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That sounds like an excellent thing based on that last sentence. Anecdotally, I hear people talk about trade school as being much more practical compared to the majority of traditi…

1,2,and 4 all have owners and non-owners. Are you suggesting that the parents of the adult children and the adult child should also be marked as owners? How does the multi generati…

A few tech specs for those who don't want to read through the announcement: * 51 degree field of view. Stated as being like you're working at a 24" monitor. * 4 hours of mixed-use …

Did the security researcher point the LLM at the blob of information and say "Find vulnerabilities" or was the LLM told to "determine if vulnerability X is present in this blob"? C…

Same. I've used it for debugging failed canary tests which required scripts and very specific knowledge on the canary platform that I wouldnt of ever spent time on. I also have scr…

I work at a company that mainly makes money off ads. Theres no doubt in my mind that the end goal is to make their ads blend into organic content and make them indistinguishable. T…

I have recently began driving projects with multiple contributors that are following a plan I laid out and got buy-in on. I attempted to run the project entirely asynchronous, wher…

Meta had grown headcount by 50% in the last 7 years. In the same time frame, they tripled their revenue up to mid $200B range. Even if every employee fired saved $500k a year, that…

Im at a public, well known tech company. We got broad and wide access to AI tools maybe a month ago now. AI tools meaning claude code, codex, cursor and a set of other random AI to…

As someone who has worked in an ad domain, 100% agree. Ads are like a dangling carrot. There's always a way to get ad gains by blending them with organic content. What starts off a…

It also skews towards power users, as it allows for more ad inventory. If they're going to do an ad auction marketplace with bidding snd such then they're likely to rollout slowly …

I work on ads as a SWE at a company youve heard of. Albeit, its been less than a few years for me. Maybe OpenAI does things different, but as soon as an OKR around ad performance g…

And no change in exercise or other levels of physical activity, home life, work life, or other diets attempted, right? Its awesome that youre feeling better. Its possible, but hard…

How does this compare to Trainer Road?

What other resources would you recommend for learning about optimizations? I use multi armed bandits a lot at work, and I wonder what other algorithms I should look into. Its hard …

No public write ups. What information would you want to see? I think there's two categories: infra ops info, and then product insights and "gotchas"/unintuitive but valid results.

Hey, an area I actually work on and use in production! MAB in our case has shown improvements in our A/B metrics. My general takeaways for my experience with MAB: * we have a singl…

How big was the 2011 tsunami? Is 3m bigger or smaller?

Forcing reasoning is analogous to requiring a student to show their work when solving a problem if im understanding the paper correctly. > you’d have to either memorize the entire …

some core GCP cloud services are down. might be a good time for GCP dependent people to go for a walk, do some stretches, and check back in a couple hours.

> I've found great success with LLMs in the research phase of coding. This is what I've found it most helpful for. Typically I want an example specific to my scenario and use an LL…

Reinforcement learning system. Currently trying to understand how to implement contextual thompson sampling and its details after doing non contextual thompson sampling. My YouTube…

This is incredible work. Its jaw dropping to learn that something like this is possible at all. Sometimes I wish I could work for a company whose products make a meaningful positiv…

Maybe a silly question, but has anyone used these in production? Or used libraries in production which are built on these structures? Im imagining a meeting about some project desi…

Do you know the name of the problem or strategy used for solving the problem? I'd be interested in looking it up! I own DDIA but after a few chapters of how database work behind th…