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Engineering an LLM-Based Data Classifier(getnumberseven.com)
2 points by sirgawain33 9mo ago|0 comments
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by sirgawain33 6y ago
I really liked Dr. Dwork's Turing lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsA4w3itxA0 It's an introduction to differential privacy to an academic audience (i.e. not necessarily computer scientists). I sweeps acro
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by sirgawain33 7y ago
Differential Privacy is a mathematical property. Here is the precise definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy#Definitio... One way to phrase it intuitively is "the probability of any particul
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by sirgawain33 7y ago
I was curious how this application approached privacy budget management (e.g. how the privacy parameter ε is accounted for over multiple searches), but, flipping through the source, this application doesn't appear to use Differential P
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A Weightlifting Routine for Software Engineers(github.com)
6 points by sirgawain33 7y ago|1 comments
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by sirgawain33 11y ago
I've been partial to Heinlein's idea of the "general specialist" lately: "Computermen sent up to install Mike were on short-term bonus contracts— get job done fast before irreversible physiologlcal change marooned t
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by sirgawain33 11y ago
Great article. I'll add one: caching doesn't address underlying performance issues, just "sweeps them under the rug". I've seen many devs jump to caching before investing time in understanding what is really causing
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by sirgawain33 11y ago
I highly recommend this road as well. Three exercises along the lines of the parent that I found particularly valuable: 1. Compare VanillaJS TodoMVC to your framework of choice http://todomvc.com/ https://github.
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by sirgawain33 11y ago
Instead of "buckling down", I have found the opposite the be pretty effective. William James explains: "If, namely, we wish our trains of ideation and volition to be copious and varied and effective, we must form the habit of
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by sirgawain33 12y ago
Unless I'm being thick, I think the point of this parable is to question the developer, not the interviewer. Despite using a bunch of fancy new language feature, name-dropping Knuth, and describing the solution for an hour, the result
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by sirgawain33 12y ago
Would be interesting to see some specs/measurements to substantiate their proposed energy savings -- without an insulated heating vessel it's hard to believe this is more energy efficient than existing technology.
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by sirgawain33 12y ago
Haha, I am not an expert in the least. I would be happy to hear my evidence is bunk. I'm just trying to point toward a source that I found interesting and informative. Indeed, with food production, the evidence and points of view are a
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by sirgawain33 12y ago
We don't eat bananas anymore in our house, largely for the reasons outlined in the article. The thumbnail summary: bananas only started being widely consumed in the 1960s because of heavy marketing efforts by Central American railroad
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by sirgawain33 12y ago
I used to think I had this problem, too. I developed an elaborate categorizing and indexing scheme. I tried to apply it outside of my personal knowledge, creating a crawler/indexer for research and web sites in one my areas of interest
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by sirgawain33 12y ago
I could dig up examples of nicer looking finned pots. The name escapes me at the moment, but I remember seeing one at a conference last year. The point is that the technique was well known. It's not manufacturing or aesthetics that&#x2
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by sirgawain33 12y ago
This article is a great example of NIH syndrome. You can get the same improvement with "About $5 of materials and an hour of time." [1] That's by Dale Andreatta, a mechanical engineer that's been tinkering with improved
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by sirgawain33 12y ago
The machine worked! We boiled water for a few cups of coffee. The write up is coming. Eventually.
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by sirgawain33 12y ago
I spent two years in rural Vietnam setting rice husk on fire. [1] Here are two pictures if you're curious what they look like in larger quantities (the videos linked in other comments don't show them too well) http://ri
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by sirgawain33 12y ago
I've bought over 100 books in the last 6 months. Maybe more. I wouldn't step foot into any of the bookshops proposed here. 70% of so of my books are from a local thrift shop. We go every week and buy a stack of books at a time. Th
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by sirgawain33 13y ago
Great link to the talk, thank you. I haven't seen a good TED talk in years, but this was an exception. That said, I agree with the other comments in this thread that linking the blog post to the Labor Theory of Value doesn't reall
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by sirgawain33 13y ago
Anything by William James. A Rorty and Dewey book are on my shelf. A few authors mentioned by James that I liked: JS Mill, is one. Interestingly, Jack London treats themes in pragmatism (in the Sea Wolf, for example)
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by sirgawain33 13y ago
Notch had really similar advice in the Minecraft movie. The interview asks him for advice for aspiring game devs, and he responds in a wonderful deadpan: "don't follow any advice" (paraphrased) Although, interestingly, the cr
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by sirgawain33 13y ago
Don't miss the fractal ants at the bottom! A wonderful visual analogy that shows Bret practices the ideas he's encountering in this research. I started taking research notes this year in a similar way to the linked article: a docu
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by sirgawain33 13y ago
I upped my amount of reading taking the opposite approach to the author: buying more books that I don't read. The mechanics work something like this: - its easier to read a book you're motivated to read - you're not sure what
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by sirgawain33 13y ago
I learned French in a way with many similarities: I took a semester of engineering courses at a French uni. Like the author notes, the trick seemed to be (1) you are interested in the exact meaning of the words and phrases (2) finding man
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by sirgawain33 13y ago
Interesting, but plenty of examples of just the opposite. "Von Neumann ... received complaints for regularly playing extremely loud German marching music on his gramophone, which distracted those in neighbouring offices, including Eins