vovavili

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by vovavili 13d ago
Nothing will ever top gwern.net
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by vovavili 14d ago
>though it does at least seem that the dividing lines won't be red vs blue this time. You'd think. Every single person unreasonably skeptical of AI that I know of usually comes from blue echo chambers.
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by vovavili 18d ago
I would argue that elaborating on scattered bits and pieces found here and there throughout the Internet is enormously valuable. Fair attribution is the tricky part.
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by vovavili 22d ago
Nebius hit me with two LeetCodes, communicated a third round of system design and instead did a third round of LeetCode. It's very much a thing for companies worth applying for, especially if internal communication gets messy.
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by vovavili 28d ago
A lot of companies who claim to want highly intelligent and autonomous engineers by revealed preference actually want glorified slightly above average ticket pushers. At least by the looks of it, Jane Street appears to be an odd one to genu
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by vovavili 28d ago
The theory behind it certainly is unreasonably strong - https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/prediction-market-faq
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by vovavili 28d ago
It seems trivially fixable if you RLHF an LLM to always count characters deterministically with: sum(1 for c in word if c == "r") I wonder why haven't major labs done this yet.
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by vovavili 28d ago
It's definitely better than raw 500+ lines of SQL composed with 300+ lines of Python for some bespoke business transformation without clean versioning, which is what SQL transformations tend to converge towards without something like d
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by vovavili 29d ago
Different tools for different tasks.
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by vovavili 29d ago
What an enormously tendentious and underinformed take.
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by vovavili 29d ago
Embedded databases like DuckDB are just as suited for dbt work.
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by vovavili 29d ago
At the minimum, it's just Jinja2 templates in your SQL queries - meaning, you can do pure SQL transformations with conditional logic in your templates. In addition to being able to run tests, specify custom macros, having version contr
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by vovavili 29d ago
OpenCode Desktop + Muse Spark 1.3 Free is actually surprisingly good.
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by vovavili 29d ago
Global productivity down 90%.
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by vovavili 29d ago
You should be using dbt instead of string manipulation for serious query building.
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by vovavili 29d ago
Altair and Positron should be just as good for your Polars @ Python needs. With software like Marimo notebooks and VegaFusion, Polars/Python experience starts beating R by quite a substantial margin.
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by vovavili 1mo ago
It's almost like running a trillion-dollar business with neck-to-neck competition against other frontier labs and even state-sponsored efforts requires some ethical trade-off.
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by vovavili 1mo ago
Location: Netherlands, The Hague/Amsterdam, CET Remote: Yes. Hybrid in The Hague/Amsterdam/Randstad also works. Willing to relocate: Open within the EU+EFTA for the right role. US/UK/HK/SG only wit
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by vovavili 1mo ago
_That_ Oklo? This is wild, god bless your work.
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by vovavili 1mo ago
The fact than an app like this can be vibe-coded is actually mind-blowing. I'd love to see your prompt history here.
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by vovavili 1mo ago
>company running out of money, not by investor pressure Potato potato
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by vovavili 1mo ago
Darklang is probably the closest thing that comes to mind - https://blog.darklang.com/goodbye-dark-inc-welcome-darklang-...
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by vovavili 1mo ago
I'd rather have an established company give broad autonomy to PL developers at a loss (Go at Google, Swift at Apple) than risk eventual squeeze when VCs ask for their money back.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
Every time: import polars as pl from polars import col, lit
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by vovavili 2mo ago
I'd put you in the "relatively niche and senior" bucket without even thinking.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
I wonder if the Python-to-Mojo overhead is significant enough where language-native bindings make more sense. I'd be interested in seeing some benchmarks.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
Can't you just use Numpy directly in Mojo?
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by vovavili 2mo ago
That's quite promising - https://www.modular.com/blog/modcon-announcements#:~:text=Wi...
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by vovavili 2mo ago
The innovative potential of Mojo would be constrained to relatively niche and senior dev circles until they get a Windows release, which probably won't happen anytime soon. Python keeps the throne for now.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
>As a person, unfortunately accursed with an ability to read Chekhov in original I'd argue that this is one of the better gifts life has given me, don't be too harsh on yourself.

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