What about blog spam written by human content writers? The trouble is we've already had a web flooded with "ai content" long before GPT was public. Plenty of young writers have been trained to churn out thoughtless…
The problem lies with carbon's essential role as part of the energy cycle that powers the majority of this planet. H2O + (Solar) Energy + CO2 => Useful hydrocarbons (everything form sugar to gasoline) O2 + Hydrocarbons…
Strong agree on the remote training being entirely possible. My first dev job was remote (long before the pandemic) and onboarding was not a problem at all. In fact because you need people to get set up remotely, I find…
Not to mention the added hypocrisy that at nearly every company I've worked at, big and small, C-levels are almost never physically in the main office building. Sometimes they're traveling the globe to work on making…
> I don't understand how intelligent people can continue to believe this stuff is the future of finance. My experience is that all of the really intelligent people interested in crypto did leave after the ~2012 wave of…
For those curious what the big deal is here: PyTrees make it wildly easier to take derivatives with respect to parameters involving a complex structure. This makes it much easier to organize code for non-trivial models.…
A good chunk of this comes directly from Richard Hamming's incredible The Art of doing Science and Engineering (a video of the specific lecture on n-dimensional spaces can be found here[0]) and yet I see no mention of…
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Problem is that everything needs X powered by clean energy, which means we need both a lot more clean energy and, if we want to slow/stop climate change, to massively reduce our use of fossil fuels... which requires a…
I'm still not entirely convinced that pipes aren't an anti-pattern. Absolutely an improvement over nested function calls: a(b(c(d))) vs d |> c |> b |> a but I'm not convinced pipes are better than more verbose code that…
It's open source in the sense of OSINT [0]. Clearly confusing on a site like Hacker News, but this has been standard usage of the term for that community for a long time now. 0.…
I'm surprised how long the "solution in search of a problem" trend has dominated tech product design, despite obvious and repeated failures of this approach to produce results. AI/ML products fundamentally don't make…
You can implement SVM, gradient boosted decisions trees, and almost all classical models using the techniques of differentiable programming and it will have 0 impact on the amount of data required. Massive Neural Nets…
I'm a huge fan of classical AI, and adore PAIP, but this isn't really true if your goal is anything other than a deep understanding of AI in the most general sense. While it would be great if everyone interested in the…
Out of curiosity, what's the use case here? It seems like if the goal is to "play around with vector databases", why not just install it on your local machine? Part of using these tools is learning how they work and…
> Gone is the naive belief that rare/valuable skills secure higher salaries over a long period of time. While I agree that this is a naive belief to have (at this point in my career I think there's almost a slightly…
Personally I think this is a strength of Haskell that many people don't really recognize and appreciate. It's a language the provides a lot of flexibility. If you want it to be a pure research language, it's happy to do…
I worked for a travel startup for a bit and after that experience I only book airfare and hotels directly. Specifically with airfare, a 3rd party is not allowed to sell for less than the airline directly, so it's always…
Thanks for the correction!
