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by tibbar 1y ago
Protein folding is one of the oldest and hardest problems in computational biology. It is fair to describe the result of protein folding as a 3D model/visualization of the protein. DeepMind's AlphaFold was a big breakthrough in de
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by tibbar 1y ago
As with most things in life, small iterative improvements are usually the most reliable path. You've already got contract work, so try to get more of that, maybe you can get a fulltime job with one of those clients, now you have a resu
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by tibbar 1y ago
> Is this a bad idea? Is this a good idea? Is this necessary if I want to be employable in the future? I wish anyone could really tell you. I mean, I sure don't know, and I've been a hiring manager in SF for years. I've
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by tibbar 1y ago
A reference to Larry Ellison as a lawnmower, perhaps? [0] > Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmowe
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by tibbar 1y ago
oh that's very interesting. I've used this idea before in solvers but did not know that this is what it's called!
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by tibbar 1y ago
If the company can build a big user base first, then they become a possible acquisition target in the future by the LLM company for their distribution, ala Windsurf selling itself to OpenAI.
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by tibbar 2y ago
While it's an idealized/toy setting, yes, these are both real categories of sensors. In particular, Sensor B, the "weird one", is just a system that has some defect/failure rate. An example might be a system that on
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A puzzle of two unreliable sensors(jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
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by tibbar 2y ago
The advisors have backgrounds in social work, public health, advising public officials, etc. Not really any background in AI or technology that I saw. So it's an interesting group that, I suppose, would help you know if you're mak
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by tibbar 2y ago
The payoff for this kind of creation needs to be evaluated over time. The creator not only makes money for the puzzle, but they also gained e.g. a worldwide audience and a great resume booster. In the future, if they want to launch another
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by tibbar 2y ago
Ah, but what is in the database? At this point it's clearly not just facts, but problem-solving strategies and an execution engine. A database of problem-solving strategies which you can query with a natural language description of you
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by tibbar 2y ago
Unfortunately, we could only spare Erdős and Tao. ;)
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by tibbar 2y ago
For me, the most exciting part is the improved long-context performance. A lot of enterprise/RAG applications rely on synthesizing a bunch of possibly relevant data. Let's just say it's clearly a bottleneck in current models
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by tibbar 2y ago
I love this distinction, thank you for capturing it. In this framing, what forms of payback besides revenge, if any, exist when one is angry with other people?
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by tibbar 2y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. As I reflect on it, I think anger is maybe just really confusing to me. I'm pretty hardwired to believe that if something went wrong, either it's my fault or there's some explanation for the ot
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by tibbar 2y ago
Fascinating, can you describe some of these cases? I suppose self-harm could fit this description, but let's say I'm angry at myself for making a bad decision that hurt someone else, what would revenge on myself look like? It woul
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by tibbar 2y ago
Very interesting. I definitely feel like my anger is directed - I'm usually angry about something specific, and it would feel good if someone genuinely tried to help fix the problem - but I just don't think about revenge too much.
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by tibbar 2y ago
Honestly, I'm not sure if there is any correspondence between an AI and a particular skill level of developer. A junior developer won't know most of the things an AI does; but unlike an AI, they can be held accountable for a parti
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by tibbar 2y ago
The article strongly equates anger with a desire for revenge. That's a bit confusing to me - for me, anger is just an emotion that's not particularly linked to any plan. Heck, I can even be angry at myself, in which case revenge d
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by tibbar 2y ago
The article seems to imply that fsyncs need to happen in a linear order, that is, 1ms / fsync -> 1000 fsyncs/sec. It seems to imply that any batching happens in a linear order as well, that is, we have to completely finish one
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by tibbar 2y ago
I thought about this a bit more, and I think the boundary between front end and backend can be a bit artificial. Theoretically, one could do highly complex state management and data flows on the front end, even run your own database, etc. N
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by tibbar 2y ago
> The trope of "frontend is not a serious job" has been infuriatingly going on for a long time before LLMs took the center stage and that seeps out of the things you've said so far. Eh, sorry I came across that way. To me,
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by tibbar 2y ago
There's another factor here I forgot to mention - web development, as a specialization, tends to be paid less and has a lower career ceiling in many companies than backend and infra engineering. This is a personal observation on my par
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by tibbar 2y ago
> I feel you have a bleak view of frontend as a whole First of all, let me say, I love frontend. I spent probably a decade building products and tools almost entirely on the frontend. I enjoy interfaces and workflows and visualizations.
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by tibbar 2y ago
Product work is super important - it's something I care about a lot. I think it's just different from infra work, like comparing woodworking tools to a dump truck. You're going to do a lot of fine-grained feature work with yo
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by tibbar 2y ago
Let me try to state your overall point, as I understand it: "The primary goal of a tech career is generally to get a high-paying, low-risk job. Many of those jobs are in Big Tech. You should optimize for getting one of those jobs (but
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by tibbar 2y ago
> This is an extremely dumb take ...ouch! ;) The important part is NOT auto-generating repetitive configs; it's about the effort and skill required to verify that output. On the frontend, we have an easy feedback loop to preview the
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by tibbar 2y ago
It seems like you're really focused on the interview process for a small number of very large tech companies. My experience doesn't match yours - I have been recruited to a specific BigTech team based on my background, and the int
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by tibbar 2y ago
I agree, that is how many big tech interviews look. I've done 'em too. If one's dream job is a generic, mid-level role at BigTech, then the path is clear - get very good at Leetcode and system design, and flag down a recruite
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by tibbar 2y ago
To be brutally honest, LLMs aren't very good at solving novel problems, they aren't very good at integrating business context, and they make many small mistakes. That's why they are a good fit for frontend development! Fronte

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