Well said! The lines from this movie are written in a way that make it easy for people to relate to this vague notion that 'experience' is different from 'learning'. But quantitatively speaking it's less clear what the…
Everyone knows there is bias. The problem this article highlights is that by delegating screening and human judgment to a few AI vendors those vendors will bias all employers in the same way.
It's a side effect of rewarding 20-somethings with lots of money to do 'smart' things with stuff they learn in an undergraduate degree. It's easy to conflate recognition with achievement when that's all you know in life.
If both systems have a good clock. Then the synchronization messages only need to contain the time delta to correct the time (phase?) drift to achieve full synchronization.
The highest profile recent case that I can find is Rambler vs Igor Sysoev on the development of Nginx. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771144 Although in this particular case, I tend to agree with Igor as he was…
Absolutely! The backlog is enormous though, and much of mathematics requires a great deal of work to understand it to the depth required before a novel application becomes apparent.
The problem with exams is that everyone has a bad experience with a poorly written one. Well-written exams will have questions that test students at different levels of understanding across the whole curriculum. So a…
I feel like there is a lot of nuance around this topic that is getting lost in the noise. The direct and indirect financial impact of technical decisions are indeed hard to measure. But some technical decisions…
I don't think there is a bias in the field towards a youth narrative. I think there is a bias in the media. Nobody I've ever met would expect a breakthrough from a 20 something year old no matter how much of a genius…
Isn't this the fundamental problem of all AI chatbots? If the problem is costing thousands of dollars (a week?), why not hire a person? If it's not costing thousands of dollars, why would I hire a software engineer to…
I can imagine a future where writing that is considered sloppy today is considered good because of LLMs.
I don't think they're suggesting we reduce the amount of faculty. They're suggesting that you ask all the faculty to share less space, increasing the efficiency of the real estate holdings. Also by reducing the number…
Technically it's the same. But behaviorally it's not. When pulling in more dependencies is so easy, it's very hard to slow down and ask the question do we need all of this? Mucking around with cmake adds enough friction…
There's a softer component to healthcare which is that people can overreact to medical results. If a doctor administers a scan, finds a handful of likely benign things but wants to administer another scan later on down…
Did power tools not cause layoffs? That seems like a dubious claim to me. Building a house today takes far fewer people than 100 years ago. Seems unlikely that all the extra labor found other things to do in…
Maybe. I'm not sure its that different though? If one person can do the work of two because of power tools, then why keep both? Same with AI. How people feel about it doesn't seem relevant. Maybe the right example is…
They should have known better. It was their job to sell the box. Instead they wasted a tonne of their clients money on a proof-of-concept for something that was never going to work. Using the word 'impossible' was…
I think this is partly an education problem, and partly an industry culture problem. Lots of young developers are incentivized to 'contribute' to open-source as a way to demonstrate that they can actually write…
As people get more comfortable with AI. I think what everyone is noticing is that AI is terrible at solving problems that don't have large amounts of readily available training data. So, basically if there isn't already…
Because developers are incentivized to have marketable software skills. Not marketable build things that are cheap and profitable skills. Moore's law was supposed to make it simpler and cheaper to do more…
The problem with Wikipedia as an Academic source is that it's impossible to cite. You have no idea whether the information on there today is going to be there tomorrow or was there yesterday.
The "move to a farm" dream seems like it would be nice if one didn't have any financial stress. So, more like retire to a farm.
A large part of that training is done by asking people if responses 'look right'. It turns out that people are more likely to think a model is good when it kisses their ass than if it has a terrible personality. This is…
Seems sensible in Europe to tie "open source" eligible for financial incentives to a European licence like the EUPL.
It's hard to write about the broader context with any expertise in a blog post written from personal experience. My own thinking is that the big competitive advantage that big tech firms have over small ones is the…
Well said! The lines from this movie are written in a way that make it easy for people to relate to this vague notion that 'experience' is different from 'learning'. But quantitatively speaking it's less clear what the…
Everyone knows there is bias. The problem this article highlights is that by delegating screening and human judgment to a few AI vendors those vendors will bias all employers in the same way.
It's a side effect of rewarding 20-somethings with lots of money to do 'smart' things with stuff they learn in an undergraduate degree. It's easy to conflate recognition with achievement when that's all you know in life.
If both systems have a good clock. Then the synchronization messages only need to contain the time delta to correct the time (phase?) drift to achieve full synchronization.
The highest profile recent case that I can find is Rambler vs Igor Sysoev on the development of Nginx. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771144 Although in this particular case, I tend to agree with Igor as he was…
Absolutely! The backlog is enormous though, and much of mathematics requires a great deal of work to understand it to the depth required before a novel application becomes apparent.
The problem with exams is that everyone has a bad experience with a poorly written one. Well-written exams will have questions that test students at different levels of understanding across the whole curriculum. So a…
I feel like there is a lot of nuance around this topic that is getting lost in the noise. The direct and indirect financial impact of technical decisions are indeed hard to measure. But some technical decisions…
I don't think there is a bias in the field towards a youth narrative. I think there is a bias in the media. Nobody I've ever met would expect a breakthrough from a 20 something year old no matter how much of a genius…
Isn't this the fundamental problem of all AI chatbots? If the problem is costing thousands of dollars (a week?), why not hire a person? If it's not costing thousands of dollars, why would I hire a software engineer to…
I can imagine a future where writing that is considered sloppy today is considered good because of LLMs.
I don't think they're suggesting we reduce the amount of faculty. They're suggesting that you ask all the faculty to share less space, increasing the efficiency of the real estate holdings. Also by reducing the number…
Technically it's the same. But behaviorally it's not. When pulling in more dependencies is so easy, it's very hard to slow down and ask the question do we need all of this? Mucking around with cmake adds enough friction…
There's a softer component to healthcare which is that people can overreact to medical results. If a doctor administers a scan, finds a handful of likely benign things but wants to administer another scan later on down…
Did power tools not cause layoffs? That seems like a dubious claim to me. Building a house today takes far fewer people than 100 years ago. Seems unlikely that all the extra labor found other things to do in…
Maybe. I'm not sure its that different though? If one person can do the work of two because of power tools, then why keep both? Same with AI. How people feel about it doesn't seem relevant. Maybe the right example is…
They should have known better. It was their job to sell the box. Instead they wasted a tonne of their clients money on a proof-of-concept for something that was never going to work. Using the word 'impossible' was…
I think this is partly an education problem, and partly an industry culture problem. Lots of young developers are incentivized to 'contribute' to open-source as a way to demonstrate that they can actually write…
As people get more comfortable with AI. I think what everyone is noticing is that AI is terrible at solving problems that don't have large amounts of readily available training data. So, basically if there isn't already…
Because developers are incentivized to have marketable software skills. Not marketable build things that are cheap and profitable skills. Moore's law was supposed to make it simpler and cheaper to do more…
The problem with Wikipedia as an Academic source is that it's impossible to cite. You have no idea whether the information on there today is going to be there tomorrow or was there yesterday.
The "move to a farm" dream seems like it would be nice if one didn't have any financial stress. So, more like retire to a farm.
A large part of that training is done by asking people if responses 'look right'. It turns out that people are more likely to think a model is good when it kisses their ass than if it has a terrible personality. This is…
Seems sensible in Europe to tie "open source" eligible for financial incentives to a European licence like the EUPL.
It's hard to write about the broader context with any expertise in a blog post written from personal experience. My own thinking is that the big competitive advantage that big tech firms have over small ones is the…