Brystephor

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by Brystephor 7d ago
Sorry, why would the baseline be their rideshare drivers instead of the average population? That seems like an arbitrary segment given that when talking about safety baselines, the average driver is what someone would reference. And why wou
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by Brystephor 2mo ago
That sounds like an excellent thing based on that last sentence. Anecdotally, I hear people talk about trade school as being much more practical compared to the majority of traditional 4 year degrees. So I am interpreting a "move towar
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by Brystephor 2mo ago
1,2,and 4 all have owners and non-owners. Are you suggesting that the parents of the adult children and the adult child should also be marked as owners? How does the multi generational preference living theory work given the correlation to
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by Brystephor 3mo ago
A few tech specs for those who don't want to read through the announcement: * 51 degree field of view. Stated as being like you're working at a 24" monitor. * 4 hours of mixed-use battery life with the case holding another 20
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by Brystephor 4mo ago
Did the security researcher point the LLM at the blob of information and say "Find vulnerabilities" or was the LLM told to "determine if vulnerability X is present in this blob"? Confirmation of suspected vulnerabilities
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by Brystephor 4mo ago
Same. I've used it for debugging failed canary tests which required scripts and very specific knowledge on the canary platform that I wouldnt of ever spent time on. I also have scripts to fetch specific database assets and forward them
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by Brystephor 5mo ago
I work at a company that mainly makes money off ads. Theres no doubt in my mind that the end goal is to make their ads blend into organic content and make them indistinguishable. Typically that results in positive A/B metrics. Its also
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by Brystephor 5mo ago
I have recently began driving projects with multiple contributors that are following a plan I laid out and got buy-in on. I attempted to run the project entirely asynchronous, where we had a slack channel, ICs had their section of goals and
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by Brystephor 5mo ago
Meta had grown headcount by 50% in the last 7 years. In the same time frame, they tripled their revenue up to mid $200B range. Even if every employee fired saved $500k a year, that'd be roughly $4B in a year. Not a small amount but rel
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by Brystephor 6mo ago
Im at a public, well known tech company. We got broad and wide access to AI tools maybe a month ago now. AI tools meaning claude code, codex, cursor and a set of other random AI tools. I use them very often. They've taken a lot of the
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by Brystephor 7mo ago
As someone who has worked in an ad domain, 100% agree. Ads are like a dangling carrot. There's always a way to get ad gains by blending them with organic content. What starts off as cleanly separated incrementally evolves into being in
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by Brystephor 8mo ago
It also skews towards power users, as it allows for more ad inventory. If they're going to do an ad auction marketplace with bidding snd such then they're likely to rollout slowly to keep auction pressure and bids high enough. Exp
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by Brystephor 8mo ago
I work on ads as a SWE at a company youve heard of. Albeit, its been less than a few years for me. Maybe OpenAI does things different, but as soon as an OKR around ad performance gets committed to, the experience will degrade. Sure they&#x2
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by Brystephor 8mo ago
And no change in exercise or other levels of physical activity, home life, work life, or other diets attempted, right? Its awesome that youre feeling better. Its possible, but hard to believe, that its due to nothing but diet changes and if
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by Brystephor 9mo ago
How does this compare to Trainer Road?
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by Brystephor 10mo ago
What other resources would you recommend for learning about optimizations? I use multi armed bandits a lot at work, and I wonder what other algorithms I should look into. Its hard to read the name of an algorithm or category and get a sense
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by Brystephor 1y ago
No public write ups. What information would you want to see? I think there's two categories: infra ops info, and then product insights and "gotchas"/unintuitive but valid results.
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by Brystephor 1y ago
Hey, an area I actually work on and use in production! MAB in our case has shown improvements in our A/B metrics. My general takeaways for my experience with MAB: * we have a single optimization goal (e.g the metric to minimize or maxi
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by Brystephor 1y ago
How big was the 2011 tsunami? Is 3m bigger or smaller?
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by Brystephor 1y ago
Forcing reasoning is analogous to requiring a student to show their work when solving a problem if im understanding the paper correctly. > you’d have to either memorize the entire answer before speaking or come up with a simple pattern y
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by Brystephor 1y ago
some core GCP cloud services are down. might be a good time for GCP dependent people to go for a walk, do some stretches, and check back in a couple hours.
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by Brystephor 1y ago
> I've found great success with LLMs in the research phase of coding. This is what I've found it most helpful for. Typically I want an example specific to my scenario and use an LLM to generate the scenario that I ask questions
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by Brystephor 1y ago
Reinforcement learning system. Currently trying to understand how to implement contextual thompson sampling and its details after doing non contextual thompson sampling. My YouTube history is a lot of logistic regression related videos at t
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by Brystephor 1y ago
This is incredible work. Its jaw dropping to learn that something like this is possible at all. Sometimes I wish I could work for a company whose products make a meaningful positive contribution to the work. Do companies like this have a ne
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by Brystephor 2y ago
Maybe a silly question, but has anyone used these in production? Or used libraries in production which are built on these structures? Im imagining a meeting about some project design, and thinking about how it'd go if someone suggested
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by Brystephor 2y ago
Do you know the name of the problem or strategy used for solving the problem? I'd be interested in looking it up! I own DDIA but after a few chapters of how database work behind the scenes, I begin to fall asleep. I have trouble unders
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by Brystephor 2y ago
Software engineer here with an android phone. I've never bothered to look into Apple TV because I assumed it'd only be available on Apple devices. Similarly, I saw this post and thought there may be a reason for me to get an iPhon
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by Brystephor 2y ago
No. It's a big political statement to include political messaging and plead to political figures when you shut down. Then to praise those political figures afterwards is additional political messaging.
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by Brystephor 2y ago
What's the difference between the perception of a problem being present and the existence of a problem? If you create an issue, and solve an issue, indifferent of the issue being real, you'll be credited with solving the issue. It
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by Brystephor 2y ago
Did they shut down at the last moment necessary or did they shut down during what is likely a peak browsing time in the U.S.? Did they need to include messaging about political figures to notify the user of the reason of the ban? I understa

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