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by sk11001 2y ago
You’re moving the goalposts though, the question was about Go. Which 3 years ago was nothing like Rust today. Because it’s much more pragmatic “here’s the trade-offs we had to make and why” language. Growing in and out of a cult isn’t a nat
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by sk11001 2y ago
"Solutions" = sales or sales adjacent.
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by sk11001 3y ago
> If you don't grind 10h and have a clear career path, you are a failure. The post doesn't say this. And it's a post about someone's career, it makes sense that they talk about their career, not about their friends, a
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by sk11001 3y ago
Maybe if they've already had a very similar job at a different company. Then still not 100% but it would be good enough for them to pick the rest on their own after the 1 month. Starting from scratch with no prior programming and domai
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by sk11001 3y ago
It's different in most ways? How is it even similar? Some level of trendiness and hype, both related to technology... that's about it? That's like 1% of all the dimensions on which you can compare these things. Saying that x
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by sk11001 3y ago
> Is this persona a data scientist/data engineer/MLE? MLE, just a different name for it.
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by sk11001 3y ago
The book doesn’t teach you how to write elegant solutions.
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by sk11001 3y ago
> How can I improve my ability to write data structure/algo code in python? You don't need a book on Python, you need to practice solving data structures and algorithms problems. Completely disagree with the recommendation to r
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by sk11001 3y ago
> got different results for the same text, even though they were pretty similar. Exactly the same text or similar text? There's a big difference between the two. The same text should produce identical results every time.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Look into the training process - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g The goal of the initial pretraining phase is to make it good at predicting the next word. The rest of the training process is aimed at making it (
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by sk11001 3y ago
They're not really comparable - if you're wondering if you should do one or the other, you should do both.
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by sk11001 3y ago
ChatGPT with GPT-4 and Claude Opus. Probably a bit unnecessary to pay for both but I still haven't picked a favorite between the two.
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by sk11001 3y ago
I still have no clue what Gelman is saying about anything ever, and this post is no exeception. He seems like a great guy in interviews and presentations but anything he writes or talks about is highly non-specific.
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by sk11001 3y ago
- Kubernetes is great - LLMs are incredibly useful - Lisps and functional programming aren't profound at all
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by sk11001 3y ago
> After this perhaps focus more on statistics & data science for metric interpretation. R for Data Science [3] is an option. This book has nothing to do with statistics or mathematics, it's a guide for how to use specific R libr
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by sk11001 3y ago
> I increasingly find my weak maths/statistics skills limit me when it comes to interpreting any metrics meaningfully. When talking to colleagues about these metrics I'm nearly always out of my depths and spend hours struggling
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by sk11001 3y ago
It's not a Scratch course, they just use Scratch in the first week of a programming course which uses C, Python, JavaScript, SQL.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Why do you need a non-recognizable writing style?
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by sk11001 3y ago
Of course it is, this is the worst market for tech jobs in the past 20 years.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Are there still SQL-only developers in 2024?
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by sk11001 3y ago
I'm not preparing at all. I live in a city, no idea what I could even do that's not a complete waste of time and money.
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by sk11001 3y ago
For you yes - you're interested in research and have an offer from a top university - take it.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Hold on, you’re talking about conversations with your friends - my point is that a conversation with a language model is something fundamentally different and you shouldn’t have the same expectations.
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by sk11001 3y ago
It’s possible now, no idea why anyone would want this though. The idea is that you want something helpful, and you can do some additional prompting to encourage the model to ask questions but outright derailing the conversation is contrary
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by sk11001 3y ago
For a start, you can try speaking about real things - are you working? are you selling something? are you running a business? what do you want?
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by sk11001 3y ago
Writing code, reviewing code, meetings - it's a programming job. Probably think about data a bit differently than other jobs, need understanding of the models and the domain you work in. > How reasonable would it be to not only chan
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by sk11001 3y ago
No, I use LLMs to help with code all the time and I have zero functions written entirely by an LLM. It’s more about figuring out small sections of code, or helping with design decisions, not about generating fully working functions. I don’t
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by sk11001 3y ago
Yes, and at the same time I’m seeing ads for jobs that pay more than double what I make that require C++.
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by sk11001 3y ago
My question isn't whether it's a good fit for a specific project, I'm more interested in whether it's a good career choice e.g. can you get a job using C++ without C++ experience; how realistic is it to ramp up on it qui
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by sk11001 3y ago
Is it worth getting more into C++ in 2024? Lots of interesting jobs in finance require it but it seems almost impossible to get hired without prior experience (with C++ and in finance).

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