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by aisofteng 3y ago
Years ago my team was tasked with greenfield dev of a cloud native app while the platform/infrastructure was also evolving. We worked nights and weekends to get it done on time only to find out at the last second that the platform team
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by aisofteng 3y ago
Not quite what was asked but a few of the stories here reminded me of this. Years ago I was working on developing a new cloud native service. The particular microservice I was working on had to call out to multiple other services, depending
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by aisofteng 4y ago
Nobody becomes a billionaire off salary. Generally speaking, billionaires come to be billionaires because they created something that has value in the billions. Someone who has created their own worth saying that there are people being paid
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by aisofteng 5y ago
I see a lot of negativity here, and I do agree about the daily ping which I see you’re removing, which I think is a good move. As someone that has done cloud development at a giant corporation that offers public cloud, I think that this too
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by aisofteng 5y ago
A strange comment to leave on a social media site.
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by aisofteng 6y ago
That’s a different problem. “Fix toxic environments that keep certain types of people out of an honest line of work” is a good problem to solve. That is not the same as “let’s increase the number of people of a certain demographic within an
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by aisofteng 6y ago
As a fellow practitioner, I entirely agree. Actually, reading this article made something click for me regarding the oft discussed and denigrated “bias in AI” always brought up in discussions of the “ethics of AI”: there is no bias problem
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by aisofteng 6y ago
This comment made me realize what my mentor did years ago. He would have the entire team list all possible solutions to a problem, including the obviously bad ones, then have us whittle down the list based on pros and cons of each until we
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by aisofteng 6y ago
> running anything related to AI involves GPU instances This is not true. A _lot_ of AI applications use algorithms such as logistic regression or random forests and don’t need GPUs - partly, of course, because GPUs are so expensive and
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by aisofteng 6y ago
Why is “get more women into STEM” a worthy goal in and of itself?
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by aisofteng 6y ago
Watson is pretty racist himself, actually: https://www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18182530/james-watson-racist
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by aisofteng 6y ago
No. If you have a 1% solution (to pick a number) and you add more 1% solution, it doesn’t become 2%.
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by aisofteng 6y ago
I think IBM is one.
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by aisofteng 6y ago
Indeed, often legal language is left as open to interpretation when new so that the manifestation of reality can polish it over time. This is a new venture; being imprecise about “long-term” now is, in my interpretation, the right move, bec
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by aisofteng 6y ago
I’m a senior software engineer and software architect at a tech giant that has been lucky to have the experience of launching a new product twice, operationally treating it as a well funded startup and growing it to multimillion dollar reve
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by aisofteng 6y ago
> Sadly, the changes also include a significant reduction in our workforce by approximately 250 people. These are individuals of exceptional professional and personal caliber who have made outstanding contributions to who we are today. T
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by aisofteng 6y ago
What about the cost of operating an equivalent service in house?
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by aisofteng 6y ago
The “better” devs work on creating the things that will provide business value in the future and that require more skill/expertise to create.
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by aisofteng 6y ago
The goal of the shelter in place is to “flatten the curve” so that the medical system is not overloaded. According to that article, they believed that their medical system could handle the load and has.
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by aisofteng 6y ago
See: Simpson’s paradox, where trends in subgroups, taken together, can indicate a different trend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
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by aisofteng 7y ago
Because they sell a product that fits customers’ needs. The tech stack doesn’t matter.
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by aisofteng 7y ago
Impressive effort. I’m sure you looked at it, so I’m curious why not use gRPC? To avoid HTTP?
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by aisofteng 7y ago
This is in line with some observations I’ve made. If you notice, decades ago, superheroes were imbued with some sort of power and then study it and train diligently, eventually mastering it. The majority now, however, are suddenly thrown in
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by aisofteng 7y ago
The IBM Watson STT service supports this: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/whos-speaking-speaker-diariza...
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by aisofteng 7y ago
It’s a common abbreviation. I don’t know how you’ve worked in computing of any sort for decades without coming across it.
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by aisofteng 7y ago
The Stroop test is not new: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect It’s commonly taught in psychology and neuroscience undergraduate classes.
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by aisofteng 7y ago
From your link: > PHYSICAL HAZARDS: May release toxic fumes in burned. The article mentions the process of burning it as resulting in hydrogen cyanide, which is consistent with the sheet.
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by aisofteng 7y ago
>most Western history lessons completely ignore everything but Western Europe That’s because they’re Western history lessons. I had world history as a separate class in high school.
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by aisofteng 7y ago
This is standard language that is perfectly readable if you’re familiar with the involved concepts.
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by aisofteng 7y ago
>The problem is in the asking. If I see an attractive woman shopping and go speak to her it may be the 10th time she's been stopped in this one trip. So what? Do people really rule out meeting a partner and having a family because o

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