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by blainm 20d ago
Steve Jobs was against the "status quo" of Windows users, hated by "the right people", people that wanted to keep the OS monopoly. So why are you against his management style, do you not want people to succeed? Do you se
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by blainm 20d ago
The reasoning treats a correlated characteristic as a causal mechanism. successful person → unusual trait And infer: unusual trait → success The most popular example of this in tech (that never seems to die) is when people notice moments wh
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by blainm 7mo ago
I think the issue is people are using tools in an automated fashion and running up a compute bill for free when they were only meant to be used by humans in a more limited capacity (for companies to gather data on how to improve their produ
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by blainm 1y ago
Living things that are good at predicting things don't die as much. There's a good reason why our auditory system is always on, even when we sleep. I suspect the reason for something like an 'earworm' is a system that&#x
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by blainm 1y ago
Issues like these reflects an evolutionary blind spot: selective pressure drops off after reproductive age, allowing defects like prostate dysfunction to persist. It's the same reason late-onset neurological diseases remain prevalent.
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by blainm 1y ago
I strongly believe technical interviews should try to mirror a pair programming session on a problem as if it was work, rather than a quiz or interrogation type format. If someone asked during such a session (where it's cameras, screen
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by blainm 1y ago
So when it really struggled to get around (kept just walking into obstacles), they gave Claude the ability to navigate by adding pathfinding and awareness of its position and map ID. However, it still struggles, particularly in open-ended a
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by blainm 1y ago
I like the idea of blending a portfolio-style showcase with some kind of network on top. Consider how to maintain meaningful engagement without falling into the same pitfalls as existing social media. Some ideas: Avoid Engagement for Engage
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by blainm 2y ago
I've found tools like Cursor useful for prototyping and MVP development. However, as the codebase grows, they struggle. It's likely due to larger files or an increased number of them filling up the context window, leading to coher
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by blainm 2y ago
One of the key limitations of even state-of-the-art LLMs is that their coherence and usefulness tend to degrade as the context window grows. When tackling complex workflows, such as customer support automation or code review pipelines - bre
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by blainm 2y ago
Is your domain relatively new? It might be that Google's automated systems don't yet "trust" it due to a lack of history/backlinks, or it could be similar to a flagged domain from the past. This might be why they&#x
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by blainm 2y ago
Working unpaid overtime is often a cultural norm at certain companies. When you join a team where this is expected, you may feel pressured to follow suit. Unfortunately, such practices rarely change within a company. Your best option is to
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by blainm 3y ago
I would be curious to know if anyone has tried a hybrid approach where you have a Mamba-like architecture for longer term recall but it's combined with a transformer for short term memory?
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by blainm 15y ago
Irish person with a CS background here. I think Ireland has similar problems regarding churning out 'talent' to the UK in that there are initiatives in schools for people to use computers but that's about it. The fact we have a much smalle