PheonixPharts

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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Essentially a funnel report where you want to know the total percent of the population that has reached a given path, but you only know the output probabilities of each step in the funnel (node). This is a fairly common situation. As a simp
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> a quote of himself Curious, did you seriously not recognize that this is a famous quote from the final scene in Blader Runner ? I read that more as quirky call out to a famous film, not that he was claiming this was his own view of th
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> Asking me to solve an extremely esoteric problem that has zero relevance to my day-to-day I'm always surprised how useless something is when I don't know it, and suddenly once I do know it, I solve lots of problems with i
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> It really sucks right now For me, it's been the opposite: the last 2 years have been the best time I've had working in tech since the early 2010s. Around 2019 I was seriously considering leaving the field (if it didn't
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
This can be solved by just running "restart and re-run all" as a matter of habit whenever you feel like you are in a good state. If you're looking at someone else's notebook, this should also be your first step. If you&#
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Many people misunderstand what this case was about. > Homeless need shelter and help. It is inhumane that we let them rot on the streets. The issue being argued was not that homeless should be able to camp where ever and whenever they
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> Rather than educating founders on more fundamental topics such as how to get from 0-1, how to hire, fostering positive culture etc. My experience is that none of these things actually matter anymore. I wish they did, but my experien
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> no revenue and no profit. Revenue has gone up, but fewer publicly traded companies are making a profit than ever before [0]. I could never understand why so many people just talk about revenue. Revenue without profits is meaningless.
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> compensation packages that truly gifted AI researchers can make now I guess it depends on your definition of "truly gifted" but, working in this space, I've found that there is very little correlation between comp and qu
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> things like chain-of-thought/reasoning perform way worse in structured responses That is fairly well establish to be not true.
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> Why do I want to read an intro CS book? I've read those before. "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - TS Eliot
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Have you never been to a book store? You don't have to read every word of a book to understand if it's interesting to you. I purchased a bunch of technical books the other day that I had never heard of based on opening them up, re
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
"Don't cast your pearls before swine". When I was younger I used to passionately defend those things I've seen as beautiful, but after years experience talking with people passionate about their fields and learning and t
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
I don't think it's that fake. There were people, researchers, that were obsessed with ELIZA back in the day. I personally have a friend who is constantly thinking about fine-tuning a model on his ex's texts to recreate chatti
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Boston at number 6? I find this list hard to take too seriously. Despite the city's incredible university culture it's always been fundamentally anti-startup from it's very nature. Boston is a city were credentials matter fa
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
I use VScode every day on linux and have never had an issue with it.
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
I want to second this regarding desktop Linux. Each major PC build I've had I've tried to go Linux desktop and ultimately failed because I just got tired of switching to windows for gaming along with periodic cases of essential de
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
I just use a single monitor/mouse/keyboard/mic/camera and then have a usb switch they all plug into so I can easily swap between work and personal. It make switching between workstations just a few seconds and with a bit
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> hard not to regret the choice If you can't handle "regret" in these cases, then you probably shouldn't be in a position where you're deriving the vast majority of your income/weatlh from investments (which
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> Now, is it 10k examples? No, but I think it was on the order of hundreds, if not thousands. I have kids so I'm presuming I'm allowed to have an opinion here. This is ignoring the fact that babies are not just learning labels,
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Coming up with and quickly adopting new terms to sound "hip" is one of the most important skills for AI practitioners. We've had "agent-based" concepts in CS for decades, but if you're "in" you'l
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> but no-one in the comments here is even mentioning it The post has an entire section discussing this. The problem with text-to-sql is that, as the post elaborates, writing SQL is not the problem. It's understanding the context
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> I think that posting at least one commit per day Notice that the article has been edited. > Edit: A better title would've been "commit every day that you work". I don't mean you should work on weekends or not ta
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
I would agree except the gap between what's realistically cool about LLMs (make tons of traditional NLP tasks easier/better) and what people are hyping them up to be (potentially world ending sentient beings) is so tremendously
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Is this written from a different time line were TypeScript doesn't exist? I have a long history of doing FP in a bunch of the traditional FP languages (Scheme/Haskell/etc). Ended up working at a young startup with equally you
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
As mentioned repeatedly, HN doesn't block self-promotion. But reddit something else entirely. It so clear that all of the major subs are constantly being manipulated by firms working PR for large companies, but the second someone posts
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
To be clear, as an ex-smoker, I do believe we have agency in the cases where patterns are disruptive. Smoking tobacco got in the way of a range of activities, and I had to put in a serious effort to curb this behavior. Certainly drinkers wh
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
In my lifetime virtually everything that was once good for you (wine, high grain diet, non-fat foods) is now a bad and vice versa (eggs, high fat - low carb foods). And articles like this one have been appearing in some variation my entire
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
People keep saying it because that's literally how LLMs work. They run Montecarlo sampling over a very impressive latent linguistic space. These models are not fundamentally different than the Markov chains of yore except that these la
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
>_because that's the only way it can compute anything_ I'm fairly certain we'll soon realize that what's happening here is that the markov chain being run over latent space needs a certain amount of "warmup"

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