suga...
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by psyklic 2y ago
Caltech's Honor Code is simply: "No member of the Caltech community shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the Caltech community." - https://deans.caltech.edu/HonorCode
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by psyklic 2y ago
Same reason as programming language flamewars. Coders assume their individual experience holds for every domain. Yet LLMs are good for some things, bad at others.
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by psyklic 2y ago
Facts still must be interpreted. It could be a fact that a credible source claimed X and a non-credible source claimed the opposite. A newspaper's job is to also provide this context, not merely the "facts" of what was stated
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by psyklic 2y ago
I believe this wouldn't be meaningful, since any size LLM can be trained on any amount of data. You could measure how well it memorizes via prediction accuracy on the training set, but this wouldn't indicate whether it generalizes
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by psyklic 2y ago
Yes! Also, there's no need for a blog unless you have a passion for writing. You can just post past projects and make it like a more engaging CV. - Making your website more unconventional will result in more variance of opinion. This c
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by psyklic 2y ago
True, but if they accept credit cards then customers will rarely pay with cash. We assumed here cash is a major transaction method, since otherwise their cash management costs are minimal.
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by psyklic 2y ago
Merchants are able to price things to result in exact numbers, and some do especially if they sell individual items. However, many customers (1) throw odd change in the tip jar, and (2) an exact amount might discourage add-on purchases. In
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by psyklic 2y ago
Additionally with cash, people often just don't buy things. If they're running low of cash on-person, don't want to lose a certain type of bill (e.g. for the bus/tips), or simply don't want to carry coins.
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by psyklic 2y ago
For the LLM itself, length matters. For example, the final logits are computed as the un-normalized dot product, making them a function of both direction and magnitude. This means that if you embed then immediately un-embed (using the same
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by psyklic 2y ago
It is very common to have co-authors solely at other institutions. It does not imply that the first author asked for (or even wanted) co-authors at their own university, muchless that others rejected the opportunity.
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by psyklic 2y ago
> In the real world, a "co-founder" is someone who founds the company. In the real world too, not all founders are there at the exact moment the company is incorporated. If I incorporate a company, 6 months later have little ac
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by psyklic 2y ago
Normally vesting is over a much longer period, e.g. four years, so he is insanely trusting of you. For example, what if you worked for six months got the equity then just left? Then he might find it difficult to raise funding. At such an ea
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by psyklic 2y ago
Setup/config is a necessary evil on any OS. It's part of the game that you must learn to be a productive coder. If the setup portion is a huge issue, students can use a pre-configured web solution such as replit. There, you'r
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by psyklic 2y ago
I've taught coding to hundreds of beginning students, with about 50/50 Windows/Mac (some Linux). From my experience, Windows is not worse for beginners, nor is the setup process more laborious. For example with Python, the au
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by psyklic 2y ago
Apparently this is true of nearly all academic labs, e.g. https://twitter.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1789319531430912042 .
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by psyklic 2y ago
Box plots make distributions easier to reason about by oversimplifying them. In a similar way, the mean can be very misleading (but we likely won't forbid its use!). IMO a good takeaway might be to always use a plot that fairly represe
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by psyklic 2y ago
The bigger anything gets, the more haters it gains. This is a guarantee because it will definitionally use more resources, involve more people, and take away attention from other things.
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by psyklic 2y ago
Many of the best engineers have a strong interest in the literature, even if things are not completely understood theoretically. Good engineers provide strong justification for tuning hyperparameters based both on intuition and theory. The
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by psyklic 3y ago
You're lucky, my business partner and I put a cap table in writing where he wrote I had the most shares of anyone. Then I found out 9 months later he took nearly all of the shares for himself behind my back.
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by psyklic 3y ago
Arxiv (2023 paper w/ similar title&authors): https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13881 Summary by co-author (of the above): https://twitter.com/dbeagleholeCS/status/1627819164906975232
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by psyklic 3y ago
My first language was QBASIC. I had fun making a lot of games. But then I ran into things I couldn't do (with low-level hardware), were too slow (with graphics), etc. This motivated me to learn C and assembly. I imagine it will be simi
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by psyklic 3y ago
Building a prototype of this would be very straightforward. The difficulty would be ensuring high-quality results. 1. You'd only have to know basic web dev. Enough to get input from the user, send it to an API (e.g. https://
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by psyklic 3y ago
These have been on HN: - https://www.bookai.chat/ - https://www.myreader.ai/
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by psyklic 3y ago
Even if LLMs are thought of as Markov chains, there are still substantial unsolved scientific questions. For a given prompt/"state", an LLM essentially computes the next-state probabilities. This is done by compressing langua
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by psyklic 3y ago
Last week I trained an LLM to auto-unrotate a Caeser cipher, without it knowing the rotation key. It turns out there are only a few possible ways this can be done, e.g. by analyzing letter frequencies. Of course, the LLM must use one of t
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by psyklic 3y ago
It sounds to me like you really care about mentees being successful and are investing a lot of time/effort. I believe you can change your outlook a bit into knowing it's moreso on them to flourish. For example, you sound extremely

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