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by wenc 3y ago
I’m curious as to how?
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by wenc 3y ago
Check out what I wrote again. I repeat, I do not use GPT to summarize.
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by wenc 3y ago
I just keep a ChatGPT session alive and ask it questions. I tell what I’m reading, eg, “the Prince by Machiavelli”. And then i ask it things like “what’s the context of the book” or “what other books deal with the topic in chapter x” or “I
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by wenc 3y ago
I'm an incorrigible book non-completist. I only read to get what I need and I duck out. Now with ChatGPT-4, I can read and comprehend even faster. For dense books in areas I'm unfamiliar with, I ask ChatGPT to, not summarize, but
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by wenc 3y ago
Managers, especially if they have a large span of control (but even if they don't), aren't all uniformly disciplined at recording every instance of impact. To help your manager and reduce variability (i.e. their perception of your
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by wenc 3y ago
As a control engineer (and former theorist), also agree. Practical control is less algebraic theory and more numerical algorithms. We don't directly use Pontryagin's maximum principle or solve Euler-Lagrange equations (impractical
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by wenc 3y ago
During the big data hype, I did a feasibility study for this for my previous company (typical bigcorp) and learned that most companies should not have a data lake. A data lake is a collection of different types of structured/unstructur
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by wenc 3y ago
I don't know that I have a strategy per se, but just things I've learned by trial and error. 1. Forget Duolingo 2. Pursue comprehensible input in context (there are hundreds of ways to do this, you have to find your own way). Po
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by wenc 3y ago
Thanks for that. I never thought of using YouTube Shorts (or even Instagram reels) as a language learning tool -- but you're right, Shorts are always subtitled, and the content is interesting too! (because algorithms) It's easier
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by wenc 3y ago
As a language learner, there are other activities that are better bang for buck than Duolingo. Duolingo is good for low-effort practice through gamification (which is useful for keep a language alive in your head), but it's not meant t
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by wenc 3y ago
DuckDB (lightweight, non-JVM, many language bindings) supports querying from Iceberg now. https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/iceberg.html You still need Spark to generate the Iceberg metadata though.
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by wenc 3y ago
Great article. I've worked with Parquet files on S3 for years, but I didn't quite understand what Iceberg was, but the article explained it well. It's a database metadata format for an underlying set of data which describes i
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by wenc 3y ago
I tried Turbo C as an 8 year old and got as far as printf hello world and scanf. The pointer stuff seemed obtuse to me (coming from BASIC) and it was strange it didn’t have automatically sized string types (it was char[7] or something). In
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by wenc 3y ago
Just wondering if I could bring this up for discussion but is Buy it for Life a good consumer philosophy in the first place? Intuitively it sounds like it is — what can be bad about high quality products that last forever that in turn creat
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by wenc 3y ago
Or overindexing on biased data points might cause biased conclusions, without considering standard variation. Lots of people use it without any issues -- if something isn't truly a dealbreaker, the "I won't bother" crowd
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by wenc 3y ago
It's a GPT2 model. It hasn't changed the autocomplete experience that much (occasionally I'll see a word completion).
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by wenc 3y ago
> They closed several of Amazon's stores which used this in 2023 I think this is partly due to WFH and loss of foot traffic (these were usually located in business districts, where the lunch crowd would come in and grab a prepared m
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by wenc 3y ago
And American libraries lol. RFID checkouts are ubiquitous these days.
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by wenc 3y ago
This has not happened to me ever. I've picked up and put back items a ton. In fact the selling point of the tech is it is meant to handle this specific scenario. There are also weight sensors, so it's not just vision.
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by wenc 3y ago
> It seems to be a fair amount of pfaff getting in to confirm who you are This seems overstated. You scan a barcode on your Amazon app. That's it. > there didn’t seem to be that much selection to find much worth buying. It feels
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by wenc 3y ago
I've used it a lot and was never overcharged. Might want to check those anecdotes.
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by wenc 3y ago
Amazon Fresh grocery stores have the cashierless thing too, not just Go. Amazon Fresh is all over the Seattle area and in many parts of the country (a number of them are in Chicago)
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by wenc 3y ago
Grocery also has a much larger set of SKUs and lots of low-margin items. RFID makes sense for mid to higher value items that have limited SKUs.
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by wenc 3y ago
How about the highest frequency phrases and variations? As a language learner, I’ve found that high frequency word lists to not be that useful. It’s too atomic of a unit devoid of context. Memorizing word lists don’t lead to speaking a lang
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by wenc 3y ago
> It's already superior to OpenAI because it doesn't require an API. But the quality is not superior to OpenAI however. I run Mistral 7B on LM Studio, and I can't get far before it starts giving me wrong answers. ChatGPT-4
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by wenc 3y ago
Not a bad idea. I actually read papers with the help of ChatGPT-4 and Claude. It helps me quickly understand papers that I don’t have a background in. For instance when I see something I don’t understand I ask it “can you break that down fo
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by wenc 3y ago
In fast evolving fields it’s always all about sociology, not canon or pedagogy. Meaning in new fields is created in community (constructionism). You need to plug into the community and overhear what people are talking about (HN is such a co
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by wenc 3y ago
Good point. I agree.
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by wenc 3y ago
I think the question is how young and how wise. I don’t think it’s age so much as the amount of lived experience you have to map your knowledge to. There’s a limit to how much you can experience in a short time — but it’s also true that peo
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by wenc 3y ago
I've worked with some bad PMs and some great PMs. The great PMs generally follow the advice here: https://staysaasy.com/product/2023/03/12/pm-engineers-dont-h...

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