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by usgroup 4y ago
i think that youre right. i also think that "information workers" were always a bit slushy in so far that an average "information worker" will likely have 3-4 "careers" during a lifetime anyway and AI will most
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by usgroup 4y ago
I’d imagine finance to be another one wherein presumably transactional costs have decreased for B2C?
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by usgroup 4y ago
And reskilling makes much more sense when you’re replacing manual labour. Less sense when you’re replacing brains.
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by usgroup 4y ago
So one counter example falsifies this argument right? Marketing agencies are already shedding copywriters in favour of ChatGPT written content. Therefore AI is causing unemployment. Therefore “AI won’t cause unemployment” is false.
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by usgroup 4y ago
Well no, because I want to know where the information comes from. Even if it’s “some dude from the Interwebs”, I don’t want a bot presenting stack overflow posts as if facts.
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by usgroup 4y ago
The regressions presented on the graphs are misleading at best. The effect of outliers on the fitting looks fairly obvious as are the high density linear areas.
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by usgroup 4y ago
I’m eagerly watching this unfold . Google is already magic — I type what I want and it’s usually on the first page. The question extraction that’s already built in is fantastic.
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Computer Aided Software Design(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by usgroup 4y ago|0 comments
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by usgroup 4y ago
I don't think that makes sense. The average age gap in relationships is about 2-3 years in Western Europe according to Google. I certainly wouldn't expect "the most high status males" to be uniformly distributed across a
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by usgroup 4y ago
Unless they are dating not-young-men ?
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think you’ve set up something of a straw man there.
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by usgroup 4y ago
Lol. Juxtaposing a bit, I kind of imagine you as an immortal wondering how anyone could lead a mortal life what with all its precariousness.
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by usgroup 4y ago
Well its the grass hopper and the ant isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper If you've been the ant you'd have prepared for the winter. I guess in reality most of us fit some
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by usgroup 4y ago
I don’t think this is correct. I write scientific computing code in Rust at the moment for example — I write unit tests to make sure it actually works. Being confident my stuff works without unit tests would require me to write unit tests a
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by usgroup 4y ago
You're right. I think that it replaces C/C++ for many use cases. I'm a quant, and I use it to write fast algos for research. It won't be long until Rust has good high level SIMD primitives like the faster crate offered.
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think this is correct. So a DS does a bunch of stuff. - Some of the stuff becomes diffused and common. Anyone can do it. - Some of the stuff becomes data engineering. - Some of the stuff becomes fitting a model -- anyone can do it. - Some
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by usgroup 4y ago
I dont think OP is wrong -- the role popped up after 2007 Hadoop release. It was almost synonymous with running ML on big data and data scientists were typically computer science PhDs. It has become something quite different though. Now eve
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Ask HN: Is data science a dying profession?
18 points by usgroup 4y ago|12 comments
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think every except this part paints one picture: > I am getting cold shoulder treatment from everyone else on team But the above paints another. Is there some reason the whole team would change in unison towards you that is related to
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by usgroup 4y ago
I roughly read the abstract as asserting that you could write down learning state of an individual as: x_i(1+r)^n_i Where the rate r is common but n_i (time spent) and x_i (starting position) are individual. Sure that’s believable but I fra
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by usgroup 4y ago
Just keep in mind that it’s correlation you’re talking about. You can have a high IQ and none of those capacities. You can have a high IQ and be severally autistic. Etc. You can also test normal but be very high functioning. So there is no
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by usgroup 4y ago
Yeah except that SQL is not composable and managing 1000s of lines of SQL in a repository without much more than partial means for abstraction (e.g. views, UDFs, etc) is unattractive.
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by usgroup 4y ago
"Yet another partial introduction to some things in data science from an impractically mathematical perspective"
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by usgroup 4y ago
yeah i think that's accurate. "what they do" rather constrains a book about "how they do it" :-)
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by usgroup 4y ago
As a practitioner with a research background I wouldn't recommend this based on the contents over something like Elements of Statistical learning. Generally speaking I feel that data science is missing an authoritative methodology book
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by usgroup 4y ago
TLDR: Author switched to Julia because he “fell in love” with it, with no further qualification. He then speaks a bit about multiple dispatch and how it’s useful when it’s suitable. Personally I saw nothing here that might actually convince
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by usgroup 4y ago
maybe you could use the LLM to read the prompt and decide whether it attempts to leak the prompt somehow? That is, you provide a prompt which uses a prompt to decide something, and then continue with it if its ok, or modify if it isnt
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by usgroup 4y ago
No, I used a magnetised needle and a steady hand actually. Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/378/
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by usgroup 4y ago
Well we have many ways to do it by abstraction — libraries, recipes, patterns, and so on. I think that this sort of thing will handicap a dev in the same way that learning to write with a spell checker can (does!) handicap writers.
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by usgroup 4y ago
I’m from the creed which does everything in eMacs and doesn’t even use a spell checker, and at the risk of being the old man that shouts at clouds, why would you want to compromise your ability to reason in this way? Don’t do it! And don’t

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