tacosbane

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by tacosbane 3y ago
1. the model's responses are unreliable 2. to make them reliable, you have to tell the model the answer 3. even though you now have a process to figure out the answer, you still have to use the model because the VP wants you to
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by tacosbane 3y ago
teachers, as a class, loudly declared they aren't essential workers.
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by tacosbane 3y ago
not getting into specifics (because i'm not an expert), but these conversations usually lack any discussion of individual vs. group. e.g., the 10th decile of wages may stay the same, but the people who were in the 10th decile 30 years
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by tacosbane 3y ago
yes, there are absolutely no confounding variables to productivity during a global pandemic
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by tacosbane 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13028522
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by tacosbane 3y ago
lattner left google and was the primary reason they chose swift, so they lost interest. if you're asking from an ML perspective, i believe the original motivation was to incorporate automatic differentiation in the swift compiler. enzy
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by tacosbane 3y ago
they don't, it's a branded account. wealthfront's cash management account currently pays 4.3% up to 3m.
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by tacosbane 3y ago
Revealing that associating anything AI with money inflates the bubble. This translates to "we need to hire a $335k employee to figure out how to use our product."
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by tacosbane 3y ago
I'm not old enough to remember pre-2009 well enough to comment, but since then, yes, it's been scammy. The SV/SFBay idea of success is what the rest of us would call a pump and dump: burn a bunch of money to drive existing en
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by tacosbane 4y ago
the point of an mba is to be able to insert yourself between the money and the work and take a cut
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Ask HN: Adversarial AI for Job Applications
1 points by tacosbane 4y ago|0 comments
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by tacosbane 4y ago
you didn't provide any hints why it wouldn't work for you, so i recommend you look at scikit-learn's neighbors module (i.e., construct NearestNeighbors object and query it). https://scikit-learn.org/stable&#x2
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by tacosbane 4y ago
ads are essentially noise. some high-nines number of ads have no effect. to counteract this, demand-side providers came up with ways to fake an effect to look valuable. they then discovered clients couldn't tell the difference between
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by tacosbane 4y ago
correctness and verification are not close to being solved. it's feasible that AI will increase individual developer productivity and narrow the field. it's also possible, and probably more likely, that increased productivity and
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by tacosbane 4y ago
they are glued together in a tent, and feel like it
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by tacosbane 4y ago
https://hnrss.github.io/
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by tacosbane 4y ago
`users and their posts, comments, travels` generates an inner combinatorial explosion
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by tacosbane 4y ago
Learn SQL in depth, not just select and join. I'm tired of writing SQL for DE.
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by tacosbane 4y ago
https://hnrss.org/newest?count=100&points=2
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by tacosbane 4y ago
Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite.
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by tacosbane 4y ago
Elon (personally) and Tesla are revealed as insolvent
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by tacosbane 4y ago
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33908576
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by tacosbane 4y ago
Tesla is better off without Elon. TSLA is Elon.
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by tacosbane 4y ago
Ask it about something you know a lot about. The combine that with another thing you know a lot about. If you're still worried, then I guess I'm in the control group. ( https://xkcd.com/2576/ )
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by tacosbane 4y ago
self-burn
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by tacosbane 4y ago
See https://hnrss.github.io/ Filtering on points or comments will cut off the long tail.
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by tacosbane 4y ago
don't ever do, say, or think anything because of malcolm gladwell
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by tacosbane 4y ago
postgres has window functions but it does not have the `qualify` clause.
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by tacosbane 4y ago
I think every dialect has an idiomatic way to do what you're asking. e.g., in Snowflake it's `select * from sales_department_details qualify no_products_sold = max(no_products_sold) over (partition by sales_person_id)`, PSQL `sel
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by tacosbane 4y ago
if you don't feel pretty strongly that it's worth it, it's probably not

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