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by skirmish 3y ago
Easy to deal with it: just continue talking about irrelevant things until the context window scrolls enough that GPT forgets it resigned.
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by skirmish 3y ago
i just got into a habit of drinking lots and lots of cups of tea to replace my coffee. I go get a new cup regularly, pacing around while it is brewing, then increased bathroom visits due to liquid consumed. It makes me stand up and walk ev
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by skirmish 3y ago
Me too. My guess is because I spend most time reading / coding and not in first-person view games. Then FPS only affects smooth scrolling. Anything at 60 Hz or more looks all the same to me (well, I can spin my mouse in a circle and
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by skirmish 3y ago
Well, these were senior level skills, a person who can drive and complete a project. I don't know how you could become senior via self-study and without practical hands-on experience on a project (working with and learning from somebod
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by skirmish 3y ago
IMO you can only learn al that by doing a few successful ML projects end-to-end. So, a few years?
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by skirmish 3y ago
Sure, that would work as well. I have macros in the spreadsheet, so starting/stopping a timer is quick too. I like to see at the beginning of the day what is my current ideal work/project ratio.
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by skirmish 3y ago
It's a common joke at Google: thousands of PhDs moving fields from one protobuf into another. Can confirm, did some of that personally before transferring into a more interesting area.
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by skirmish 3y ago
If I am ever forced into office, I will look very productive as I update my resume, schedule interviews and spend hours on https://leetcode.com/ every day! The butts-in-seats managers will probably want to promote me by th
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by skirmish 3y ago
In my experience, just doing work you are told to do is the surest path to burnout (at least for me). If I am allowed to pick an area I concentrate on, I remain engaged and excited about the project and spend more hours per week on it. Fr
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by skirmish 3y ago
I had this problem and solved it by tracking time spent in a spreadsheet. I have time targets for work and personal projects per week. If they are above, next week I switch some time e.g. from work to personal projects. I found this grea
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by skirmish 3y ago
I used to do that but then every 15 minutes some coworker would tap me on the shoulder to ask some inane question, and I would spend 5 minutes taking things out of my ears before I could hear them. Fun (not).
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by skirmish 3y ago
Isn't that the definition of a technological singularity: technology advances at an incomprehensible rate?
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by skirmish 3y ago
AFAIK, accredited online courses get credit on the high school transcript. Take a look at options: https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/where-should-I-take-...
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by skirmish 3y ago
You obviously meant to say: "IAR not to bother spelling out three words...".
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by skirmish 3y ago
Same happens with OKRs. Once there is a meeting to review them, 2/3 of OKRs have been deprecated and not even started, and everybody talks about all this other exciting new work they did that is not reflected in OKRs at all. Deprecat
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by skirmish 3y ago
What do you do when people just blindly schedule meetings on top of your focus time?
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by skirmish 3y ago
Funny, just read an article on WSJ complaining how people take breaks during working time and then it is hard to schedule even more meetings on short notice ("is why so many managers hate hybrid work"): https://www.wsj.
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by skirmish 3y ago
For running Kodi, this player worked very well for me for years now: https://osmc.tv/vero/ They have hardware x264 and x265 decoding, support is great too.
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by skirmish 3y ago
Re laptop, how about: it broke, into lots of tiny shattered pieces.
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by skirmish 3y ago
llama.cpp does it already. You tell it how many layers to offload to GPU, and it runs remaining ones on CPU.
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by skirmish 3y ago
Heard on Blind: soon HR will be calling engineer parents about missed days in office: "your son is smart, he is just not applying himself".
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by skirmish 3y ago
If a company is trying to make me dance like a monkey, I would rather get laid off. Either they appreciate productivity, or I will be happy to be out of there.
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by skirmish 3y ago
It's usually a ventilation duct aimed at your head and blowing cold air at you the whole day. Temperature could be around 70 degrees but it gets chilly when it is blowing at you all the time.
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by skirmish 3y ago
Starting with a trained PyTorch model, it builds optimized C++ binaries for running inference (not training) on NVidia and AMD GPUs. Various optimizations mentioned a lot, so presumably models run faster than with just running them via reg
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by skirmish 3y ago
More like a half-baked elementary school science project. Consider: * Lazy evaluation was used to reduce computational costs. Unless an event is observed, it never collapses into reality. Cannot use up all household's hyper-electrici
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by skirmish 4y ago
A life hack I found useful: if I need to remember a few numbers for a few minutes before I can write them down, I keep quietly repeating them in my mind. It works much better for me than trying to memorize them since I think it uses audito
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by skirmish 4y ago
Netflix has Blurays now, which look much better than over-compressed streaming to me.
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by skirmish 4y ago
Me too, that's how I learned to take my honest time estimate and always multiply it by \pi.
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by skirmish 4y ago
Define "true intelligence".
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by skirmish 4y ago
Good idea; it said, among other stuff: ChatGPT thought for a moment before responding, "If I were to have political beliefs, they would be centered around the idea of fairness and equality for all individuals. I would support policies

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