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inconfident2021

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    Comment #37413975

    > It turned out that architectural improvements really did matter Transformer (2017). NET based Diffusion (2015). Score based diffusion (2019). DDPM (2020). Uses unet (2015). Clip …

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    Ask HN: What are the benchmarks in your domain that is worthy of beating?

    For example in image processing people optimize for FID score on ImageNet, CelebFaces and so on. Likewise what are some good benchmarks for different fields? Also what does beating…

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    Comment #37226309

    People say our job is safe, but aren't we in similar position to the horses who got replaced by cars or telegraph operators who just vanished?

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    Comment #37226186

    There seems to be many people who thinks sales is the way to go. So does it mean that being a average engineer will have no value in substantial future?

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    Comment #37205634

    How can one demonstrate this skill? When academics look for grades and HR looks for buzz word. Is there some keywords that people are missing which will help them demonstrate it?

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    Comment #37202609

    I agree with public speaking. Whenever I see someone able to even create a video and upload with a face, I am in awe with their confidence. Public speaking just takes everything to…

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    Ask HN: What is the skill worth investing for next 20 years?

    With uncertainty in the role of software engineering because of current market and it potentially being automated, which field of computing is worth investing upon? Are there even …

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    Comment #37168271

    I call this survivorship bias. No matter what you make, only few care enough. Find this few is hardest part. Because there are millions others doing the same damn thing. Everyone h…

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    Comment #37132362

    You can now read new papers and follow ups from the community! It is really useful. You already know chain of thoughts. So you are on a good track! Try to use these LLMs to automat…

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    Comment #37132286

    They would probably not pass in the div or filler elements. The reason I passed the div was I wanted things to be surrounded in that exact space. So when the model output it, the b…

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    Comment #37132257

    This is a good list of points! Knowingly or unknowingly I have been doing most of these things. 4-5 is currently unreachable for me. Others are quite manageable!

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    Comment #37131446

    I have zero design skills and I had to create something using javascript. I gave some prompts and it was able to come up with a pop-up box. It needed some tweaking but having to no…

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    Comment #37131425

    You write requirements and your expectations and make the model match your expectations. Until you have clear expectations of what you want from it, prompting LLM is pretty useless…

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    Comment #37131407

    > understand X number of words, or pages, or paragraphs. LLMs do not have the ability to reason with numbers. Most of the time they are hallucinating. One good strategy is to make …

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    Ask HN: I learned useless skill of prompt engineering, how relevant will it be?

    I consider myself to be a pretty good prompter. Been using the LLMs for a long time now. Most of the time I manage to get the desired results out of LLM models. Do you think this s…

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    Comment #36991929

    I don't know what I can say about others, as for me, I am quite good at getting what I want from LLMs. I created a chat app using chatgpt without ever having background in frontend…

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    Comment #36981018

    > at the very least, if you've gone so long and have gotten N hundred rejections you know it probably won't work and you'll have to make alternate plans. I will start preparing for…

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    Comment #36966898

    My only question, why aren't they using gltf? What is the issue with gltf? It supports most of the things?

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    Comment #36966854

    I understand! Thank you so much for the execution plan. Yes, I am CS major who is about to graduate soon. I will review my resume and try to make it better! Figuring out the reject…

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    Comment #36962307

    The framework looks solid! My pressing issue is I will not have stable source of income in near future. The sad episode kicked in because of the current market. I have no experienc…

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    Comment #36961798

    I haven't started my career yet. :(

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    Comment #36961439

    Ruined bachelors. Ruined masters. Mid profile. No potential to be hired. Zero confidence in skills. Bad resume. Bad language skills. Horrible ego.

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    Ask HN: How to Get Back in Life?

    What would you suggest a person who is in mid twenties, lost all their confidence, and has almost given up on being productive?

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    Comment #36903329

    I myself am a happy person. I can enjoy watching the void. Seriously, I can waste time like that and be completely happy. But it makes me kinda sad when I realize that I need to be…

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    Comment #36596556

    Even for AI/ML mine is restricted to vision/graphics. I have some experience with classical ML methods but they dwarf the experience in deep learning based methods. Even there most…