mirawelner

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Being a Junior Scientist in the Current Administration(mirawelner.com)
2 points by mirawelner 5mo ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
Sure, but the specific critique that it is too verbose seems less valid if one of the primary purposes of the piece was to be prose.
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
Because we went through so many years of school for it
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
I actually disagreed with that particular point made in the article, because I don't really see myself as somebody who sees value in craft and artistry, I just want effective code that works (which imho LLMs cannot create). But after
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
I somewhat disagree that this is not prose? This didn't seem like a purely expository piece. Like if it were just a straightforward technical piece than yeah its way to long, it could have been a few sentences. But this seemed like it
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
...because reading and writing well-written prose is meaningful and enjoyable? It feels like half the people here do not read or write in their free time, which would be understandable if this were not primarily a site for software engineer
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
I mean just as a counterpoint: I am a Junior dev (graduated in 2022) and I am gainfully employed at the McGowan institute, earning an okay salary, with colleagues who actively use LLMs, but there is zero talk of firing me or laying me off d
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
No it’s just sloooooowwwwww
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All Look Same?(alllooksame.com)
116 points by mirawelner 7mo ago|86 comments
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
“ My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use” There is literally no need to shit on ur mom like that. Sorry your mom sucks at tech but can we please stop using this as a euphemism?
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Exploring D&D 5th Edition Monster Features Using Julia(cmu-lib.github.io)
2 points by mirawelner 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
I’m a contract hire that you paid upfront! You can’t fire me! Also let this be a lesson to internet folks to be careful what you post if your boss shitposts on the orange yelling site
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
That’s funny bc I linked my post to a server I’m on and I also was told to use an agent. My worry about an agent is I’m trying to translate the math with full fidelity and an agent might take liberties with the math rather than full accurac
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by mirawelner 7mo ago
These posts make me feel like I’m the worst llm prompter in existence. I’m using a mix of Gemini, grok, and gpt to translate some matlab into c++. It is kinda okay at its job but not great? I am rapidly reading Accelerated C++ to get to the
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by mirawelner 8mo ago
The type of content I come to HackerNews for
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by mirawelner 8mo ago
See I like this but also the majority of software jobs these days are a net negative to humanity
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by mirawelner 8mo ago
Maybe I’m just a silly lab engineer who doesn’t know how big companies work (i did work at a startup for a time but that’s even more anti meeting than a lab) but I feel like maybe if you have so many back to back meetings that you need to p
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by mirawelner 8mo ago
I really love Zed bc it’s fast and doesn’t try to run the code for you. I really dislike the “play” feature of IDEs. I learned Java in eclipse and for the linear time don’t know how to run it from the terminal. It has all the editing and hi
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by mirawelner 9mo ago
I like metaphors. I respect a good “run with a metaphor” post. But I feel like if you have to explain the metaphor this much during the post it’s not worth it
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What a CTO should know about tech(deadsimpletech.com)
2 points by mirawelner 10mo ago|0 comments
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How Should We Peer Review Software?(mirawelner.com)
2 points by mirawelner 10mo ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 11mo ago
I feel like my learning curve for AI is: 1) Learn backprop, etc, basic math 2) Learn more advanced things, CNNs, LMM, NMF, PCA, etc 3) Publish a paper or poster 4) Forget basics 5) Relearn that backprop is a thing repeat. Some day I need to
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Tidy Up Your Data(yakirhavin.com)
1 points by mirawelner 11mo ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 11mo ago
Today I learned that there is such a thing as an array language! This is so neat! Need to learn all of them.
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by mirawelner 11mo ago
I work in a lab which researches regenerative medicine and people often talk about how we are saving lives. But at the end of the day, it’s not what we are doing that is pushing the needle, its projects like this make existing healthcare ac
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by mirawelner 1y ago
Maybe I live in a bubble but these are not problems I’ve ever heard expressed until now. Bluesky seems perfectly fine for those who use it?
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How to Exit Vim(github.com)
2 points by mirawelner 1y ago|1 comments
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Functional Programming How To(docs.python.org)
4 points by mirawelner 1y ago|0 comments
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The Software of Science(mirawelner.com)
2 points by mirawelner 1y ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 1y ago
Thank you!!

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