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sk11001

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    Comment #42986390

    Pretty cool. Stuff like this doesn't happen enough at non-tech companies.

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    Comment #42821273

    That’s how interviews go though, it’s not like I’ve ever had to use Bayes rule at work but for a few years everyone loved asking about it in screening rounds.

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    Comment #42820806

    It's a great summary for ML interview prep.

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    Comment #42792132

    The HN title moderation ruins posts more often than it helps with anything.

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    Comment #42729798

    I have never seen a single one of his movies but I love watching interviews with him, he had an amazing presence and so much energy.

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    Comment #42697921

    > you can be rejected despite getting 100% But can you be accepted without it?

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    Comment #42616570

    He never had it. If this was 10 years ago, you'd be forgiven for not seeing through it but by this point there's really no excuse.

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    Comment #42424190

    You’re thinking “any data”, he’s thinking “useful data for training an LLM”.

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    Comment #42230771

    I think so, it was bad enough for me to cancel my subscription.

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    Comment #42195917

    Good luck finding a country that doesn’t seem in decline, or improving from horrible to slightly less horrible but still worse than the EU.

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    Comment #42193692

    The mention of quantum computing in your question seems completely random. Do you think something will happen in quantum computing which will make people with only an accounting ed…

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    Comment #42155393

    It’s a very bad use case for an LLM because they don’t have as much polars code in their training data and the polars API has changed a lot in the past couple of years. Copilot is …

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    Comment #42145983

    Getting a new job - changing priorities, difficult market, losing motivation to keep searching. Did well on health goals though.

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    Comment #42129224

    Because comparing these models is way too difficult for a single person to do objectively with just their own brain. So opinions vary. And Claude 3.5 still does pretty dumb things …

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    Comment #42114016

    People in the part of the org that's cut. In my experience most layoffs aren't about cutting x% across teams, they're about the company deciding that they don't need entire functio…

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    Comment #42086163

    The bar for things happening in the world isn't "do we really need this", it never has been. It's more like "does anyone have any incentive to do this", and with AI plenty of compa…

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    Comment #42018686

    The logic is flimsy - having the newer equipment also means looking for reasons to use it to justify the cost so these dentists will often recommend expensive onlays instead of fil…

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    Comment #42018627

    Similar experience, not with the office but with the dentist himself - he came across as way too artificially nice, more like a salesman than a dentist, then recommended 4 treatmen…