jefffoster

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by jefffoster 2mo ago
I’ve been thinking about this too. There’s this notion of variety popularized by cybernetics folks a long time ago. Variety is like the state space of the system. Then there’s a law that says “only variety absorbs variety”. So if a method h
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by jefffoster 3mo ago
AI is an expert in everything you are not.
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by jefffoster 6mo ago
I did a PhD in the late 90s. What was the motivation? Honestly, I was too lazy to get a job and staying in academia for another 3+ years seemed amazing (probably not recommended, but it worked out OK for me). What helped get me through it:
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by jefffoster 6mo ago
I remember attending a tech event at MSR Cambridge, and a speaker made some disparaging comment about older developers not being able to keep up in this modern world of programming. An older gentleman stood up and politely mentioned they kn
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by jefffoster 9mo ago
At a guess an Enterprise API account. Pay per token but no limits. It’s very easy to spend $100s per dev per day.
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by jefffoster 2y ago
It’s not only the low obesity rates, the article states it suppresses impulsiveness.
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by jefffoster 2y ago
Does anyone have any intuition about the how reasoning improves based on the strength of the underlying model? I’m wondering whether this seemingly underwhelming bump on 4o magnifies when/if reasoning is added.
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by jefffoster 2y ago
A great quote that’s stuck with me is that “LLMs are experts in subjects you are not”
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by jefffoster 2y ago
Mostly functional programming does not work ( https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2611829 )
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by jefffoster 2y ago
Interestingly they used to attach a sponge to the end. You might think that was because it doesn’t break the glass, but really it was to ensure the nearby houses don’t get woken up for free!
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by jefffoster 2y ago
Not just cost reduction but allowing more investment. A good architecture can enable more people to work on your product.
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by jefffoster 3y ago
This is an absolutely fantastic book! Read it to learn how to program, learn a bit about AI as an added benefit.
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by jefffoster 4y ago
Gives me a chance to reference the best Harvard Business Review title ever: How Earlobes Can Signify Leadership Potential ( https://hbr.org/2011/11/how-earlobes-can-signify-leadership-... )
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by jefffoster 4y ago
Once upon a time I found string interning useful in conjunction with IdentityHashMap for quick lookup of lots of strings.
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by jefffoster 5y ago
There's also a positive framing for the sunk cost fallacy. Invest your money in something (e.g. exercise equipment) and you'll be more willing to spend time using it.
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The Tuesday Failure Club(medium.com)
2 points by jefffoster 6y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 6y ago
Reminds me of how hard it is to write a screensaver by jwz https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/04/i-told-you-so-again/ (and follow the links)
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by jefffoster 7y ago
I found Paradigms of AI Programming ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigms_of_AI_Programming ) an amazing book to work through. It takes you through implementing some classic AI examples (such as Eliza) and teaches yo
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by jefffoster 7y ago
I agree this is an important metric and a kind of technical debt that's hard to capture. How do you discriminate this from RenovateBot or Dependa-Bot? Both of those will not only track the drift but they'll also generate the PR to
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Google App Maker Shutting Down(support.google.com)
2 points by jefffoster 7y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 7y ago
There's some research in the "Accelerate" book that talks about this. For example, having an automated CI/CD pipeline decreases stress measures (iirc).
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Azure Arc(azure.microsoft.com)
1 points by jefffoster 7y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 7y ago
I think there's a lot to learn from the aviation industry. I did a talk at my companies internal conference on this (turned into words at https://medium.com/ingeniouslysimple/why-dont-planes-crash-1... ). For me it
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CSS Only Chat(github.com)
2 points by jefffoster 7y ago|1 comments
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by jefffoster 7y ago
I haven't read the Stephen Pinker book, but it sounds similar to one of my favourite books "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think" which sounds like it covers simi
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Why Don't Planes Crash?(medium.com)
4 points by jefffoster 8y ago|0 comments
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Real Options and Refactoring(medium.com)
1 points by jefffoster 8y ago|0 comments
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How did we get to service meshes?(medium.com)
2 points by jefffoster 8y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 8y ago
Not quite the same, but https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10117359 discusses a long term (10000 years!) system for marking areas of high radiation.
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Entities, components and systems(medium.com)
1 points by jefffoster 8y ago|0 comments

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