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by sakex 2y ago
They don't bother explaining
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by sakex 2y ago
According to the article they link[1], the 1% richest is defined as earning more than $109,000 in 2015. So basically, they want to tax the people who already pay the most taxes. Actually rich people having the means to avoid paying taxes al
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by sakex 2y ago
Location: Switzerland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Jax, Rust, Cpp, Python, JS, TS, Go Résumé/CV: Currently working on Gemini at Google, previous experience at a smaller company where I did
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by sakex 2y ago
I think I heard Google was aiming to do that by 2030. Not sure though
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by sakex 2y ago
Another day I'm happy my country (Switzerland) respects its citizens wishes to not join EU
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by sakex 2y ago
An interesting parameter that I don't read about a lot is vocab size. A larger vocab means you will need to generate less tokens for the same word on average, also the context window will be larger. This means that a model with a large
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by sakex 2y ago
That's why Javascript introduced the "let" keyword years ago This logs from 0 to 9: for(let i = 0; i < 10; ++i;) setTimeout(() => console.log(i)); This logs from 10, 10 times: for(var i = 0; i < 10; ++i;) setTimeout(
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by sakex 2y ago
> Zürich isn’t the capital of Switzerland, Geneva is… No.. It's Bern
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by sakex 2y ago
An emerging (not-so) low-level programming discipline is AI/ML. So you could try implementing decoder only transformers using CUDA.
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by sakex 2y ago
I don't think Google uses K8s internally. Borg is still here though.
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by sakex 2y ago
Someone could steal the iPad and boot a different OS from a hard drive
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by sakex 2y ago
The date at the top is wrong: 2023-04-30 I thought I was reading an old article.
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by sakex 3y ago
I have the same feeling, growing up in Paris and then moving to Switzerland. Paris seems more and more dangerous and dirty. And people seem to become less and less happy.
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by sakex 3y ago
It feels like having niche skills like Rust or Transformers makes it much easier. I found a new job very quickly after being laid off.
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by sakex 3y ago
Growing up I always managed to avoid doing my homework. Also I always passed with the minimum grade required. My parents and everyone around me kept saying that I would become a failure. Well, today I'm a Machine Learning Engineer at a
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by sakex 3y ago
While I agree with the message, the phrasing is overly aggressive against tech workers "bros". I don't get what they're trying to achieve here.
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by sakex 3y ago
Hey I'm also swiss but we have a weird edge case where most people have an iPhone but still use WhatsApp
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by sakex 3y ago
I'm Swiss with a Pixel 7 Pro
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by sakex 3y ago
Most Swedes I know use iMessage actually. That's very anecdotal tho
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by sakex 3y ago
That will be great to make video games, this can easily be imported into blender, then the textures can be made with stable diffusion or DallE
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by sakex 3y ago
Programming is fun, software engineering is not
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by sakex 3y ago
To be sure we're not going to lose yet another technological race, we're just not going to participate.
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by sakex 3y ago
WHy aren't they promoting from within?
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by sakex 3y ago
Not all type systems are born equal, for instance I'm amazed daily at the lack of type safety in Java/Kotlin
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by sakex 3y ago
I'm swiss
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by sakex 3y ago
Whenever I show my mechanical watches to my colleagues, they ask what's the point. Well, my Rolex and my Hublot are NEVER going to be Obsolete.
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by sakex 3y ago
Nested .map in Option or Result in Rust are indeed ugly, but the try operator (?) makes up for it in my opinion
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by sakex 3y ago
> Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation Interesting, I never thought of the term as pejorative. I always thought of the movement as a kind of working-class heroes trying to navigat
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by sakex 3y ago
I use Kotlin daily at my job (I have to) and I'm not impressed. It is a new language that ignores most of the innovations in Programming Language Theory from the last 20 years. It only improves on Java by making the syntax less verbose
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by sakex 3y ago
If it's legal, it means that somebody could write a model that could predict mergers pretty accurately and make a lot of money. For instance, by tracking flight patterns of C-suites executives, scanning car brands in parkings next to o

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