rachofsunshine

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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
Hubble's slew rate (the rate at which it can change the broad direction its camera points) is about 6 degrees per minute [1], or about 1/10 of a degree per second (I refuse to use the incredibly cursed unit "minutes per secon
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
Assuming the bands are narrow, that should allow approximately true-color images, shouldn't it? Human S cone channel = sum over bands of (intensity in that band) * (human S-cone sensitivity in that channel) and similarly for M and L co
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but there are tons of models that aren't neural networks. Triplebyte used to use random forests [1] to make a decision to pass or fail a candidate given a set of interview scores. There are a bun
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
See also the Irish-Chinese spice bag [1] and the dutch kapsalon [2] - northern Europe has a passionate love for spicy adapted ethnic cuisine in giant piles. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_bag [2] https:/
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
This article feels (several times) longer than it needs to be to make its point, but the comparison between Roblox and Minecraft in particular feels emblematic of the past 15 years. Minecraft has user-generated content and is a highly socia
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
I use "ML" when talking about more traditional/domain specific approaches, since for whatever reason LLMs haven't hijacked that term in the same way. Seems to work well enough to avoid ambiguity. But I'm not paid by
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
There's some truth to this in that all organizations ultimately have their own perpetuation as a goal...but this is also a little like saying "well, there are a lot of complicated macroeconomic drivers of theft" while you&#x2
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
"Basically seeing if they can code" is the goal, yes. > I don't think how far a candidate gets on this particular test determines if they're OK or if they're great. It doesn't with certainty, but measurement
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
It's a bit off the main topic of this thread, but the problem isn't designed to be finished in time. From the page: > Very few people will finish the full problem. You do not need to complete every step to pass our interview. A
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
The thing you're missing here is that these two statements are not contradictory: -- CS grads are, on average, better programmers than non-CS-grads. -- The average CS grad is not a very good programmer. My company does a standardized i
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
I agree, but I think that's a different argument. The argument here isn't "the goal of a software engineering job isn't economic", it's "sometimes quality is aligned with economic goals" (which is of
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
This isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. The quality of your team is more-or-less a pre-existing background variable. The question is whether a team of comparable quality takes longer to produce quality software than hacked-together
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
It doesn't happen because building the best software is not the goal of a software engineering job. If you want to do that on your own time, that's fine - but the purpose of a job is economic. Of course you should write software o
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
> What is propaganda for one is truth for another, how could LLM tell the difference? "How do you discern truth from falsehood" is not a new question, and there are centuries of literature on the answer. Epistemology didn'
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
The thief is Pierrot. The people around are telling the storyteller that "he" (Pierrot) has stolen the purse, but the storyteller misinterprets this as pointing to some arbitrary agent. Truth says Pierrot can "find [the thief
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by rachofsunshine 1y ago
This is basically how I approach it with my employees. I'm very clear with anyone who works for me that our interests won't always align. I'm also clear with them that I'm not going to screw them over and that I won&#x27
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
> Yet I’m sure you understand “it has never happened to me” isn’t synonymous with “it never happens”. No, but it's a relevant data point that allows you to counterbalance possible sampling bias. If everyone tells you people are po
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
I think this is the wrong framing. They're not trustful or distrustful of authority in some abstract sense. They don't think in those terms. They think in terms of discomfort and of fear. "Is what this person is asking me t
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
Speaking as someone who'd love to not speak that way in my own marketing - it's an unfortunate necessity in a world where people will give you literal milliseconds of their time. Marketing isn't there to tell you about the th
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
Perhaps so! I thought about writing a story of an AI like that - something that cures diseases and prevents war and gives you all the tools to be smarter and healthier and more virtuous, but otherwise says "nope, humanity, you gotta fi
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
They didn't shutter us (we were dead anyway). And yeah, you're not the only one! I wouldn't have started a recruiting company in the year 2024 if I didn't think I was getting at a burning need, but the fact that no one s
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
Incentives are part of the story, but not all of it. Users can, and do, behave in ways that are deeply suboptimal in terms of getting the results they want. (In fact, the biggest success we had late in Triplebyte's history largely cons
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
Depression is not about the world. It's about your own internal state - the way your own brain is wired up. To a first approximation, "I am depressed" is a statement about a particular neuron not getting stimulated, which is
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
Clarification: I was not one of Triplebyte's founders (I was in the leadership there later, but not to start). I founded my current company, which - while it deliberately uses a similar model in many respects - is its own distinct
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
Yep, pretty much this. I worked on this problem for a couple years, with vastly more funding and an existing userbase to bypass the cold start problem. So did my predecessor. Neither of us succeeded, nor came particularly close. Here&#x27
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
Impressive in terms of quality, not so much in terms of style. I tried feeding it two prompts with the same script - one to be straightforward and didactic, then one asking it to deliver calculus like a morning shock-jock DJ. They sounded q
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
I probably agree much more with you on these issues in general than I do with the other poster, and there are so many bigger problems right now, but we don't need to speak for anyone here. We just listen to what's already been sai
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
Also NAL but I don't think you're correct about this. First: the standard isn't relevant to a nuisance suit, since by definition you don't expect to win a nuisance suit anyway. But setting that aside, disparate impact re
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
It's not just golf buddies - it's investors. Capital often outstrips actual business acumen as a factor in the success of a business. That's partly because we live in a world where word of mouth, reviews, online presence, etc
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by rachofsunshine 2y ago
> You want to hire experienced (or even senior) candidates and filter for domain knowledge? 1. Filter on experience & referrals. 2. Conversations: same approach as with the juniors, but much deeper and wider, relevant to your domain.

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