calepayson

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by calepayson 1mo ago
Ah, cause they inherited a ton of cash ya?
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by calepayson 2mo ago
I actually tend to keep my cards super concise. I treat Anki as a way to practice fundamentals, like memorizing certain formulas. Anytime I try to add conceptual stuff to cards I feel like I'm only memorizing one specialized version of
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by calepayson 2mo ago
I think of it like drills in a sport. If your practice is 100% drills, you'll be pretty bad. But drills give you an awesome foundation to do the really complex stuff intuitively.
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by calepayson 3mo ago
My little brother is a beach lifeguard but in the last year he’s pumped out so many incredible projects. It feels like he’s been unleashed. Such a cool era!
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by calepayson 3mo ago
I'm not sure the Black Death is a good example of gradual population decline
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by calepayson 3mo ago
I feel like this is a joke but honest answer: I worked ocean rescue for 4 years then lived with some tech folks in sf who were making literally 5-10x my salary. What’s stopping me? Probably some combo of wanting to one day afford a home and
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by calepayson 3mo ago
Yay.
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by calepayson 3mo ago
Honestly great question. I think of it as: I invest my wages to take advantage of compound interest. It’s kind of my only hope of having a family / owning a home / retiring. If stuff stops compounding, I’m fucked. Multiply by howe
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by calepayson 3mo ago
> Pain for whom? The people profiting from cheap labor probably. A pretty consistent trend throughout history is that shit rolls downhill.
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by calepayson 3mo ago
Ya but I’m 28 and have had enough with these contractions. For Christ sake can I get a sane decade so I can actually build a career. :)
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by calepayson 3mo ago
Shot in the dark but my sense is that a lot of our economics presumes growth and, if we don’t get it, a lot of terrible stuff happens. I feel pretty confident that ai will eventually be a large driver of growth but I do worry about whether
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by calepayson 3mo ago
In your opinion where is the line on where LLMs are useful/harmful to learning? In my school projects I've found them super useful for working with libraries. In the past it felt like the theory I learned was pretty low impact. 80
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by calepayson 3mo ago
I think you're right in that it has the shape but I think it's missing a pretty key piece. We still haven't been able to solve catastrophic forgetting, yet everything with a brain has. Basically LLMs seem good at approximatin
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by calepayson 3mo ago
> 1) This definition could actually be expanded (for example, with definitions from Mumford or Reuleaux). But still this definition cannot be applied directly to living organisms. I'm not sure I understand this. Why not?
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by calepayson 3mo ago
I think the point of the commentator above is that there are two extreme narratives that start each start with an uncontroversial assumption and then taking it to a pretty wild place. One narrative takes the assumption that brains are just
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by calepayson 5mo ago
I think a big part is that the hiring market for juniors feels apocalyptic rn. Jobs may be up in aggregate but that doesn’t necessarily mean everyone’s feeling it equally.
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by calepayson 6mo ago
Brilliant hahaha
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by calepayson 6mo ago
Junior here. There are still a few of us who value books and documentation. It's a weird time though. Hard to feel confident that you're learning in the correct way. Anyway, I've found that if you want to get a coworker into
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by calepayson 6mo ago
My partner is an outdoor ed teacher at a no-screens school. I tried to teach her to code a few months back and it was hilarious. We started with "First download VS Code". We never made it to another step. I had a similar experienc
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by calepayson 7mo ago
> to normal humans, they look ridiculous, but they think they're cool and they're not harming anyone so i just leave them to it. fixed it for you! now it’s in a casual, laid back tone.
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by calepayson 8mo ago
I think there are authors where this definitely applies and I don’t think Steinbeck is one of them. It feels analogous to complaining about how Michelangelo painted the Sistine chapel on the ceiling instead of on a canvas where we wouldn’t
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by calepayson 8mo ago
> In the coming weeks, we’re also planning to start testing ads in the U.S. for the free and Go tiers, so more people can benefit from our tools with fewer usage limits or without having to pay. This single sentence probably took so many
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by calepayson 9mo ago
Speaking as a junior, I’m happy to do this on my own (and do!). Conversations like this are always well intentioned and friction truly is super useful to learning. But the ‘…’ in these conversations seems to always be implicating that we sh
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by calepayson 10mo ago
Im a student right now and have a background in a non-CS field so struggle with the impostor-syndrome/fundamentals double whammy. The advice I’ve found most valuable is to basically cosplay as someone who’s a complete pro. What would t
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by calepayson 10mo ago
Ya it drives me crazy. I know someone who scored an 81% on a midterm where a few people scored in the high 90%. The professor told them, that among the people they didn’t suspect of cheating, they got the highest score. No curve, no prosec
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by calepayson 10mo ago
> FWIW: When I was in undergrad, the students who showed up only for exams and sat in the back of the room were not cheating, and still ended up with some of the best scores. For many classes this is still the case, and I lump these folk
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by calepayson 10mo ago
> Our findings reveal that students perceived AI tools as helpful for grasping code concepts and boosting their confidence during the initial development phase. However, a noticeable difficulty emerged when students were asked to work un
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by calepayson 10mo ago
For now, the plan is to move from Jupyter back to a text editor. Jupyter is very forgiving of mistakes. The model didn't work? Change some parameters and rerun the training cell. This is amazing for new folks, who are being bombarded b
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Ask HN: How do you handle logging and evaluation when training ML models?
3 points by calepayson 10mo ago|2 comments
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by calepayson 10mo ago
There's some good advice here but I want to push back one point: > Get great, if not perfect grades. I think this was great advice five years ago and just no longer works for the AI era. I'm back in school to get my masters and

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