sanderjd

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by sanderjd 4d ago
Ok.
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by sanderjd 4d ago
I have no clue what you're talking about.
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by sanderjd 4d ago
I don't think this is in any way a disagreement between us. In just the same way that spreadsheet software did not kill demand for accountants, I do not believe AI will kill the demand for other professionals.
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by sanderjd 5d ago
What niche knowledge? It seems to me that applying general knowledge to new niches has never been easier.
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by sanderjd 5d ago
It's the domains, the problems being solved, that are interesting, not the lines of code. I want to have expertise in the former, not the latter.
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by sanderjd 5d ago
AI is a very useful tool for finding problems in codebases. I'm very far from an "AI is going to take everyone's job" doomer, but I really do think "there will be programming jobs that don't involve using LLM b
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by sanderjd 5d ago
Maybe! But probably not, IMO. There have been a number of generations now that have been "addicted" to using digital spreadsheets rather than doing bookkeeping by hand.
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by sanderjd 5d ago
I don't know what your comment means. Can you say more? But generally, yes, I think cynicism has run amok among the very-online.
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by sanderjd 5d ago
IMO the crypto / blockchain dominated periods were worse than the AI dominance of the moment. But YMMV I suppose!
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by sanderjd 5d ago
I also experience this as a great loss, but honestly yes, I can't get excited about perfecting the craft of writing computer code now that there are AI systems that have done so. I'll always be sad about this! But the flip side is
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by sanderjd 5d ago
HN is often dominated by a Thing that is happening, during periods when there is some dominant Thing going on. In my time here, that has been many different Things over the years; social media, SaaS, Ruby on Rails, javascript frameworks, Ru
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by sanderjd 5d ago
I'm unconvinced that this is a pattern that is distinguished by the nation being reported on. Headlines vary. Both of your example headlines might appear at different times in the outlets I read. I think this was just a stylistic choic
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by sanderjd 7d ago
My five year old who has never seen a Looney tunes cartoon thought it was hilarious. (It made me think he'd probably love actual Looney tunes cartoons!)
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by sanderjd 7d ago
To me, this seems to be an expectations issue. I thought it was going to suck. It's a live action and cartoon mix about looney tunes, itself a broad and very meh cultural artifact IMO. Compared to my expectations, it was funny and good
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by sanderjd 7d ago
My 5 year old spent the whole time laughing. We have the expression "grow up!" that we tell kids. Sometimes I think we need the opposite expression for adults who are peeved when cartoons don't make them laugh.
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by sanderjd 7d ago
I thought it was good! I had low expectations and they were well exceeded.
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by sanderjd 12d ago
I agree that all else equal, the more comparisons the merrier. But IMO, there has been way too much focus on benchmarks for the bare models, when it seems to me that what actually matters is what you can do with the technology, and that is
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by sanderjd 12d ago
In my view, the useful like for like comparison is to the entire system that people actually use. Nobody uses a "naked model", so what is the point of these benchmarks that use them in that way? I think the benchmarks should be tr
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by sanderjd 12d ago
I don't quite understand your point. Why are you moving those capabilities from one model to another, or improving the built-in capabilities of a model, what is the goal? If having the capabilities in the model itself improves the over
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by sanderjd 12d ago
Yeah but what is the point of "naked model" evaluations? It seems to me that the only interesting question is capability per time and cost (and conditioned on other important things, like privacy). It doesn't matter to me whi
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by sanderjd 12d ago
I dunno about this article, but it seemed to me that the now-famous huggingface attack very likely broke some laws...
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by sanderjd 12d ago
Well... that'll be an interesting day.
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by sanderjd 12d ago
Yeah that's fair. In practice, the projects I've worked on have always seemed to end up with a mix of all of dbt, SQL strings in python, and dataframe manipulation. I've always felt like we should be able to minimize one of t
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by sanderjd 12d ago
But surely you went back and forth on things. I do agree that this is useful to brainstorm, iterate, and then execute.
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by sanderjd 12d ago
Ha, but I always hated when my company tried to get me to do that and ended up spending more time on the phone with the "concierge" than it would take me to do it myself on expedia. And I think most people feel similarly.
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by sanderjd 13d ago
Yeah. Agreed.
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by sanderjd 13d ago
No, I was just making a narrower point about one aspect of the comment.
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by sanderjd 13d ago
But is that ... good?
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by sanderjd 13d ago
Aaaaah, the cpu cache aspect is what I was missing! This makes tons of sense! I'll check out your talk as well.
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by sanderjd 13d ago
When you say "in-cache batches", you mean that this cache is on disk? Is that only the case when data is quite large? (Or a more general question: What is the best resource for me to read about how the streaming engine and cache w

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