andrewprock

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by andrewprock 6mo ago
Suggesting that people would stop reading Nature if they also included replication studies send like an incredible leap.
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by andrewprock 9mo ago
On the contrary, the best products are typically built by the users of the products. If you are building a product you don't use, it will be worse than if you used it. Users should be everywhere, in and out of engineering.
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by andrewprock 9mo ago
There are many leaders that use information as a tool that serves their own needs. They may have the context, but they are either too focused on their own job to share it, or actively manage dissemination so they can manipulate the organiza
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by andrewprock 9mo ago
The whole point of micro-services is to manage dependencies independently across service boundaries, using the API as the contract, not the internal libraries. Then you can implement a service in Java, Python, Rust, C++, etc, and it doesn&#
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by andrewprock 2y ago
In practice, there are a number of factors which make using Kelly more difficult than in toy examples. What is your bankroll? Cash on hand? Total net worth? Liquid net work? Future earned income? Depending on the size of your bankroll, a nu
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by andrewprock 2y ago
Run valgrind on any large successful code base and you will find tons of memory corruption. It just happens to occur in places where it does not matter.
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by andrewprock 2y ago
Decades? Really? The UX was so bad in 1998 I just went back to windows for another decade.
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by andrewprock 2y ago
He lost me when he boldly declared that correlation IS causation based on one chart. Complex systems are a lot more .. um .. complex than he suggests
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by andrewprock 3y ago
If you pay a lot for parking or don't use the car much this tracks. But if you have the volume, then owning a car is cheaper. An affordable mid size car costs roughly $6k per year total cost for a new car, and about 2/3 that for a
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by andrewprock 3y ago
And all code is an asset. Have we just reduced the conversation to: everything has a cost, and everything has a benefit?
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by andrewprock 3y ago
The prompts were also likely different: video: "Is this the right order?" blog post: "Is this the right order? Consider the distance from the sun and explain your reasoning." https://developers.googleblog.com&
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by andrewprock 3y ago
You can see the cracks in the feature early on: "What do you think I'm doing? Hint: it's a game." Anyone with as much "knowledge" as Gemini aught to know it's roshambo. "Is this the right order? Consi
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by andrewprock 3y ago
i.e. artifice-ial
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by andrewprock 3y ago
This does highlight the gap between SOTA and business production. Google search is very often a low quality, even user hostile experience. If Google has all this fantastic technology, but when the rubber hits the road they have no construct
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by andrewprock 3y ago
There's not much to elaborate, tons of practical use cases for search, sort and storage rely on alphabetization. If you move through an analog world of organized data, you'll find and develop many practical approaches to interacti
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by andrewprock 3y ago
It saddens me to think that alphabetization is going the way of the dodo. It was a gateway drug into computer science for me.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
It might be better to ask the inverse. Which "AI Safety" experts are worth listening too. I have found very few, and the ones that I've found worth listening to are much more concerned about practical issues that impact syste
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by andrewprock 3y ago
The crazier thing is that most advocates of "AI safety" don't know anything about "AI safety". By and large the term is marketing with very little objective scientific development. It is essentially a series of op-e
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by andrewprock 3y ago
You should be very skeptical of anyone that claims they have 100% test coverage. Only under very rare circumstances is 100% test coverage is even possible, let alone done. Typically when people say coverage they mean "code line coverag
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Deprecation should not break anything. At some point the code will be removed and the org will have to pin the version until the deprecations are resolved.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
I do like how the end to end pipeline is captured with ELTP. Conceptually I find it lighter than: ETL + Reverse ETL. While I might personally find modular ETL to be even lighter, that moniker is particular to myself and I wouldn't ask
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by andrewprock 3y ago
It's cleaner to say that ELTP is really just two ETL steps done in sequence. ETL1: gather the raw data from the data source, mapping it to the schema required to load it into the data store. ETL2: pull the normalized data, process it i
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Ten years ago Apple was by far the highest quality laptop manufacturer. There was essentially no other option back in the early 2010s. Even now laptops with a "retina" display are not always easy to find for other manufacturers. I
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by andrewprock 3y ago
Not really. The difference in build quality was night and day; metal vs. plastic, keyboard that doesn't flex, etc.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
No, it was around $1100 IIRC, maybe as much as $1300.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
I used buy a $700 Windows laptop every 18 months in the 2000s. Then I got fed up with them just falling apart and switched to Macbooks. My 2013 purchase is still alive and being used by the kids.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
The honest reason is that there is no practical reason to upgrade. The computer works, and despite the various FUD you might read, the attack surface for external attacks is quite small for personal computers. That said, if anyone would lik
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by andrewprock 3y ago
I assure you, I take security quite seriously. The version of MacOS I'm using is nowhere near the top security risk.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
I'm still using a 2015 macbook for my personal daily driver. I have to plug it in regularly, but otherwise it works just fine for everything except video editing.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
The power of education has nothing to do with the teachers. It has to do with hiring for professional employment with degree requirements (e.g. management, government, lab techs, etc). There are tons of people who can do various jobs but do

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