I think the other alternative is that the senior guy thinks that the junior guy is working on a problem where the juice isn't worth the squeeze. "Just ask an LLM" can be interpreted as "if the AI can't give you a quick…
I don't think this is entirely true, insofar as non-local models inherently have a "man cannot serve two masters" problem. The end user and the org running the AI may have different goals. That means even if AI…
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/unbound/classrev/kipling.ht... I think the history of children's literature may be shorter than you think.
My search returned what might as well have been a random assortment of bible verses. It made me wonder what Terry Davis would have thought of modern AI. Would it be the natural evolution of his shortcut for random bible…
The same guy found Sympy was similarly far behind in differential equations (although Maple edges out Mathematica here): https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_ode_tests/index.htm He does a few other side-by-side…
Does SageMath use Sympy, or is there some other integrator built in? Last I heard Sympy was one of the worst performers, even among other open source CASs. https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports...
How do they stack up doing actual computer algebra things like symbolic integration? https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports... Note that alternative open source solvers like Fricas fail 10x the…
I don't think anyone really knows. I consider these scenarios: 1) We stumble onto an algorithmic improvement in intelligence. This isn't just "what humans do but faster", its "better than what humans do". I've got no…
I'm don't know what makes a bad CEO but I've definitely worked with people who could be replaced by a current-gen AI.
I think that what technical people fail to understand is that a lot of the time, "compliance" is not the same as a binary compiles/does not compile. For a lot of rules/regulations, compliance means "making enough effort…
Something else to note: The lab tested for chromium in two ways: one test (ICP) measures all chromium of any kind, and the other measures hexavalent chromium specifically. The ICP test returned a concentration that was…
A counterpoint is this The lab tested for chromium in two ways: one test (ICP) measures all chromium of any kind, and the other measures hexavalent chromium specifically. The ICP test returned a concentration that was…
So I've got a gut feeling that math (like human languages (like programming languages)) is best learned in service of some greater end. I look at some truly impressive projects like CLASP which sprang into existence not…
HTTP error codes are divided between server (5xx) and client (4xx). Where do these "application errors" occur if neither on a server nor a client? I think the reality is that management sees "5xx means server error, so…
> The API failed silently because the database connection pool was exhausted downstream. I work with a team that does stuff like this, returning a 200 and a body containing "error: I didn't do what you said because…
That's the thing with evaporation: you don't want your water to leave stuff behind after it evaporates because that will foul your equipment and cause lower efficiency. You could in principle design systems with enough…
But for things like e.g. DAG systems, it would be great to be able to upload a new API definition and have it immediately available instead of having to recompile anything in the backend.
I've always thought the flexibility should allow python to consume things like gRPC proto files or OpenAPI docs and auto-generate the classes/methods at runtime as opposed to using codegen tools. But as far as I know,…
Taichi, benchmarked in the article, claims to be able to outperform CUDA at some GPU tasks, although their benchmarks look to be a few years old: https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi_benchmark
You think companies are all deliberately leaving big money on the table by making hourglass clothes as an oopsie? They're doing it because people are buying clothes based on superficial appearance, and most people…
Expecting mass-market, lowest-common-denominator products to be tailored to your special circumstance is the issue. Normalize going to a tailor, instead of grumbling about how you aren't benefiting enough from the…
It would have prevented both this 7zip attach and the recent notepad++ one.
I've started using winget to install my apps for exactly this reason. I can't keep track of every url for every piece of software.
This thing was done in 2 weeks. In the orgs I've worked in, you'd be lucky to get HR approval to create a job posting within 2 weeks.
"I have no tools because I've destroyed my tools with my tools" is a phrase I think to myself at least weekly.
I think the other alternative is that the senior guy thinks that the junior guy is working on a problem where the juice isn't worth the squeeze. "Just ask an LLM" can be interpreted as "if the AI can't give you a quick…
I don't think this is entirely true, insofar as non-local models inherently have a "man cannot serve two masters" problem. The end user and the org running the AI may have different goals. That means even if AI…
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/unbound/classrev/kipling.ht... I think the history of children's literature may be shorter than you think.
My search returned what might as well have been a random assortment of bible verses. It made me wonder what Terry Davis would have thought of modern AI. Would it be the natural evolution of his shortcut for random bible…
The same guy found Sympy was similarly far behind in differential equations (although Maple edges out Mathematica here): https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_ode_tests/index.htm He does a few other side-by-side…
Does SageMath use Sympy, or is there some other integrator built in? Last I heard Sympy was one of the worst performers, even among other open source CASs. https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports...
How do they stack up doing actual computer algebra things like symbolic integration? https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports... Note that alternative open source solvers like Fricas fail 10x the…
I don't think anyone really knows. I consider these scenarios: 1) We stumble onto an algorithmic improvement in intelligence. This isn't just "what humans do but faster", its "better than what humans do". I've got no…
I'm don't know what makes a bad CEO but I've definitely worked with people who could be replaced by a current-gen AI.
I think that what technical people fail to understand is that a lot of the time, "compliance" is not the same as a binary compiles/does not compile. For a lot of rules/regulations, compliance means "making enough effort…
Something else to note: The lab tested for chromium in two ways: one test (ICP) measures all chromium of any kind, and the other measures hexavalent chromium specifically. The ICP test returned a concentration that was…
A counterpoint is this The lab tested for chromium in two ways: one test (ICP) measures all chromium of any kind, and the other measures hexavalent chromium specifically. The ICP test returned a concentration that was…
So I've got a gut feeling that math (like human languages (like programming languages)) is best learned in service of some greater end. I look at some truly impressive projects like CLASP which sprang into existence not…
HTTP error codes are divided between server (5xx) and client (4xx). Where do these "application errors" occur if neither on a server nor a client? I think the reality is that management sees "5xx means server error, so…
> The API failed silently because the database connection pool was exhausted downstream. I work with a team that does stuff like this, returning a 200 and a body containing "error: I didn't do what you said because…
That's the thing with evaporation: you don't want your water to leave stuff behind after it evaporates because that will foul your equipment and cause lower efficiency. You could in principle design systems with enough…
But for things like e.g. DAG systems, it would be great to be able to upload a new API definition and have it immediately available instead of having to recompile anything in the backend.
I've always thought the flexibility should allow python to consume things like gRPC proto files or OpenAPI docs and auto-generate the classes/methods at runtime as opposed to using codegen tools. But as far as I know,…
Taichi, benchmarked in the article, claims to be able to outperform CUDA at some GPU tasks, although their benchmarks look to be a few years old: https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi_benchmark
You think companies are all deliberately leaving big money on the table by making hourglass clothes as an oopsie? They're doing it because people are buying clothes based on superficial appearance, and most people…
Expecting mass-market, lowest-common-denominator products to be tailored to your special circumstance is the issue. Normalize going to a tailor, instead of grumbling about how you aren't benefiting enough from the…
It would have prevented both this 7zip attach and the recent notepad++ one.
I've started using winget to install my apps for exactly this reason. I can't keep track of every url for every piece of software.
This thing was done in 2 weeks. In the orgs I've worked in, you'd be lucky to get HR approval to create a job posting within 2 weeks.
"I have no tools because I've destroyed my tools with my tools" is a phrase I think to myself at least weekly.