I have a hard time believing you have serious experience working in a tech company anywhere near leadership. I've worked at a pretty wide range of tech companies throughout my 15+ year career. When I was young I would…
oh I fully agree. I'm just pointing out that even the defining example of "moonshot" took some serious dedication of resources and time. What's really wild is that the entire Apollo program cost ~$25 Billion in 1973 (of…
Metaverse has already been deprioritized, and Meta is shifting to generative AI [0]. I was always a huge skeptic of the Metaverse conceptually, but it was a moonshot project (and I'll be the first to admit, skeptics are…
Don't love it, it's not correct. > what the reward / punishment system really equates to Nothing, and least as far as neural network training goes. This is an extremely poor analogy regarding how neural networks learn.…
> I'm sure it leaves enough out to make most experts angry It's not that it leaves out details, it's that the articles metaphors are not actually correct in regards to the way deep learning works. This post mostly…
> This is how neural networks work: they see many examples and get rewarded or punished based on whether their guesses are correct. This description more closely describes reinforcement learning, rather than gradient…
What about blog spam written by human content writers? The trouble is we've already had a web flooded with "ai content" long before GPT was public. Plenty of young writers have been trained to churn out thoughtless…
The problem lies with carbon's essential role as part of the energy cycle that powers the majority of this planet. H2O + (Solar) Energy + CO2 => Useful hydrocarbons (everything form sugar to gasoline) O2 + Hydrocarbons…
Strong agree on the remote training being entirely possible. My first dev job was remote (long before the pandemic) and onboarding was not a problem at all. In fact because you need people to get set up remotely, I find…
Not to mention the added hypocrisy that at nearly every company I've worked at, big and small, C-levels are almost never physically in the main office building. Sometimes they're traveling the globe to work on making…
> I don't understand how intelligent people can continue to believe this stuff is the future of finance. My experience is that all of the really intelligent people interested in crypto did leave after the ~2012 wave of…
For those curious what the big deal is here: PyTrees make it wildly easier to take derivatives with respect to parameters involving a complex structure. This makes it much easier to organize code for non-trivial models.…
A good chunk of this comes directly from Richard Hamming's incredible The Art of doing Science and Engineering (a video of the specific lecture on n-dimensional spaces can be found here[0]) and yet I see no mention of…
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Problem is that everything needs X powered by clean energy, which means we need both a lot more clean energy and, if we want to slow/stop climate change, to massively reduce our use of fossil fuels... which requires a…
I'm still not entirely convinced that pipes aren't an anti-pattern. Absolutely an improvement over nested function calls: a(b(c(d))) vs d |> c |> b |> a but I'm not convinced pipes are better than more verbose code that…
It's open source in the sense of OSINT [0]. Clearly confusing on a site like Hacker News, but this has been standard usage of the term for that community for a long time now. 0.…
I'm surprised how long the "solution in search of a problem" trend has dominated tech product design, despite obvious and repeated failures of this approach to produce results. AI/ML products fundamentally don't make…
You can implement SVM, gradient boosted decisions trees, and almost all classical models using the techniques of differentiable programming and it will have 0 impact on the amount of data required. Massive Neural Nets…
I'm a huge fan of classical AI, and adore PAIP, but this isn't really true if your goal is anything other than a deep understanding of AI in the most general sense. While it would be great if everyone interested in the…
Out of curiosity, what's the use case here? It seems like if the goal is to "play around with vector databases", why not just install it on your local machine? Part of using these tools is learning how they work and…
> Gone is the naive belief that rare/valuable skills secure higher salaries over a long period of time. While I agree that this is a naive belief to have (at this point in my career I think there's almost a slightly…
Personally I think this is a strength of Haskell that many people don't really recognize and appreciate. It's a language the provides a lot of flexibility. If you want it to be a pure research language, it's happy to do…
I worked for a travel startup for a bit and after that experience I only book airfare and hotels directly. Specifically with airfare, a 3rd party is not allowed to sell for less than the airline directly, so it's always…
Thanks for the correction!
I have a hard time believing you have serious experience working in a tech company anywhere near leadership. I've worked at a pretty wide range of tech companies throughout my 15+ year career. When I was young I would…
oh I fully agree. I'm just pointing out that even the defining example of "moonshot" took some serious dedication of resources and time. What's really wild is that the entire Apollo program cost ~$25 Billion in 1973 (of…
Metaverse has already been deprioritized, and Meta is shifting to generative AI [0]. I was always a huge skeptic of the Metaverse conceptually, but it was a moonshot project (and I'll be the first to admit, skeptics are…
Don't love it, it's not correct. > what the reward / punishment system really equates to Nothing, and least as far as neural network training goes. This is an extremely poor analogy regarding how neural networks learn.…
> I'm sure it leaves enough out to make most experts angry It's not that it leaves out details, it's that the articles metaphors are not actually correct in regards to the way deep learning works. This post mostly…
> This is how neural networks work: they see many examples and get rewarded or punished based on whether their guesses are correct. This description more closely describes reinforcement learning, rather than gradient…