rakejake

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by rakejake 3y ago
I laughed out loud at this one. Nice one!
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by rakejake 3y ago
Interviewed onsite at a company where I was asked some leetcode-medium binary tree problem. This was a well-known company with easily available lists of frequently asked interview questions you can find online. Luckily, I had solved this ex
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by rakejake 3y ago
Imagine the people who don't know the process is flawed and treat it as sacrosanct. They'll sacrifice you at the alter of their process-god if you complain about it.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Greg Egan's works, mainly permutation City and Distress. These books go far beyond just LLMs and Greg Egan's novels really put the "hard" in hard sci-fi. But they describe a world where compute is extremely important. Th
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by rakejake 4y ago
Not really. These algorithms are generally quite simple and you are not coming up with them from scratch. It might take a PhD to build the JVM, but you don't need one to understand what it does (at least most parts of it).
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by rakejake 4y ago
This is a poor analogy. A calculator automates a completely deterministic operation. You don't really verify that a calculator's output is correct, do you? So, there is no question of intelligence. It is a "dumb" compute
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by rakejake 4y ago
I appreciate your attitude, and it is something we all have to pick-up eventually. When you pose it as "talk to more people", that does sound better. But I see it as a job with more pressure and tension, more politics, and less fr
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by rakejake 4y ago
Yes, this is exactly how I am thinking about this. We are all going to become "managers". The drudgery of work is about to increase a whole lot.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Amen. AI will make us all "managers" of some sort. Goodbye to getting in flow state and trying to build something yourself, and say hello to a gazillion meetings from morning until evening figuring out what to build and what promp
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by rakejake 4y ago
One another example I encountered today. <Prompt> show me an example of an enum LifecycleStatus deriving from an abstract class Status with fields status_type String and reason String (with default getters). Use a lombok builder on t
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by rakejake 4y ago
The compiler is a deterministic tool (even undefined behaviour is documented). So you can spend some time understanding the abstractions provided to you by your compiler and then you know exactly what it is going to do with your code. What
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by rakejake 4y ago
Well, once when I was out walking, I saw someone peeing on a trail side, dick in one hand, phone in the other. There is a social crisis of some sort and we basically have no idea how to get out of it.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Thing is, I don't technically "write" most of the code today. I type the first few characters and IntelliJ fills the rest for me (and also takes care of the imports and some other useful stuff). Is it literally one click or a
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by rakejake 4y ago
Not for a long time. I think LLMs can be as good as humans at coding and humans will still have coding jobs. Business people have to trust that the system being built is upto spec, that it will not break randomly because the machine took so
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by rakejake 4y ago
If I was working in Bell Labs, I promise I'll be in office before the janitor. Thing is most us don't work in Bell Labs. Ultimately, only the social aspect (building relationships, small talk with coworkers) remains. This should n
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by rakejake 4y ago
Exactly. Isn't it already a big pain when the guys who wrote the code left long back, and you're left with some truly puzzling stuff that is not well-commented or documented? I'm not sure "asking the AI" will be of
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by rakejake 4y ago
Not sure about e-readers. But any EPUB can be searched like any other text.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Assembly -> C is not the same as C/Python/Java -> Natural Language. C is not a natural language, so there is no ambiguity in C code (undefined behavior does not really count). Compilers that can compile from one programming
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by rakejake 4y ago
It is not about staying in the house. Some people (me included) do not want to keep "socializing" to continue forming connections and friendships. We would prefer if that phase would end sooner rather than later, and we can settle
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by rakejake 4y ago
I think the problem is that anytime you try to find meaning in a job, or look to do your best, there is a very chance that your plans will be spoiled by someone who "just does his job". That attitude typically leads to blame games
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by rakejake 4y ago
A lot of replies to this post (and to fears about AI in general) are of the form "But humans are as untrustworthy, if not more. So the AI can't be any worse". I have to say many of you have a very dim view of humans. When I r
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by rakejake 4y ago
Yeah I am surprised how many people are of the opinion that code reviews are easy. Errors like the one you mention are especially hard to catch unless you know what you are looking for.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Unrelated, but your username is genius!
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by rakejake 4y ago
This is true but does not refute OP's point. There is an entire subreddit for ELI5 that is probably part of its training data. So if you ask for ELI5, that pattern IS part of the training corpus.
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by rakejake 4y ago
I'd argue that reading and verifying code correctness is the brainy job.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Can you ask chatGPT why it wrote a certain line or why it made a certain decision? I still think explainability is missing in these models, but even if it able to come up with something, what is the guarantee that the explanation is not bul
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by rakejake 4y ago
If people keep talking to AI all the time, how will they recognize emotions and which ones are meaningful? If people used social media only to keep their connections with real people alive, it wouldn't be much of a problem but we know
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by rakejake 4y ago
+1. Totally agree.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Lol, unfortunately it is not that kind of music. It is Indian classical, not very conducive to free-flowing conversation unless the person on the other side is a 60 year old enthusiast.
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by rakejake 4y ago
I specialized in ML in my Masters, and I was surprised by how boring my first job in ML was. Sure, the results are "sexy" and the job itself is apparently much sought after, but building the model was frustrating. Like you say, th

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