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1. the model's responses are unreliable 2. to make them reliable, you have to tell the model the answer 3. even though you now have a process to figure out the answer, you still ha…

teachers, as a class, loudly declared they aren't essential workers.

not getting into specifics (because i'm not an expert), but these conversations usually lack any discussion of individual vs. group. e.g., the 10th decile of wages may stay the sam…

yes, there are absolutely no confounding variables to productivity during a global pandemic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13028522

lattner left google and was the primary reason they chose swift, so they lost interest. if you're asking from an ML perspective, i believe the original motivation was to incorporat…

they don't, it's a branded account. wealthfront's cash management account currently pays 4.3% up to 3m.

Revealing that associating anything AI with money inflates the bubble. This translates to "we need to hire a $335k employee to figure out how to use our product."

I'm not old enough to remember pre-2009 well enough to comment, but since then, yes, it's been scammy. The SV/SFBay idea of success is what the rest of us would call a pump and dum…

the point of an mba is to be able to insert yourself between the money and the work and take a cut

Is there an adversarial model for resume screeners? I'm pretty tired of trying to figure out whatever the correct number of keywords is, or what the trendy buzzwords are. I imagine…

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you didn't provide any hints why it wouldn't work for you, so i recommend you look at scikit-learn's neighbors module (i.e., construct NearestNeighbors object and query it). https:…

ads are essentially noise. some high-nines number of ads have no effect. to counteract this, demand-side providers came up with ways to fake an effect to look valuable. they then d…

correctness and verification are not close to being solved. it's feasible that AI will increase individual developer productivity and narrow the field. it's also possible, and prob…

they are glued together in a tent, and feel like it

https://hnrss.github.io/

`users and their posts, comments, travels` generates an inner combinatorial explosion

Learn SQL in depth, not just select and join. I'm tired of writing SQL for DE.

https://hnrss.org/newest?count=100&points=2

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite.

Elon (personally) and Tesla are revealed as insolvent

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33908576

Tesla is better off without Elon. TSLA is Elon.

Ask it about something you know a lot about. The combine that with another thing you know a lot about. If you're still worried, then I guess I'm in the control group. ( https://xkc…