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by vellum 2y ago
I had always been curious as to what his thoughts were on generative AI, but he stopped posting a while back. Now, you can find his thoughts in the Dynamicland FAQ. tl;dr - he's not a fan. https://dynamicland.org/202
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by vellum 2y ago
You can try AWS Bedrock or Openrouter if that happens. They both have the Claude API.
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by vellum 3y ago
From OpenAI's RLHF paper[1]: "By default, when we train a PPO model on our API distribution, it suffers from an “alignment tax”, as its performance on several public NLP datasets decreases." On the HELM[2] site, you can see a
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by vellum 3y ago
It's the "alignment tax". From OpenAI's RLHF paper[1]: "By default, when we train a PPO model on our API distribution, it suffers from an “alignment tax”, as its performance on several public NLP datasets decrease
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More than a third of community college students have vanished(seattletimes.com)
45 points by vellum 3y ago|68 comments
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by vellum 4y ago
Goodhart's law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
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Amazon’s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands(vox.com)
1 points by vellum 4y ago|0 comments
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by vellum 4y ago
You don't have to care about your job. Most people have about four good hours of work in them. Just do your four hours, and take the rest of the day off. No job is worth burnout.
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by vellum 4y ago
You should find a 100% remote job. If other people are there full time, but you're only there 0-2 days a week, you're never going to be that close with them. You said you're happy when you're at home, but going into th
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by vellum 6y ago
David Heinemeier Hansson gave a great talk on air quality and touched upon various HVAC systems. One thing that really stuck out, was his claim that you need 80 CFM per person per room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqh8
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by vellum 8y ago
Have you thought about installing a screen door in your bedroom? You could also look into reinforcing it with chicken wire or hail cloth to keep the cat out.
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by vellum 8y ago
Ordinary Yemenis don't attend cocktail parties at Davos. http://www.nrttv.com/EN/News.aspx?id=5863&MapID=3
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by vellum 9y ago
This lists L1-4 salaries at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Twitter. https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...
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by vellum 9y ago
This is a thing with a lot of couples when they retire. They're not used to being around each other 24/7 and drive each other crazy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/divorce-after-50-re...
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by vellum 9y ago
If you're entry-level and don't have a network, certs help you get through the HR filter. Once you're mid-level, you can use your network and experience.
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by vellum 9y ago
The article never explicitly mentioned him finding a new place to live. I found this reference in a people.com article: Eventually, Dladla was able to pay rent again and even earned extra income that he used to start a book club for kids
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by vellum 9y ago
Each moment of silence makes the interviewee feel more tense. Instead of staring at them, why not leave the room while they read through the code and collect their thoughts? You could even have HR do it. When they arrive, HR hands them th
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by vellum 9y ago
Check out some of the companies here. They hire based on trial projects (mostly unpaid). https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
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by vellum 9y ago
>The Baltic is heavily polluted by all sorts of heavy metals Not like China's waters are any better. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25822200
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by vellum 9y ago
CERT and the Zero Day Initiative handle disclosure for you, in some cases. https://vulcoord.cert.org/VulReport/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/about/
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by vellum 10y ago
A better analogy would be if hospitals had doctors do o-chem problems during interviews. Who would do better? The student who just took the class, or the doctor who's been practicing for 10 years? Also, doctors look stuff up all the
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Uber’s David Plouffe Will Run Politics for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative(techcrunch.com)
1 points by vellum 10y ago|0 comments
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by vellum 10y ago
>"trying to FIRE" is FIRE an acronym?
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by vellum 10y ago
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WarningSignsOfCorporateDoom * No more free soda or coffee. * Toilet paper quality suddenly drops. * Someone comes by to measure your desk and cubicle, but refuses to tell you why.
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by vellum 10y ago
If they just need a blog, I'd recommend using tumblr and a custom domain name.
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by vellum 10y ago
https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/us/whit...
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by vellum 10y ago
You need to talk to your people a lot, in order for them to get comfortable talking to you. 95% of the time, you're just shooting the shit. But 5% of the time, they'll have some critical information. Conversely, if you don&#x27
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by vellum 11y ago
That's a double edged sword. Now, your code has to compile...
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by vellum 11y ago
People usually have a coffee date first, before doing dinner. Here, you're doing dinner first, and then lunch. The first pass should be minimal in commitment, and give both sides a chance to get to know each other. They pass fizzbuz
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by vellum 11y ago
In California, districts supplement state funding with local bond measures. http://www.bondbuyer.com/news/regionalnews/california-school...

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