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I have a 100% remote job, but I had them set me up with a desk in a coworking space. I just felt that being alone all day was just a lonely way to live my life. It was great at the…

Every technical thing you know is informed by your practice in an area. There's a lot of roles where you don't even have to think about which algorithm is implemented behind your f…

Google does seem to have an issue with maintaining promising apps. Maybe those would actually would do a bit better if the teams those engineers were on actually had to make money.…

Neither does exactly what alt-tab does! Now command-tab does what I want.

I got a mac for the first time this year. Honestly, it feels like taking a shower after getting home from the beach on a sunny day when you've been wearing sunscreen. Everything ju…

Or comedians..

For this kind of thing, you can use LDA to draw out topics, then use clever prompting using the results of that with RAG to create summaries.

Yikes. So they're aiming for the chafing experience of working remote, but like, also when you're not remote.

I'd say it's basically standard everywhere outside the US. I lived in Canada and Europe, and eneryone is on it. All my fellow immigrants in the US are all on WhatsApp groups.

With WhatsApp, your phone number allowed you to see everyone in your contacts that you could message on there, so you could see everyone straight away. Without that, you'd have to …

What's your source for this? European countries are quite different from each other, and I'm wondering if your experience was only in restaurants while travelling (which is a very …

I wouldn't, but the mindset in traditional engineering is very different to tech. After a project, they might be required to conduct a post mortem per IEEE or something like that.

I mean you can argue all kinds of possibilities and in an abstract enough way anything can be true. However, people who think these things have a soul and feelings in any way simil…

When I saw this I thought it was a "water is wet" type story, because this telescope is supposed to see further than all the other ones we've made. The gravitational lensing aspect…

I don't think that's quite where we're at. I think we're converging somewhere more "like the robotic tasks that a human does". What I want from ChatGPT is bullet point facts, or sh…

You're making 2 assumptions there!

Like, without that inert gas there would have to be something else. Being in a pure oxygen environment for a prolonged period has health impacts to many animals including us. Anyth…

For each token, the model is run again from scratch on the sentence too, so any memory lasts just long enough to generate (a little less than) a word. The next word is generated by…

I mean, my world view is that you should listen to people's ideas when they've had some good ones in the past. I'm not saying we have to believe they're always right. I don't belie…

I'm not Musk's biggest fan by any means, but after decades in existance he made electric cars "a thing", and he drove the costs of getting to space down by so much that it makes th…

Presumably for whatever reason it worked well for us to develop as we did down here? Stops everything from exploding, dissolves all the other gases quite nicely? What other gas wou…

I could very easily believe that if I saw proof, but it just feels a bit wrong to train a model on model outputs. Even in the main article here, the model did better with fewer fin…

Is this proven to work? ML models are usually trained to learn a model of the environment by giving them environment data. I would have expected feeding it model outputs just train…

My dream is for the entire industry to start demanding this perfect workflow. Then I will be even more valuable wherever I go.

These GPUs aren't going to heat themselves!