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Essentially a funnel report where you want to know the total percent of the population that has reached a given path, but you only know the output probabilities of each step in the…

> a quote of himself Curious, did you seriously not recognize that this is a famous quote from the final scene in Blader Runner ? I read that more as quirky call out to a famous fi…

> Asking me to solve an extremely esoteric problem that has zero relevance to my day-to-day I'm always surprised how useless something is when I don't know it, and suddenly once I …

> It really sucks right now For me, it's been the opposite: the last 2 years have been the best time I've had working in tech since the early 2010s. Around 2019 I was seriously con…

This can be solved by just running "restart and re-run all" as a matter of habit whenever you feel like you are in a good state. If you're looking at someone else's notebook, this …

Many people misunderstand what this case was about. > Homeless need shelter and help. It is inhumane that we let them rot on the streets. The issue being argued was not that homele…

> Rather than educating founders on more fundamental topics such as how to get from 0-1, how to hire, fostering positive culture etc. My experience is that none of these things act…

> no revenue and no profit. Revenue has gone up, but fewer publicly traded companies are making a profit than ever before [0]. I could never understand why so many people just talk…

> compensation packages that truly gifted AI researchers can make now I guess it depends on your definition of "truly gifted" but, working in this space, I've found that there is v…

> things like chain-of-thought/reasoning perform way worse in structured responses That is fairly well establish to be not true.

> Why do I want to read an intro CS book? I've read those before. "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know…

Have you never been to a book store? You don't have to read every word of a book to understand if it's interesting to you. I purchased a bunch of technical books the other day that…

"Don't cast your pearls before swine". When I was younger I used to passionately defend those things I've seen as beautiful, but after years experience talking with people passiona…

I don't think it's that fake. There were people, researchers, that were obsessed with ELIZA back in the day. I personally have a friend who is constantly thinking about fine-tuning…

Boston at number 6? I find this list hard to take too seriously. Despite the city's incredible university culture it's always been fundamentally anti-startup from it's very nature.…

I use VScode every day on linux and have never had an issue with it.

I want to second this regarding desktop Linux. Each major PC build I've had I've tried to go Linux desktop and ultimately failed because I just got tired of switching to windows fo…

I just use a single monitor/mouse/keyboard/mic/camera and then have a usb switch they all plug into so I can easily swap between work and personal. It make switching between workst…

> hard not to regret the choice If you can't handle "regret" in these cases, then you probably shouldn't be in a position where you're deriving the vast majority of your income/wea…

> Now, is it 10k examples? No, but I think it was on the order of hundreds, if not thousands. I have kids so I'm presuming I'm allowed to have an opinion here. This is ignoring the…

Coming up with and quickly adopting new terms to sound "hip" is one of the most important skills for AI practitioners. We've had "agent-based" concepts in CS for decades, but if yo…

> but no-one in the comments here is even mentioning it The post has an entire section discussing this. The problem with text-to-sql is that, as the post elaborates, writing SQL is…

> I think that posting at least one commit per day Notice that the article has been edited. > Edit: A better title would've been "commit every day that you work". I don't mean you …

I would agree except the gap between what's realistically cool about LLMs (make tons of traditional NLP tasks easier/better) and what people are hyping them up to be (potentially w…

Is this written from a different time line were TypeScript doesn't exist? I have a long history of doing FP in a bunch of the traditional FP languages (Scheme/Haskell/etc). Ended u…