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Should managers still code?(theengineeringmanager.substack.com)
245 points by blah2244 2y ago|307 comments
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by blah2244 2y ago
Attempts to eliminate this have even failed in solid blue states -- Prop 6 in California failed 53-47 last election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_California_Proposition_6
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The Software Engineer Spectrum: Speed vs. Accuracy(benhowdle.im)
3 points by blah2244 2y ago|0 comments
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Ugly Code and Dumb Things(lucumr.pocoo.org)
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by blah2244 2y ago
Fwiw, there are some pretty great HN reader apps I’ve found — Hack and Octal are the two favorites I’ve come across for iOS.
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by blah2244 2y ago
How do you differentiate between the two? Each token the model outputs requires it to evaluate all of the context it already has (query + existing output). By allowing it more tokens to "reason", you're allowing it to evaluat
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Judge Your Coworkers(blog.staysaasy.com)
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by blah2244 2y ago
This is a great article -- I really appreciate the author giving specific examples. I have never heard of mise ( https://mise.jdx.dev/ ) before either, and the integration with the saved prompts is a nifty idea -- excited to
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by blah2244 2y ago
Yeah, as the other commentator mentioned, it practically just means he won't be entering any other competitions until April. He'll probably cover >1000 miles in training over that period :)
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by blah2244 2y ago
The rule since 2020 (when supershoes really started taking over) has been 40mm stack height/1 carbon plate: https://worldathletics.org/news/press-release/modified-rules... As for training, that's a prett
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The Economics of Being a Founding Engineer(greptile.com)
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URL-addressable Pyodide Python environments(simonw.substack.com)
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Legal AI Startup Harvey Raises $300M Series D(harvey.ai)
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How I learned to code with my voice(whitep4nth3r.com)
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Nontraditional Red Teams(zachholman.com)
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How I give the right amount of context (in any situation)(newsletter.weskao.com)
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by blah2244 2y ago
To be fair, his argument is valid for FSD! We have fully deployed FSD in multiple US cities now!
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by blah2244 2y ago
Zitron is a blogger whose content/internet personality is centered around being anti-Big Tech, and very much falls in the "AI is dumb/useless and will die any day now". He's a good writer, but his content is written
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by blah2244 2y ago
> AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean it to be a system that can tackle increasingly complex problems, at human level, in many fields. Is it just me, or is that an incredibly weak/vague definition for AGI? F
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by blah2244 2y ago
Yep, here’s one about symptoms chronic kidney disease that showed significant results: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39246955/ Similar significant results for symptoms of cystic fibrosis: https://pubmed.nc
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by blah2244 2y ago
I've heard of a startup that claims to be able to achieve a near-0% false positive rate: https://www.pangram.com/our-model/how-it-works They appear to basically RLHF a model on a bunch of examples of human/AI
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by blah2244 2y ago
Everything comes back to social identity theory :) Especially programmers, who are already partially drawn to pattern matching. I still enjoy articles like these, though -- think the author did a good job of describing the hats as "mod
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by blah2244 2y ago
Yek is fantastic -- I've converted my whole team to using it for prompting. As input context windows keep increasing, I think it'll just keep becoming more and more valuable -- I can put most of my team's code in Gemini 2.0 n