tomwphillips

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by tomwphillips 2y ago
I wouldn’t. It demonstrates that they haven’t thought enough to realise it worsens a systemic problem.
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UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI(theguardian.com)
4 points by tomwphillips 2y ago|0 comments
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Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold(nature.com)
15 points by tomwphillips 2y ago|0 comments
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
Hmm, I’m not sure about this. I’m in my 30s. Use lots of Slack huddles at work, with colleagues of all ages, and I caught up with a couple of friends this week on regular phone calls.
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
> Type hints are were the whole Python ecosystem is going I see what you’re saying, but a lot of Python users, especially those who have been using it pre-3, would say that this is unfortunate. > I also think Django should just adopt
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
I agree. Unfortunately every team I’ve worked in hasn’t seen the light and prefers FastAPI/SQLAlchemy/Pydantic (before FastAPI it was Flask). My theory is that the initial learning curves are different: with FastAPI it’s quick and
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
This is pretty niche cheddar. I doubt it’s being sold at a corner shop alongside warm cans of Carlsberg!
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
I imagine it will be smuggled out of the country immediately. No cheese buyer at a large retailer in the UK would touch it. It’s not worth the risk. Similarly at the artisan end of the market, it’s a small world (like the article says) - wh
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
>So much software also just takes for granted that it should be allowed on the Internet. Indeed, and I find it a problem on land too. I use Miro at work and it is _awful_ on an unreliable internet connection, like on trains in the UK. I
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
That didn’t occur to me. As an IPython/Jupyter user for over a decade and Mac user for two decades, it’s not something I personally care about or an issue I’ve felt.
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
Why “modern”? I suggest you use more descriptive adjectives.
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
All those things are true, but there’s risk associated with going with such a new project with no current monetisation path (especially for something that my colleagues might be putting information into that we might need to access/mod
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
There’s a lot more to running an application than that.
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
Who are you aiming this at? Unfortunately I’d never advocate for something like this at my work. Self-hosting doesn’t make sense in terms of total cost of ownership. I’d rather engineers spent time solving problems in our core business than
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
Interesting. My take is more negative than that: modern indicates they are unaware of prior art and the key challenges in the particular space, and consequently the software is buggy and/or fundamentally broken its approach. I think yo
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
Of all the adjectives to use, why “modern”? Very common these days. I don’t get it.
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
This would raise a lot of eyebrows in the UK. Hiring managers might wonder what you’re hiding.
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
Did you re-apply to the same places with and without those factors? Because if you didn’t, it’s hard to be sure what you’re implying is true. Alternative explanation: you applied for competitive roles and didn’t hear back because there were
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Will dbt adopt a proprietary licence? I think so(tomwphillips.co.uk)
1 points by tomwphillips 3y ago|0 comments
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by tomwphillips 3y ago
Agree. Bizarre to use an LLM to do that. I wouldn’t be surprised if the LLM output wasn’t identical to the ORM-generated SQL.
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by tomwphillips 3y ago
Indeed. Check your employment contract and get legal advice. Your employer might not be thrilled to find out about your side project.
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by tomwphillips 3y ago
Because enough users find the performance sufficient.
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by tomwphillips 3y ago
Yeah, we did this. Two big plastic - just polypropylene, I think - boxes under the main sink. One acid and one base. After daily use for 4 years it felt very routine. Glad I don’t do it anymore though. I used to love how shiny the glassware
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by tomwphillips 3y ago
A colleague of mine used it to etch carbon nanotubes, I think. Absolutely horrible stuff.
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by tomwphillips 3y ago
When I was a PhD student, my group were given a lab next door to our main lab. During the clear out we found a bottle of HF at the back of a cabinet. Vividly remember us crouching down to look at it all saying “nope, not touching it!”. Depa
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Monoenvironment – Invest in Production(monoenv.tech)
1 points by tomwphillips 4y ago|0 comments
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by tomwphillips 4y ago
Like I said, still not seen any evidence.
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by tomwphillips 4y ago
> ML (particularly DL) tends to outperform "classical" statistical time series forecasting when the data is (strongly) nonlinear, highly dimensional and large. This claim about forecasting with DL comes up a lot, but I’ve seen
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by tomwphillips 8y ago
Fluidly | London, UK | ONSITE | Data Engineer, Python Engineer, Data Scientist, Full Stack Engineer We want to solve the biggest problem facing businesses – poor cashflow. We use technology to provide real-time cashflow forecasting and auto
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by tomwphillips 8y ago
Fluidly | London, UK | ONSITE | Senior and Mid-Level Full Stack Engineers and Senior Data Engineer We want to solve the biggest problem facing businesses – poor cashflow. We use technology to provide real-time cashflow forecasting and autom

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