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by unoti 2y ago
> 1. Always be building: It does not matter if code was not changed... > 2. Always be releasing... A good argument for this is security. Whatever libraries/dependencies you have, unpin the versions, and have good unit tests. Se
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by unoti 2y ago
Actually I put in that work myself, while working, and while raising kids. It took me a lot longer than a month or two. It took a ridiculous, embarrassing amount of time. > And those I've met were absolutely insufferable and incompe
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by unoti 2y ago
>The problem with this extrapolation is that the software industry is pretty much unique in the amount of information about its inner workings that is publicly available for training on... millions of lines of code that we published on t
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by unoti 2y ago
> coders discovered that scanning the ZIP local entries to be a faster way to build up the ZIP archive entries, otherwise you're forced to seek all the way to the end of a ZIP archive and work backwards to locate the central directo
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by unoti 2y ago
> A conversation will tell you much more about their approaches to problems solving, team work, and mentoring than a coding challenge will. Having hired many developers over multiple decades, let me assure you that you should definitely
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by unoti 2y ago
> Not that I'm complaining. I'm happy to pick up people that are good at computers but wouldn't be able to pass that hurdle, and probably wouldn't hire anyone that has. You're looking for people who feel like the
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by unoti 2y ago
> Hiring processes should focus on problem-solving, collaboration, and growth in relevant areas. Agreed. When I think about the best engineers I've worked with-- and the worst-- I have identified certain characteristics that I want
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by unoti 2y ago
> The argument isn't that there is something more than next token prediction happening. > The argument is that next token prediction does not imply an upper bound on intelligence, because an improved next token prediction will pu
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by unoti 2y ago
Go back to the ReAct paper, reasoning and action. This is the basis of most of the modern stuff. Read the paper carefully, and reproduce it. I have done so, this is doable. The paper and the papers it refers to directly addresses many thin
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by unoti 2y ago
Regarding cost, doing something like this would be fractions of a penny. Obviously, the person doing the API calls is either paying for it, or they're paying for the electricity if they do it on their machine. But the cost is ultra n
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by unoti 2y ago
> Anthropomorphizing algorithms only serves to impair objective analysis of when they are, or are not, applicable. Actually, in this case, comparing how we as humans think to how LLM's work is in fact useful. It's hard for us
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by unoti 2y ago
Second vote for Spin Selling from me. Spin Selling is a must read for anyone doing long-term sales-- in particular, selling software that has a long sales cycle like a year from the time you get a prospect until you close the sale. But it
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by unoti 2y ago
A customer service agent isn't a bullshit job. They form a user interface between a complex system and a user that isn't an expert in the domain. The customer service agent understands the business domain, as well as how to appl
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by unoti 2y ago
Microsoft | Redmond, WA | Senior Software Engineer Microsoft is hiring a senior UI engineer to help us leverage AI to streamline building and maintaining our datacenters at the center of our cloud strategy. The demand for datacenters has b
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by unoti 2y ago
For the motivating use cases, I wonder if YAML and a simple script to transform to other formats as needed would be more effective, easier to read, easier to write, and easier to work with in general.
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by unoti 2y ago
> Do you think that AI is having a big enough impact already to generate this valuation? Is it changing your life? Yes, but the thing is: it takes time to write the software. We had proof of concepts for some serious game-changing thin
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by unoti 3y ago
When they say all the data in Erlang/Elixir is immutable, it does not mean that there is no state. There's definitely data in the programs that change values, because like you point out, how in the heck can you write a useful sys
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by unoti 3y ago
> Immutable data is not a “foundation of scalability and robustness”. It may not be the only way to get to scalability and robustness. But it certainly is the cornerstone of how Erlang gets there. 1. First, the way Erlang treats data en
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by unoti 3y ago
It's true that Markov chains are very limited in their capabilities. But one thing I love about them is that they are one of the simplest and most intuitive ways to write code that *learns* from input data. If you're never writte
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by unoti 3y ago
While arguing against the usefulness of ML models, the author of this piece is not thinking of two key concepts. 1) Supply and demand are linked. If the supply is cheap/plentiful enough, this opens up new demand for things that would h
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by unoti 3y ago
If you're feeling like you're stagnating, here are some ideas to help get you jump started that I've done over the years. There are a lot of things you can learn that are inherently *fun*. Maybe try learning something that s
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by unoti 3y ago
I worked with Firebase for a while, lured in because of how easy it was to do certain things. It makes certain kinds of operations essentially zero effort, such as getting realtime updates on the frontend when something changes. But it al
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by unoti 3y ago
For me the interest in retro computing is that the computer is so much simpler that it is indeed possible to understand. The set of assembly instructions is small enough that a person can understand every opcode fairly easily, the amount o
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by unoti 3y ago
One other piece of prior art is Lotus Notes, in which the database was stored locally and synced in the background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_Notes
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by unoti 3y ago
> What I would love to get working at some point is allowing an LLM access to my schedule, notes and goals and then have it help prompt me at appropriate times. "Hey, TJ I noticed you haven't worked out this week, it's sun
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by unoti 3y ago
Eleven Labs is blocked by my organization at work. I don't know why. But I did find that Azure has a way to train custom text to speech models here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/spe
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by unoti 3y ago
Awesome point. Microsoft's market cap today went up to 2.8 trillion, up 44.68 billion today.
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by unoti 3y ago
> Not sure where the next revolution may come from (no, 'AI' is not it). Not sure why you say this; are you sure AI can or should be so easily dismissed out of hand without further thoughts? --- The assertion that "AI is n
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by unoti 3y ago
rg111 has a good strategy here. For step 1, making a cats vs dogs classifier, the first lesson of the FastAI course will give you a path for doing this right away, and I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically recommend this course. A sibling
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by unoti 3y ago
> a lot of places are stuck on the idea if you didn't do it in the past you cant do it now The trick for breaking into something like this is to produce a portfolio of one or more projects you did where you demonstrate experience wi

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