twelfthnight

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by twelfthnight 16d ago
I wonder if most people like/don’t care about recommendations and don’t want to spend time giving companies more feedback. I work in streaming recommendations and basically no one voluntarily gives extra feedback, and most initiatives
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by twelfthnight 5mo ago
I’ve been in so many meetings where the outcome is to plan another meeting, and include even more folks. Whichever team brings the most folks steers the decision in their favor, and thus manages hire more unnecessary employees for political
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by twelfthnight 6mo ago
Seems equally valid to come out of this with the takeaway that code quality _does_ matter, because poor coding practices are what led to the leak. Sure, the weights are where the real value lives, but if the quality is so lax they leak thei
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by twelfthnight 6mo ago
I agree AI could probably do a decent job on Kaggle problems. Of course, almost no DS job is building models with well-defined objectives and perfect data. The DS and MLE folks I work with mostly spend their time reframing ill-posed produ
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Classic 2024 company. Started out with a few genuinely cool products and a quirky, fun attitude. Got popular, decided to exploit that good will and now everything they do seems greedy and inauthentic (regardless of whether any specific pr
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
That sounds right to me. I don't work in physics, but have many colleagues who have left it for that reason. ~The said, I think Dune still does seem useful. Hard to say whether the cost overruns are a lack of good management or if the
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
I don't know all the details, but I think they are starting to do novel work with the accelerator to produce neutrinos in an experiment called Dune. So there actually is important stuff being done that isn't just superceded by Ce
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
The larger scale models aren't necessarily built on the smaller models, they are independent and generally less specific. They are probably even inputs to the more specific models. So, like rising sea levels and increased temps (on ave
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Huh. I actually can understand devs not wanting to need permission to install libraries/versions, but with a pull-through cache there's no restrictions save for security vulnerabilities. I think it actually winds up speeding up ci
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Because of containers, my company now can roll out deployments using well defined CI/CD scripts, where we can control installations to force usage of pass-through caches (GCP artifact registry). So it actually has that data you're
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Agreed that the argument "overprotection leads to lack of free speech in academia" is tenuous. That said, I do wonder if we all _are_ being protected from opposing views these days. Like, we come across the opposing views but usua
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
The article mentions Clarence Thomas has been courted (even bribed?) by the very people paying the lawyers trying to overturn Chevron. I think it's naive to believe the judges don't have policy preferences that are strongly refle
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
If you had an efficient market, wouldn't a competitor charge just a little less than others who are using surge pricing? Isn't the whole efficient market thing about how eventually prices should reach the cost of production, which
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Honest question, what different decisions could you make with a 48-52 interval than a completely uninformed interval of 0-100?
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
True, I suppose my disagreement is that I believe it doesn't go far enough to explain how big of a deal it is, and how there _aren't_ ways to deal with it without substantial, subjective intervention from the forecasters. I'v
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
This is great statistics, but it avoids the problem that moving to online polling has made it very difficult to get representative populations, so the data itself is biased in ways that cannot be counteracted by methods (only by assumptions
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
I've worked as a data scientist for political campaigns (but no longer). The elephant in the room is that there are so many forces that make this election different from historical ones, from polls moving online away from phones (maki
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Unless I'm missing something, I don't think this blog really defines "reason". So, like, this is a completely pointless question.
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Mostly agree, although I think "good" engineering culture is so incredibly rare that it feels strange to call it "good" and everything else "bad". It's more like "regular" engineering culture vs
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
This resonates with me, although I would go a step further to say the makeup/experience of the developers is a product of the competency of leadership. Most leaders wind up in their positions out of pure luck and chicanery. I can&#x2
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
I for one would love to have a boss that cares about those things.
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
So true. Communication is insanely difficult. Hiring competent, motivated engineers is insanely difficult. Working around short-term thinking executives is insanely difficult. Iterating until you stumble on a success product is insanely
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Totally agree. And I honestly don't think Starbucks removing seating has much if any impact on reducing "third spaces" since almost everyone buying Starbucks was getting it to go anyway. This article reads more like someone
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
I'm an American and I don't get it either. There are tons of local coffee shops _everywhere_ in America, most with better coffee, happier baristas and unique atmosphere. Have so many Americans/Canadians never... like... been
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
The author's library is being renovated, not disappearing. One large corporation (Starbucks) is enshittifying its experience by removing seating. I don't think the premise "third spaces are disappearing" is a valid conc
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Even in production my guess is most teams would be better off just rolling their own embedding model (huggingface) + caching (redis/rocksdb) + FAISS (nearest neighbor) and be good to go. I suppose there is some expertise needed, but wo
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
I think they are talking about bag-of-words. If you apply a dimensionality reduction technique like SVD or even random projection on bag-of-words, you can effectively create a basic embedding. Check out latent semantic indexing / laten
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Not directly like FDM, but my understanding is you can design the part with "escape holes", so it's possible in certain circumstances.
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Those are good points. I would have thought that the trend would started around 2015/2016 if global crises were the main cause. There is a small jump in 2016 for 18-25, but, I don't want to read too much into it.
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by twelfthnight 2y ago
Yeah, agreed. Was thinking something similar but your comment is better measured and nuanced. Like, "social media is the problem" suggests the way to help young people is get them off their phone. In some ways, yeah, I do think t

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