pvankessel

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by pvankessel 3mo ago
I'm with you. I haven't materially been more satisfied with the code or reasoning with 4.8 than I was with 4.7. But I'm also not vibe coding, I'm reviewing all of the output. Maybe 4.8 has been making fewer mistakes that
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by pvankessel 3mo ago
Anecdotally this tracks what I've felt over the past month, though I haven't rigorously quantified it. I've just been burning through my quota considerably more quickly than I was a week ago. Hitting limits I didn't befo
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by pvankessel 10mo ago
This view of the world puts everything on the individual. It might be worth reading up on structuralism to balance that perspective out a bit. I'm somewhere in the middle of the two extremes myself, but surely one must acknowledge that
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by pvankessel 11mo ago
The automation one is so true! When I first deployed a huge job to MTurk, with so much money on the line I wanted to be careful, and I wrote some heuristics to auto-ban Turkers who worked their way through the HITs suspiciously quickly (2 s
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by pvankessel 11mo ago
I used MTurk heavily in its hey-day for data annotation - it was an invaluable tool for collecting training data for large-scale research projects, I honestly have to credit it with enabling most of my early career triumphs. We labeled and
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by pvankessel 11mo ago
I got this one a few months ago and have been running it in my basement directly under my living room, separated only by the floor and a bit of insulation. Can't hear it at all. It's been working well and it's a fun low-inves
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by pvankessel 1y ago
Hard disagree. I gave up a top-10 engineering scholarship and switched to liberal arts largely because my entire curriculum was predetermined in the former. Five courses in calculus and two slots for electives in your entire undergraduate s
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by pvankessel 1y ago
Well that's kind of my point - liberal arts and humanities set you up with a very versatile baseline. With a proper education in those disciplines you learn how to think, and that's applicable to a wide range of fields. The woman
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by pvankessel 1y ago
Oh I agree with you on that wholeheartedly. I think our society would be substantially healthier if we required civics, philosophy, economics, etc in high school. But if we're already struggling to have evolution taught in schools and
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by pvankessel 1y ago
Except many STEM graduates are having a harder time finding jobs right now than liberal arts and humanities majors: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:... . For what it's worth, I have enjo
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The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant(americanprogress.org)
23 points by pvankessel 1y ago|0 comments
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by pvankessel 1y ago
Curious about this, is there actually a canonical explanation in the trilogy somewhere?
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by pvankessel 2y ago
Heh, that's actually pretty compelling - it sounds like a darker twist on the plot of a Stargate episode I recently rewatched: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisions_(Stargate_SG-1)
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by pvankessel 2y ago
Oh this sounds like exactly like what I've been looking for, can't wait to give these a try - many thanks
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by pvankessel 2y ago
Are there any models out there for cleaning up an image, not just upscaling? I have a bunch of old photos taken on early low-res point-and-shoots that have JPEG artifacts etc and this seems like something a modern model could easily be fine
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by pvankessel 3y ago
Here's a study I did a few years ago that broke down popular YT videos into more granular categories, might be of interest: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/07/25/childrens-co...
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by pvankessel 3y ago
They actually held out for a couple of years after Facebook and didn't start forcing audits and cutting quotas until 2019/2020
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by pvankessel 3y ago
This is such a clever way of sampling, kudos to the authors. Back when I was at Pew we tried to map YouTube using random walks through the API's "related videos" endpoint and it seemed like we hit a saturation point after a y
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by pvankessel 4y ago
First thing I thought of, 7 years old and more prophetic by the day: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU It's only a matter of time. Five years, twenty - we need to prepare for mass unemployment.
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by pvankessel 4y ago
Lol, not yet it seems
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by pvankessel 4y ago
I mean, that's definitely a huge factor, but there IS a limit to how much Amazon can pay their hundreds of thousands of workers and still remain competitive - and I have NO idea where that threshold is, which is why I'm fascinated
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by pvankessel 4y ago
Oh don't get me wrong, much of it is definitely the result of their policies and could have been avoided if they hadn't treated their labor force like a discardable, consumable resource for years. I just thought it was interesting
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by pvankessel 4y ago
Not surprised to see this pop up. I interviewed for a position with Amazon a few months back to lead up a new research program to determine how they can better recruit and retain hourly workers. I had no intention of taking the job, but was
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Where people around the world find meaning in life(pewresearch.org)
7 points by pvankessel 5y ago|0 comments
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Where Americans find meaning in life has changed over the past four years(pewresearch.org)
3 points by pvankessel 5y ago|0 comments
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by pvankessel 5y ago
I love Vaillant's work. His and many other studies definitely point to the importance of relationships as determinants of happiness. We found evidence of the same a few years ago - people who mention their friends and their spouse&#x2F
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What Makes Life Meaningful? Views from 17 Advanced Economies(pewresearch.org)
5 points by pvankessel 5y ago|2 comments
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by pvankessel 5y ago
We started off by trying LDA and NMF, but the topics were too messy so we wound up switching to CorEx ( https://github.com/gregversteeg/corex_topic ), which is a semi-supervised algo that lets you "nudge" the m
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Are topic models reliable or useful?(medium.com)
2 points by pvankessel 5y ago|2 comments
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How Congress Uses Facebook and Twitter(pewresearch.org)
1 points by pvankessel 6y ago|0 comments

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