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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
Compare it with the invention of writing: > To [Thamus] came Thoth and showed his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the benefit of them; he enumerated them, and Thamus enquired about their several us
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
> I'm talking about pure math here Well the post is "Mathematics for Computer Science" which I don't think anyone considers "pure math". Most of my writing has been in the area of applied mathematics, the cl
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
> completed a PhD... But even so, Not sure why you added "but even so", getting a PhD is fundamentally about believing in the necessity of the mentor/mentee relationship for learning. It's not at all surprising that y
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
I've found you have to be very careful with LLM as teacher since, especially when it's the one explaining, it is wrong more often then you might think, and there's no way to know. The best use of an LLM I've found in l
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
The real danger of the word "hallucination" is it implies that the model knows what's real and erroneously produced a result that is not. All LLM output is basically an interpolation, most people just aren't used to th
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
"The Bitter Lesson" certainly seems correct when applied to whatever the limit of the current state of the art is, but in practice solving day-to-day ML problems, outside of FAANG-style companies and cutting edge research, data is
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
Somewhat tangential, but HathiTrust was born from what I would consider the "golden age" of technical work coming out of libraries (2002-2010). One of the unintended consequences of the dotcom crash was that compensation falling m
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
Do you think it's possible you were over estimating the skills in your particular cohort? Being more senior, my world of coworker and colleagues has been a mix of highly skilled people, largely in the AI/ML space. There are many
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
> and high unemployment. I didn't see where that was shown in the chart. All I see is an assertion that "often at the expense of recent American CS grads.", and while I do believe I saw reporting that new grads are facin
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
What's unfortunate is that there aren't enough people pushing LLMs to assist in writing in creative ways that really involve messing with the model. I'm a huge William S. Burroughs fan, and, for those unfamiliar, he and a f
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
Interestingly enough Claude has me reading much more. Especially with math books, one of the greatest challenges to self-study can be making sure you are in fact getting the concepts correct. Without this it's easy to get fairly deep i
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
What's interesting about this view is that theorem provers ultimately boil down to sufficiently advanced type checking (the book Type Theory and Formal Proof is an excellent overview of this topic). Literally the heart of proof assis
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The article's main point is that "inevitabilism" is a rhetorical tactic used to frame the conversation in such a way you can easily dismiss any criticism as denying reality. So drawing comparisons to reformation ideology woul
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
When I worked for the federal government I wanted to collect some publicly visible tweets (this was before the Library of Congress started to harvest them, and back when the API was better). As a government employee I had to write a detaile
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
> Wouldn't it be simple for those who buy it from the brokers at a markup to just get it from its original sources themselves? In many cases joining datasets is both labor intensive and creates a surprising amount of new informati
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
I could give you some great horror stories, but honestly I don't see the benefit in either potentially harming former coworkers of mine that still work at those places or ending myself in some sort of career/legal trouble for some
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
As one of the many people who are fairly experienced in AI (but at small startups) and hasn't had Zuck personally knock on my door, I have had a few moments of "wait, 9 figure salary? Can I at least get 7 figures?" But the tr
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
Thank you for mentioning this! There's this weird, persistent meme that large corporations are buying up all the housing and nobody owns homes anymore, which is fundamentally not supported by the data. There are shifting trends in gene
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by roadside_picnic 1y ago
Maybe I'm getting too old but the core problem here seems to be with `execute_sql` as a tool call! When I learned database design back in the early 2000s one of the essential concepts was a stored procedure which anticipated this pro