cplat

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by cplat 7d ago
I agree with this. LLMs can actuate over capabilities we expose, so the blame isn't only on LLMs for this.
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by cplat 1y ago
That's not quite how auto-regressive models are trained (the expression of "ideas" bit). There is no notion of "ideas." Words are not defined like we humans do, they're only related. And on the latent space bit
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by cplat 1y ago
I don't understand. Deterministic and stochastic have very specific meanings. The statement: "To continue my reply I could say this word, more than the others, or maybe that one, a bit less, ..." sounds very much like a proba
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by cplat 1y ago
GeorgiaTech's online Master's in Computer Science has lower costs. About $8k in total. I did it along with a full-time job since I only took one subject per semester.
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by cplat 2y ago
Which aspects? Foundational textbooks would focus on principles, not necessarily implementations, and don't go "outdated" the same way a snippet does.
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by cplat 2y ago
To be fair, he never said "every single role at your company requires a secret clearance." He has specifically mentioned that you can get by even without them. You have misquoted.
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by cplat 2y ago
I think there's merit to both design docs and prototypes. At the same time, your argument that "you'll be replaced by GPT in no time" is also an opinion that you've not supported with any data; the same thing that y
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by cplat 2y ago
Good for you.
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by cplat 2y ago
I agree with you. I've wrote very big web applications in Rails, Django, and Java/Spring. I understand the argument for things being "explicit" in Python, but then I just prefer Java if I'm going to be very verbose
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by cplat 2y ago
Yes, which is why the rest of my sentence is important. I said, “I haven’t found a need to use a proprietary language.” I didn’t claim that one will never be needed by anyone. :-)
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by cplat 2y ago
Yes, I’m aware, which is why it reminded me of PureBasic with which I’m more familiar. :-)
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by cplat 2y ago
I'm familiar with PureBasic (although didn't use it a lot). I got introduced to it in the 2000s (2000-2007 or something), along with DarkBasic, GameMaker, and the likes. In today's era, however, I have not yet found a need to
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by cplat 2y ago
This is a very good comment and does reflect my experience. As engineers, we're the only people who can estimate something close enough, and it becomes our job to do that while taking into account the risks. Our bad assumption is in th
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by cplat 2y ago
This is it. I'm a hardcore engineer at heart who has a lot of these sales, marketing, and product folks as friends, and can attest to the fact that they also have constraints. The whole world runs on deadlines and timelines. Even a pre
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Why Being on Hacker News Is a Superpower(thephilosopher.tech)
1 points by cplat 2y ago|0 comments
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by cplat 2y ago
If your knowledge of Python comes from JavaScript, I would not blame Python for it. It's the failure of the person to not "read the instructions" and assume instead. Maybe conduct interviews in languages that you're fami
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by cplat 2y ago
By that logic, the 30% Apple tax must be "extremely fair" because all iOS apps are built on both the software and hardware built by Apple, which are arguably far more complex than a piece of PHP software. (/sarcasm) Being &qu
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by cplat 2y ago
Looks awesome. Compliance in itself is a huge space that can benefit from a lot of automation. And the pain point of avoiding back-and-forth and giving quick feedback is real, because people usually don't read instructions, but rely on
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India's biggest crypto exchange WazirX loses nearly half its reserves(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
1 points by cplat 2y ago|0 comments
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by cplat 2y ago
As someone who has done a lot of those things (beyond programming), I can assuredly say that "writing about something" is neither a proof of understanding nor a proficiency in a subject. (Case in point, our educational system)
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by cplat 2y ago
But wouldn't the value of data be reflect in the cost of exploitation? (By cost of exploitation, I don't mean to say the resources needed to exploit, but what a company would stand to lose if exploited). The values of the variable
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by cplat 2y ago
During my Master's, security was one of the subjects I took. It started with an equation that related risk (how much you'd lose if something bad happened), the probability of that risk, and the cost of mitigating that risk. The in
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by cplat 2y ago
Yes. Although I’d like to see a deeper investigation. Of course, quality of completions have improved. But there could be a confounding phenomenon where newer folks might just be accepting a lot of suggestions without scrutiny.
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by cplat 2y ago
The title is correct. But I agree that saying "50% increase" conveys less information than saying "1% to 1.5%" (because you don't know 50% of what), and seems to have been used only to make the title more dramatic.
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by cplat 2y ago
Good points. Although, having worked on many high scale architectures before, I always err on the side of thinking that any technical solution of this magnitude would have far too many nuances for a blog post to capture. And I believe Figma
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The "Hidden Standards" Problem in Interviews(thephilosopher.tech)
18 points by cplat 2y ago|2 comments
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First, Came the Innovator(max-raven.webflow.io)
1 points by cplat 6y ago|0 comments
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The Skill Overload Syndrome(invertedindex.net)
2 points by cplat 6y ago|0 comments
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Finding your purpose for a fulfilling career(invertedindex.net)
2 points by cplat 6y ago|0 comments
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Feeling Stuck as a Software Engineer?(invertedindex.net)
1 points by cplat 6y ago|0 comments

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